In early 1998, Avatar Adi Da
spent a concentrated period of two months Giving hundreds of hours
of Instruction to a small group of devotees. His Discourses during
this period wove a beautiful tapestry of themes related to the Spiritually
Awakened process in the Way of Adidam. Central to the "consideration"
of The Overnight Revelation Of Conscious Light is Avatar Adi Da's
Communication of the Indivisibility of Consciousness (or Being)
and Light (or Energy). This was a reference to the Divine Enlightenment
He was Transmitting—the potentially sudden, or “overnight”,
Realization that Reality is Consciousness-and-Energy as One, not
as “two”. Everything arising is a mere modification
of the Unbroken Love-Bliss-Light of Real God. One of the devotees
present during the "Overnight Revelation", Ruchiradama
Nadikanta (a senior devotee of Avatar Adi Da and a member of the
Ruchira Sannyasin Order), describes what it was like to be present
as Avatar Adi Da gave His Divine Yogic Instruction:
RUCHIRADAMA NADIKANTA:
Again and again, as He spoke or sat silently, His own Spiritual
Person Flooded into our body-minds and Drew us into this Sea of
Divine Light. He was Penetrating the body-mind through to the toes,
permeating every cell with His Love-Blissful Radiance. He opened
the nervous system, so that the body-mind became like an open cup
from toe to crown, a receptacle for His Luminous Infusion. The spine
would become erect with this upward-turning response to Beloved
Adi Da's "Brightness". Sometimes, the experience of this
Bliss was so intense that it felt like the cells of the body were
being cracked open.
Then, within this Sphere of "Brightening", Beloved Adi
Da would Reveal the Secret of the Non-"Difference" between
Consciousness and Energy (or Light). Suddenly, not only Beloved
Adi Da, but the room, the objects, the persons, and the entire pattern
of arising would appear as a Field of Light and be Recognized as
Conscious Light, as Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Consciousness
Itself. This is Divine Self-Recognition, the "Open-Eyed"
Samadhi of the seventh stage of life. And our Beloved Guru was allowing
us a glimpse of That. [1998] |