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To Read Or Download a 24-Page Illustrated introduction THE HEART AND THE LIGHT THE TRANSCENDENTAL SPIRITUAL REVELATIONS OF THE DIVINE PERSON An Introduction to The Pneumaton by Jonathan Condit, PhD (senior editorial assistant to Avatar Adi Da Samraj) NOTE TO THE READER : What follows is an excerpt from the full introduction Avatar Adi Da Samraj Adi Da Samrajashram, 2008 © 2011 The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam Pty Ltd, as trustee for The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam. All rights reserved. Perpetual copyright claimed. III THE WAY OF THE HEART AND THE LIGHT The Divine Process of All-Brightening The Only Secret in Spiritual Life NNN God Does the Yoga. —Avatar Adi Da Samraj January 3, 1974 When you “Experience” My Direct and Tangible Divine Avataric Transcendental Spiritual Self- Transmission, then you have the real (and necessary) basis for truly understanding the Uniqueness of the only-by-Me Avatarically Revealed Divine Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga of Adidam Ruchiradam. —“Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga” (p. 421) NNN vatar Adi Da’s “Learning” of humankind—including His “Learning” of traditional Spirituality —came to an end in A mid-1970. His immersion in Christian mysticism proved to be the final phase of that “Learning”. He had fulfilled His con - scious impulse, at the age of two, to discover what human beings were about—by allowing the “Bright” to apparently recede from His conscious awareness. Now, with His “Learning” completed, the “Bright” (as He says) “Re-Asserted” Itself as His Native State, in the Event of His Divine Re -Awakening (on September 10, 1970) . With that Event, there was the spontaneous Awakening of the Avatar Adi Da Samraj Guru-Function, the Divine Function of Liberating others. The Los Angeles, 1973 Awakening of that Function was signaled by an extraordinary sud - den shift in the nature of Avatar Adi Da’s meditation. Before His xlvii © 2011 The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam Pty Ltd, as trustee for The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam. All rights reserved. Perpetual copyright claimed. T HE P NEUMATON Introduction: The Heart and the Light Divine Re-Awakening, He had meditated His own “content”—but, required His Submission to address all the preoccupations and illu - after His Divine Re-Awakening, He spontaneously began to medi tate sions of human beings . the “content ” of countless beings—both human and non-human . The purposes of that total Demonstration were many and com - As the Divine Guru, it was now His Work to make it possible for plex, but among them were: others to receive (and be transformed by) His Transcendental Spiritual Transmission of the “Bright” . That process is, ultimately, (a) to Reveal to the modern psyche, in its skeptical mode the “Regeneration” of Atma Nadi—the Radiance of the “Bright” that (thoroughly propagandized by the scientific materialist is the Essence of every apparently individual body-mind, the Love- dogma that existence is “matter-only”), that there is a Bliss-Current Standing between the right side of the heart and the Spiritual Reality (senior to the gross physical reality), Matrix of Light Above. Therefore, He eventually came to call that and that Avatar Adi Da Himself Is (and Transmits) that entire Transcendental Spiritual process “Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga” : Reality (in Avatarically Incarnate Form) the process of the Radiance of the Current of the Divine Self and Yoga Shakti Nadi Atma Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga is the culminating Revelation in the (b) to Make a Lesson to the modern psyche, in its fascinated entire history of humankind—the ultimate fulfillment and comple - and deluded mode (dazzled by the hype of potential tion of all of the traditional searches for Reality, Truth, and God. Spiritual attainments or Transcendental stillness-of-mind), On April 25, 1972, Avatar Adi Da opened His first Ashram, in that the fascinated search—whether for “Spiritual expe - Hollywood—making Himself available, as Divine Transmission- riences” or for Non-dual peace—is completely fruitless Master, to all who would approach Him in the appropriate devo - and only obstructs the process of True Realization. tional manner. His first act was simply to sit in silence with all who came, wordlessly Transmitting His Divine State. After some time of In order to Make this Revelation and Lesson, Avatar Adi Da such silent Transmission, it became obvious that people would Granted His unprepared devotees an overwhelming deluge of need to hear Him speak, because they were, in fact, utterly with - Spirit-Baptism, particularly during the period in 1974 known as out preparation for the Real Transcendental Spiritual process He “Garbage and the Goddess”. 15 This was a Spiritual Demonstration was Offering. He was confronted by people who, on the one for which there is not even the remotest parallel in the recorded hand, were products of scientific materialist culture (to whom the history of humankind. Avatar Adi Da Granted utterly overwhelm - very possibility of a Spiritual dimension of existence was ridden ing experiences of Spirit-Baptism to groups of His devotees—even, with doubt) and who, on the other hand, were fascinated by the on some occasions, numbering in the hundreds—over and over sudden availability of a panoply of Eastern traditions (which were, and over again, often daily or even several times in a single day. and are, often misrepresented as promising instant Spiritual Bliss And, although “Garbage and the Goddess” was a particularly con - and Enlightenment to Western “consumers”). centrated time of His Transcendental Spiritual Demonstration, that Avatar Adi Da completely embraced whoever came to Him. same Demonstration, in different forms, continued ever after—and Therefore, given the qualities of the people who approached Him continues now, after His physical passing. for His Instruction, Avatar Adi Da found it necessary to enter into an absolutely unprecedented Teaching-Demonstration—a compre - hensive Work which lasted for nearly thirty years, and which xlviii xlix © 2011 The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam Pty Ltd, as trustee for The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam. © 2011 The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam Pty Ltd, as trustee for The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam. All rights reserved. Perpetual copyright claimed. All rights reserved. Perpetual copyright claimed. T HE P NEUMATON Introduction: The Heart and the Light Guru Enters Devotee The Lord Is the Lord of this “world”. He is not the Lord of the “other world” only. The Lord Is absolutely the Lord of this “world”. And On January 3, 1974, without the slightest warning, Adi Da gave there is no Yoga if the very cells do not begin to Intuit the Divine. the first indication of what was about to happen in the “Garbage Surrender to the Lord, night and day. Think the Lord, speak and the Goddess” period. In the midst of a room full of devotees, the Lord, act the Lord, receive the Lord in your body and in your the Divine Avatar began to speak with majestic power, simultane - cells, in every function of life, descending and ascending. Not as a ously unleashing His Transmission with awesome Force: “technique ”— it is the same as when a woman receives her lover. When a woman receives her lover, there is no doubt about it —and There is only one Divine Process in the “world”, and that is she does not have to consult her textbooks. when the Guru Manifests and Enters His devotee. The same is true of True Yoga. When the Lord Enters His devo - When you come to the point of surrender, then the Guru Enters tee, there is no doubt about it. There is no “technique”. There is only His devotee. This is the only Secret in Spiritual life. I mean, literally , the continuation of the life of the devotee —because the Lord Is the the Guru Enters His devotee. Light That Transcends this “world”, and That is always Becoming The Guru is not a human being. The Lord Is the Guru. When life and Returning to the Light again. There is no dilemma in this “world”. the Guru Appears in human Form, It Is the Lord, and He Enters His There is no absence of Real God in this “world”. devotee. When His devotee surrenders, then the Guru Enters His There is no goal of Real God in this “world”. devotee in the form of Light. All of these extraordinary activities that True Yoga is not a thing of this “world”. This “world” is the cult you feel coming over you are the “experiences ” that manifest as a of “Narcissus” that is suppressing the ecstasy that is natural to result of That . human beings. The kind of thing that you see happening around here has As Avatar Adi Da spoke, His Spirit-Force streamed into His never happened in the “world” before. devotees, manifesting visibly to some as a glorious golden rain of Light showering down in the room. An uncontainable ecstasy As the uproar went on unabated, Avatar Adi Da continued to broke loose. Some devotees shook with what are traditionally speak: called “kriyas ”— their bodies jerking and twisting, their mouths emitting strange sounds of yearning, laughter, weeping, hooting, In every devotee, I Enter. It is not Energy that Enters you —I and howling. Some were overwhelmed by visionary phenomena. Enter you. I Am the Consciousness in the body of My devotee. Some were spontaneously moved into difficult Hatha Yoga poses When that Process has begun in you —and you see It, you feel which they could not have even attempted before. Some lay It, It Manifests Itself to you, you see the qualities of It —then you can motionless, in an ecstatic state, oblivious of their surroundings. For be responsible for It, you can become conscious of It, and involve some, the energy intensified in the head or the heart or the navel yourself in It consciously.
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