The Naituaba organic farm website here has posted an update on their preparation, the damage done and immediate efforts to repair and recover from the storm. Many pictures are included.
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Update : A new Naitauba cyclone relief website has just been created Naitauba.Org Your help is appreciated !
Beezone has recently reprinted an article from a 1974 copy of The Dawn Horse Magazine. It’s a gritty, raw, unfiltered account of a fully illumined Master, doing His uncompromising Work travelling with one western devotee (still very much in the process of learning what “Guru” means) with ancient and modern spiritual sources in India. The account has no political correctness, and without doubt is full of “offense”, to just about everyone, it certainly makes me squirm in parts and I am sure many others will as well. However it unmistakeably reveals the incredible and uncompromising integrity of Adi Da wherein he would engage everyone and anyone in this always sacrificial and Divinely madcap, dangerous adventure. Outrageous humour blend with absolute spiritual seriousness, the audacity of it, is quite shocking particularly to the modern taste. I have spent time in India ( visiting some of th sites listed) so it has a little more reality to it, perhaps for those who have been there.
The reader who is not familiar with the vastness of Adi Da’s life and teaching, may also take note that much more “work” was done with His spiritual sources in India (including His relationship with Baba Muktananda which changed greatly) and this was covered in much later magazine articles which may get reprinted at some point, so this account may be seen as the beginning of a much greater and more extensive story ( Leela)
On a personal note, I love this “telling it how it is”, form of Adi Da’s teaching work. It has a beautiful honesty and purity to it, totally at odds with traditional hypocrisy and pretense, and very liberating
(potentiality for all parties) that is not to say, it’s rawness and unpredictability is utterly “disturbing” which is how it meant to be.
Article Here : The Trip To India; Taxis Temples & God
Adi Da wrote this shortly before going on the Pilgrimage
Unimaginable numbers of beings, energies, and processes outside this world generate and cooperate in spiritual work in this world. Wherever the real spiritual process is awakened at any point in time and space, it is the product of the spiritual process that exists prior to time and space and also within all the levels of time and space or manifest existence. So behind our work are all the Siddhas and all the great activities that transcend the Earth plane.
Just as there is a vast spiritual process behind this work and all true spiritual work, there are also certain individuals, Siddhas and others, who are very directly involved with our work, Muktananda is the only one alive in the body, and it is very important that I purify my connection to him for the sake of the work itself. There are others with whom my contact is in subtler dimensions–Nityananda, Ramana Maharshi, Shirdi Sai Baba, Ramakrishna. I want to return to the places most intimately associated with these people and insure my proper relationship to them for the sake of this work
Part 2 The India Tapes
Following on from the main article is a series of tape recordings made at the some of the Ashrams and places visited. There are many choice and pithy observations made here, and this material needs to be savoured and chewed over, since it brings up some obvious and apparently startling contradictions.
This observation caught my eye and interest. It should not be taken personally, in the sense that the “characterization” is impersonal and could belong to anyone. I have met many people like this in various groups formed around teachers, just the remarkable clear perception of this “character” is worth noting (as is the fact that Adi Da was absolutely willing to work spiritually directly with him)
“I must maintain a relationship to people outwardly that is coincident with the approach that they make. This American you mentioned wants to be palsy-walsy with all the great ones. That’s his number. He likes famous and great and well-known people and all of that. He wants them to shine on him. That’s how he gets his goodie. Baba satisfies that egoic demand of his in some way. But I’m not interested in satisfying it. I’m interested in seeing it come to an end in that guy. So I would rather be offensive to him and not kiss him on the cheek, tell him he is a good friend, and make him my friend, because the next hour he would be throwing darts at my picture. That’s what he does anyway. It is better to deal with him in this way”
Fundamentally I think it is good thing that these old documents are coming into modern consciousness, nor do I believe it is just random, Adi Da’s Leela (or spiritual play and conscious work) continues, it is just as active now as it was then. These transcripts may be seen rightly as unfinished historical documents, a beginning, yet to be refined and “worked” into cohesion and “finished”. They definitely should be seen as a work in progress. For instance if you read carefully you may see something of the beginning of the ” Seven Stages of Life” teaching in its crudest form.
Related : Leela :The Cave at Arunachala (from Adi Da’s brief 1977 India Trip)
On Tuesday cyclone Tomas a category 4 cyclone, hit Naitauba Island causing damage to some structures, there were no reported injuries to any residents. Power, water, communications equipment and transport services have been greatly damaged and disrupted. The bulk of the damage has been to trees and crops. The organic farm has been particularly hard hit. No Temples have been damaged. A clean up and repair campaign has begun, requiring huge service from devotees and friends worldwide.
Adidam has a very rich and varied spiritual culture, in February each year devotees may write a “confession of narcissus” and throw it into a ceremonial fire to be burnt and forgotten, this post is along those lines.
The 3 Choices of Modern Man
If asked what I am most fundamentally (and honestly) I would answer “addict” without hesitation. This, more than any other possibility is my true shape, my true form, no bullshit in this case, it’s simply true.
This I know with complete certainty – I am an addict, a “fiend”. It’s a remarkable fact that more than anything else this certainty has proved itself to be the case in countless ways, daily. Nor is it that I am more an addict than anyone else, everyone with very few exceptions is by nature and action addict. I have met very few people who I would say are other than this, or beyond this state.
There are of course more gross and bodily destructive addictions and there are also and equally more refined and more positive and healthful addictions but addiction remains the fundamental pattern. It’s just as possible to be addicted to raw food as junk food, just opposing swings of the pendulum, many will also deny this to be the case, it doesn’t matter because when we hit the pillow at night, in the humility of the ordinary life, we all know the truth of what we would want to deny–:”addict I am”
So it is a great blessing a great insight to recognize this about yourself, because it is utterly true. There are many people even claiming to be enlightened, who are right now just addicts, compulsive and driven characters. It’s a homely truth, it has the seed for change in it, but just like the man or women at the local A.A. meeting, it has to be confessed in public, to your fellow men and women. “I am an addict.”
It puts you back where you are, feel the common humanity of it, it’s all our ordinary natures. Knowing this our compassion for others is real, it’s genuine, unmistakable.
The quote, “The End of All Seeking” was on the back cover of the earlier editions of the The Knee Of Listening, these words were said to be a description of the ultimate import of the book. I used to read this and wonder what it meant.
Many years later I can say that this is in fact the case in regards to the practice of Adidam. That is exactly what I often find when I sit in my meditation room in front of the Master’s Form in Satsang. The search ends right there, because real satisfaction is located and known. No need to look passed this point, because what we have always sought by every means is Here or given to us.
More than anything else it’s an Enjoyment and a Happiness, I can read books listen to audios, watch videos, perform Pujas, perform service or consciously engage in any of the disciplines, in the mood of this intuitive awareness and what still remains primary, is sheer enjoyment and appreciation of what Adi Da often described as “The Great One”.
I simply sit and enjoy, or act and enjoy the Spiritual Master’s Form and Play. thus we become “unexploitable” (here meaning Free of any compulsive need beyond this understanding, or being in a position no longer disturbed by conventional spiritual, religious or ideological motivation)
Of course there is also the apparently endless capacity to abandon this simple knowledge and return to seeking, every moment also delivers this possibility.
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