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 !
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.
Adi Da Samraj introduced the use of raw green smoothies to Adidam some time ago, it is a suggested dietary supplement to practicing students, here is His words on it from the recently published Wisdom On Raw Foods guide, “Green Gorrilla”
Blended Green Drinks
A Principal element of the raw fructo-vegetarian dietary practice I have Given is the regular (daily) use of “blended green drinks”, made (most commonly) of green leafy vegetables and sweet fruits
“Green drinks” provide a highly concentrated form of the nutrients found in green leafy vegetables–generally in much greater quantity than could be ingested by eating the greens whole. The sweet fruits are added to “green drinks” in order to make the concentrated greens palatable, and also to provide additional nutrients and calories.
Blended “green drinks” are prepared using one or more varieties of green leafy vegetables–using whatever edible greens are available In temperate climates, appropriate edible greens include such plants as kale, chard, spinach, lettuce, collard greens, bok choy, and so on. Edible weeds (including, in temperate zones, such plants as dandelion, lambsquarters, plantain, and so on), herbs (such as dill, basil, cilantro, mint, parsley, and so on), sprouts (such as alfalfa, clover, buckwheat, sunflower, and so on), other vegetables (such as celery, cucumber, and so on), and medicinal plants (such as aloe vera) may also be added to a “green drink”.
I will add my own favorite recipe and comment on the utility and changes noted from using green smoothies over the next week or so.
I have noticed over the years that many devotees of Adi Da have a Catholic connection or background, so thought I would write something about this and start with Adi Da Samraj’s connection, which manifested through the spontaneous vision of The Virgin Mary miraculously appearing to him on retreat at Swami Muktananda’s Ashram during his sadhana years. If you have not read this fascinating and instructive chapter which address’s the Christian in many of us, its in The Knee Of Listening, chapter titled “The diary of a Pilgrimage” online text here
Whenever I read this chapter it awakens my own feelings for Catholic Christian imagery, I must admit even now, after many years overtly free of Catholicism something may stir in me when I see an image of the Virgin Mother in particular, as a child I prayed to her often.
“You should be prepared to read what at first appears to be the devotional diary of a mystical Catholic Christian. It is my practice to write in the mood and with the precise, unequivocal language of my experience and persuasion at any moment. And, for a time, it seemed to me that the revelation of the church was the fulfillment of my life. Indeed, it was only by allowing it to be so and fully experiencing the course of this modification in my state, as well as all others at all other times, that I could come eventually to Realize What is always and stably the underlying Truth of all experience.
You should also recognize that this experience was a necessary one for me. It was an extension of that vision of the “Divine Lord” I had experienced the previous winter. And it drew on all the latent imagery, necessity, and unfulfilled devotional energy that had been trapped in my heart since childhood. Only when these images were completely and consciously experienced, and the feeling-energy surrounding the heart utterly released from its bondage to unconscious symbols, could I remain stably in the True Consciousness that is the Heart of Reality Itself.”
and again
“A remarkable thing the grace of God has given me is that, in a few moments, or hours, I do not know the precise hour of this death, He turned me completely to Himself. So that the Truth of the Catholic Faith, the verity of the church and its doctrine, a host of details, and, above all, the devotion to our Lady, were given me in a flash of comprehensive insight. All of this in spite of the fact that I have never been trained as a Catholic, or ever sought it out in the least overt manner. All of this has been latent in me, at best a sentiment, all my life. This also shows how our Lord’s “mere” Presence teaches and recollects all things most directly.”
Adi Da
The Knee Of Listening, “The diary of a Pilgrimage”
In the early 1980’s several devotees of Adi Da Samraj came forward to confess their enlightened condition, I remember the thrill that went through me — My God—Enlightenment is possible – From memory a well known yoga scholar, a formal devotee at the time, wrote a booklet on this astounding development, which upon testing by the Great Adept, Adi Da, ultimately was shown to be a false alarm and the lesson used to further self understanding in his students.
While it is true, it would have been a marvelous event for humanity (I for one would dance with joy), if a fully enlightened devotee had arisen during Bhagavan Adi Da’s lifetime (or at any time). There is more to it than that. Adi Da set the bar very, very high in his teaching and transmission work (while alive). Most formal devotees of Adi Da Samraj can confess to degrees of enlightenment with a small “e”. Taking different form in each case, perceived perhaps as gifts and insights received. That small “e” should not be sneezed at, it would always be hard won, by a combination of Grace and Sadhana. The seed of this potential is in the community.
Something great may emerge from all this or not, there is a massively powerful spiritual and physical infrastructure built tirelessly by Adi Da Samraj while alive, its quite astounding what he accomplished and so much remains unknown in the public domain.
Most commonly, what happens with the passing of a great Guru or Teacher in the past, has been a mediocre continuation of what he or she set in motion. Adidam has the potential to be different to this. Its up to current and future devotees to create the difference.
Thus, my true devotees will be a new human order that will serve to “create” a new age of sanity and joy. But that age will not be the age of the occult, the religious, or the scientific or the technological evolution of mankind. It will be the fundamental age of Real Existence, wherein life will be radically realized, entirely apart for the adventure that was mankind’s great search.
from The Heart’s Shout
This is a beautiful and prophetic piece of writing, this original entry appeared as the Epilogue of the early copies of “The Knee of Listening”
In November 1975 Adi Da ( Bubba Free John ) said this about it
“It is written in The Knee of Listening that the man of understanding is all kinds of opposites. He can appear as all kinds of changes. Some of them are highly prized by conventional people as very pure and saintly and others are anathematized as completely the opposite. Yet I have had to fulfill all the roles that are described at the end of The Knee of Listening. I have had to fulfill all those roles and completely identify with them, completely fulfill all the obligations. Yet there was no loss of the realized point of view at the foundation of such theatre. “
“The man of understanding is not entranced. He is not elsewhere. He is not having an experience. He is not passionless and inoffensive. He is awake. He is present. He knows no obstruction in the form of mind, identity, differentiation and desire. He uses mind, identity, differentiation and desire. He is passionate. His quality is an offense to those who are entranced, elsewhere, contained in the mechanics of experience, asleep, living as various forms of identity, separation and dependence. He is acceptable only to those who understand.
He may appear no different from any other man. How could he appear otherwise? There is nothing by which to appear except the qualities of life. He may appear to have learned nothing. He may seem to be addicted to every kind of foolishness and error. How could it be otherwise? Understanding is not a different communication than the ordinary. There is only the ordinary. There is no special and exclusive communication that is the truth. There is no exclusive state of truth. But there is the understanding of the ordinary.
Therefore, the man of understanding cannot be found. He cannot be followed. He can only be understood as the ordinary. He is not spiritual. He is not religious. He is not philosophical. He is not moral. He is not fastidious, lean and lawful. He always appears to be the opposite of what you are.
He always seems to sympathize with what you deny. Therefore, at times and over time he appears as every kind of persuasion. He is not consistent. He has no image. At times he denies. At times he asserts. At times he asserts what he has already denied. At times he denies what he has already asserted. He is not useful. His teaching is every kind of nonsense. His wisdom is vanished. Altogether, that is his wisdom.
At last he represents no truth at all. Therefore, his living coaxes everyone only to understand. His existence denies every truth, every path by which men depend on certain truths, certain experiences, certain simulations of freedom and enjoyment. He is a seducer, a madman, a hoax, a libertine, a fool, a moralist, a sayer of truths, a bearer of all experience, a righteous knave, a prince, a child, an old one, an ascetic, a god. He demonstrates the futility of all things. Therefore, he makes understanding the only possibility. And understanding makes no difference at all. Except it is reality, which was already the case.
Heartless one, Narcissus, friend, loved one, he weeps for you to understand. After all of this, why haven’t you understood? The only thing you have not done is understanding.
You have seen everything, but you do not understand. Therefore, the man of understanding leaps for joy that you have already understood. He looks at the world and sees that every one and every thing has always understood. He sees that there is only understanding. Thus, the man of understanding is constantly happy with you. He is overwhelmed with happiness. He says to you: See how there is only this world of perfect enjoyment, where every one is happy, and every thing is blissful. His heart is always tearful with the endless happiness of the world.
He has grasped it, but no one is interested. He is of interest to no one. He is fascinating. He is unnoticed. Since no one understands, how could they notice him? Because there is only understanding, he is beloved, and no one comes to see him. Because there is only truth, he is likely to become famous. Since there is only joy, he will not be remembered. Because you have already understood, you find it necessary to touch his hand. Since you love so much and are not understood, you find it possible to touch his ears. He smiles at you. You notice it. Everything has already died. This is the other world.”
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