Baba Ram Dass

Baba Ram Dass with Neem Karoli Baba 1967

“When I met him he was animated and storied at Kesey’s, but, like myself, about to enter on a long adventure into the kinds of spiritual consciousness promoted in the East. We were to meet again in 1970, in the company of the same Guru. But he seems ready to pass forever into the habit of Indian devotion, whereas, for me, the paths of yoga, of occultism, of mysticism and all of the tradition of that remarkable consciousness I was about to experience would only be another brief stage in the simplicity of understanding”

Another famed but passing association of his time “on the Beach” was Ken Kesey, described here

“There was Ken Kesey, a novelist who had written at the Stanford workshop and who has since gained notoriety as an exponent of drug culture.”

Ken Kesey 1967

When Adi Da stated “We were to meet again in 1970, in the company of the same Guru ..” in relation to Baba Ram Dass, he was referring to the 1970 visit of Baba Muktananda to the US described here

Baba and Rudi arrived in the company of “Baba Ram Dass.” Ram Dass was previously known as Richard Alpert, the man who, along with Timothy Leary and others, had done much to create the current “drug-culture” among younger people. I had met him several years before at the home of Ken Kesey in northern California. Since then, like myself, he had been led into the experience of Indian spirituality.

Ram Dass was now trying to reverse the karma of those who had become devoted to drug culture. He wanted to turn them to the devotional path of Indian spirituality. He had met Baba in New York and subsequently volunteered to engineer Baba’s California visit, as Rudi had done in New York.

I met them all quite openly, but without any desire or motivation to become involved in the whole drama of Baba’s American tour. They stayed for several days in Pacific Palisades, then on for two weeks in northern California and Utah. They returned again at the end of October, and flew on to Hawaii November 3rd, my birthday.

I was interested in seeing how Baba’s Presence would affect me and how he would respond to my own discovery. I sat with him while large groups of people chanted devotions and gazed at the Guru. I held his foot, I chanted, and I meditated.

In the first hours of his visit he blessed me with his peculiar form of the Shakti. And I moved with the experience, abandoning myself utterly to the familiar physical movements and the merging in the mind. I shook and fell on the floor. I watched Baba. I enjoyed the communication of his Shakti. I listened to him advise people to turn within and seek the “blue pearl” and the “blue person” in the sahasrar, the seat of consciousness in the head. I listened to him detail the various forms of vision, internal sounds and experiences, and I experienced them along with him.

In my own case as a young man reading this remarkable book in the early 70’s, in the remote cloisters of Hobart Library, perhaps the one description that had the most impact on me ( Adi Da was writing about the various effects of the Shakti) was this, a literal undeniable miraculous physical effect, witnessed by another. There was no mistaking it, flowers cannot move from a nailed position.

“These manifestations were not simply internal. Frequently my perceptions coincided with certain external events. Thus, a friend once came to see me after a long stay at the Ashram. We bowed to Baba’s picture and felt the Shakti fill the room. Just then, the flowers that were nailed about the portrait flew off and landed at our feet.”

Of course in spiritual life nothing is quite that simple, I had a very powerful dream about Adi Da around that time and continued to be haunted by the message of the Knee of Listening. I had a periphery involvement with Ananda Marga who had quite a strong presence in Hobart in the 70’s, I spoke to one of their Acharya’s about the shakti and its effects, to be fair I don’t think the man had any understanding of this phenomenon and dismissed it as “mind”, he told me to forget this nonsense, meditate twice a day for the rest of my life and “Moksha” ( liberation in the yogic system) is guaranteed !

However natural pleasurable –conductivity– ( meaning exactly what this word implies a unbroken flow ) is native to the body and living things, without deep bodily bliss readily available and at least relatively constant in the body mind , the world and life appear devoid of real sustenance and we are always hungry and addicted to any pleasurable source.

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Adi Da

Someone asked me of any relation between Adi Da and Subud , the only relation I am aware of is the fact that Rudrananda ( Rudi ) had some connection with Subud, the descending force connection perhaps. Great story here on Subud - Bali - Mystery and Beautiful Art the web page is also quite beautiful, nice blend of colour, pattern and images

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