Re-Awakening to "Perfect Knowledge"

There is a dimension of existence that is off the edge of the mind. Words can only gesture paradoxically toward it.

And, yet, the most urgent human need is to plumb this dimension, to get to the source of things, to know Reality with a capital "R", in order to make sense of the chaos of experience. This fundamental enquiry was conceived by the author, in His youth, in visual terms:

From My early years, including My college period, I would have an image, a visual impression, of a group of people sitting around a massive boulder-like stone in a room.

There were no windows, no features to the room at all, no reason to be looking at the room itself. I would be sitting with others, in chairs, around this stone — turned directly at the stone, simply persisting in that situation.

There was the sense that eventually everything would be known — meaning Realization would be the case — based on the starkness of that scene. It was about the transcending of the objective by simply looking at what Is — simply the room itself, or the great stone, the mere event of conditional awareness.

— Avatar Adi Da Samraj
March 1 and 4, 2006

The primal circumstance of contemplating what is is native to the human being. But who can "explain" what is? Who can answer the conundrum of the stone? What is the stone? Why is there a stone at all? Why does anything arise? What is the Source of all of this happening?

Re-Awakening to "Perfect Knowledge"

During His childhood, and on into His years at Columbia College, New York, Adi Da Samraj was possessed with the question: "What is consciousness?"

By "consciousness", He meant that very sense of existence, or awareness of simply being — that which is constant in us, whatever the events and changes of life.

In the modern scientific view, consciousness is the byproduct of an electro-chemical process originating in the brain, and, therefore, dependent on the survival of the body. Thus, according to this opinion, consciousness, which seems to be our most fundamental condition, disappears at death.

This is the message imparted — even officially — by the institutions of modern "civilization". Adi Da could never accept it, because He had a greater tacit knowledge, which had been self-evident at His Birth.

Adi Da Samraj was born in New York in 1939 into an ordinary lower-middle-class family — but He was not in an ordinary state. As He describes in His Spiritual Autobiography, The Knee of Listening, He enjoyed in infancy an unbroken Condition of Radiant, Blissful Being, which, from childhood, He has called the "Bright".

But He discovered in His earliest years that this sublime Reality was not obvious to others. And, so, in a great Impulse to embrace the human condition completely — and, thus, to Illumine it for all — Avatar Adi Da spontaneously relinquished that Native Awareness of Reality.

From the age of two, He submitted to participate in the human dilemma, the presumption that one is a separate mortal entity in the midst of a bewildering and threatening world. Nevertheless, the "Bright" persisted as an undercurrent of Truth that kept driving Him to the root of things — until all obstructions fell away, and the "Bright" was Re-Awakened in Him completely.

In that Awakening, Reality was Self-Revealed as both Consciousness and Energy, or Conscious Light — the "Bright". And that Most Perfect Realization was Non-conditional, requiring no effort or intention to maintain.

In the words of Adi Da Samraj, it is "Open Eyes" — or, more poetically, "Is Happen That Is" — the "Perfect Knowledge" of Reality. This book contains His summary Root-Teachings about that "Perfect Knowledge", and the process required to Realize It Perfectly.

Next: The ego-"I" Versus the Perfect "Is"
from the Introduction by Carolyn Lee, PhD