The Later Essays

In the later essays of "Radical" Devotion, Avatar Adi Da goes on to elucidate the fundamental elements of the Way of Adidam He has Given: Avataric devotion, right life, and "Perfect Knowledge".

The tacit, non-verbal heart-response of devotion to Avatar Adi Da is (from the beginning and always) the basis of Adidam.

To live that Way in its fullness is to extend devotional recognition of Adi Da Samraj into an active response of every aspect of the being — "inner" and "outer" — via a comprehensive discipline of right life.

The life of Avatar Adi Da's devotee is converted from the habit-patterns based in identification with the separative body-mind to the disposition of all action as service to the Divine Heart-Master and His Liberating Work.

The enactment of right life serves to magnify the intuition of Truth that is inherent in devotion to Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Thus, His Revelation of "Perfect Knowledge", or the tacit Apprehension of His Divine State, is ever-magnified — at first via a preliminary practice that (in due course) becomes a Spiritual Gift and process, and, ultimately, Awakening (by His Divine Spiritual Grace) to the "Perfect Practice" of "Perfect Knowledge", or Perfect Identification with Avatar Adi Da's "Bright" Divine State.

The disposition of right practice of The Way of Adidam simply "Coincides "with Me — In "Place "("Where "and As I Am).

— Avatar Adi Da Samraj
"In 'Place' ('Where' and As I Am)"

Avatar Adi Da's schema of seven stages of life is another crucial element of His Communication in this book. As He Reveals, the Great Tradition of human religious and Spiritual endeavor — historical and prehistorical — is founded on the structures and processes inherent in the human being.

The seven stages of life I have Described develop on the basis of the structures of the true (or esoteric) "anatomy" of every human being.

Every human activity and every human manifestation can be seen and understood in the context of My Description of the seven stages of life and the associated structural "anatomy" of the human being.

— Avatar Adi Da Samraj
September 8, 2004

In His description of the first six stages of life, Avatar Adi Da illuminates how the pursuits of religion and Spirituality have always tended to focus in different dimensions of the human structure — whether associated with the gross or the subtle or the causal dimension of existence.

By contrast, the Way of Adidam is the "seventh stage Way" — a process that is, from the beginning and always, not based on any gross, subtle, or causal structure of the body-mind, but on direct and free heart-response to the Perfect Divine Reality Itself, Revealed in and as the Bodily Form of Avatar Adi Da.

The opportunity to take up the Walk-About Way of Adidam is available to everyone. We can be free of all bondage to the self-presumption, and free of the struggle to attain the Great Divine"Other"-State.

In the ecstasy of devotion to Avatar Adi Da, we enter into a truly serious and most deeply joyful process — one that is unique in human time. In that process, the heart's true longing is utterly fulfilled — in Love-Bliss-Full Communion with Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

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