On the last day of His human Life, Avatar Adi Da Samraj completed His most pristine and comprehensive text, The Aletheon.
The Revelation Magazine begins to celebrate its publication with excerpts from the text and commentary on its creation — including a video presentation by Avatar Adi Da's senior editorial assistant with extraordinary images of Avatar Adi Da working on The Aletheon. This video is also available through the linked photographs on pages 2 and 3.
The Aletheon
The Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
The First and Foremost Revelation of the Divine Reality-Truth, Given by Avatar Adi Da Samraj to all beings in all times and places
The Aletheon is the Divine Self-Confession of Reality Itself. It is thus a profound gift to all beings — a supreme masterpiece of wisdom, instruction, and Divine Self-Revelation. In combining with The Aletheon, the world is forever able to receive Avatar Adi Da's Transmission-Communication of Reality and Truth.
In The Aletheon — which He Himself designated as His "First and Foremost" Reality-Communication to all — Avatar Adi Da utterly relinquished His previous mode of Self-Submission to human egoity, and made only His own purest Communication of Truth. Such is the unique quality and purity of this greatest of His Teaching Gifts.
The Aletheon includes Avatar Adi Da's "radical" Criticism of ego-life and His penetrating Consideration of true and false understandings of God, religion, and human existence altogether. It includes His unique Revelation of the Divinely Enlightened Condition and His Divine Self-Confession of His own Purpose and Work. And it includes His summary description of the practice He Offers to all who are moved to become His devotees.
This final great writing-labor of love in a Lifetime of Boundless Service to all is more than a book. Avatar Adi Da ecstatically proclaims that The Aletheon is His Perfect Revelation of Himself, the Divine Person of Reality:
The Aletheon is not merely a Book of Teachings. Yes, It is Teachings, but It is a Self-Revelation of My Own Person and State. So The Aletheon is of Me, As Me, about Me — and Is Me.
— His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Thus, The Aletheon is the Supreme Scripture for all time — the final Gift of Word from the very Divine Reality Itself, who Avatarically Appeared on Earth as Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
Jonathan Condit, senior editorial assistant to Avatar Adi Da for more than fifteen years, describes the unique nature of the gift of The Aletheon:
During the final three years of a Lifetime that had been utterly devoted to the Communication of Truth, Avatar Adi Da created His supreme Scripture.
Day after day, month after month, Avatar Adi Da sustained a vast flow of spontaneous writing — moved by His indefatigable Impulse to "say everything" to everyone.
In keeping with the unique and profound purpose of this final book, Avatar Adi Da eventually chose to name it The Aletheon (pronounced "a-LAY-thee-on"). The title was His own coinage, based on the ancient Greek word for "Truth" — "Aletheia". Thus, this last and greatest book by Avatar Adi Da is, simply, "the Truth Book".
The early years of Avatar Adi Da's active Teaching-Work had been an astounding demonstration of His willingness to Submit Himself to ordinary egos, and to Work by reflecting egos to themselves.
With His final Work on the title page of The Aletheon, on the morning of His Divine Mahasamadhi, He forever brought to a close His final great writing-labor of Love.
Over 2300 pages, The Aletheon is available in two editions: a single-volume hardbound edition and an eight-volume softbound edition. The contents of the two editions are identical — including the full text of The Aletheon, over one hundred photographs of Avatar Adi Da (most of which are published here for the first time), a full biography, and extensive reference materials.
Both editions come in a beautiful slipcase adorned with the Parama-Sapta-Na Logo-image, created by Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Details about purchase can be found below.
Understanding the significance of Avatar Adi Da's final Sacred Scripture will be an ongoing, living process of discovery and Revelation. To begin this process, in the pages that follow, we offer you:
Two excerpts from The Eternal One — one in which Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani, senior member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order, describes the quality of the final years of Avatar Adi Da's Life, during which He Accomplished this great Work; another in which she describes Avatar Adi Da's Completing Work on The Aletheon in the days preceding His Passing from the Body. (Note: The Eternal One will be available December 2009)
The Table of Contents of The Aletheon(a printable PDF document) — the contents reveal the incredible breadth of Avatar Adi Da's Aletheon-Communication, and give us a glimpse of the pattern of Revelation that governed the placement of each essay within His vast Scripture. Reading just the titles of the essays in the book allows the reader to participate in Avatar Adi Da's potent Transmission, even without further detail or explanation.
"The Forever-Spoken Word of Reality Itself" — an essay from Part One of The Aletheon. Here Avatar Adi Da offers insight into the purpose and process of His Aletheon-Gift, and of His written Word altogether. We encourage you to participate with Him directly in this essay — by listening and feeling (rather than merely thinking) — and to discover, in each moment, the living process into which He Invites you through His written word.
News of The Truth Book — a new department within the Adidam Revelation online Magazine — where we welcome you into ongoing study and exploration of The Aletheon.
The Aletheon by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da
The Table of Contents(a printable PDF document) Avatar Adi Da's supreme Scripture is a book of oceanic depth and magnitude. The stunning eight-volume edition is recommended for ease of study, and includes an attractive slipcover and dustjacket
The Aletheon - an introduction
