About Adidam and Adi Da: Perfect Happiness through Divine Realization

All the great and true Spiritual Masters offer their devotees a tangible Spiritual Realization of a Greater Reality, and a destiny greater than merely mortal, material existence. Divine Realization Itself — Perfect Happiness Itself, Complete Awakening from the dream of mortal, limited existence — is the greatest of all human destinies, and the destiny for which every heart longs.

Like all the great and true Spiritual Masters — from Gautama Buddha to Jesus of Nazareth — what Adi Da Samraj has brought into the world is not merely a new belief system or another set of spiritual techniques or religious rituals. Like the Spiritual Masters of past ages, Adi Da Samraj's primary offering is an extraordinary and very tangible Spiritual Transmission, that directly Communicates the Greater Reality Itself. When Jesus said merely "Come follow Me" to two ordinary fishermen, they dropped everything to follow Him, in response to His Transmission. When Krishna played His flute, the gopi cowherds left their cattle to follow Krishna, in response to His Transmission. When Gautama Buddha held up a flower, Kasyapa smiled, "enlightened" on the spot (thus beginning the tradition of Zen Buddhism), because of the Buddha's Transmission.

The great and true Spiritual Masters are not merely "preachers" or charismatic (but otherwise ordinary) human beings; they are necessarily Spiritual Transmission Masters of varying degrees and kinds. Their Words simply reflect what is directly communicated by their Spiritual Transmission. Just how extraordinary Adi Da Samraj's Transmission is (and how unique is the opportunity represented by His Transmission), is something we hope will become clearer as you browse this site.

Based on their reception of this Transmission (and their accompanying heart-recognition of Who the Transmitter is), otherwise ordinary human beings can enter into a Spiritual relationship with Adi Da Samraj, becoming His devotees, and practicing the Way of Adidam. Through that Spiritual relationship, their reception is deepened, first to the point of steady Communion with the Divine, and then ultimately to the point of Divine Realization Itself.

In the course of practice in the Way of Adidam, the sense of being a "separate self" or "ego" is revealed to be an artifact of our own egoic activity. It is not a solid thing or structure, or some "homunculus" ("little man") or "soul" inside the body. The "separate self" is understood to be untrue (in that it is not who we really are), unnecessary (in that it is the result of an action we can stop doing in any moment), and unproductive (in that it is the source of our unhappiness, that is, our feeling of separation from the Divine and all others). For this reason, the Way of Divine Realization necessarily coincides with understanding and transcendence of "self": there is no Realization of the Divine Identity without consciously letting go of identification with all forms of "me" less than the Divine.

The practice of Adidam has many details, even as there are many aspects in the human life and body-mind to be transformed (diet, meditation, intimacies, work, etc.). But the heart of the devotee's practice is the devotional and Spiritual relationship with Adi Da Samraj. The purpose of all the "secondary" practices is to bring one's life and body-mind into greater balance, freeing up increasingly greater energy and attention for the devotional and Spiritual relationship. Put another way, the purpose of all the disciplines is to transform every moment in life — whether one is eating, sexing, meditating, doing business, or whatever — into Divine Communion.

All Spiritual Transmission Masters enable their devotees to realize Something Greater: a Spiritual Realization that is happier than the usual worldly destiny. But the revelation of Adidam is Divine Realization — Perfect Happiness. The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj, is not only a great and true Spiritual Master; He is the Divine in human form, fully incarnating here in Person. Only the Divine in Person can Awaken individuals to their Divine Nature.

Who is Adi Da Samraj?

The nature of Divine Incarnation


	I didn't have any specific expectations of feeling anything special when I first saw Him. But as Avatar Adi Da walked just a few yards toward the seat that had been prepared for Him, I looked at Him and I tacitly felt: He was only Love, walking around in a human body. I began to weep and weep, because I was literally seeing a vision of God. I had not expected to see that Divine Vision. But now everything that I had read and understood of His Teaching was Embodied before me! And I was overwhelmed with gratitude. Raewyn Bowmar (devotee) Avatar Adi Da's Transmission-Power moved into the room where we were seated with Him face-to-face. The Brightness of His Divine Light infiltrated the space with Luminosity, so that the walls, the objects, and persons became visibly Brightened by His Spiritual Power. The differentiation between objects loosened, such that Reality was clearly a Field of Divine Light rather than a field of apparently separate material objects. Beloved Adi Da was revealing to us the Truth that matter equals energy equals Light and that His All-Pervading Divine Spiritual Presence is the Very Substance and Nature of That Light. Again and again, as He spoke or sat silently, His own Spiritual Person Flooded into our body-minds and drew us into this Sea of Divine Light. He was penetrating the body-mind to the toes, permeating every cell with His Love-Blissful Radiance. Then, within this Sphere of Brightening, Avatar Adi Da revealed the Secret of the Non-'Difference' between Consciousness and Energy (or Light). Suddenly, not only Avatar Adi Da, but the room, the objects, the persons, and the entire pattern of arising appeared as a Field of Light, and was recognized to be Conscious Light, Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Consciousness Itself. Ruchiradama Nadikanta (devotee)

Living, as we do, in a materialistic culture — in which doing something "spiritual" competes side by side with going to a good movie for what to do on a Saturday night, and in which both are just as easily forgotten for the next experience — most of us will have many questions and doubts about a genuine and serious Spiritual life, ranging from: "But does God and a Greater Reality even exist?" to "What is Spiritual Transmission?" to "What exactly is a Spiritual Master?" to "What will I have to give up to do this practice?" This website is aimed at addressing some of those basic questions, as well as clarifying and fleshing out who Adi Da Samraj is, and the extraordinary opportunity of a devotional and Spiritual relationship with Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

But always prior to all of these questions of the mind is a fundamental question of the heart, as it yearns for Perfect Happiness. And that "question" can only be completely satisfied by Perfect Happiness Itself.

And that is why Adi Da Samraj is here: to help every one of us Realize Perfect Happiness.