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His Divine Presence Adi Da Samraj on Da Purnima, July 13, 2008
As you may know, one of Avatar Adi Da Samraj’s Gifts is the sacred cycle of worship based on a structure of twelve Holy Months. Each month is devoted to the celebration of a specific aspect or event in Avatar Adi Da’s Life and Work.
July is especially significant because of the three holy days:
- The Celebration of Da Purnima (full moon in the Hindu month of Ashadh)
- The Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas (July 10)
- The Day of Is-Peace 723 (July 23)
The Holy Month of Da Purnima is the month when the Great Guru-Function of His Divine Presence Adi Da Samraj is especially honored. The principal day of devotional celebration is the day of the full moon. In the Reality-Way of Adidam, the full moon represents the “Face of God”, Shining in the midst of the black field of conditional existence. In the language of Avatar Adi Da’s Ruchiradam Revelation, the full moon is the symbol of the “Midnight Sun”, or His “Divine Light-Sphere”.
As Avatar Adi Da has explained, the root-meaning of the word “Guru” is traditionally understood to be “One Who Reveals the Light and thereby Liberates beings from darkness”, understanding that this Light is the Divine Reality, or Real (Acausal) God.
Avatar Adi Da on July 10, 2008, the one-year anniversary of His Proclamation of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas
Thus, to truly acknowledge Avatar Adi Da Samraj as Guru is to worship Him as the Avataric Form of the Divine Light—Who is always Calling and Leading Beings to ego-surrender and tacit identification with Him as the Divine Person, the “Bright” Itself. This is the significance of the 24-hour Fire Puja in worship of Avatar Adi Da Samraj that begins at the time of the full moon.
The Holy Month of Da Purnima in Adidam coincides with the honoring of the tradition of the Guru in the traditional Hindu culture of India. The full moon, or “Purnima”, in the Hindu month of Ashadh (usually July in the Western calendar) has long been associated with the highest celebration of the Guru-Principle.
On July 10, 2007, Avatar Adi Da's Impulse to continue working in the manner of Self-Submission that had characterized His active Teaching- and Blessing-Work conclusively vanished, leaving only the Sign of His Divine Self-“Emergence” Work. Only His Divine Self-Revelation, and not any address to the ego in its presumed separateness, enables the process of Transcendental Spiritual Awakening. This Event is now celebrated as the Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas.
The title “Parama-Sapta-Na” acknowledges Avatar Adi Da as the Supreme (Parama) Sapta Na Sannyasin—“Sapta” is Sanskrit for “seven” (referring to the seventh stage of life) and “Na” refers to “Naitauba”, Avatar Adi Da's principal Hermitage.
I Am the Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyasin, Utterly Free. . . . I Did My Self-Submission-Work, and This Is How I now Am—As I Am. . . .
Blessing Is simply My Nature, My State, My Intrinsic Condition of Self-Radiance.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Aletheon
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July 23 is The Day of Is-Peace 723, honoring Avatar Adi Da's Revelation, given in Not-Two Is Peace, of July 23, 2006, as “the precise and decisive moment of the uniquely new human necessity for all of humankind” to enact truly global and universal cooperation. In Not-Two Is Peace, Avatar Adi Da speaks as World-Friend to all of humankind:
My communication in Not-Two Is Peace is a direct address to humankind as a whole, because of the now profoundly changed situation of humankind—a situation that is not really being acknowledged and understood to be the case.
In the present time, the social, political, economic, and religious domains of the human sphere are all characterized by a kind of "fundamentalism of the old days", a kind of “retro world”—and this is creating a disaster, because humankind has not shifted in its understanding to account for the real situation that now exists.
The current situation is one in which the prior unity of humankind is self-evident—but that prior unity is not being acted upon. Instead, people are still hoisting the old “flags” and looking for “victory”.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj, from Not-Two Is Peace