This “perpetual calendar” celebrates the Radiant Bodily Form and timeless Revelation-Statements of His Divine Presence Avatar Adi Da Samraj—with a special compilation of daily photographs and quotations, created in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of His Work of Teaching and Blessing (1972–2022).
The 2023 calendar celebrates Avatar Adi Da’s Eternal Stand in Hermitage, set apart from the ordinary domain of humankind—and from egoity itself. Avatar Adi Da Established Himself in Hermitage in both physical and Transcendental Spiritual terms, to ensure His Blessing-Radiation to all beings in perpetuity. Forty years after Avatar Adi Da first set foot at Adi Da Samrajashram (Naitauba Island, Fiji) in 1983, we honor that Source-Place as Living Means of His Perpetual Blessing-Work.
This small, laminated card features an image of Avatar Adi Da from 2008, at Adi Da Samrajashram, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Avatar Adi Da Samraj first setting foot on Adi Da Samrajashram (Naitauba Island, Fiji) in 1983.
The 2023 Divine Image-Art Calendar, a sublime offering of Quandra Loka multiple exposure color photographs and configurations, commemorates the 20th anniversary of Adi Da Samraj’s first gallery exhibition in 2003, at Louis Stern Fine Arts on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
Quandra Loka is a visual meditation on a very simple circumstance: a woman in and near a pool of water. Narcissus, the archetype of ego, gazes at his own reflection in a pond, never able to contact the “object” of his self-enamored affection. But Quandra, the true beloved, is one with the water itself, whether in or out of the pool.
I intend these images to “picture” the unity of the undifferentiated reality from which all appearances emerge in a constant flow of changes. The entire span of human possibilities is reflected in these images—both “positive” and “negative.” But all possibilities are seen in the context of that inherent unity or indivisible space. The positives and the negatives are all transcended, rather than any attempt being made to render them acceptable in and of themselves.
2022 marks fifty years since Avatar Adi Da first formally offered the sacred relationship to Him as Divine Spiritual Master, and thus began a process of Revealing the Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam. This calendar is a means of honoring this special anniversary throughout the year!
(The Superconductivity of Celibate Women Under The Midnight Sun)
2022 Calendar
9 Mary—a monumental suite created by Adi Da Samraj in a three-month period from November 2001 through January 2002—is a pinnacle of Adi Da’s black-and-white imagery. In this suite, Adi Da infuses nine female subjects in light—in veiled, unveiled, and “re-patterned” abstractions—to the point of unrecognizability and dissolution. As Adi Da said in his artist’s statement:
I work to move the viewer into ecstasy—abstracted beyond the ego’s modes of perception. Ecstasy abstracts absolutely but not meaninglessly—beyond all presumed “difference” between “self” and “other”’.
