"Bare Feet Mission" Action or Neurotic Prayer?
- "Evelyn" exposed
- Aug 2, 2024
- 3 min read
For those who read/feel these posts (generally 50 or so daily do this), as a curious observer or as interested students or presumed to be "Adidam devotees", it is likely clear that what is covered here is very broad and full, spanning a spectrum of very happy and ecstatic stories along with sadly painful stories and topics.
Please bear with me in this process of giving voice to challenging matters, both seemingly "positive or negative" in nature.
Most often these posts contain colorful complex material. Often they may come across as obscure, with odd language OR maybe it feels like what is offered contains content that is too complicated, difficult and challenging. I understand and heart respect what each person can embrace or cannot tolerate.
Without trying to be glib, I say, "such is life". An altogether complex, challenging potentiality of growing pains and successes coinciding with the possibility of a genuine loving, happy, productive and most auspicious Awakening ordeal.
As an "intimate devotee" of Bright Adi Da, I try to bring you into "His Room", humanly as he lived it, and as he freely revealed Reality Truth Itself through Spiritually Transcendental Transmission of the Divine Self Position Itself, The Bright, all- pervading and all- inclusive Love Bliss Being.
It is also important to sensitize you to what he, humanly endured. He was an extremely sensitive and vulnerably open, brilliant, passionate, compassionate, no non-sense, honest colorful man whose constant expressions and acts were only about Love Itself.
Adi Da had hoped that he would live to be serving his Bright function combined with a True and Real culture, mission, community and institution. The very day he passed he expressed once again that this reality had not manifested, yet, in order for him to continue here in this world.
He had taught, revealed and creatively done all he was given to do and could do. Which is remarkable and mankind is forever blessed by the Bight Wisdom he brought to our noticing, in perpetuity.
He was constantly asking "devotees" around him to bring more beings (seeded by recognition response to his gifts and means he had accomplished) to him .
This influx of NEW beings and possibilities is essential because he/As Is was/is always passionate about the Mystery of the Divine Process with the world and devotees and what we, as a whole, were able to do in relationship together! This is Bright Leela. True and Real Adidam.
To date the "devotee" culture and mission and community and institution are still not getting up from the "insiders" misuse of "inner temple" liturgical and sacramental occasions.......
The results and statistics support what I bring here. I do not do this to be mean or hurtful. Adi Da epitomized frankness, honesty transparency and the vulnerability of a direct relationship lived with hundreds of intimate devotees.
All the while constantly reminding those around him that he was here to Love, be with and serve all beings. And that ALL beings who respond at heart, in any way, will thereby inherit the "burden" of responsibility to ensure Bright Leela stays Alive in this universal domain. We all simply need to get up and agree to do so and move our "bare feet", As One.
"Cultic insiders" do not want this mass movement because the Mystery Itself takes hold, thus rendering owning and controlling and theft obsolete.
Faces lost, rugs pulled out from seats and thrones, positions shuffled, costumes removed; naked and unarmored with bare feet!
Adi Da Love Ananda:
"I have done decades of work in every conceivable and inconceivably form for the purpose of the Mission and what it enables "Me" to do when there is a response in the form of devotees coming to "Me". ..what is missing is an effective organizational means.....The Mission for Me is not a business, the Mission for Me is the means whereby devotees are brought to Me, come to Me as devotees. I cannot Work if there is not an effective Mission. Anything other than results is an inappropriate presentation to Me about the Mission because I have covered the rest of it already......the liturgical and sacramental basics have been accomplished. It's the "what you are supposed to do once you get up from the sacramental occasion that IS NOT happening.....Yes the Mission is about the Culture of devotion to Me....if you do not have a culture, where are you going to get a Mission? Why would you want to do one? The Mission brings what is already desirable to people to other people! So if you do not have a culture of people who are already practicing this Way and finding it of value, then you are not going to have a Mission made by those people because they do not really care one way or another about getting somebody else to do it (to be devotees)."
