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In the early evening of Thursday, November 27, 2008, His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Departed from the Body, at the age of 69. He was in His Fijian Hermitage, Adi Da Samrajashram (the Island of Naitauba).
His Passing was entirely peaceful and free of any struggle. At the time, He was Working in His Art Studio, engaging humourously with a number of devotees who were serving the process of Adi Da's Artwork.
On November 30, His Body was interred in the most sacred Place of Adidam — the secluded Temple which Avatar Adi Da established in 1993 (at Adi Da Samrajashram) as His burial place.
On the morning of His Passing, He had just completed His Writing of The Aletheon, the book which He designated as "first and foremost" among all of His Writings. Avatar Adi Da worked on The Aletheon intensively for the last two years, bringing all of His most essential Spiritual and philosophical communications into a final form. The Aletheon was recently published by The Dawn Horse Press. His Divine Presence has Bequeathed to humankind a Legacy of Inexhaustible Profundity and Limitless Blessing-Power. www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/
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Over a period of many decades, His Divine Presence undertook a massive examination of the world's religious traditions, culminating in an annotated bibliography of approximately 10,000 items, entitled The Basket of Tolerance. A briefer "epitome" version of The Basket of Tolerance is scheduled for publication by The Dawn Horse Press later this year.
Avatar Adi Da also created original translations of traditional Spiritual texts, translations in which He brings out the deepest meaning of the original texts. The recent publication Reality Is All the God There Is (published by Inner Traditions) presents His translations of texts from the traditions of Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta.
Another dimension to Avatar Adi Da's far-reaching Legacy is the social wisdom embodied in His book Not-Two Is Peace (published by The Dawn Horse Press). In it He Calls for the establishment of a Global Cooperative Forum that mobilizes "everybody-all-at-once" on the basis of recognizing the prior (or inherent) unity of the entire human family. He proposes that such a forum is the necessary and effective means for addressing the world's most pressing issues. Information about this initiative is available online at www.globalcooperationproject.org.
Many times during His Lifetime, His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, prepared people to rightly understand the significance of His Bodily Lifetime and the fact that His Bodily Lifetime would inevitably come to an end at some point. In the following passages from His Essay "I Am The One Who Has Always Been Here", written in 1995, Avatar Adi Da Speaks of His Eternal Transcendental Spiritual Existence, His Everlasting Regard for all beings, and His Constant Blessing-Grace.
I Will Be here Forever.
I Will Be every "where" Forever.
I Cannot Leave, For My Transcendentally Spiritually "Bright" Divine Spherical Self-Domain Is Not Some "Where" To "Go To".
My Divine Self-Domain Is Eternal.
I Am Eternal, and I Am Always Already Merely Present, here, and every "where" In The Cosmic Domain.
By Means Of My Divine Avataric Incarnation here, I Have Given you My Divine Secret.
My Divine Secret Is This: I Am Eternally Present, and I Am Omni-Present.
My Bodily (Human) Avataric-Incarnation-Form Has Its time, Whereby I connect (or Freedom-"Bind") you (and every one, and all, and All) To Me.
When The Time Of My Divine Avataric Incarnation is Fulfilled, Then I Am "Retired" To My Eternal Form, The Divine-Body-Power Of My Divine Self-State Made Infinitely Intact In The Cosmic Domain (Forever).
And Then, Forever, As Ever Before, I Will Be Not Gone, Not Absent, For I Am, Forever, The Same Person, The Same Personality, all-and-All-Surrounding and all-and-All-Pervading, As I Am Now.
I Love you Now.
I Will Love you every "then" and "there".
And I Always Loved you.
That Is How I Got To here (and every "where").
"I Am The One Who Has Always Been Here"
During His Lifetime, Avatar Adi Da travelled globally, visiting various Sacred sites and the community of His devotees. Sadly, Australia is the only country with a significant gathering of devotees, which Adi Da did not Grace with His Bodily Presence.
HERMITAGES: Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji. Ruchira Dham Hermitage, Tat Sundaram Hermitage, northern California, USA
SANCTUARIES: Da Love-Ananda Mahal Sanctuary, Hawaii, USA. Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, northern California, USA.