"This moment is the moment of reality, of union, of truth. The only truth is radical truth. Even the moment of self-indulgence, of avoidance, of separativeness is the moment of reality. Nothing needs to be done to it or you for it to be so. Nothing needs to be accomplished, purified, undone for it to be so. Nothing needs to be avoided, transcended or found for it to be so. This is the greatness of truth, of
understanding, for it disarms all fear, all circumstance, all dilemma. It is always already the case...
understanding, for it disarms all fear, all circumstance, all dilemma. It is always already the case...
Therefore, I affirm only understanding and no state or object yet to be attained. It is not a matter of purity first or at last, nor of sanity, nor wealth, well-being, goodness or vision. All these are the imagery of search, the vanity of external peace. Understanding is the ground of this moment, this event. Therefore, enjoy it, for you alone are the one who must live your ends and all the stages of time. The man who understands, who is always already free, is never touched by the divisions of the mind. And he alone is standing when all other beings and things have gone to rise or fall."
~ Franklin Jones, aka Bubba Free John, The Knee of Listening, 1972.
"...Jones, aka Adi Da, moved to New York City and got a job working for Pan American Airlines, in hopes this would facilitate his being able to visit Swami Muktananda's ashram in India. He did so for four days in April 1968. Swami Muktananda encouraged Adi Da to end his studies with Rudi and study with himself directly.
Back in New York, Adi Da and wife Nina became members and then employees of the Church of Scientology. Following Scientology protocol, he wrote Rudi a letter severing all contact. After a little more than a year of involvement, Adi Da left Scientology. He then returned to India for a month-long visit in early 1969, during which Swami Muktananda authorized him to initiate others into Siddha Yoga.
In May 1970, Adi Da, Nina, and a friend from Scientology named Pat Morley gave away their belongings and traveled to India for what they believed would be an indefinite period living at Swami Muktananda's ashram. However, Adi Da was disappointed by his experience there, especially by the numbers of other Americans who had arrived since his previous visit. Three weeks after arriving, Adi Da said that visions of the Virgin Mary (that he interpreted as a personification of divine feminine power, or shakti) directed him to make a pilgrimage to Christian holy sites. After two weeks in Europe and the middle east, all three returned to New York before moving to Los Angeles. In 1970, Adi Da said that while sitting in the Vedanta Society Temple in Hollywood, he permanently realized "The Bright", his term for a state of complete spiritual enlightenment..." ~ Wikipedia
Photos ~ Jones in India with Swami Muktananda in 1969
~ revisiting the Vedanta Temple in 1997
On September 16, 1979 I attended with hundreds of others, the 'Day of the Heart' in Clear Lake, CA.
"...In a few years not a single one of us will be alive, and others will be here remembering us and they will be lively in their time and then they will die... I spent several years with a man named Rudi and in his company I entered into the experience of the lower coil, the physical, emotional, and mental dimensions of the body-mind. In Rudi's company, the lower life was awkaened and purified. Then I went to another man named Baba Muktananda and in a few days at his ashram at Ganeshpuri, India, I extended my experience into the upper coil of the body. In his company the higher mind was awakened...
On the last day I was sitting in the Ashram garden and Baba Muktananda was being visited by a man named Rang Avadhoot. Rang Avadhoot was a wandering Siddha, a God-Realized being whom Bhagavan Nityananda had called one of his forms, meaning that Rang Avadhoot was his equal in God-Realization... As he walked past the garden bench where I was sitting, suddenly he looked at me. His face was wide, without a trace of doubt. His eyes were wide, full of life, and he was brilliantly happy! In the moment it took him to pass in front of me, one of the great events of my life was accomplished. I went to my room and left the body and all the universes...
You must transcend yourself, your experience, all of your teachers, teachings, moments, accumulations, thoughts, as I have done. We are mortal and entirely subject to the Mercy of God and we own nothing and we know nothing and there is no technique of meditation that leads to God. There is nothing to believe that is the truth. We must be touched in our feeling by the unspeakable suffering of this world and return everything to God....
Now that you have seen me what will you do? I will be waiting for your answer."
~ The day Bubba became Da, Eo Da
"...Jones, aka Adi Da, moved to New York City and got a job working for Pan American Airlines, in hopes this would facilitate his being able to visit Swami Muktananda's ashram in India. He did so for four days in April 1968. Swami Muktananda encouraged Adi Da to end his studies with Rudi and study with himself directly.
Back in New York, Adi Da and wife Nina became members and then employees of the Church of Scientology. Following Scientology protocol, he wrote Rudi a letter severing all contact. After a little more than a year of involvement, Adi Da left Scientology. He then returned to India for a month-long visit in early 1969, during which Swami Muktananda authorized him to initiate others into Siddha Yoga.
In May 1970, Adi Da, Nina, and a friend from Scientology named Pat Morley gave away their belongings and traveled to India for what they believed would be an indefinite period living at Swami Muktananda's ashram. However, Adi Da was disappointed by his experience there, especially by the numbers of other Americans who had arrived since his previous visit. Three weeks after arriving, Adi Da said that visions of the Virgin Mary (that he interpreted as a personification of divine feminine power, or shakti) directed him to make a pilgrimage to Christian holy sites. After two weeks in Europe and the middle east, all three returned to New York before moving to Los Angeles. In 1970, Adi Da said that while sitting in the Vedanta Society Temple in Hollywood, he permanently realized "The Bright", his term for a state of complete spiritual enlightenment..." ~ Wikipedia
Photos ~ Jones in India with Swami Muktananda in 1969
~ revisiting the Vedanta Temple in 1997
On September 16, 1979 I attended with hundreds of others, the 'Day of the Heart' in Clear Lake, CA.
"...In a few years not a single one of us will be alive, and others will be here remembering us and they will be lively in their time and then they will die... I spent several years with a man named Rudi and in his company I entered into the experience of the lower coil, the physical, emotional, and mental dimensions of the body-mind. In Rudi's company, the lower life was awkaened and purified. Then I went to another man named Baba Muktananda and in a few days at his ashram at Ganeshpuri, India, I extended my experience into the upper coil of the body. In his company the higher mind was awakened...
On the last day I was sitting in the Ashram garden and Baba Muktananda was being visited by a man named Rang Avadhoot. Rang Avadhoot was a wandering Siddha, a God-Realized being whom Bhagavan Nityananda had called one of his forms, meaning that Rang Avadhoot was his equal in God-Realization... As he walked past the garden bench where I was sitting, suddenly he looked at me. His face was wide, without a trace of doubt. His eyes were wide, full of life, and he was brilliantly happy! In the moment it took him to pass in front of me, one of the great events of my life was accomplished. I went to my room and left the body and all the universes...
You must transcend yourself, your experience, all of your teachers, teachings, moments, accumulations, thoughts, as I have done. We are mortal and entirely subject to the Mercy of God and we own nothing and we know nothing and there is no technique of meditation that leads to God. There is nothing to believe that is the truth. We must be touched in our feeling by the unspeakable suffering of this world and return everything to God....
Now that you have seen me what will you do? I will be waiting for your answer."
~ The day Bubba became Da, Eo Da
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