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To Support the Vision of
Mulund Institute
Adult Re-Adaptation
Avatar Adi Da Samraj: [T]he usual man or woman is hardly even equipped to be human, having gone through the first twenty--one years of life without having come to the point of integrated functional responsibility. The usual man or woman cannot control the life--force in his or her own body--mind-complex and use it in creative ways. He or she is full of fear, continually subject to negative emotions and bouts of “self”--indulgence, and always looking to be consoled by the things of life and beyond life, rather than being responsibly and pleasurably integrated with the Great Process in which everyone is born.
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Because most people were not raised in a culture based on
true wisdom, very few of us complete the work of the first three stages by the time we are twenty--one. Most adults have only partially adapted to these early stages of human development, and we struggle with this unfinished business throughout our lives.
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Avatar Adi Da has given detailed practical instruction for adults who want to overcome the deficits in their adaptation to the first three stages of life. But all of this tremendously useful practical wisdom is secondary to the ultimate advantage that Adi Da offers—and that is the opportunity to enter into a devotional relationship with His Divine Person and Presence. When we turn to Adi Da, and consciously yield our limitations in contemplation of His boundless and all--completing seventh stage revelation, we receive an unprecedented force of blessing and help. The need to suffer or struggle with the earlier stages of life is outshined by the perfect fullness of His grace, even from the very first moments of the relationship to Him.
To make His help available, Avatar Adi Da has given an entire way of life and practice called the Reality--Way of Adidam. Adidam is founded on the sacred relationship with Avatar Adi Da, and is expressed through a full range of practical, functional, relational, and cultural practices. These practices, individually and collectively, provide everything that His devotees need to go beyond any “failed adaptation” in the early stages of life.
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That said, the practice of Adidam, for adults and for children, is never a search to “fulfill” or “perfect” any of the stages. The practice of Adidam is simply a way of intelligently, truly, and effectively taking responsibility for all of one’s functions, so that the entire being is aligned to—and the limits of the conditional being are transcended in—the Divine Unity in which we all appear and disappear.
Become strong in the human way—and waste no time in that preparation. Otherwise, you will only suffer a life and future that is mediocre, foolish, frustrated, obsessed, and un--Awakened to Truth Itself.
--Avatar Adi Da Samraj
First stage re-adaptation: Growing beyond the dependency connection
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Adults who have not completed the work of the first stage of life can exhibit:
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--a struggle with individuation that manifests as the feeling of separation, or being cut off from the Divine Mystery of existence, resulting in a neurotic effort to cling to childish ideas about the Divine out of fear
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--a sense of “Doubt (or Anxiety) About other human beings On whom one Depends For Love”, which results either in clinging dependency or a frozen inability to trust others
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--a struggle with diet and health habits—from substance addictions and food disorders to simply being overweight, or other imbalances of diet and health management
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We can address these limitations by embracing the following practices given by Avatar Adi Da:
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--feeling-communion with Adi Da and the Divine Mystery
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--conscious food--taking
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--service to others and the world
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--touch--based healing practices
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--observing and transcending the mood of separation through resort to Adi Da’s revelation of non--separation and prior unity
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Second stage re-adaptation: Resolving the relational character
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Adults who have not completed the work of the second stage of life can exhibit:
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--a struggle with the feeling of being rejected and the impulse to punish others in retaliation—which results in an inability to consistently give love to one’s intimates or to participate productively in the broader social sphere
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--lack of awareness of the etheric dimension of life, which results in an inability to:
-conduct one’s own life--force in a full and happy way
-balance one’s emotional energy
-be sensitive to the energies of others and nature
-understand one’s effect on others and nature
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We can address these limitations by embracing the following practices given by Avatar Adi Da:
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--consciously breathing and conducting life--energy
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--right life practices that foster equanimity, including diet and exercise
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--touch--based healing practices
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--observing personal patterns of un-love and taking on disciplines to counter them
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--turning body, mind, emotions, and breathing to Avatar Adi Da as the giving source of Divine love
Third stage re-adaptation: Outgrowing “indefinitely prolonged adolescence”
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Adults who have not completed the work of the third stage of life can exhibit:
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--lack of integration with the higher psychic mind, resulting in chronic thinking of the lower mind​
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--doubt of dimensions beyond the physical, resulting in divorce from the Divine Mystery of existence​
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--weakness in discrimination, and thus capable of believing nonsense​
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--weakness of will and self--discipline​
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--insensitivity to the psychic interconnectedness with all of life, resulting in lack of understanding how to relate to others or the planet in a consistently positive way​
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--conflict between childish and adolescent motives, resulting in:
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-inability to accept nurturing without reverting to childish dependency
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-inability to be independent without dissociating from others
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-mindlessly capitulating to or blindly resisting authority figures
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-the double--bind of simultaneously seeking and avoiding intimacy, and an inability to get along
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We can address these limitations by embracing the following practices given by Avatar Adi Da:
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--turning to Avatar Adi Da and invoking His all--completing Divine grace​
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--studying sacred texts, including Adi Da’s teachings and books by and about other genuine realizers
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--studying and practicing life disciplines, including those on sexuality
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--observing personal patterns of egoic un--Happiness and taking on disciplines to counter them
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--keeping a diary to foster self--observation and to note dreams and psychic phenomena
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--meditation and prayer
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The third stage of life is complete when the individual is fully responsible for adult life—not merely in the conventional social sense, or merely because of chronological age, but in the sense that he or she is fully prepared (physically, emotionally, etherically, psychically, mentally, and with a free, or intelligent, will) to enter into the social, personal, and devotional responsibilities of true adulthood.
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-- Avatar Adi Da Samraj