Sacred Art

Avatar Adi Da has always used the arts to draw people out of their usual perspective into the ecstatic feeling of the Mystery. When He was a boy, He painted, and used His ventriloquy puppet, and participated in theatre—all to bring joy and illumination to those around Him. Later in His life, Avatar Adi Da worked tirelessly as an artist—using His Spiritual writings, poetry, playwriting, painting, and other visual arts to serve awakening in others. “True art,” He says, “is a sacred performance, and must associate people with the sacred. It must invoke in them the capacity to participate in the reality that is about self-transcendence, love, communion with the Divine.”

 

When He established the Reality--Way of Adidam, Avatar Adi Da called His devotees to develop arts that convey the sacred, saying:

 

I am trying to point out to you the power of the sacred orientation and how necessary it is to human life. When the sacred is eliminated, people become subhuman. When the sacred is introduced, people have the opportunity to become truly human. Ultimately, participating in sacred culture gives people the opportunity to become even greater than human. Participating in truly sacred culture gives you the opportunity to fulfill human existence through ego--transcending practice.

 

Children and young people benefit tremendously when they make art with this orientation. That is why sacred art is an integral part of conscious childrearing, at every stage of early--life development. The Vision of Mulund Institute supports parents to help their toddlers, kids, and teens develop art forms that express the happiness of their relationship to Avatar Adi Da and the Divine Mystery.

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At every age, for youngsters, making sacred art is a means of:

 

            --exercising their feeling, breathing relationship to the Mystery

            --expanding their sensitivity to others and the world around them

            --developing greater emotional awareness and openness

            --releasing the demand for self--attention by giving energy to the Divine

            --letting go of competitiveness through self--transcendence

            --learning how to meet challenges in order to achieve excellence

            --giving energy happily, without expecting external rewards in return

            --participating in the greater culture, including that of adults, in a valuable way

            --celebrating their love for Avatar Adi Da and giving thanks for His blessing