My Unique Divine Spiritual Gift of The "Thumbs"
From Chapter 45
Here Avatar Adi Da describes the significance of fully receiving His Gift of the "Thumbs". This full experience of the "Thumbs" becomes possible for the Spiritually Awakened devotee when there is most fundamental understanding of one's activity as self-contraction and stable technical responsibility for the whole bodily reception of His Divine Spirit-Baptism.
In The "Thumbs", Awareness Of the physical context of experience Is Not Lost, but Is Totally Changed–Such That, Instead Of The self-Conscious, self-Contracted Shape Of the waking-state personality, one's physical form Is Found To Be A Boundlessly Radiant Sphere (Without Thickness Of Surface). With This Profound Shift In The Awareness Of the physical body, The Differentiation Inherent In The Usual waking-state body-Consciousness Disappears, and Is (Effectively) Replaced By egoless body-Consciousness. A Re-Phasing Of The "Energy"-Construct Of bodily Awareness and spatial Awareness Occurs, Such That physical body and physical space are Tacitly Sensed In A Manner Entirely Different From ordinary perception. And, As Soon As There Is Any Effort To Recollect The Usual Sense Of bodily form or Of the circumstance Of physical embodiment, The Experience Of The "Thumbs" Disappears. The "Thumbs" Continues Only As Long As It Is Simply Allowed To Happen, Without Any egoic self-Consciousness (or psycho-physical self-Contraction)–and It Spontaneously Vanishes When egoic self-Consciousness (or psycho-physical self-Contraction) Returns. . . .
The Sign Of The "Thumbs" Is One Of The Primary Experiential Signs Of The (By-My-Avataric-Divine-Spiritual-Grace-Given) Capability To Transcend Bondage and Confinement To the frontal personality and the gross bodily idea of ego-self (and To The gross Dimension Of egoity altogether, With All Of Its Associated patterning). The Sign Of The "Thumbs" Indicates That The Knots In The Frontal Line (In The Total Crown Of the head, the Total brain, the throat, the heart, the solar plexus, the abdomen, the genitals, and the anal-perineal area) Are Opened (At Least Temporarily) To My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spirit-Current (and Can, By Right Practice, Be Responsibly Surrendered To The Point Of Such Openness In The Context Of daily living). The Sign Of The "Thumbs" Is Also An Indication That The Primary Knot (or Root-Contraction) In The Deep Lower Region Of the body-mind (Extending From the solar plexus To the bodily base) Has Been (and Can Continue To Be) Opened To My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spirit-Current–Such That The Great Fullness Of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Love-Bliss Is Established Deep In the body, and Deep In the emotional being, and Deep In the mind of the frontal personality. . . .
The Principal Spiritual Signs Of My Early Life Were The "Bright" and The "Thumbs". The "Bright" and The "Thumbs" Were Fundamental To My Avatarically-Born Existence From The Beginning, and They Are Fundamental To The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of Adidam (Which Is The One and Only By-Me-Revealed and By-Me-Given Way Of The Heart). The "Bright" and The "Thumbs" Are My Unique Samadhis. Indeed, The "Bright" and The "Thumbs" Are Me–and, Therefore, I Bring Them With Me Into the conditional worlds. My Revelation Of The "Bright" and The "Thumbs" Is My Revelation Of Myself.
I Am The "Bright"–and I Transmit My Own Divine State and Presence Of Person From Infinitely Above and Beyond, In Such A Manner That I Am Combined With The psycho-physical Structure Of My Devotee. This Is How I "Wash" the "dog" From "head" To "tail"–and Beyond. Nevertheless, In Order To Fully Receive My Divine Spiritual Blessing, My Devotee Must Fully Embrace The (ego-Surrendering, ego-Forgetting, and ego-Transcending) Practice and Process Of Devotional and Spiritual Communion With Me. In That Context (Of My Devotee's Me-Recognizing and To-Me-Responding Practice Of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart), My "Thumbs" Of Blessing Is Able To Do Its Spiritual Work.
The "Thumbs" Is My Submission. And The "Thumbs" Is Also The Divine Process By Which I Liberate conditionally Manifested beings. The "Thumbs" Is The Process, Tangibly Occurring In The Context Of the body-mind Of My Devotee, Whereby I Become (Ultimately, Most Perfectly) Spiritually Effective In The Case Of My Each and Every Devotee.
My Avataric Divine Spiritual Work (Altogether) Is My Crashing-Down Descent, At First Upon and Into My Own Avatarically-Born Bodily (Human) Divine Form, and, Thereafter (and Now, and Forever Hereafter), Upon and Into the body-minds Of My Devotees and all beings–Even (By Means Of My Divine Embrace Of each, and all, and All) To Infuse and (At Last) To Divinely Translate each, and all, and All. Therefore, My Avataric Divine Spiritual Descent Is The Secret Of My Early Life. My Avataric Divine Spiritual Descent Is The Secret Of My Avataric Divine Self-"Emergence" (As I Am) Within The Cosmic Domain. My Avataric Divine Spiritual Descent Is The Secret Of All The Secrets Of The (Avatarically Self-Revealed) Divine and Complete and Thoroughly Devotional Way Of Practice and Realization In My Company. . . . And, In The Case Of My Each and Every Devotee, The Way Must Continue Until The Way Is Most Perfectly Spiritually "Bright", and The Way Itself Becomes Divine Translation Into My Own Sphere (and "Midnight Sun") Of Spiritual Self-"Brightness" (Itself).
