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Word as Spiritual Agent
 The Revelatory Divine Word of the Ruchira Avatar is far more than mere words on paper. His books carries His own Divine Force and Blessing. To read His books with open mind and open heart is to feel Him with extraordinary intensity—to feel His Instruction going straight to the core of your being, to feel His Loving Regard Blessing you from head to toe.
Indeed, the Divine Avatar has very intentionally imbued His books with His own Spirit-Power, so that they can function in perpetuity as potent means of contacting Him Spiritually, even after His physical Lifetime. He has created books that literally Transmit Him. That is why He acknowledges that His Books (along with His Image-Art and the Sanctuaries He has Spiritually Empowered) are His "Agents".
People with no previous knowledge of Avatar Adi Da sometimes have remarkable experiences upon first contact with His books, experiences that bring them into profound relationship with Him, even before His Words are understood. There are many testimonies to this—for example, this story by Trish Mitchell, an Australian radio journalist who bought The Dawn Horse Testament one day, simply because she was attracted to the cover. She took it home, placed it on her bookshelf—but never opened it at all.
TRISH MITCHELL: One evening, I glanced at the bookshelves and noticed that the only book I hadn’t read was The Dawn Horse Testament. I sat down on the couch and opened it to random pages.
As I read, the words started to blur, and a shimmering light flickered off the pages, like something out of a science fiction movie. My body started to sway slightly as it did when I would meditate, and I felt unaccountably hot. I closed the book quickly, wondering what on earth was happening. I thought perhaps I was getting the flu!
However, I noticed that, from feeling bored and restless earlier in the evening, I had begun to feel happy! I opened the book again, and the same things happened, except that light was streaming off the page by this point. Here I was, reading what I subsequently discovered to be highly technical descriptions of Spiritual practice. I understood very little of it, but I became happier and happier. I ended up hugging the book to my chest and dancing around the room.
The next day, I was looking through the newspaper and I saw a small advertisement for an introductory video about Adi Da.
So I rang and said, "I must come, immediately! I want to see a video!"
I went to an attractive house in the suburbs and saw a video of Adi Da Samraj from the late 1970s. The minute I heard His voice and saw His face, I was moved into a state of ecstasy. My peripheral vision disappeared. Everything went black, all sound disappeared. There was a roomful of people and I knew the video was playing loudly, but I couldn’t hear anything. There was only white light emanating from the video—except for Adi Da’s face, everything else was just light. Nothing like this had ever happened to me before. I felt very happy, unreasonably happy. I knew I was receiving something extraordinary from an extraordinary Being. At the end of the video, I was rested at the heart. I couldn’t explain it, but I had seen His Face and I knew that Face—and I knew it was the Face of God. |
