The Pneumaton

A comprehensive examination of Spiritual Transmission (and mysticism)—in Christian and Hindu traditions, and in its unique form in the Reality-Way of Adidam. Avatar Adi Da indicates the evidence of Spirit-Baptism in "original" Christianity (recorded in texts such as the New Testament gospels and the Gnostic gospels of Jesus) and in traditions associated with Kundalini Shakti (lived in the sacred context of Guru-devotion). Avatar Adi Da also provides essential foundational education about modern-day misunderstandings and taboos related to "Spirit" and the Realized beings who transmit Spirit-Force—and offers detailed, ecstatic descriptions of His own unique Transcendental Spiritual Awakening-Transmission. The Pneumaton means "the book of the Divine Spirit-Breath" (from the Greek word "pneuma" meaning both "spirit" and "breath"). In this 1250-page book, Avatar Adi Da brings to bear His intensive investigation of the entire body of traditional Spiritual literature, His early-life experiences of Christian and Hindu mysticism, His lineage of Spiritual Masters, and His own Divinely Realized State—clarifying the ancient sacred process of Awakening by means Spirit-Force with unparalleled thoroughness and completeness. Highlights of the book include: Avatar Adi Da's own rendering of the New Testament Gospels and a new translation of the conversation between N.A. Motovilov and Saint Seraphim of Sarov—both of which illuminate and affirm the process of Spirit-Baptism; Avatar Adi Da's account of the Spiritual Instructions and Spiritual Transmission of great yogis, mystics, and saints from the Spiritual traditions—including Saint Seraphim of Sarov, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Muktananda, and Bhagavan Nityananda; and testimony from Avatar Adi Da's senior renunciate devotees, in which they describe the uniquely transformative quality of Avatar Adi Da's Spiritual Transmission in detail. Using His seven-stage "map" that relates to the total structure of the human being, Avatar Adi Da articulates nuanced distinctions among traditional forms of mysticism and Spirituality, highlighting the characteristics of the most advanced Shaktipat traditions and bringing detailed clarity to His unique Divine Ruchira Shaktipat. Also using this "map", Avatar Adi Da identifies the foundation understanding and discipline that must be seriously engaged in order for true Spiritual Awakening to occur in anyone's case. In The Pneumaton, Avatar Adi Da illuminates the universal wisdom coming out of the sacred traditions of Spiritual Transmission, and simultaneously reveals the core error that is the limit of all Spiritual seeking (and even any form of seeking): the ego, or contraction upon a "self", which turns any practice (whether ordinary or sublime) into a search. This enables an understanding of why Avatar Adi Da's Transmission—and the Way of practice and Realization that He offers to all—is continuous with and yet stands completely apart from all previous traditions of true Spirit-Baptism. It is the purpose of this Revelation-Text to Illustrate a right understanding of the esoteric seeking-traditions and seeking-cultures of Spirituality (including "original" Christianity)—and, that having been done, to then Illuminate the Unique and Always Priorly Searchless "Radical" (or Always "At-the-Root") Reality-Way of Adidam, Which is the Reality-Way of Perfectly Non-Dualistic Transcendental Spiritual, Intrinsically egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Self -Realization. —Avatar Adi Da Samraj