To Support the Vision of
Mulund Institute
I Am in Love with children.
I Preserve them, Honor them,
Nourish them, Give them life,
Give them the Great Vision.
Adidam is a relationship to Me, and
not “techniques”. There are practices
for which you must be responsible...
but they are secondary to the essence
of Adidam, which is relationship
to Me, which is a heart-matter,
an intimate matter.
This Way must become an intimate
matter for you. In that sense, you are like a child, and you must preserve that
child-like nature. You must preserve the Heart Itself, conserve the Heart Itself, animate the Heart Itself, make the Divine Heart Itself the dominant Principle, and not allow the True Heart to be destroyed.
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Avatar Adi Da Samraj
The Story Behind Our Name
It Takes a Village
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When Avatar Adi Da visited India in the 1960s, He stayed overnight in a village named Mulund. Walking out onto a balcony overlooking the town center, He saw “a large square of green lawns and green trees with very clean nice little houses at the perimeter. . . Everything was clean and trimmed, and there were decorative plants and flowers everywhere. There were walkways throughout this large park, and there were families, women with children, and men walking together very calmly.”
Adi Da later said about Mulund, "It was a picture of serenity and order. It was a picture of people who had their act together, of people who could choose a way of life and (by cooperating with one another) command the quality of life.” The people Adi Da saw in Mulund, “understood the value of creating a community of like practice, a community of serious practice."
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Years later, Avatar Adi Da began providing instruction about what becoming a truly mature human involves, and how to best raise children and young people. He then called for an organization that would make available His insights and His guidance—to help young people grow in the most positive terms possible, humanly and in the context of spiritual life.
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When we founded our nonprofit educational organization to serve that purpose, Avatar Adi Da named it after His “Vision of Mulund”. Ever since, the Vision of Mulund Institute has been an intentional global community—a forum where people of all ages join together to study Avatar Adi Da's wisdom and grow with His help.
Once while talking about the village of Mulund, Adi Da said, “One of the virtues of choosing to practice together is that you can command the quality of space and time”. You can create places, even online spaces, that “become beautiful places of that order, that serenity, that quality of life–places that are a sign of Divine Awareness.” He also taught, “if you would awaken beyond the principle of egoity, community is an inevitable discipline. You cure egoity, you transcend it, you work beyond it, through the discipline of community, or cooperative association with others.”
To that end, the Vision of Mulund Institute publishes Adi Da Samraj’s Wisdom on the “first three stages of life”, creates courses on “conscious childrearing” for parents, teachers, and guides, and provides education for adults who want to keep maturing in human terms as well. The Institute also offers a fellowship specifically for young people—to help them create their own community in response to Avatar Adi Da. As members of the Adidam Youth Fellowship, young people, from the time they are born through age 25, can join in groups of their own age, in-person and online, to support one another and share their love for Avatar Adi Da and their process of ego-transcending Happiness in His Blessing Company.