DA

Reflecting back on Adi Da's life and work (he died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 2008 at his Fijicompound) I am convinced that Scott Lowe diagnosed his former teacher perfectly as suffering from the verynarcissism he claimed engulfed his followers. Indeed it may well be that much of Da's deep psychological insight into the human condition didn't stem from his self-proclaimed enlightenment but from observing day-to-day his own neurotic behavior and his own self-centered interactions with those closest to him. In any case knowing what we do now about his uncouth antics I would have definitely written a more critical piece on him today than I did thirty years ago. So with that caveat emptor read the following with a discriminating eye.