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Love-Ananda"Love-Ananda", or "Da Love-Ananda", is the primary Name by which Avatar Adi Da Samraj was known publically from 1986 until 1990.
On January 11, 1986, a profound Yogic event took place in Avatar Adi Da Samraj's Body. Now known as the initial moment of His "Divine Emergence", this event precipitated a great change in Avatar Adi Da's Work. That year He assumed sannyas, or formal renunciation, in the manner of the Hindu tradition. He put on the traditional orange clothing, wore His hair in the top-knot characteristic of a sannyasin, and took a new name, "Swami Da Love-Ananda". "Love-Ananda" was a name that Swami Muktananda (one of Avatar Adi Da's Spiritual teachers) had offered to Him privately in 1969, but which Avatar Adi Da had never formally used.
Though it is no longer His primary Name, "Love-Ananda" is still an appropriate reference to Avatar Adi Da. It expresses, in one word, the Revelation begun on January 11: the "Love" that had borne Him down to the toes in His Embrace of the body, and "Ananda", the Bliss, the Joy of the God-State, which was His Gift to all.
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