Adi Das beautiful account of Robert the Cat. From The Knee Of Listening Robert (the cat) himself was nothing less to me than my best friend and mentor. He was more, not less, than human to me. I watched him with fascination. I followed him through the woods and watched him hunt. I tried to understand his curious avoidance of the sea, and how he could sit on the cliff above the sea, watching the evening sun, and the wind blowing his hairs heroically about his head. The mystery of his pattern of living, his ease and justice, the economy of all his means, the untouchable absence of all anxiety, the sudden and adequate power he brought to every circumstance without exceeding the intensity required, all of his ways seemed to me an epitome of the genius of life. And he communicated with me so directly that I was disarmed. He would call me when he returned in the evening. He would touch me whenever he needed my presence. He would lie with me as if with conscious intention to console me with his living presence. And I loved him as deeply as the universe itself. At the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary (a meditation retreat Sanctuary for the community of Adidam), there is an outdoor Sacred Temple named Holy Cat Grotto which honors Robert and his Spiritual relationship with Adi Da Samraj. Holy Cat Grotto has become known as a place of healing, meditation, and Initiation. I recognized that Robert had been my teacher in the wilderness. He had filled my eye and owned a thread of attention in my heart. I Knew him and he Knew me. Nothing could replace that state of life or console its absence. I treated him in death like a saint. I had him cremated, and I kept his ashes. © 2014 ASA
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