Adi Da Samraj, 1985

A Note About Capitalization

From the time He began to write His Dawn Horse Testament in 1985, Adi Da Samraj used capital letters in a unique way, to honor the importance of His message and to give the communication of His Testament Principal Force. When asked to explain this use of capital letters, Adi Da replied, "It Is Louder!" After His Testament was completed, He responded to those who seemed to require a further explanation:

Ordinary speech and written language are centered on the ego-"I", as a tent is raised on a centerpole. Therefore, in ordinary speech and written language, the ego-word "I" is commonly capitalized, and everything less than the ego-"I" is shown in lowercase. (Indeed, everything that is not the ego-"I" is grammatically subordinated to the egoic "I"-reference.) Other ego-"I"'s (other than the principal subject or speaker) are also commonly shown in uppercase, if they are being "properly" (or formally) addressed, by name. And capitalization is otherwise commonly reserved for "big meanings", or whatever the ego-"I" presumes to be somehow great, or even larger (and, therefore, the ego presumes, Other) than itself.

This Testament is My Intention to Awaken the Consciousness of every being to Its Ultimate Real (and, Necessarily, Divine) Condition. Therefore, the conventions of capitalization (and non-capitalization) in this Testament are Natural Signals to the Inherently (and Ultimately) Free Heart-Consciouness.

The "centerpole" of this Testament is the Heart Itself, the Consciousness That Is Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and Necessarily Divine Being (Itself). The uppercase words express the Ecstatic "Vision" of Heart-Significance. And the lowercase words (which appear only occasionally, like the uppercase words in common speech and writing) achieve, by their infrequency, a special significance as indicators of conditional or limited existence.

To read (or Listen to) and Understand this Testament is to be Released from the egoic vision and its point of view. Let it be so. Feel and speak (rather than merely think) this Message. The big and small letters interrupt the common flow of mind and Signal your Heart that it is time to Awaken, As You Are.