Dawn is our resident chestnut mare with all the spunk and flare that comes with those born attributes in a horse. She was gifted as a filly to Adi Da Samraj shortly before His passing. As a small brown horse she was named Dawn in reference to a waking Vision Adi Da Samraj experienced in 1970.
In 1970, Avatar Adi Da experienced a waking Vision. He found Himself in a subtle realm, observing a Spiritual Master demonstrating to his disciples the Yogic power of manifesting objects spontaneously. Avatar Adi Da watched as the Master began the process of manifestation. After a time, although nothing had yet materialized, the Master’s disciples departed, apparently satisfied that the work was done. Avatar Adi Da was left alone, standing before the Master. Then gradually a vaporous shape arose before His eyes. As it became more clearly defined, He saw that it was a perfectly formed, living and breathing horse, perhaps three feet high. Later, when He saw a documentary on “eohippus” (meaning “dawn horse” in Greek), the smaller ancestor of today’s horse, He decided to name the horse of His Vision the “Dawn Horse”.
In 1984, Avatar Adi Da spoke about His Vision:
“I was at once the Adept who performed the miracle of manifesting the horse, and I was the one who was party to the observation of it and its result. And I did not have any feeling of being different from the horse itself. I was making the horse, I was observing the horse, and I was being the horse.”
Avatar Adi Da has explained that this Vision was a sign of the future manifestation of His own Work in the world. The Dawn Horse was also a sign of Avatar Adi Da’s own Person, taking form in and as the conditional universe.
Dawn is incredibly bright, playful, curious and can be very tender and loving. She also has tremendous attitude and expression, all of which is entertaining and enlivening for both the humans that take care of her and her herd mates.