The
Books of Adidam 
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books in the near future:
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My "Bright"
Word (Early formal Discourses: 1972–1973) is the
first of four volumes comprising the series, The Divine
Siddha-Method Of The Ruchira Avatar. The remaining volumes
are forthcoming:
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My "Bright"
Form — Two concentrated series of Discourses,
given in the years 1992 - 1994.
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My "Bright"
Room — A single concentrated series of Discourses,
given in the years 2004 - 2005.
- The three-volume series, Right Life Is The Context of Divine
Beholding (Right Life Is Free
Participation In Unlimited Radiance, The
Sacred Space Of Finding Me, and Always
Enact Fidelity To Me) is Adi Da's Word on disciplines
embraced by all of His Second Congregation and First Congregation
devotees. Disciplines that are only embraced by members of the
First Congregation will be presented in future publications.
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The Basket Of Tolerance
— A book like no other: simultaneously an unprecedented
Spiritual Revelation and an extraordinary intellectual document.
It focuses on the immense variety of historical expressions
of the religious and Spiritual search, from prehistoric times
to the present. The core of this book is a bibliographical
listing of 5,000 documents (in all media: print and audio-visual),
meticulously ordered by Avatar Adi Da in an elaborately subdivided
sequence, to form a continuous "Argument".
The
Books of Adidam: Overview
Adi Da working on The Aletheon in Glass Pear
(February 18, 2007)
The source and purpose of Adi
Da's Teaching. Adi Da's books are very often the first way people are introduced to
Him. (Read for example all the stories on this site
that illustrate the important role played by Adi Da's autobiography, The
Knee Of Listening, in prospective devotees' developing relationship with
Him.) This was very intentional on His part:
| You have no idea what it took to make these Books. There is not even a single word of "bullshit" in any of My Twenty-Three Books. Not a single lie or variation on it. Not a single untruth or suggestion of it, not a moment of withholding of the Most Perfect Loving Communication of the Being. Not a moment of denial of the esoteric Truth, to anyone born. No regulations, no fences, no common, ordinary, everyday language, in the sense that Truth has to be reduced to some sort of "picture-story", to somehow convince you that life is about love. That is not what My Books are about.
My Books are a Free and Absolute Revelation, without the slightest cavil, withholding, or irony. It has been My Intention to Speak My Word so clearly, so profoundly, that no being on Earth, or anywhere else, could be deprived of Truth. It has been My Intention to make Books of My Word so profound that the mere reading of them could convert any being on Earth, or anywhere else, from the ego-possessed life of mortality and darkness, to the life of Divine Love-Bliss — without the slightest qualification, in the case of any being that moves or is.
This has been My Intention, this is what I have been Doing, this is the significance of My Years of "Consideration". For Me, it is a single thread of Argument, a single Conversation, without the slightest softness of mind, lack of comprehension, or forgetting. It has been a consistent, every-day, twenty-four-hour-a-day, Conversation with Me, for all these years. From the night I Sat on Melrose Avenue and Spoke, to this night, it has been a single Conversation, in which I do not regard any being to be a fool. I just cannot do so. That is why I Speak as I do. Because I take everyone seriously. Always have. It is what has given absolute Integrity to My Divine Avataric Life and Word.
So these Books are My Personal Word to each of you. And to every being, from now and forever. My Personal Word.
Lots of Words! But I think you can dig the Company, right? I mean, you cannot read five, ten, fifteen of My Books, and still remember them all. You have to go back and read them some more, and the rest of the Twenty-Three. And then there is all the supportive texts. You people have a lot of reading to do! I am Talking about detailed reading and practicing, day after day, all your life!
So, My Intention with these Books is to Give them to everyone, not to have them in My room, nicely printed, merely. They must fall through your hands to everyone on Earth, and fall out of your mouths to everyone on Earth — and everywhere else. Because sooner or later, all of you will go everywhere else. Remember Me, and you will bring Me with you, and serve beings. Not a fraction of what is required for your Realization of Me has been denied to you. Nor will it ever be. So these Books go to all, with My Blessing.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, April 1988 |
| [Adi Da, pointing to His body:] This body is a
P.A. system for God. Avatar Adi Da Samraj |
| [The same communication, but more detailed, and specifically
referring to Adi Da's books:] I Spontaneously Uttered the "Picture"
that is My every "Source-Text" of Divine Avataric Word — each
of Which is a by-Me-Given Means Whereby I Speak from and As the Reality-Position
That Is Prior to egoity, Prior to the body-mind-complex, Prior to conditional
existence, and Prior to time and space. Therefore, My Written Word Is the
Speech (or Direct Self-Presentation) of Intrinsically egoless (and Self-Evidently
Divine) Transcendental Spiritual Conscious Light Itself — the Most Perfectly
Self-Awakened (and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Consciousness, the Heart-Word of
Reality (Itself), Which Is the by-Me-Divinely-Avatarically-Self-Transmitted
Inherent (and Tacit) Self-Apprehension of Being (Itself). Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
"The Forever-Spoken Word of Reality Itself"
Part
One, The
Aletheon |
My Divine Avataric Teaching-Word Is an Extension of My
Person and Realization and Condition. It Is My Act of putting into language modes
of My Intrinsic Self-Apprehension of Reality Itself. I am not talking about
something that is merely logically so. What I am Revealing is not a matter
of theory, and not a matter of ideas. What I am Revealing is Spoken from the “Place”
Where “It” Is Always Already Self-Evidently The Case. My State corresponds
to What I otherwise philosophically Propose. I am not proposing a philosophical
theory and then “going looking” for it. I am not suggesting, “This Truth is logically
the case, so we should look into it some day.” I could not even be Writing My
Revelation-Word if Realization were not Always Already The Case in Me and
As Me. Most Perfect Divine Self-Realization Is the Basis on Which I have
been Doing all My Divine Avataric Work. I am not merely speaking
philosophy in the academic sense, within the domain of mere ideas. I am Speaking
on the Basis of My Own Demonstrated Realization, Which Corresponds to My Intrinsically
egoless State — the Self-State of Reality Itself. Avatar Adi
Da Samraj
"Indivisible Perfect Space"
Part
Twenty, The
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To read (or Listen to) and understand My Divine Avataric
Word is to be Acausally Released from having to exercise
the egoic vision and separate and separative "point
of view".
Therefore, read, and Listen to, and recite, and feel (rather
than merely think) the Words of My Divine Avataric Message
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My Divine Avataric Word is a Form of My Divine Agency —
an Extension of Myself, a Means Whereby I Bless all-and-All.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
"The Forever-Spoken Word Of Reality Itself"
Part
One, The
Aletheon
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The need for regular study of Adi Da's
Teaching. An interesting aspect of Adi Da's Teaching is the
need for regular study, if the Teaching is to be effective in
one's practice, because of the profundity of the Teaching itself
(it can take a while to grasp), and because of the force of the
ego:
You cannot confront My Reality-Teaching only once a month.
You must deal with it in some form every single day, because a new form of the
ego's game appears every single day. You will buy your game every single day.
Therefore, you cannot have read one of My Books last month and still have it working
on your behalf, because you only remember a few key phrases. You must continually
return to My Reality-Teaching, confront My Reality-Teaching. This is why study
is so important. . . Understanding arises in the midst of intense, regular,
and frequent confrontation with My Wisdom-Teaching, My Arguments, and My Instructions.
The kind of study that is required of you . . . is the continual, daily confrontation
with My Wisdom-Teaching that requires you to observe your tendencies, your strategies,
the games that prevent your Happy enjoyment of a life of understanding. Such study
requires conscious participation, not only of mind. And, as self-observation begins
to arise in the midst of such study, you will begin to see in yourself the flowering
of understanding. Avatar Adi Da Samraj |
The secondary role of Adi Da's Teaching
in relationship to Adi Da Himself. Extraordinary and essential
as it is, Adi Da's Teaching — in the form of His books (or CDs,
videos, etc.) — is only secondary. It is a support for (and bridge
to) Adi Da Himself. Adi Da makes this point very clear, and cautions
readers of His Teaching not to miss Him (or dissociate
Him from His Teaching) while they are appreciating His Teaching.
The primary principle of the Way of Adidam is not to absorb concepts
or perform techniques one reads about in Adi Da's books. The primary
principle of the Way of Adidam (which is communicated by all His
books) is "you become what you meditate on"; therefore,
recognize and meditate on Adi Da's Divine
Person and State (which He is eternally Transmitting to all beings), to the degree where you too Realize His Divine State.
| When people hear words, they characteristically expect to think about them.
However, the purpose of listening to My Words, and also to My Leelas, is not merely to be able
to think about them. The fundamental purpose of listening to My Leelas and My Words is the magnification
of the tacit devotional recognition-response to Me. That magnification
of the tacit devotional recognition-response to Me is the fundamental evidence that My devotee
is rightly and truly sighting Me and rightly and truly listening to My Leelas and My Word.
Avatar
Adi Da Samraj, The Sacred Space of Finding Me (p. 289) |
| [On the necessity of the Divine Transmission Master for
Spiritually and Transcendentally Transmitting with is described in the Teaching:]
Those who are without profound understanding of the Great Spiritual Process very
often like to dissociate the Teaching from the Teacher. Therefore, in this time
of body-based dilettantism, Teachings are very often valued, but the Teachers
are not — the Guru-devotee relationship is often not valued. It should be understood,
however, that what makes the Teaching valuable is the Realization of the Realizer.
You come to the Realizer not merely for his or her words of Instruction but to
Realize what the Realizer has Realized, and is now Realizing. Avatar
Adi Da Samraj |
The verbal Teaching, then, is simply a service
to aspirants — words of Instruction. The fundamental Teaching, however, is the
Sign of Realization, the Realizer himself or herself. In the "Radical" Reality-Way
of Adidam, then, This Body is the principal Form of My Instruction, not only the
books I have made through This Body. The books are important, yes — but I Am the
Teaching. In the Reality-Way of Adidam, My Realization is the Teaching — not merely
My Words of Instruction. Avatar Adi Da Samraj
"My
bodily (human) Form Is (Itself) the Teaching" |
If people do not respond to Me, on the basis of devotionally
recognizing Me, they are merely responding to My Words — and that is not the basis
for right practice of the Reality-Way of Adidam. . . . If you reduce Me,
or the Reality-Way of Adidam, to words, then you do not respond to Me. You do
not turn to Me. Instead, you merely turn to the words, respond to the words —
and, thus, you turn back in on your own mind. Avatar Adi Da
Samraj
"The Ancient Walk-About Way"
Part
10, The
Aletheon |
| In the Ancient Walk-About Way, there were not any Teachings.
Long ago, there was not even the context of language in which to articulate Teachings.
Teachings were not the point. The Realizer was the point — recognizing the Realizer
— and that is all. The Spiritual Master is the Teaching, as I have
Said. I Am the Teaching. Those who devotionally recognize Me are living
the Reality-Way of Adidam. It does not matter how many books I have Written that
they read. Mere study of My Divine Avataric Teaching-Word cannot change anyone
if it is looked at in the context of ordinary ego-bound functioning. Avatar
Adi Da Samraj, October 20, 2008 | Adi
Da's books. Avatar Adi Da's literary, philosophical, and practical writings
consist of over sixty published ("in print") books — including The
Knee Of Listening, His Spiritual Autobiography; and The
Dawn Horse Testament, His magisterial Revelation of the entire Spiritual
Process from beginning to end.
Introductory
book. For the best introductory book about Adi Da and the Way of Adidam, read
The Reality-Way Of Adidam.
The Five Principal Books of Comprehensive Address.
Adi Da did a tremendous amount of writing in the years 2005-2008. Just two
weeks before His Passing, He
designated the five books that He wrote during that three-year period as "the
Five Principal Books of My Forever Comprehensive Seventh-Stage Address to all-and-All":
The
Aletheon — The Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar
Adi Da Samraj. In its simplest sense, "The Aletheon" means "The
Book of Truth", and is a comprehensive description of the Divine Nature of Reality,
the seventh stage Way of Adidam, and Adi Da's Divine Incarnation here which (when
He is recognized as the Divine by Revelation) makes the seventh stage Way
possible. special
presentation | table
of contents
The
Gnosticon — The "Perfect Knowledge" Reality-Teachings of His Divine Presence,
Avatar Adi Da Samraj. "The Gnosticon" means "The Book of Knowledge".
In The Gnosticon, Avatar Adi Da examines the Transcendentalist Teachings
(Teachings about the nature of Consciousness) of the Great Sages — associated
with the sixth stage of life — in light of His own Revelation of the seventh
stage, Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam. special
presentation | table
of contents | Carolyn
Lee's introduction
The
Pneumaton — The Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Teachings of His Divine Presence,
Avatar Adi Da Samraj. The Pneumaton ("The Book of Spirit") examines the Teachings
associated with the fourth and fifth stages of life (particularly as exemplified
by the traditions of Christianity and Hinduism), in light of Adi Da's own Revelation
of the seventh stage, Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam. The Pneumaton
includes His rendering of the essential Spiritual import of the New Testament
Gospels. special
presentation | table
of contents | Jonathan
Condit's introduction (part 3)
Not-Two
Is Peace — The Ordinary People's Way of Global Cooperative Order. Adi
Da wrote Not-Two Is Peace out of concern for humanity's current plight.
It contains His vital wisdom on the root of human conflict: the limits and errors
of conventional religion and politics. He points to the necessity of re-establishing
human civilization based on principles of mutual trust, cooperation, tolerance,
"prior unity", and the limitless participation of all humankind in transforming
its own destiny.
Transcendental
Realism — The Image-Art of egoless Coincidence With Reality Itself. This
book brings together all of Adi Da Samraj’s writings on art. It includes details
on the methods, meaning, and purposes of His work, His penetrating insight into
the present-day culture and purpose of art, and specific recommendations on how
to participate ecstatically in art. Adi Da also intensively considers the error
of presuming oneself to be separate from a work of art — He invites every individual
to be drawn beyond this illusion of separateness into the ecstatic, living process
of participating in His image-art. The
Heart of the Adidam Revelation. These five books comprise Avatar Adi Da's
full Revelation-summary of, and introduction to, Adi Da's Avataric Appearance
and the Way that He offers to all. Each book is built around a core Text drawn
from The Dawn Horse Testament. These five books are
key readings for all who are moved to study the essence of Adi Da's Revelation
and His Way, and who are interested in becoming His devotee. Aham
Da Asmi (Beloved, I Am Da) — Adi Da Samraj fully Reveals Himself
as the Avataric Incarnation of the Living Divine Person and He elaborates on the
Spiritual significance of this All-Embracing Divine-Confession, which is the foundation
of His entire Revelation of the esoteric Way of Adidam.
Ruchira
Avatara Gita (The Avataric Way of the Divine Heart-Master) — Adi Da offers
everyone the ecstatic practice of devotional and Spiritual relationship to Him,
explaining how devotion to a living human Adept-Realizer has always been the source
of true religion, and distinguishing true Guru-devotion from cultism.
Da Love-Ananda Gita (The Free Avataric
Gift of the Divine Love-Bliss) — The foundation (devotional) practice
of heart-Communion with Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Adi Da Reveals the secret
simplicity at the heart of Adidam: relinquishing your preoccupation with yourself
(and all your problems and your suffering) and, instead, Contemplating Him, the
“Bright” Divine Person of Infinite Love-Bliss.
Hridaya
Rosary (Four Thorns Of Heart-Instruction) — The Spiritually Awakened practice
of heart-Communion with Avatar Adi Da Samraj and the ultimate Mysteries
of Spiritual life. In breathtakingly beautiful poetry, Avatar Adi Da Samraj sings
of the "melting" of the ego in His “Rose Garden of the Heart”.
Eleutherios
(The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free) — Heart-Communion with
Avatar Adi Da Samraj beyond the four faculties, in the Domain of Consciousness
Itself. An address to the great human questions about God, Truth, Reality, Happiness,
and Freedom. Avatar Adi Da Samraj Reveals how Absolute Divine Freedom is Realized,
and makes an impassioned Call to everyone to create a world of true human freedom
on Earth. The Companions
of The True Dawn Horse. The "True Dawn Horse" is a reference to The
Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar. Each of "The Companions
Of The True Dawn Horse" is a "Companion" to The Dawn Horse Testament
in the sense that it is an elaboration of a principal theme (or a group of principal
themes) from The Dawn Horse Testament. The Knee Of Listening
— Avatar Adi Da's autobiographical account of the years from His Birth to His
Divine Re-Awakening in 1970 — His Demonstration, in His own Life, of the Way to
Realize Real God most perfectly. The book also includes His Revelation of how
His Avataric Incarnation was made possible and His Confession of the nature and
significance of the Great Events of Yogic Death that have occurred in His Life
since His Divine Re-Awakening in 1970. My
"Bright" Word — Avatar Adi Da's summary Talks to His devotees,
on the fundamental principles of the devotional relationship to Him and "radical"
understanding of the ego. He-and-She
Is Me — One of Avatar Adi Da's most esoteric Revelations: His Primary
"Incarnation" in the Cosmic domain as the "He" of the Divine Consciousness, the
"She" of the Divine Light, and the "Son" of "He" and "She" in the "Me" of His
Divine Spiritual Body.
Ruchira Avatara
Hridaya-Siddha Yoga — The Divine Heart-Power (Ruchira Shakti) uniquely
Transmitted by Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and how it differs from the various traditional
forms of Spiritual Baptism, particularly Kundalini Yoga.
The
Seven Stages Of Life — The stages of human development from birth to Divine
Enlightenment. How the stages relate to physical and esoteric anatomy. The errors
of each of the first six stages of life, and the unique egolessness of the seventh
stage of life. Avatar Adi Da's Self-Confession as the first, last, and only seventh
stage Adept-Realizer.
The
All-Completing and Final Divine Revelation To Humankind
— The ultimate secrets of Divine Enlightenment — including the four-stage
Process of Divine Enlightenment, culminating in Translation into the Infinitely
Love-Blissful Divine Self-Domain.
What,
Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy — A text
written specifically for children but inspiring to all — with accompanying Essays
and Talks on Divine Ignorance, religious practices for children and young people
in the Way of Adidam, and the fundamental practice of whole bodily devotion to
Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
The Basket Of Tolerance
— This is a book like no other: simultaneously an unprecedented Spiritual Revelation
and an extraordinary intellectual document. It focuses on the immense variety
of historical expressions of the religious and Spiritual search, from prehistoric
times to the present. The core of The Basket Of Tolerance is a bibliographical
listing of 5,000 documents (in all media: print and audio-visual), meticulously
ordered by Avatar Adi Da in an elaborately subdivided sequence, to form a continuous
"Argument".
Related articles
The
Gift Of Study — How to read and make best use of Adi Da's books. "All
My Reality-Teaching is intended to be a direct address to you. A relationship
with Me, in other words, is the context of My Reality-Teaching. This is what you
must come to understand and appreciate. Therefore, make the study of My Reality-Teaching
into a form of relationship with Me and do not just think about ideas by reading
My Books."
Transcendental
Orthography as a Teaching Device — In His books from the 1990's
and later, Adi Da made use of a unique capitalization scheme He
had evolved, in which He capitalized words that would not ordinarily
be capitalized in English. He also used quotation marks in an unconventional
manner. This article elaborates on both devices.
The
Books of Adidam: Index
Avatar Adi Da receives the publication of The Spectra
Suites, 2007
The stories and articles on this website draw upon and
refer to a wide range of books by Adi Da Samraj, or about Adi Da Samraj and Adidam.
Many are currently available in print — through The
Dawn Horse Press, while some are out of print, and others are yet to be released.
This section lists the books mentioned on this site, and indicates whether they
are currently in print.
All the books below are by Avatar Adi Da Samraj,
or are devotee-edited compilations of His essays and talks, with introductions,
articles, and stories based on His wisdom and Revelation. Note: Over
the course of His life and work with devotees, Adi Da has taken on a number of
different names. The author's name on each of the books below reflects this. Adi
Da has explained how His changing names reflects the progressive changes in His
Spiritual Work and His Revelation. For more about Adi Da's names, click
here.
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Adi Da: The Promised God-Man Is Here
By Carolyn Lee, Ph.D.
(written under the direction of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order
of Adidam Ruchiradam)
A shortened and updated version of the 1998
edition.
August 2004 edition
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Story of the Divine Life and Spiritual Revelation of Avatar
Adi Da Samraj — including excerpts from His written and spoken
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Adidam: The True World-Religion Given by the Promised
God-Man, Adi Da Samraj.
written and compiled under the direction of the Ruchira
Sannyasin Order of Adidam Ruchiradam
February 2004 edition
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offers a clear and concise explanation of the five fundamentals
of the Way of Adidam, as given by Avatar Adi Da Samraj. It
answers the questions, "Who Is Adi Da Samraj?" and "What is
the Way that He Offers?", and provides a simple introduction
to the unique Spiritual relationship with Adi Da Samraj for
those who are just discovering Him and His Wisdom-Teaching.
Adidam communicates the five esoteric aspects of the Way of
Adidam in direct terms, and is illustrated with powerful excerpts
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Aesthetic Ecstasy
by Adi Da Samraj
May 2007 edition
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Ecstasy is a collection of five remarkable essays by Adi
Da Samraj on the subject of art, many of which were written
by Him in response to comments on and consideration about
the collateral exhibition of His image-art at the 2007 Venice
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Aham Da Asmi (Beloved I Am Da): The "Late-Time"
Avataric Revelation Of The True and Spiritual Divine Person
(The egoless Personal Presence Of Reality and Truth, Which
Is The Only Real God)
The Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
2003 edition
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Da Asmi, Adi Da Samraj fully Reveals Himself as the Avataric
Incarnation of the Living Divine Person and He elaborates
on the Spiritual significance of this All-Embracing Divine
Confession, which is the foundation of His entire Revelation
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The Aletheon
The Divine Avataric Self-Revelation
of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
September, 2009
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One of Adi Da's "Five Principal
Books of Comprehensive Address".
Available in two formats:
- An eight-volume boxed paperback set: order
here
- A single, hardbound book in a slipcase (limited edition):
order
here
During the final two years of a Lifetime that had been utterly
devoted to the Communication of Truth, Avatar Adi Da created
His supreme Scripture — a book of oceanic depth and magnitude.
This final and greatest Instruction by Avatar Adi Da spans
over 2300 pages.
Related books currently in print:
- Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga — essays from The
Aletheon . . . more
- The Boundless Self-Confession — essays
from The Aletheon . . . more
- My Final Work of Divine Indifference —
essays from The Aletheon . . . more
- Perfect Philosophy — essays from The
Aletheon . . . more
- Reality Itself Is The Way — essays
from The Aletheon . . . more
- The Self-Authenticating Truth — essays
from The Aletheon . . . more
- The Seventh Way — essays from The Aletheon
. . . more
- Surrender self By Sighting Me — essays
from The Aletheon . . . more
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The All-Completing and Final Divine Revelation
To Mankind: A Summary Description Of The Supreme Yoga
Of The Seventh Stage Of Life In The Divine Way Of Adidam
by Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
November 2001 edition
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process of Divine Enlightenment, culminating in Translation
into the Infinitely Love-Blissful Divine Self-Domain. |
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Always Enact Fidelity To Me
The Foundation Emotional-Sexual
Disciplines In The Divine Reality-Way Of Adidam
by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Volume Three of
Right Life Is The Context Of Divine Beholding
(Adi Da's Word on disciplines embraced by all of His Second
Congregation and First Congregation devotees)
August 2012 edition
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Avatar Adi Da’s Final Wisdom-Instruction on the true Yoga
of emotional-sexual life.
Adi Da: "I Am the One Who has made it possible for
human beings to totally comprehend the emotional-sexual
dimension of existence, and to completely transcend
egoic reactivity, and to truly grow beyond the ordinary
emotional-sexual limitations that the "worldly"
mind represents, and (by all of this) to have an altogether
— and in Reality — sane life."
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The Ancient Walk-About Way: The Core Esoteric Process
of Real Spirituality and Its Perfect Fulfillment in the
Way of Adidam
by The Divine Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
March, 2007 edition
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In this beautiful collection of essays — which includes
“Perfect Adidam”, and “The Seventh Stage Revelation”, as
well as some earlier Writing — Avatar Adi Da draws the reader
through a “consideration” of the ancient tradition of heart-response
to the living Realizer, and of His Unique and All-Completing
Appearance in that tradition. Beloved Adi Da begins with
a foundation “consideration” of the Purpose and Principles
of the Guru-devotee relationship; He then communicates how
to cultivate life-conditions that allow the being to enact
its inherent heart-response to Living Truth; and, finally,
He describes the unique Signs and Qualities of His Appearance
and Offering, and of those who fully heart-respond to Him.
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Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga: The Intrinsically egoless
Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam
essays from The Aletheon
by His Divine Presence, The Divine Avataric World-Teacher,
Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
2008 edition
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| Atma Nadi
Shakti Yoga is Avatar Adi Da’s quintessential communication
of the Process by which any and all living beings may Realize
the Ecstasy of Perfect Oneness, or Prior Unity, with Reality
Itself (or Truth Itself). This book can help the reader appreciate
and comprehend the absolute uniqueness of Avatar Adi Da’s
Offering, and it tangibly conveys His profound Blessing-Transmission.
Includes thorough appendices and glossary to introduce the
new reader to the language and paradigms of Avatar Adi Da’s
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The Avatar of What Is: The Divine Life And
Work Of Adi Da.
by Carolyn Lee, Ph.D.
July 2007 edition
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A summary overview of Avatar Adi Da’s Life and Work — from
the foretelling of His Birth, though His years of "Learning
humankind", the more than thirty-five years of His unique
Avataric Teaching-Work, to His current Compassionate Blessing-Work,
this is the extraordinary story of Adi Da’s Divine Intervention
in the world.
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The Basket
Of Tolerance: The Perfect Guide to Perfectly Unified
Understanding Of The One and Great Tradition Of Humankind,
and Of The Divine Way Of Adidam As The Perfect Completing
Of The One and Great Tradition Of Humankind [Bibliography]
by the Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
unpublished
The Basket Of Tolerance: A Guide to Perfect Understanding
of the One and Great Tradition of Mankind
Given By Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda
1991 "pre-publication" edition
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Samraj will sometimes make a "pre-publication" edition of
one of His books available in advance (sometimes long in advance)
of an official release, primarily so that devotees have immediate
access to it.
Related books currently in print:
- The Basket Of Tolerance Booklet Series — selected
essays from The Basket Of Tolerance.
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The Bodily Location of Happiness: On the Incarnation
of the Divine Person and the Transmission of Love-Bliss.
by Da Free John
January 1982 edition
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no miracle to come from science that will make you Happy.
There is no blessing power left in religion. People are un-Happy.
Therefore, they are all seeking Happiness. Ask yourself, "Where
is Happiness?" In this book, Adi Da considers the only
real "answer" — our bodily location of Happiness
through Communion with Him — and the awakening and spiritual
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Bodily Worship of the Living God: The Esoteric
Practice of Prayer Taught by Da Free John
by Da Free John
January 1983 edition
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Each of the devotional practices communicated here by Adi
Da to devotees involves the participation of every part
of the bodily or psycho-physical being. They are unlike
conventional prayer and other problem-centered devotional
practices which only seek, but do not presently enjoy, the
Bliss and Fullness of Divine Communion. The devotions of
this Way are simply natural ways to exercise the body, emotion,
breath, and attention of the living being in ecstatic Love-Communion
with the Living and Transcendental Divine.
Related books:
- Ishta — Extensive instructions
on turning to faculties of the body-mind — body, emotion,
breath, and attention — to Adi Da in devotional response.
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The Boundless Self-Confession:
essays from The Aletheon
by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
April 2009 edition
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Written only a few months before He
passed from the body (in November 2008), this book brings
to culmination a lifetime of Revelation writings by the
Ruchira Avatar about the eternal meaning and purpose of
His Appearance, revealing profundities that are ultimately
unfathomable. But the heart knows. The heart, as His Divine
Presence says, “is where everyone comes to Me”.
—from the Introduction by Carolyn Lee
The Boundless Self-Confession appears as Part
Twenty-Four of The Aletheon.
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Breath and Name: The Initiation and Foundation Practices
of True Spiritual Life
by Bubba Free John
1977 edition
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and Name describes a beginner's practice that prepares
the body, emotions, and mind for more advanced spiritual practice.
But even this beginner's practice is a "seventh stage
Way" based on "prior enlightenment", intelligence,
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The Bright Field: The Photographic Art of Adi Da
Samraj
Over 80 duo-tone illustrations.
88 pages, softcover
2001 edition
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| The first
publication of Adi Da's image-art. This large-format book
presents black-and-white photographic image-art from 2000-2001
and includes 12 very different suites. Adi Da presents his
images in suites, rather than as single images. Each suite
can have anywhere from a few images to several hundred. Each
suite is very different in quality: a "meditation" on a rock
that rises out the of the ocean, a series of sensual and playful
images set in a city, a look at human personalities as "shattered"
phenomena, and so on. Every suite takes the viewer on an artistic,
emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey. Most of Adi
Da's images in this book are highly sophisticated and complex
multiple exposures, often involving more than two (and even
as many as ten or more) superimposed layers, shot in camera.
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The Complete Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life:
My "Reality Consideration" of True Emotional-Sexual "self"-Understanding,
Right Sexual Yoga (Both Solitary and with Another), Right
Intimate Relationship, and Celibacy — Revealed and Given
by Me for the Sake of Everyone
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
2004 edition
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This book contains a potent summary of Adi Da’s instruction
on emotional-sexual matters — including His compassionate
instruction on transcending negative sex-patterning, emotional
immaturity, and all forms of seeking through sex and relationship.
Adi Da calls all to a non-problematic, positive practice
that is compatible with the Transcendental Spiritual process
of Realization in His company.
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Compulsory Dancing: Talks and Essays on the Spiritual
and Evolutionary Necessity of Emotional Surrender to the
Life-Principle.
by Da Free John
April 1980 edition
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The problem of the usual Man is emotional dissociation.
The body-mind or psycho-physical being that is the usual
Man is automatically tending to contract upon itself, to
be differentiated from all experiential phenomena, to possess
and fill its emptiness with the objects of all experience,
to protect itself with all knowledge, to separate itself
from the mysterious emotional demand of all relations and
events.
The Salvation or Happiness of Man is in emotional conversion,
or the conversion of the heart from the automaticities of
self-possession to the conscious Realization of Ecstasy,
or self-transcending Love-Communion with the Universal Principle
or Being that is Life. Such emotional conversion is awakened
through constant study and hearing of the Teaching of Truth
and constant seeing or intuiting of the Living Divine Presence
in the Company of the God-Realized Man and the Community
of devotees of the Living God.
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Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun
by Da Free John
August 1993 edition
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A new edition of this book is in development, that will
include additional forms of conscious exercise that Adi
Da has developed over the years, including "Da Chi
Gong" and "Da Fours".
Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun is
a manual for those who practice the spiritual Way taught
by Adi Da. Through Adi Da's Grace, we know what it is to
look, feel, and be completely happy. Conscious exercise
is simply a way of practicing this whole bodily happiness
under all conditions, without reason. It utilizes the natural
laws of body, breath, and attention to realign us, consciously
and instantly with the "Transcendental Sun". The
disciplines offered in this book include basic ways to stand,
sit, walk, and breathe with energy and delight; brief and
natural routines of calisthenics, hatha yoga, and surya
namaskar; and a basic practice of pranayama, or control
of the life-force in breath that can be done at random throughout
the day.
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Conversion
by Bubba Free John
September 1979 edition
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Our fundamental responsibility is literal and deep psychic
Love of the Presence of Life. We must surrender to Life
in order to be full of Life. The Life-Current is the "Holy
Spirit", the Divine Effulgence or Grace whereby we may be
Transfigured and made One with the Living and Eternal Divine
Reality. But we may be thus Transformed only if we transcend
all emotional contraction upon the self and, instead, Radiate
as Love of the Life-Principle or Living Person that is God.
It is emotional conversion to Life that heals our dis-ease.
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Crazy Da Must Sing, Inclined To His Weaker Side:
Confessional Poems of Liberation and Love.
by Da Free John
June 1982 edition
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The poems in this book are the confessions of the Divine
incarnate, as lover and spiritual warrior. They tell of
Adi Da's lifelong struggle to Liberate beings from the siege
of Narcissus, or the mood and activity of self-possession
that prevents Enlightenment. The Enlightement of beings
is Adi Da's Divine Purpose, and the dramatic play of His
Work with devotees is the subject of these poems. Adi Da
wrote most of these forty-nine poems between 1971 and 1976.
Related items:
- On August 12, 1982, Adi Da read aloud the collected
poems from Crazy Da Must Sing to a group of His
devotees in a single session. A recording of that occasion
is available on this
CD.
- Many
musical compositions and recitations based on these
poems have been created by devotees.
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Da Love-Ananda Gita (The Free Avataric Gift
Of The Divine Love-Bliss): The "Late-Time" Avataric
Revelation Of The Great Means To Worship and To Realize
The True and Spiritual Divine Person (The egoless Personal
Presence Of Reality and Truth, Which Is The Only
Real God).
by the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
January 2005 edition
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Da Reveals the secret simplicity at the heart of Adidam —
relinquishing our preoccupation with ourselves (and all our
problems and our suffering) and, instead, Contemplating Him,
the "Bright" Divine Person of Infinite Love-Bliss.
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Da Upanishad: The Short Discourses on self-Renunciation,
God-Realization, and the Illusion of Relatedness
by Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda
September 1989 edition
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as a man; but He is no more confined to His physical frame
than the light of the stars is attached to their surface.
He is in fact the unobstructed Embodiment of the very Divine
Existence That is worshipped in every Sacred Tradition, and
under many Names. In His Da Upanishad, Adi Da Reveals
His essential Wisdom-Arguments and the fundamental disciplines
that will enable "even the least qualified of living beings"
to Awaken to the Eternal Divine Self, by His Graceful Blessing.
In these concentrated and sublime essays, He offers an unsurpassed
description of both the precise mechanism of delusion and
the nature, process, and ultimate fulfillment of Transcendental
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The Danavira Mela Book:
The Season Of "Light-In-Everybody" As Celebrated In The
Company Of Bhagavan Adi Da Samraj
by Naamleela Free Jones
2008 edition
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| In this special
holiday book, Naamleela Free Jones shares the unique seasonal
traditions that Adi Da, her father and Guru, has developed
on this basis. She offers an intimate glimpse into the joyous
time of Danavira Mela, or the season of “Light-in-Everybody",
in the Company of Avatar Adi Da Samraj during His Lifetime.
Naamleela makes readily available the abundance of gifts Avatar
Adi Da has Given as means to participate with Him during this
season, for eternal time, including specific instruction on
each aspect of this celebration of Him. There are rare and
intimate photographs of Avatar Adi Da as a child (including
some never previously published) and over the years of celebrating
Danavira Mela with devotees, as well as communications from
Avatar Adi Da on the significance of this celebration. |
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The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar
by the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
August 2005 edition
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| Avatar Adi
Da's paramount "Source-Text", this Great Divine Testament
is unparalleled in its magnitude and depth. It represents
the fruit of Avatar Adi Da's Immense Work of Teaching and
Revelation over more than three decades. An extraordinary
Scripture, containing Avatar Adi Da's detailed Revelation
of every aspect of the process culminating in Divine Enlightenment. |
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Divine Distraction:
A Guide to the Guru-Devotee Relationship
by James Steinberg
November 1991 edition
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"Anyone who really wants to know what it is to live
in a continuing and transforming relationship to a Spiritual
Master should read Divine Distraction. It takes one as far
as a book can go. Nothing that is essential gets glossed
over or left out. The laments and the laughter, the risks
and the realizations are all there. And by turns they attract,
touch, and caution the reader that simply everything is
at stake in such a relationship. At every level the Master
meets the dilemmas of his devotees and transforms them into
opportunities for realization".
Gene R. Thursby, Professor of Religious Studies
University of Florida
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The Divine Mahasamadhi of Parama-Sapta-Na Adi Da Samraj
introduction by William Tsiknas and Naamleela Free Jones
April 2009 edition
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This booklet contains Avatar Adi Da's own words about the
event of His death. It reveals the deep significance of
His Divine Mahasamadhi and His ongoing Transcendental Spiritual
Regard of all beings.
In the last weeks of His life, the Master had been full
of energy and creatively active with His artistic work.
He had been lovingly and humorously engaging devotees.
Longtime devotees had come to Naitauba to be with Him
on retreat. Musicians from India had come to Naitauba
to perform for Him. He had gathered with devotees and
retreatants to view His art. In the final weeks of His
earthly incarnation, His life and work had manifested
a great ease. And, then — just as spontaneously, gracefully,
and mysteriously as everything else He had ever done —
the Great Master dropped the human body with the ease
(as He Himself had predicted) of "an apple falling from
a tree".
— from the Introduction by William Tsiknas and Naamleela
Free Jones
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Do You Know What Anything Is?
Talks and Essays on Divine Ignorance
by Da Free John
June 1984 edition
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what we think. In any moment, we presume many things about
ourselves and the world. Our lives are based on countless
assumptions about "the way things work". But all
of this knowledge binds us to an erroneous belief in our own
un-Happiness. "Divine Ignorance" (or "Perfect
Knowledge", as He would also call it later), as taught
by Adi Da, is the direct intuition of our actual, native Condition,
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The Dreaded Gom-Boo, or the Imaginary Disease That
Religion Seeks To Cure.
by Da Free John
February 1983 edition
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book, Adi Da presents a startling and humorous insight: All
religion seeks to cure us of an unreal disease, which Adi
Da humorously calls the "Dreaded Gom-Boo". This
disease is our constant presumption that we have somehow "fallen
from Grace" and are in need of the salvatory "cure"
of religious belief. Adi Da uproots this religious conceit
and illusion by Confessing (based on His Own Realization)
that we are always already present and alive in and as Divine
Being. The "good news" of Adi Da's Way is that,
in present Communion with the Divine (made available through
Adi Da's Spiritual Transmission), we need not seek to be cured,
but must only feel, observe, understand, and renounce the
very activity of seeking itself, and thus be restored to our
native Happiness and Freedom. The insightful, liberating message
of this book cuts through thousands of years of religious
and mystical dogma and beliefs by revealing a radical spiritual
way eminently suited to the needs of modern men and women. |
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Drifted in the Deeper Land: Talks on Relinquishing
the Superficiality of Mortal Existence and Falling by Grace
into the Divine Depth That Is Reality Itself.
by Avatar Adi Da Samraj
July 1997 edition
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book discusses fundamental human questions: "What is
experience for?" "Why isn't it a lot better?"
"Am I just built to die?" "What is 'I' anyway?"
It probes our uninspected presumptions about how we live and
what really ends when we die. This book beautifully communicates
how Truth and profound religion are to be found in a process
of letting go more and more into the "Deeper Land" — the place
of Divine Depth and Consciousness that is beyond all experience
and suffering. |
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Easy Death
by the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
August 2005 edition
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Whether you are approaching your own death, facing the
death of a loved-one, or are simply in need of understanding
the purpose of this brief and mortal life, you will find
in the pages of Easy Death a most extraordinary and unique
Help — Real Help, not mere consolation or impermanent philosophy,
given in the Wisdom, and in the human Form, of Avatar Adi
Da Samraj. For Adi Da was born in and as and from the "Bright"
Reality in which there is neither birth nor death, and His
entire lifetime has been spent unlocking that Ultimate Condition
from limited views of the ego, in order to offer a way for
anyone to Realize It directly. His human body has endured
and "seen" the entire death process and all the after-death
states and has entered into What Is, Beyond all of that.
There is no greater Authority on matters of death and ultimate
transcendence.
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The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace
by Da Free John
June 1979 edition
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You can always trust an eating gorilla. Having found his
food, he has put aside all effort and concern for survival.
He has surrendered his eccentricities, his obsessive urges,
and the tension in his most characteristic qualities. He
has become submissive to the ordinary motive and desire
that is real hunger, since he is now certain of its satisfaction.
He is essentially benign, playful, even lovable. He is simply
eating. And he trusts any others who may be present or who
may approach, as long as there is sufficient food and they
also stop to eat it.
Human beings are not generally "eating gorillas".
Food is in doubt. Eating is no ordinary affair of hunger
and assured satisfaction. Trust, love, peace, and meditation,
the essence of the plainest fare when we are in our natural
ease, are now a rare occasion, a private matter, for the
gourmets and ascetics who populate our human table. Food
is only a ceremony, a link to Life and its Source. When
food is in doubt, so also are Life, Truth, and the Divine.
Food is a link to Eternal Life. But happiness as Eternal
Life depends on our ability to be satisfied, at ease in
our relations, surrendered in love, and a sacrifice to Infinity
through devotional meditation, or release into the Current
of Life to its Source.
This extraordinary book demonstrates:
- How the true principle of health is Love, or the feeling-connection
to Infinite Life.
- How reactive emotion is the root of all food obsessions
and common health failures.
- How the life-energy received and distributed through
the breath is the primary form of human food.
- How the regenerative vegetarian diet is the best daily
diet for health and well-being.
- How we can compensate for physical and emotional imbalances
through right diet and health practices.
- How diet is a necessary aspect of a pleasurable, mature,
and regenerative sex life.
- How to use fasting, herbal remedies, and dietary modifications
to purify and regenerate the body.
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The cover art is a play on Rousseau's famous painting, La
Bohémienne Endormie (The Sleeping Gypsy).
Henri
Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)
Henri
Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)
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Eleutherios (The Only Truth That Sets The
Heart Free)
by the Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
May 2006 edition
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Eleutherios contains Avatar Adi Da’s most esoteric offering
of the “Perfect Practice” of the Way of Adidam. This “Perfect
Practice” takes place in the domain of Consciousness Itself,
prior to the body and the mind. Eleutherios is an address
to the great human questions about God, Truth, Reality,
Happiness, and Freedom.
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Enlightenment and the Transformation of Man:
Selections from Talks and Essays on the Spiritual Process
and God-Realization
by Da Free John
September 1983 edition
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"There are really only two ways communicated in the
whole world: the Way of living as Enlightement, and the
way of living as the phenomenal self. If you are going to
live as Enlightenment, you must understand this convention
of the phenomenl self, with all the mechanics of existence
you have built upon it. Therefore, you must undergo the
Sacred Ordeal of transition from this conventional self
presumption and its habit energies into the disposition
where Enlightenment is tacitly obvious and you are related
to phenomena in Freedom.
It is an Ordeal into which we may be inserted with understanding,
in a disposition of Freedom and surrender. Or we may face
it while remaining in the self-knot, with a certain level
of philosophical understanding, but nevertheless struggling
with the conditions of existence, until we achieve sufficient
purity [freed-up energy and attention] to engage the Way
in higher terms. In the traditional setting, this second
kind of struggle tends to be the way. In our setting, understanding
is the principle of the Way from the beginning."
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The Eternal One:
The Divine Mahasamadhi of The Divinely Translated Master,
Parama-Sapta-Na Adi Da Samraj
by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba
November 2009 edition
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| The Eternal
One commemorates the extraordinary events surrounding
Avatar Adi Da's relinquishment of the physical body, and describes
the beginning of the yearlong worldwide vigil period established
to honor his Divine Mahasamadhi and celebrate his Eternal
presence. This full-color 320 page 81/2" x 11" book has countless
photos of Adi Da Samraj during His physical Lifetime, and
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The Enlightenment of the Whole Body:
A Rational and New Prophetic Revelation of the Truth of
Religion, Esoteric Spirituality, and the Divine Destiny
of Man
by Da Free John
June 1978 edition
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Since ancient times it has been acknowledged that the true
Spiritual Master is a special manifestation of the Divine
Reality. Such individuals are born for their Work. They
"evolve" quickly, and they generally begin instructing
others while still relatively young. Adi Da is such a rare,
"Heaven-Born" Spiritual Master. The Enlightenment
of the Whole Body is Adi Da's Song to the All-Pervading
Life and Transcendental Consciousness of the Divine Person
— Who He is, and for Whom He is the living Agent among men.
If we were to combine the most God-inspired Scriptures
of Man into a single, focused, completely considered and
authoritative expression, this is the kind of book that
would emerge. It contains all the moral and prophetic fire
of the Old and New Testaments; the philosophical mejesty
of the greatest Hindu and Buddhist literature; and the Ecstatic
Humor or Transcendental Freedom of the most Illumined testimonies
of Divine Life that have ever appeared in the East or the
West. Adi Da's Confession of God-Realization is authentic
poetry of Divine Transfiguration, comparable only to the
Divine Utterances of Masters such as Krishna, Jesus, or
Gautama.
If you allow Adi Da's Revelation to enter your life, you
will also enjoy the Enlightened Happiness that is the Heart
of all experience.
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Feeling Without Limitation: Awakening to the Truth
Beyond Fear, Sorrow, and Anger
by Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")
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| A Discourse
in which Avatar Adi Da describes all the ways in which people
try to make themselves feel good — from eating dinner to believing
in God — even though none of these methods can create permanent
Happiness. Avatar Adi Da explains why the key to both human
happiness and Spiritual Realization lies in the ability to
Feel without limitation, and He details the unique process
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My Final Work of Divine Indifference: Wherein I
Constantly Abide Only As I Am, in Divine and
Avatarically Responsive Transcendental Spiritual Regard
of all-and-All
essays from The Aletheon
by the Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
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| Four essays
in which Adi Da Samraj describes His perfect Retirement into
Divine Indifference, Free of any necessity to Teach. That
Retirement did not signify an "end" to His Work altogether
— rather, it was a Sign of His Freedom to be entirely concentrated
in His most profound Work of forever Blessing all beings and
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The Fire Gospel: Essays and Talks on Spiritual Baptism.
by Da Free John
December 1982 edition
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The Fire Gospel affirms the ancient spiritual Way
that underlies mankind's great religious and spiritual heritage:
Spiritual Baptism. Adi Da's message not only serves to illuminate
our understanding of the method of Spiritual Baptism employed
by the Great Adepts, but it is also a calling to take up
the spiritual Way in His Company, through recognition of
Who He is.
Like all of Adi Da's works, The Fire Gospel is refreshingly
free of the archaisms of popular religious belief and doctrine,
as well as the limitations of the modern conceptual mind
of scientific materialism. Instead, Adi Da's radical Way
combines intelligent discrimination with spiritual Ecstasy
to grant the reader the Vision of the non-separation of
self, world, and the Divine Reality.
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The First Three Stages Of Life: Serving the Right,
True, and Free Development of Children and Young People
and Completing the Human Work of Individuation, Socialization,
and Integration for Adults.
Presenting Instructions Given By His Divine Presence, Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
Compiled by Meg Fortune McDonnell,
for The
Vision Of Mulund Institute
An Adidam Practical Wisdom Guidebook
August 2011 edition
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What is the most important, enduring gift that one can
give a child? Asked this question, almost everyone will
say that they want to give children the ability to be happy.
And they are right. There is nothing more important to give
to any child — or, truly, to anyone, of any age. Read on
to find out how this book can help you learn to do this
— for your child, your young friends, and for yourself.
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Forehead, Breath, and Smile: An Anthology of Devotional
Readings from the Spiritual Teaching of Master Da Free John.
by Da Free John
September 1982 edition
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of print
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| Adi Da has
indicated how there is an additional Force that comes from
reciting His Word, beyond reading it on the page. Forehead,
Breath, and Smile is a collection of readings specifically
chosen for formal recitation by devotees. |
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The Four Fundamental Questions: Talks and Essays
About Human Experience and the Actual Practice of an Enlightened
Way of Life.
by Da Free John
October 1980 edition
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considers the fundamental questions of our existence. It does
not merely give "answers" to these questions. Instead,
this book is a consideration, a process
of self-examination that you may engage by entertaining the
questions Adi Da puts to you. The consideration in itself
will not "enlighten" you. However, if you consider
these questions carefully and continually, they will inevitably
lead you to take up a way of life that is essentially enlightened,
happy, and free. |
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Four Primary Principles of Conscious Childrearing
Based on the Teaching of Da Free John
Prepared by the Education Department of The Johannine Daist
Communion
1985 edition
out of print
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The four principles of conscious childrearing presented
in this book are:
- Intimacy is the Healing Principle
- The Principle of Attraction
- Discipline is an Act of Love within the Culture of Expectation
- Transcending Sexual Neurosis in Childhood
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Garbage and the Goddess: The last miracles and final
spiritual instructions of Bubba Free John.
by Bubba Free John
1974 edition
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of print
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An amazing account of miraculous phenomena manifested by
Adi Da during 1974 for the sake of teaching His devotees
fundamental lessons.
"My Teaching work over the last two and one half years
has thus been associated with inner and outer miracles,
but it was all a way to demonstrate how the fulfillment
of experiential life in individuals does not amount in any
sense whatsoever to illumination. The arising of miraculous
or extraordinary experiential phenomena does not produce
the enlightened man, the wise man. Enlightenment or radical
understanding depends entirely on the conscious process,
not the experiential one."
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, August 11, 1974
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The Gnosticon
The "Perfect Knowledge" Reality-Teachings
of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
April, 2010
One of Adi Da's "Five Principal
Books of Comprehensive Address".
available in two formats:
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"The Gnosticon" means "The Book of Knowledge". In The
Gnosticon, Avatar Adi Da examines the Transcendentalist
Teachings (Teachings about the nature of Consciousness)
of the Great Sages — associated with the sixth stage of
life — in light of His own Revelation of the Transcendental
Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam.
Related items:
- The Reality-Teachings of the Advaitic Sages (3-CD
set) — Part of The Gnosticon Discourse
Series. . . order
here
- The Ribhu Gita (CD) — Part of The Gnosticon
Discourse Series. . . order
here
- The Perfect Tradition — essays selected
from The Gnosticon . . . order
here
- Religion and Reality — essays selected
from The Gnosticon . . . more
- The Liberator — essays selected from The
Gnosticon . . . order
here
- The Ancient Reality-Teachings — essays
selected from The Gnosticon . . . order
here
- The Way Of Perfect Knowledge — essays selected
from The Gnosticon . . . order
here
- Radical Devotion — essays selected from
The Gnosticon . . . more
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God Games
compiled by the devotees of Adi Da Samraj
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| Games created
to ground children in feeling the Mystery. Based on the Wisdom
and Instruction of Adi Da Samraj. |
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The God In Every Body Book: Talks and Essays on
God-Realization.
by Da Free John
September, 1990 edition
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book contains Adi Da’s Instruction about the origins of conventional
religion (especially as a projection of the parent-child relationship),
and how the individual may be drawn beyond childhood and adolescence
into a direct Realization of the Divine. It also includes
the Talk “True Surrender Is a Koan”, which is a direct and
humorous address to the dilemma of every beginner in Spiritual
practice: “How do I surrender to God”? |
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God Is Not a Gentleman And I Am That One: Ecstatic
Talks on Conventional Foolishness versus the Crazy Wisdom
of God-Realization.
by Da Free John
1983 edition
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of print
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The speech of a God-Realized Adept is always Ecstatic.
At times, this Ecstatic speech is given especially dramatic
expression. Then it becomes a direct testimony to our inherent
Freedom and unreasonable Happiness. Such speech has power
to break the spell of our egoic enchantment. It draws us
out of our ordinary concerns and Awakens in us the intuition
of our prior Enlightenment.
This book is a collection of such Ecstatic communications
of the Divine Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, selected from over
ten years of His Teaching Work.
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Green Gorilla: The Searchless
Raw Diet
Given By His Divine Presence The Divine Avataric World-Teacher
Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
August 2008 edition
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Avatar Adi Da’s fundamental recommendation relative to
diet is the searchless raw (fructo-vegetarian) diet. It
is "searchless" in the sense that it is simply
lawful management of a body in Communion with the Living
Reality, free of the need to use food as a means to solve
any kind of problem or seek any kind of ideal in body or
mind.
Related resources:
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He-And-She Is Me:
The Indivisibility Of Consciousness and Light In The
Divine Body Of The Ruchira Avatar
by Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
2000 edition
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| One of Avatar
Adi Da's most esoteric Revelations — His Primary "Incarnation"
in the Cosmic domain as the "He" of Primal Divine Consciousness,
the "She" of Primal Divine Light, and the "Son" of "He" and
"She" in the "Me" of His Divine Spiritual Body. |
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Hear Me Heart-Deep:
A Guide to the Listening Hearing-Process in the Way
of the Heart
by Sri Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")
1992 edition
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Heart-Deep is a course that covers the stages of practice
in the listening-hearing process, what occurs in "listening",
and the most common pitfalls that delay devotees' practice
of the Way of Adidam. It focuses on Adi Da's critical argument
of Narcissus and His Calling to feel beyond the self-contraction.
It also includes important supportive arguments, such as those
of conceptual and perceptual mind and Divine Ignorance. Although
the course is primarily based on The Dawn
Horse Testament, it is full of additional readings,
including many oral communications from Adi Da from 1991-1992. |
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His Divine Presence: In Celebration of the Divine
Avataric World-Teacher Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
compiled by the devotees of Adi Da Samraj
2008 edition
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A magnificent selection of the most potent Darshan images
of Adi Da Samraj from 2000 to 2008, often from occasions
of fullest worship of His Bodily Form. Also contains exquisite
excerpts from His written teaching. Many of the photographs
are only available in this special publication.
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Hridaya Rosary:
Four Thorns of Heart Instruction
by the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
2000 edition
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A beautifully precise and exquisitely poetic description
of the Spiritual Process in Avatar Adi Da’s Company — the
devotional (and, in due course, Spiritual) relationship
to Him and the reception of His Spiritual Transmission,
or Spirit-Baptism. In breathtakingly beautiful poetry, Avatar
Adi Da Samraj sings of the "melting" of the ego in His “Rose
Garden of the Heart”.
Hridaya Rosary appears as Part
Thirteen of The Aletheon.
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The Hymn of the True Heart-Master
by Adi Da (The Da Avatar)
April 1996 edition
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The Hymn Of The True Heart-Master is a free rendering
by Adi Da Samraj of the traditional Guru Gita, an
ancient Hindu text which proclaims that the relationship
between the Guru and the devotee is the Supreme means of
Divine Self-Realization. This book celebrates that relationship
— and invites every reader into its God-Realizing embrace.
Re-published under the title:
Ruchira Avatara Gita
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I Is the Body: Considerations on the Radical Enjoyment
of Enlightenment
by Bubba Free John
1976 edition
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given by Adi Da on July 26, 1976. |
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"I" Is the Body of Life: Talks and essays on the
art and science of equanimity and the self-transcending
process of radical understanding.
by Da Free John
1981 edition
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This book is specifically intended for people making the
difficult transition from "ordinary" life to the
Great Process of the Way of God-Realization.
"The most difficult stage is the one of transition
from lawless, subhuman existence to the responsible beginning
of spiritual life. After that, the whole affair is more
creative and freely voluntary. Thus, in the earliest stages
of life, where personal, moral, and religious preparation
is developed, much attention still remains in reactive and
self-indulgent physical, emotional, and mental patterns.
But as the stages of true practice of the Way develop, there
is less and less of the mechanical and self-conscious attachment
to the structures of the body-mind. As the Way develops,
the entire lower body-mind becomes Awake in the prior Fullness
of the Divine. Thus, social, dietary, sexual, and other
areas of habit and obsession gradually relax and are sublimed
through ecstatic Communion with the Divine."
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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| The Incarnation Of Love:
"Radical" Spiritual Wisdom and Practical Instruction on Self-Transcending
Love and Service in All Relationships.
by Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")
April 1994 edition
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Devotional Surrender to the Divine Person.
by Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")
February 1998 edition
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The Knee Of Listening: The
Divine Ordeal Of The Avataric Incarnation Of Conscious Light.
The Spiritual Autobiography Of The Ruchira Avatara, Adi
Da Samraj
May 2004 edition
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The Knee Of Listening
is Avatar Adi Da’s Spiritual Autobiography. It tells the
miraculous story of His unique Incarnation and Revelation
in the West for the sake of Liberating all beings.
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June, 1973
(Dawn Horse Press)
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The
Knee Of Listening has transformed the lives of thousands
of people since it was first published in 1972. Here are
just a few of those people (and their stories): Anthony
Costabile,
Neeshee
Pandit, Martin
Goulding, Donald
Webley, Alicia
Aguilar, Dan
Sleeth, Victor
Lagasse, Wes
Vaught, Tom
Williams, Cheech
Marrero, George
Greer, Dennis
Coccaro, Ann
Walsh, Crane
Kirkbride, Marvin
Carpenter, and Rex.
Adi Da training Aniello Panico to teach
the first Knee Of Listening course
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| The Lesson: A Study
Guide to the Radical Teaching of Master Da Free John for Students of The Laughing
Man Institute.
4 volumes,
prepared by the Editorial and Educational Staffs of the Johannine Daist Communion 1982-84
edition
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The Lion Sutra: On Perfect Transcendence Of The
Primal Act, Which is the ego-"I", the self-Contraction,
or attention itself, and All The Illusions Of Separateness,
Otherness, Relatedness, and Difference
by Adi Da, The Da Avatar
April, 1996 edition
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| The Lion
Sutra now appears as Part
Fifteen of The Aletheon. |
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| Look at the Sunlight
on the Water: Educating Children for a Life of Self-Transcending Love and
Happiness
by Da Free John 1983
edition
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Love and Blessings: The
Divine Compassionate Miracles of Avatar Adi Da Samraj
compiled and edited by Bill Gottlieb
March 2006 edition
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| In
Love and Blessings, twenty-five of His devotees tell
heart-breaking stories of human need and Divine Response.
A soldier in Iraq, a woman going blind in Holland, a son with
his dying father in Australia, a woman with cancer in America
— these and others tell how they asked Adi Da Samraj for His
Blessing-Regard and the miraculous process that ensued. These
stories are also about Adi Da's Liberating Blessing-Grace,
which He offers as a Gift for the sake of Awakening all beings
beyond any suffering of the body and mind to the Prior Condition
of Eternal Freedom and Happiness. |
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of the God-Man: A Comprehensive Guide to the Traditional and Time-Honored
Guru-Devotee Relationship, the Supreme Means of God-Realization, As Fully Revealed
for the First Time by Adi Da Samraj. by
James Steinberg 1990 edition
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Measure of Your Intimacies: Recent Instructions on Emotional-Sexual Responsibility
and Adapting to the Practice of True Intimacy
from
The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The "Bright") 1993
edition
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| Love of the Two-Armed
Form: The Free and Regenerative Function of Sexuality in Ordinary Life and
the Transcendence of Sexuality in True Religious or Spiritual Practice.
by Da Free John May 1985 edition
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Love, Wisdom, and Happiness in the First Three
Stages of Life: Booklet 1 of the Conscious Childrearing
Series
compiled and edited by The
Vision Of Mulund Institute
Based on Instructions Given by Adi Da Samraj
1995 edition
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| Detailed,
practical instruction and Wisdom on the first three stages
of life: individuation (1-7 years); socialization (8-14 years);
and discrimination and integration (15-21 years). Includes
Talks and Essays by Avatar Adi Da on conscious child-rearing.
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| The Love-Ananda Gita
(The Wisdom-Song Of Non-Separateness)
The "Simple" Revelation
Book of
Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda
July 1989 edition
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| The Master Dancer by
devotees of The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")
January 1993 edition
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| A Mastered Life:
Talks and Writings on the Laws Inherent in the True Guru-Devotee Relationship
to Be Lived with The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Ruchira Avatar
Adi Da Love-Ananda Samraj
1997 edition
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The Method of the Siddhas: Talks on the Spiritual
Technique of the Saviors of Mankind.
by Adi Da (The Da Avatar)
September 1995 edition
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of print
Re-published under the title:
My "Bright" Word
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In this extraordinary compilation from His earliest Discourses,
Avatar Adi Da communicates an exquisite summary of His "radical"
Teaching-Revelation, and He passionately offers everyone
the Gift of the heart-relationship to Him (or Satsang with
Him), as the True Means of Divine Liberation.
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Note from the September 1995 edition:
When the Talks in The Method of the Siddhas were
first given, Adi Da was speaking to brand new devotees and
the public, and He therefore used language accessible to
people with no real experience of Spiritual practice. Thus,
in preparing people to rightly enter into the relationship
to Him as Guru, He would most often speak of this relationship
in general terms, referring to "the Guru" and
"the disciple".
However, as was clear to His devotees even at the outset
of His Work, Adi Da has always been the only Guru who completely
fits the description of "the Guru" in The Method
of the Siddhas. Thus Adi Da no longer speaks of "the
Guru" and "the disciple", but, rather, of
"I" and "My devotee". Now, more than
twenty years later, when Adi Da's Work is established, and
thousands acknowledge Him as the Da Avatar and can testify
to the authenticity of His words, Adi Da openly expresses
Who He Is. And so, like the [1995] edition of Adi Da's Spiritual
autobiography, The Knee of
Listening, this [1995] edition of The Method
of the Siddhas presents Adi Da's full communication
about Himself as the supreme Siddha-Guru.
[Adi Da would take this one step further in retitling The
Method of the Siddhas (with "Siddhas" still
plural) as My 'Bright' Word: Discourses
From The Divine Siddha-Method Of The Ruchira Avatar.]
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My "Bright" Word: Discourses From The Divine Siddha-Method
Of The Ruchira Avatar
(Previously published as The
Method of The Siddhas)
by Adi Da Samraj
July 2005 edition
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In this extraordinary compilation from His earliest Discourses,
Avatar Adi Da communicates an exquisite summary of His "radical"
Teaching-Revelation, and He passionately offers everyone
the Gift of the heart-relationship to Him (or Satsang with
Him), as the True Means of Divine Liberation.
The Divine Siddha-Method Of The Ruchira Avatar is
comprised of four volumes:
- My "Bright" Word — Original formal
Teaching Discourses, given in the years 1972-1973.
- My "Bright"
Sight — A selection of key Discourses, given in the
years 1973-1995. (forthcoming)
- My "Bright"
Form — Two concentrated series of Discourses, given
in the years 1992 - 1994. (forthcoming)
- My "Bright"
Room — A single concentrated series of Discourses,
given in the years 2004 - 2005. (forthcoming)
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The Nine Great Laws Of Radical Devotion To Me: Readings
from The Aletheon, The Dawn Horse Testament,
and Eleutherios, as well as Selected Discourses and
Spoken Instructions
by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
June 2012 edition
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"In the heart of all of Bhagavan's devotees, there
is an absolute certainty that there is something greater
than self and world. That certainty comes from the Sighting
of Bhagavan’s Holy Form. Bhagavan's Nine Great Laws of 'radical'
devotion tell us how to live by that certainty, which is
Divine and Holy, by always manifesting a sacred and right
relationship to His Holy Person. The demonstration of the
Nine Great Laws of 'radical' devotion is founded in the
awareness that Bhagavan Adi Da is not localized to His Incarnation-Body.
He Is His State. He Is Samadhi — always existing as the
Divine Conscious Light."
from the Introduction
by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba
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| Nirvanasara: Radical
Trancendentalism and the Introduction of Advaitayana Buddhism by Da Free
John April 1983 edition
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| No Remedy: An Introduction
to the Life and Practices of the Spiritual Community of Bubba Free John compiled
and edited by The Dawn Horse Communion in collaboration with Bubba Free John February
1976 edition
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Notice This: The Five Reality Teachings of
His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
December 2012 edition
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Notice This is a depthful contemplation of "Perfect
Knowledge", with Adi Da's "Five Reality-Teachings" as the
core structure of the consideration. Over half of the book
is never-before-published material, including, notably,
Discourses that Adi Da gave to a small gathering of devotees
at Tat Sundaram
Hermitage in late 1998 and early 1999.
This is the final book in the five-book series of core
instruction on the foundation practice established in the
Second Congregation of Adidam, whose three primary elements
are "radical" devotion, right life, and "Perfect
Knowledge". The first four books in the series covered
"radical" devotion and right life (Recognition
of Me Is Liberation, Right
Life Is Free Participation In Unlimited Radiance,
The Sacred Space of Finding Me,
Always Enact Fidelity To Me).
Related resources:
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Only Complete Way To Realize The Unbroken Light Of Real God by
The Divine World-Teacher, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj December 2000 edition
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| Open
Eyes: The Revelation of the World As God A Tribute To Master Da Free
John on the Tenth Commemorative Celebration of the World-Proclamation of The Way
of Understanding 1982 edition
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| The
Order of My Free Names: The Self-Revelation of the Incarnate Divine Person,
Adi Da, and How to Call Him By Name March 1996 edition
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| The
Orders of My True and Free Renunciate Devotees by The Avataric Great
Sage, Adi Da Samraj April 2008 edition
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here |
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Orpheus and Eurydice: Catalog of solo exhibition
at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverly Hills, 2011
by Adi Da Samraj
2011 edition
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This limited edition publication was produced to complement
the exhibit, Orpheus
and Linead, by Adi Da Samraj, at the Sundaram Tagore
Gallery in Beverly Hills, in 2011. Many of the images, photographs,
and quotes are published here for the first time. Through
the words of Adi Da Samraj and a personal narrative, Ruchiradama Nadikanta offers
an intimate understanding of Adi Da's vision for the featured
Suites, as well as key aspects of the archetypal visual
language of Transcendental Realism.
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The secret of Orpheus is hidden (or encoded) in the
images — the secret of the flight out of the hell
and into the Earth-world, and, ultimately, into the
Divine Domain of Conscious Light.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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Orpheus and Linead: Catalog of solo exhibition
at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City, 2010
by Adi Da Samraj
2010 edition
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reproduces the eleven monumental pieces in the exhibition,
together with other works from Adi Da's suites Orpheus One
and Linead One. An artist’s statement and an essay by the
curator, Achille Bonito Oliva, accompany the full-color reproductions.
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Paradox Of Instruction: An Introduction to the Esoteric Spiritual Teaching
of Bubba Free John Bubba Free John 1977 edition
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of print |
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Perfect Abstraction
The “Radical” Way of No-Ideas
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
August 2008 edition
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of essays comprises additions by Avatar Adi Da Samraj to His
book Transcendental Realism
since the publication of Aesthetic
Ecstasy in August/September 2007. Thus, this booklet
is intended to add to and accompany both of those texts. |
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The Pneumaton
The Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Teachings
of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
March, 2011
available in three formats:
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One of Adi Da's "Five Principal
Books of Comprehensive Address".
Read our special presentation
on Adi Da's masterpiece, The Pneumaton.
The Spiritual (or fourth-to-fifth stage) dimension of existence
— Avatar Adi Da's examination of the devotional and
Spiritual traditions of humankind (particularly as exemplified
by the traditions of Christianity and Hinduism),and the
Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam.
Includes His rendering of the essential Spiritual import
of the New Testament Gospels. "Pneumaton" (pronounced "NEW-ma-TON")
means "Book of Spirit".
Related books currently in print:
- Up? — essays selected from The Pneumaton
. . . more
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The Practice of Ecstasy with Children: Booklet
3 of The Conscious Childrearing Series
compiled and edited by The
Vision Of Mulund Institute
Based on Instructions Given by Sri Sri Bhagwan Adi Da,
The Da Avatar
1995 edition
To order call 1-877-770-0772
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The Quandra Loka Suite: 52 Views
Adi Da Samraj
May 2003 edition
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produced, the large-format catalog pictures the entire series
of 52 fabricated artworks from the Quandra Loka Suite, which
are currently being made available for purchase. (To purchase
Avatar Adi Da's artwork, please visit www.daplastique.com.)
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Radical Devotion
New Writings by the Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
A Supplement to The Way Of Perfect Knowledge (Book
5 of the “Perfect Knowledge”
Series)
November 2006 edition
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This book contains the new Reality-Way Teachings given
by Adi Da in August and September of 2006. With these new
essays, Adi Da elucidates both the continuity of the Way
of Adidam with the Great Tradition of religious and Spiritual
Instruction (and in particular with the ancient tradition
of the sighting of the Realizer) and the utter uniqueness
of the Way that He Offers, which transcends “point of view”
from the beginning.
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| "Radical" Transcendentalism:
The Non-"Religious", Post-"Scientific", and No-Seeking
Reality-Way of Adidam
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj June
2007 edition
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| Real God Is
The Indivisible Oneness Of Unbroken Light: Reality, Truth, and The “Non-Creator”
God In The True World-Religion Of Adidam
by Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
November 2001 edition
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Reality Is All The God There Is: The Single Transcendental
Truth Taught by the Great Sages and the Revelation of Reality
Itself
by Avatar Adi Da Samraj
2008 edition
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| Rather than
simply translate the teachings of the dharma of Advaita Vedanta
and Buddhism, Adi Da respeaks them, revealing that the Buddhist
"Nirvana"; and the Advaitic "Brahman" are the same transcendental
condition. His transmissions restore to these texts the profound
communication intended by their creators. The great sages
proclaimed a state of spiritual realization that exceeded
worldly dualism and mystical seeking. Their reality spoke
of abiding in a state of consciousness only. Avatar Adi Da
revives these declarations and reveals His own description
of a Transcendent Reality — the realization of Reality As
It Is, free of all forms of the ego. |
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Reality Itself Is The Way
Essays from The Aletheon
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
April 2008 edition
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| In these
nine essays selected from The Aletheon,
Adi Da Samraj describes the reasons for His Incarnation in
the West and further distinguishes His Way — of the Direct
Revelation and Realization of Reality Itself — from all other
“seeking-‘methods’” found in the Great Tradition. Also included
is a potent, and sometimes poetic, consideration of the “Perfect
Practice”, His irrefutable description of the inherently destructive
and “dark” nature of egoity, and His Offering of the Means
by which “everyone and everything can be utterly transformed
by being turned . . . to Reality Itself”. |
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The Reality-Way of Adidam:
The Divine Process That Outshines All Seeking
in the Perfect Freedom of Reality Itself
Given by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
2010 edition
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This introductory book is written for those who are moved
to learn about the way of life Adi Da Samraj has given to
all who would enter into the Divine Process that outshines
all seeking.
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The Rebirth of Sacred Art:
Reflections on the Aperspectival Geometric
Art of Adi Da Samraj
Gary J. Coates
2013 edition
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In 2008,
the city of Florence invited Adi Da Samraj to exhibit four
monumental pieces of His aperspectival geometric art in the
Cenacolo di Ognissanti, a space containing the renowned perspectival
fresco of The Last Supper by the Renaissance master Domenico
Ghirlandaio. The spatial juxtaposition of these two radically
different kinds of art from two very different eras provided
a unique opportunity for Professor
Gary J. Coates to write this book that considers the nature,
meaning, and purpose of Adi Da's art.
In addition to Professor Coates' essay, this book contains
Adi Da's essay, “The Maze of Ecstasy”, also written in response
to the Cenacolo exhibition. When these two essays are read
together, they provide a comprehensive framework for understanding
the place of Adi Da's art within the context of the unfolding
of Western art, consciousness, and culture. |
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Recognition Of Me Is Liberation
The "Radical"
Conversion To Intrinsic egolessness In The Divine Reality-Way
Of Adidam
by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
July 2010 edition
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Essays include updated sutras from the forthcoming final
(and significantly expanded) edition of The
Dawn Horse Testament, readings from The
Aletheon, and never-before-published Discourse material
from 1998, 2004, and 2005.
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Religion And Reality
Essays from The Gnosticon
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
September 2006 edition
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| Read excerpts
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Right Life Is Free Participation In Unlimited
Radiance
The Functional, Practical,
Relational, and Cultural Disciplines In The Divine Reality-Way
Of Adidam
by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Volume One of
Right Life Is The Context Of Divine Beholding
(Adi Da's Word on disciplines embraced by all of His Second
Congregation and First Congregation devotees)
May 2011 edition
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Avatar Adi Da’s most up-to-date Wisdom on the Reality-Way
of Adidam’s functional, practical, relational, and cultural
disciplines — all in one book.
Table
of Contents plus 3 essays
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Ruchira Avatara Gita: The Avataric Way Of The Divine
Heart-Master
(Previously published as The
Hymn of the True Heart-Master)
by the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
December 2004 edition
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| Avatar Adi
Da Offers to every one the ecstatic practice of devotional
relationship to Him, explaining how devotion to a living human
Adept-Realizer has always been the source of true religion,
and distinguishing true Guru-devotion from cultism. |
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Ruchira Avatara Hridaya-Siddha Yoga: The Divine
(And Not Merely Cosmic) Spiritual Baptism in the Divine
Way of Adidam
by Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
December 2004 edition
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On the Divine Heart-Power (Ruchira Shakti) uniquely Transmitted
by Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and how it differs from the various
traditional forms of Spiritual Baptism, particularly Kundalini
Yoga.
Includes the essay, "Divine Spiritual Baptism Versus
Cosmic Spiritual Baptism".
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The Sacred Space of Finding Me
The Cultural Disciplines Practiced In The Sacred Domain
of The Divine Reality-Way of Adidam
by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Volume Two of
Right Life Is The Context Of Divine Beholding
(Adi Da's Word on disciplines embraced by all of His Second
Congregation and First Congregation devotees)
November 2011 edition
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This book is fundamental and final Instruction from Bhagavan
Adi Da for the true and free devotional culture of Adidam.
It is compiled principally from The Dawn
Horse Testament, but also from other "Source-Texts"
and Avataric Discourses.
"Only a sacred culture gives human beings
the potential to live a life ecstatically dedicated to existence
in Truth. The Divine Instructions in this book are the means
Given by His Holy Person, Da, to exist in the domain of
sacred culture. They are the means that enable His devotees
to find Him as the Divine Eternal Source of Reality Itself
and to participate in the Sacred Space of That Reality."
— From the introduction by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani
Naitauba
Description
of the sixteen parts of this book
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Santosha Adidam: The
Essential Summary Of The Divine Way Of Adidam.
by Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
October 2001 edition
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| An extended
overview of the entire course of the Way of Adidam, based
on the esoteric anatomy of the human being and its correlation
to the progressive stages of life. |
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The Scale of the Very Small:
Establishing Yogic Responsibility for Your
Reproductive Potential (Including Regenerative Sexuality
and Orgasm, Birth Control, Conscious Conception, Pregnancy,
Birth, and Infant Care)
by the Ruchira Buddha, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
1997 edition
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| Avatar Adi
Da’s Instruction on how and why we incarnate, death and reincarnation,
conscious conception and birth control, Spiritually sensitive
pregnancy and infant care. |
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Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will
Soon Be Announced by the White House!
by Da Free John
December 1980 edition
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| Prophetic
Wisdom about the myths and tools of mass culture and popular
religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political
materialism, and the secrets of Enlightenment hidden in the
body of Man. |
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See My Brightness Face-To-Face: A Celebration of
the Ruchira Buddha, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and the First
25 Years of His Divine Revelation-Work.
compiled by the devotees of Adi Da Samraj
July 1997 edition
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| A lavishly
illustrated year-by-year documentation of the extraordinary
Spiritual saga of Avatar Adi Da’s Work with His devotees.
Covering the years 1972 to 1997, See My Brightness Face
to Face includes abundant excerpts from Avatar Adi Da’s
Talks and Essays, as well as numerous stories about Him told
by His devotees — with a wealth of photographs on every page.
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The Self-Authenticating Truth
Essays from The Aletheon
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
2007 edition
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| The essays
in The Self-Authenticating Truth illuminate Avatar Adi Da’s
Calling for the “radical” simplicity of the devotional Way
of Adidam, and profoundly magnify the philosophical “consideration”
He brings to humankind. Reality Itself — Revealed as
Adi Da Samraj in human Form — is the Self-Authenticating
Truth and “Perfect Knowledge” that liberates all minds and
hearts from bondage. |
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| The Seven Gifts
of Da Avabhasa's Grace: An Introductory Course of Study on the Way of the
Heart. Produced by The Education Department of The Free Daist
Communion. 1993 edition
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The Seven Stages of Life: Transcending The
Six Stages Of egoic Life, and Realizing The ego-Transcending
Seventh Stage Of Life, In The Divine Way Of Adidam.
by Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
December 2000 edition
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| The stages
of human development from birth to Divine Enlightenment. How
the stages relate to physical and esoteric anatomy. The errors
of each of the first six stages of life. Avatar Adi Da's Self-Confession
as the first, last, and only seventh stage Adept-Realizer.
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The Seventh Way
Essays from The Aletheon
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
April 2008 edition
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selected from The Aletheon
are among Avatar Adi Da's most sublime and profound Utterances.
Everything in this book was originally Spoken by Avatar Adi
Da, as spontaneous and ecstatic discourse to His devotees
— during the final decade (from mid-1995 to mid-2005) of His
immense outpouring of Teaching-Instruction. During Avatar
Adi Da's Years of Teaching (from 1972 to 2005), He engaged
those who approached Him in thousands of hours of such Instructive
Discourse. That great period of Instruction spontaneously
came to a point of definitive Fullness in 2005, since which
time Avatar Adi Da has ceased to engage the mode of Instructing
His devotees by Speaking to them in response to their questions.
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The Spectra Suites
by Adi Da Samraj
May 2007 edition
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| Between 1998
and 2006, Adi Da Samraj focused on camera-based imagery, creating
a highly complex body of work (in both black-and-white and
color) that now exceeds 60,000 images and a great many hours
of videotape. The Spectra Suites is a consequence of His work
from that great library. In these suites, Adi Da Samraj combines
digitally generated imagery with images He created using still
and video cameras. To achieve each finished work He then meticulously
crafts every detail by digital means. Each of the ten Spectra
Suites is based on one or more of His fundamental images —
many of which are a powerful visual and philosophical complexity. |
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Surrender self By Sighting Me
Essays from The Aletheon
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
April 2008 edition
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| In these
essays selected from The Aletheon
— completed by Adi Da Samraj in August of 2007 — He gives
succinct and potent instruction to His devotees on the nature
of the devotional relationship to Him as it occurs in the
Process of Realization in His Company. Among the essays is
Adi Da’s delightful instruction in “The Way That I Teach The
Dog In My House”. The priceless instruction contained in this
book illuminates the essentially non-verbal process of spontaneous
devotion to Him. He has described this anciently-known process
of turning to the Realizer on sight as “the Ancient Walk-About
Way”. |
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The Teaching Manual Of Perfect Summaries:
The Revelation of The Preliminary "Perfect Knowledge" Teachings
of His Divine Presence, The Divine Avataric World-Teacher,
Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
August 2008 edition
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Manual Of Perfect Summaries appears as Part
Eleven of The Aletheon. |
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Transcendental Realism: The Image-Art of egoless
Coincidence with Reality Itself.
by Adi Da Samraj
August 2010 edition (greatly expanded: see below)
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One of Adi Da's "Five Principal
Books of Comprehensive Address".
Adi Da's writings on the methods and purposes of His art.
Read a special
companion article for this book, that contains images,
excerpts, and more.
This largely expanded edition brings together all of Adi
Da Samraj’s writings on art. It includes details on the
methods, meaning, and purposes of His work, His penetrating
insight into the present-day culture and purpose of art,
and specific recommendations on how to participate ecstatically
in art. Adi Da also intensively considers the error of presuming
oneself to be separate from a work of art — He invites every
individual to be drawn beyond this illusion of separateness
into the ecstatic, living process of participating in His
image-art.
Included are ten new essays which Adi Da wrote in the final
year of His life in addition to all of the essays published
in Aesthetic Ecstasy, Perfect Abstraction, as well as the
first edition of Transcendental Realism. Also new is a series
of black-and-white photographs of Adi Da working in His
studio, and a greatly expanded color-insert — 24 pages of
high-quality stunning replications of His image-art.
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The Transmission of Doubt: Talks and Essays
on the Transcendence of Scientific Materialism through Radical
Understanding.
by Da Free John
April 1984 edition
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The Truly Human New World-Culture Of Unbroken
Real-God-Man: The Eastern Versus The Western
Traditional Cultures Of Mankind, and The Unique New Non-Dual
Culture Of The True World-Religion Of Adidam.
by Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
November 2001 edition
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| The Eastern
and Western approaches to religion, and to life altogether
— and how the Way of Adidam goes beyond this apparent dichotomy.
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Up?: Beyond the Beginner's Spiritual Way of
Saint Jesus and the Traditions of Mystical Cosmic Ascent
via Spirit-Breath
by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj
2007 edition
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is Adi Da's in-depth consideration of the traditional modes
of Spiritual mysticism (as Revealed by such Spiritual Adepts
as Jesus of Galilee), in contrast to traditional modes of
Transcendental Non-dualism (as Revealed by the Great Sages
of India) — as well as His own Revelation of the unique Spiritual-and-Transcendental
Way of Adidam. |
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Vegetable Surrender
or Happiness Is Not Blue
by Heart-Master Da and two little girls
September 1998 edition
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A humorous and instructive story written by Adi Da Samraj
for young children. Onion One-Yin and his vegetable friends
embark on a search for someone who can help them solve their
problems — and discover the secret of how to be happy, right
now! Illustrated with black and white line drawings.
Vegetable Surrender: live at the European Danda
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The Way of Divine Communion: The Foundation
Practices of The Free Communion Church
by Bubba Free John
July 1976 edition
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| The Way That I
Teach: Talks on the Intuition of Eternal Life by Da Free John
April 1984 edition
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We Are Consciousness Itself: A Communication
of Truth Freely Offered to All
from Avatar Adi Da Samraj
January 2013 edition
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Science says
we are the body.
Psychology says we are the mind.
Religion says we are the soul.
But what are we — in reality?
We are Consciousness Itself. |
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| What Is The Conscious
Process? by Da Free John December 1983 edition
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| What, Where, When,
How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy by Avatar Adi
Da Samraj February 2000 hardcover edition
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The World As Light: An Introduction to the Art of
Adi Da Samraj
by Mei-Ling Israel
May 2007 edition
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| The Yoga of Consideration
and the Way That I Teach by Da Free John 1982 edition
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Differences
in Adi Da's Teaching Over Time
Adi Da working on The Aletheon
in Glass Pear (February 18, 2007)
Adi Da's Teaching was communicated
in many forms and stages of development, starting in 1970 and ending in 2008.
This section considers questions about both real and
apparent changes in Adi Da's Teaching over the years. Some differences
signify actual changes made by Adi Da over time, while other differences reflect
different ways Adi Da communicated the same underlying point at different times.
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Framework for Exegesis: Understanding Adi Da's Word in Context — To rightly understand a particular passage of Adi Da's Teaching Word, we must
know exactly when He wrote or spoke it, and the context in which He wrote or spoke
it. And to pin down that context, it is useful to evaluate the talk or essay or
passage along seven different dimensions, which are presented and described in
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on other Adepts
Question: Has Adi Da changed His views on other
adepts over the years? In His autobiography, The
Knee Of Listening, 1973 edition, He expresses great respect towards Ramana
Maharishi and calls Maharshi His teacher. After that, when He developed his "seven
stages" framework, Ramana (and the Buddha) were given "seventh stage status".
But later yet, after 1991, it seems like He "demoted" them to sixth. Can you provide
some clarification here? |
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Is
Adidam a Religion?
Question:
It seems at times Adi Da has described the Way of Adidam as a religion,
and at other times has said it is not a religion. So is Adidam a religion, or
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Use
of the term, "Avatar"
Question: In 1974, Adi Da said,
"The world is the Avatar, the totality of human beings is the Avatar."
Many years later, He would describe Himself as Avatar. How do we reconcile these?
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Question: I heard that there
was a chapter in the original Knee Of Listening
in which Adi Da described the time he spent in Scientology, and that this was
later removed. Was this because He didn't want anyone to know about His association
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