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Uvnitř není žádné jávideo
poster: Adi Da Videa, čeština
length: 07:20
date added: June 26, 2023
event date: July 15, 1973
language: Czech
views: 545; views this month: 24; views this week: 7
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An archival talk from July 15, 1973. One of the earliest video recordings of Avatar Adi Da speaking. Here He talks about the Free State of the fully Realized being, which is neither inward nor outward.

Adi Da: "God is neither within nor without. This is the principle of Satsang [the relationship with the Guru]: the Divine already present, the Divine lived with, the Divine as your Condition."
tags:
Czech  

Adi Da Tributevideo
poster: DattatreyaSivaBaba
length: 07:28
date added: January 28, 2009
language: English
event speaker: Dattatreya SivaBaba
views: 5115; views this month: 10; views this week: 6
A tribute to Adi Da from Dattatreya Siva Baba after Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi.
tags:
Dattatreya   Siva   Baba   Tarpanam   light   body   guru   spiritual   tools   Adi   Da   master   Shiva  

The Grace Of Sufferingvideo
poster: filmco24
length: 07:24
date added: January 28, 2009
event date: 1976
language: English
views: 8210; views this month: 16; views this week: 6
The full talk is available as Volume 2 of the 25th Anniversary DVD Series published by the Dawn Horse Press.

This is a beautiful talk by Adi Da. But it IS very compressed, making quite a few points in a short space, and depending to a significant degree on a familiarity with Adi Da's spiritual teaching. Here are some notes that may help.

Throughout the talk, the technical term, "sadhana" (spiritual practice), is used.

Genuine spiritual practice is not about belief systems, mere rituals, or a little "peace of mind", but rather about actually locating the Divine, through the tangible Transmission of the Spiritual Master.

After a recent illness, a devotee mentions to Adi Da that he notices how the physical suffering of illness was distracting enough that he was not "able" to find Adi Da's Transmission when he is ill.

Adi Da acknowledges this, and responds with three more general points.

1. The illness didn't "make" the devotee lose the thread of practice; rather, he allowed himself to be distracted from God by the illness. When the devotee gets this, and sees how he himself is "doing" the turning away, he'll be able to "do better next time" by not turning away even when ill.

2. Until Divine Enlightenment — in other words, until there is no limit on one's spiritual practice — sadhana (spiritual practice) is always only reflecting back to devotees the remaining limits in their practice: where they are still turning away from the Divine, where they still need to become responsible for not turning away.

In the beginning, the "turning away" is very "crude": even mere physical suffering is enough to distract one from God. (If we find ourselves saying, "what do you mean, MERE physical suffering?" that definitely identifies us as spiritual beginners! :-) ) But as one grows in practice, and ceases to turn away in such a crude manner (as one becomes a "saint", "yogi", "sage", etc.), one discovers that one is still turning from the Divine at an even subtler level of the being (in the mind, the psyche, etc.)

It is only when that "turning away" has been inspected, understood, and transcended in every dimension of the being that Divine Realization occurs.

In this sense, for the genuine spiritual practitioner, physical suffering — along with every other circumstance that reveals to us our turning away from the Divine — is truly a Grace, enabling us to grow in our practice.

3. Where we are turning away is a reflection of what we are identifying with: the body, the mind, the soul, etc. (For example, if physical illness is enough to distract us from God, then the physical body is what we currently are identified with.) God-Realization only occurs when all "identities" less than God are understood and transcended.

In this sense, "there are no winners in God" — the Way is not about seeking, accomplishment, or winning, but rather about surrender to God, sacrifice of self, and ego-death. There's no "one" left to "win"! But the One Who Remains is perfectly, eternally happy.
tags:
suffering   Divine   DVD  

The Essence Of The Way Of Adidamvideo
Episode 5 of The Radical Truth Video Series

poster: AdidamVideos
length: 08:49
date added: January 28, 2009
language: English
views: 7599; views this month: 18; views this week: 6
Bhagavan Adi Da Samraj discusses the unattainability of Divine Self-Realization by effort of the individual body-mind, and the necessity of Grace, by which an individual is able to spontaneously respond to His Free Gift.

This talk excerpt is followed by a clip of Darshan of Adi Da (at 6:48).
tags:
Darshan   Radical Truth Video Series   grace   seeking   ego   method   divine   techniques   thinking   heart   communion   reality   devotion  

Beyond the Familiarvideo
Episode 4 of The Radical Truth Video Series

poster: AdidamVideos
length: 07:24
date added: February 1, 2009
event date: October 29, 2004
language: English
views: 6441; views this month: 19; views this week: 6
Adi Da Samraj discusses the notion of familiarity and its transcendence in the Way of Adidam.

This is an excerpt from a longer evening of consideration with Adi Da (October 29, 2004), which can be found on the DVD, The Illusion of Familiarity.

This talk excerpt is followed by a clip of Darshan of Adi Da (at 5:53).
tags:
Darshan   DVD   Avataric Discourse   Radical Truth Video Series  

The Mummery Bookvideo
poster: firstroom
length: 02:44
date added: February 5, 2009
language: English
views: 6377; views this month: 16; views this week: 6
The true enactment of The Mummery Book by Adi Da Samraj takes place in an extraordinary theater. That extraordinary theater is the theater of our own mind — not just the thinking mind, but mind in its coincidence with all of reality, internal and external.

Narrator: renowned actor and winner of 6 Gemini Awards, Kenneth Welsh
Place: The Mountain Of Attention

Kenneth Welsh: "Just as I find fresh knowledge with each re-reading of Shakespeare's plays, no matter which work, each time I return to The Mummery Book and its masterful boldness, the way its words startle and surprise and cry out from the heart of its Creator, I feel blessed by its beauty and I am moved by the truth that pulses through its every image."
tags:
Mummery Book   theater   theatre   sacred art   First Room   Orpheum  

Meditation by Massenet: Piano Tribute to Adi Davideo
poster: jewelyard
length: 06:19
date added: May 27, 2009
language: English
views: 5318; views this month: 16; views this week: 6
This is a special video tribute by pianist Albert Aprigliano, in honor of his partner's spiritual teacher/guru, Adi Da Love-Ananda Samraj. This piece by Jules Massenet is from the opera, "Thais".

Selections from Adi Da's Image-Art are shown.
tags:
classical piano   transcendental art   image-art  

The Silver Hallvideo
poster: realityway
length: 05:57
date added: September 30, 2009
language: English
event speaker: Jonathan Condit
views: 5962; views this month: 16; views this week: 6
The Silver Hall is a set-apart hall in Adi Da's home on Naitauba, Fiji. Adi Da uses this hall for the purpose of "Transmission Sittings" during which He Initiates his mature devotees into the Spiritual dimension of the relationship to Him. The Silver Hall continues to be used for this very special purpose, after Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi.

Interviewed immediately after a Silver Hall Sitting, Jonathan Condit, Ph.D., describes his experience of Adi Da's Spiritual Transmission.
tags:
Jonathan Condit   leela   spiritual transmission   siddha   guru   god   reality   truth   divine   shaktipat  

The Art of Adi Da Samraj: Interview with Dr. Monica Biettivideo
poster: Daplastique
length: 05:13
date added: May 17, 2010
event date: February 2008
language: English
event speaker: Dr. Monica Bietti
views: 4548; views this month: 14; views this week: 6
Dr. Monica Bietti (Director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, formerly with the Superintendency of Artistic Heritage of Bologna and Florence) speaks about the exhibition of Adi Da Samraj's image-art at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, February 2008.
tags:
Image-Art   Spirituality   Cenacolo di Ognissanti   Monica Bietti  

Quattro Maggiore: Palazzo dei Congressi, Bologna, Italyvideo
poster: divineartevents
length: 01:10
date added: May 17, 2010
event date: January 30, 2010
language: English
event speaker: Keith Ferrone
views: 5255; views this month: 19; views this week: 6
Keith Ferrone, director of the Florence Dance Company, introduces the ballet, Quattro Maggiore ("Four Seasons"): Adi Da Samraj for Vivaldi, in a packed auditorium with 1,300 guests, on January 30, 2010. Music by Vivaldi, art by Adi Da. The performance is in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the newspaper, 'Il Resto del Carlino'.
tags:
Dance   Florence Dance Company   image-art   Vivaldi  

The Five Reality-Teachingsvideo
poster: 2012spirit
length: 06:26
date added: July 3, 2010
language: English
views: 11093; views this month: 21; views this week: 6
One of the core practices of The Transcendental Spiritual Way of Adidam in relationship with His Divine Presence Adi Da Samraj. Part of "The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries", in Part 11 of The Aletheon. The musical recitation appears on the CD, The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries.
tags:
Reality-Teachings   The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries   Aletheon   CD  

An introduction to Transcendental Realism: The Art of Adi Da Samrajvideo
poster: FacingEast108
length: 02:09
date added: September 3, 2010
event date: September 19, 2010
language: English
views: 4561; views this month: 25; views this week: 6
A special evening with a presentation about Adi Da's Art, a movie with Adi Da speaking about His work and a screening of His work with live music — with Naamleela Free Jones (keyboards), John Wubbenhorst (flutes), and others.

September 19th, 5pm, at the Montgomery College Music Building (next to the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center) at 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville MD. 20850. $15 admission (no charge for students). Information at www.Brightworldarts.org/events.
tags:
Naamleela   John Wubbenhorst   Transcendental Realism   Image-Art  

Transcendental Realism: Boston, September 25th, 2010 - 7pmvideo
poster: FacingEast108
length: 02:18
date added: September 10, 2010
event date: September 25, 2010
language: English
views: 4196; views this month: 20; views this week: 6
A special evening with a presentation about Adi Da's Art, a movie with Adi Da speaking about His work and a screening of His work with live music from Naamleela Free Jones (keyboards), John Wubbenhorst (flutes), Samrat Kakkeri, and others.

An Introduction to Transcendental Realism
Saturday, September 25, 7pm
Killian Hall
Hayden Library, bldg. 14
MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
$10 suggested donation (students free)
email: daplastiqueboston@yahoo.com
tags:
Naamleela   John Wubbenhorst   Transcendental Realism   Image-Art   Samrat Kakkeri  

The Way of Funaudio
poster: DAbase
length: 54:00
date added: October 19, 2010
event date: 1987
language: English
listens: 7452; listens this month: 19; listens this week: 6
Adi Da's very humorous and wonderfully instructive talk from 1987, The Way Of Fun, about how, after being around His devotees, He "finally got it", that "it's time for the Siddhas" to adapt to modern times, "time for the Truth to change". This new way ("The Way of Fun") — for realizing God without requiring self-transcendence — will "require nothing of you except to really dig those Divine Vibes." The talk is Adi Da's masterful reflection of how the ego is always trying to revise the Way into something that is self-fulfilling rather than self-transcending, something that has no requirements and no difficulties, and that takes no time at all. "So whatever kind of association you have with Me . . . as long as it's fun, you're happy to do it. But if it requires anything of you, your resistance comes on immediately."

For more on this theme, read our article, The Way of the Bone.

The Seven Schools of God Talkvideo
part 5 of James Steinberg Interview

poster: TheBeezone
length: 11:00
date added: February 13, 2011
event date: January 26, 2011
language: English
event speakers: Ed Reither, James Steinberg
views: 4288; views this month: 17; views this week: 6
Ed Reither of The Beezone interviews longtime devotee James Steinberg. James shares the story of his obsession with India and traditional spiritual books, and how Adi Da used His "Power Foot" and His "Beauty Foot" to make the point that the actual spiritual practice in relation to Him was what mattered, not books.



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James Steinberg  
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