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Suhde Hengelliseen Mestariin mahdollistaa antautumisen poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi length: 12:38 date added: August 2, 2022 event date: October 28, 1978 language: Finnish views: 640; views this month: 44; views this week: 9 [Contains Finnish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
Tässä varhaisessa puheessa vuodelta 1978, Adi Da käsittelee hengellisen harjoituksen alkuvaiheiden kamppailua ja häiriötekoijöitä, mutta myös sitä suurta apua, jota saa suhteesta hengelliseen mestariin. Huomion vartalo-mielen ylä- ja alamäkiin voi ylittää tuossa suhteessa.
"Suhde Hengelliseen Mestariin mahdollistaa antautumisen" ("Communion with the Spiritual Master is What Makes Surrender Possible") is from a question and answer session with Adi Da on October 28, 1978, in Land Bridge Pavilion at the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California. This is track 3 on the DVD, Surrender of self Is A Koan.
In this excerpt, Adi Da addresses the fact that although the struggle and distractions in the early stages of spiritual practice are great, there is also great help in the relationship with the Spiritual Master. Attention to all of the ups and downs of the body-mind can be transcended and surrendered through that relationship.tags: FinnishDVD
La Chiave della Nostra Sessualita È I'Emozione poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 08:34 date added: July 26, 2022 language: Italian views: 488; views this month: 9; views this week: 4 [Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
"La Chiave della Nostra Sessualita È I'Emozione" ("The Key to Our Sexuality Is Emotion") is an excerpt from a longer Discourse in which Adi Da communicates how all our problems (including sexual problems) are rooted in the feeling of being a separate self, which coincides with the feeling, "you don't love me", the feeling of rejection by (or lack of sustenance from) the universe, and leads to the reaction, "I don't love you".tags: Italian comments: 1
La Funcion de la Literatura Espiritual de Adi Da Samraj poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español length: 17:55 date added: July 14, 2022 language: Spanish event speakers: Jonathan Condit, Megan Anderson views: 789; views this month: 8; views this week: 2 [Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
This video clip, "La Funcion de la Literatura Espiritual de Adi Da Samraj" ("The Function of the Spiritual Literature of Adi Da Samraj") includes:
Commentary from Jonathan Condit (at 0:00) — Jonathan Condit was Adi Da's senior editorial assistant, and is Senior Editor for the Adidam Editorial Department. Jonathan talks about "The Function of the Spiritual Literature of Adi Da Samraj", and how Adi Da's Teaching works as Transmission of His Transcendental Spiritual State, and serves the Spiritual Realization of the reader.
Excerpt from an Avataric Discourse by Adi Da (at 5:35) — The Discourse is "My Teaching is a Direct Transmission of Me", from October 28, 2005. Adi Da talks about how His Teaching Word is a form of Spiritual Transmission, that enables Divine Communion with Him (if the devotee is in the right devotional disposition), in the same way that a Murti photograph does, or any of the other forms of Agency that Adi Da has created for this purpose.
Commentary from Megan Anderson (at 12:44) — Megan Anderson is an editor in the Adidam Editorial Department. Megan talks about Adi Da's great, final masterpiece, The Aletheon as the purest communication and Transmission of Adi Da Himself (among all His many, extraordinary books), and describes receiving the Revelation of Adi Da as she was proofreading The Aletheon before its publication.
Adi Da: "My Reality-Teaching is unparalleled Spiritual Transmission, occurring under the most extraordinary circumstances. It is not the product of an ordinary mind or a kind of scholarly commentary. It is a direct expression of Spiritual Transformation, of Spiritual Power, of Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and (necessarily) Divine Being, Consciousness, and Love-Bliss. It does not arise in Me or through Me in any ordinary fashion. It is an utterly spontaneous and Transcendental Spiritual Event."
On the CD is a seminal Discourse on self-understanding given by Adi Da on April 8, 1993. In this Discourse, Adi Da calls all those inclined to Realize True Freedom to first recognize the failure of their search — which is based on the illusion of separation. Rather than engaging the ordinary pursuit of union with all others and things from which we feel separate, Avatar Adi Da says we must find out that our inherent Condition is one of Perfect Non-separation.
ADI DA: You are doing this contraction. The stress you say you are feeling is the result of that. . . The more you feel that you yourself are doing it, the more it relaxes. . . You are, as it relaxes, directly surrendered, truly forgetting yourself, entering into the Field of Non-Separateness — which is My Very Nature, Condition, Sign, Demonstration, Transmission.tags: CD
Tunne on seksuaalisuuden avain poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi length: 08:34 date added: July 4, 2022 language: Finnish views: 399; views this month: 3; views this week: 1 [Contains Finnish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
"Tunne on seksuaalisuuden avain" ("The Key to Our Sexuality Is Emotion") is an excerpt from a longer Discourse in which Adi Da communicates how all our problems (including sexual problems) are rooted in the feeling of being a separate self, which coincides with the feeling, "you don't love me", the feeling of rejection by (or lack of sustenance from) the universe, and leads to the reaction, "I don't love you".tags: Finnish
Ben Grisso speaks about growing up in Adidam poster: Adi Da Video Polska length: 06:55 date added: June 20, 2022 language: Polish event speaker: Ben Grisso views: 443; views this month: 5; views this week: 2 [Contains Polish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
Ben Grisso, uczeń Adi Da wychowywał się we wspólnocie Drogi Serca w tym video opowiada o swoich młodzieńczych doświadczeniach wzrastania w otoczeniu Adi Da Samraj. Bena młodzieńcze pragnienia doprowadziły go do życia i służenia Adi Da w Jego Aszramie Pustelni na Fidżi.
Ben Grisso tells about his experiences as a young person growing up with Adi Da Samraj. Ben's desires as a young person led him to live with and serve Adi Da in His Ashram Hermitage in Fiji.tags: Polish
Non ci sono Parole per Descriverlo poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 09:34 date added: June 20, 2022 language: Italian event speaker: Aniello Panico views: 335; views this month: 7; views this week: 2 [Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
In this video excerpt, "Non ci sono Parole per Descriverlo" ("There are no words to describe Him"), longtime devotee, Aniello Panico, talks about his first contact with Adi Da Samraj in 1972 at the Melrose Ashram in Los Angeles.
El patrón se vuelve obsoleto poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español length: 08:22 date added: June 13, 2022 event date: July 29, 1973 language: Spanish views: 750; views this month: 9; views this week: 2 [Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
Video excerpt from an early discourse by Adi Da Samraj on July 29, 1973.
Vztah k Adi Da Samrájipo jeho životě ve fyzickém těle poster: Adi Da Videa, čeština length: 08:55 date added: June 13, 2022 language: Czech event speakers: Anthony Costabilie, Dennis Coccaro views: 547; views this month: 4; views this week: 1 [Contains Czech subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
This video begins with longtime devotee, Anthony Costabile, describing how the relationship to Adi Da is manifesting after the end of Adi Da's human lifetime.
Then at 2:29, Adi Da also speaks on this subject. This is an excerpt from a talk He gave on April 16, 1995, "Love is How I Got To Here". You can read a transcript of much more of this talk here. The talk is also available as a CD here.
At 6:43, another longtime devotee, Dennis Coccaro, talks about the direct relationship to Adi Da after His lifetime.
Guru on riittävä poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi length: 12:41 date added: June 1, 2022 event date: July 15, 1973 language: Finnish views: 540; views this month: 3; views this week: 1 [Contains Finnish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
In this rare historical footage from 1973, Adi Da speaks about the relationship with the Guru in Satsang (the Company of the Awakened One) as the Way of Truth, and Reality Itself.
ADI DA: "During My 'Sadhana Years', whenever My Guru asked Me to do something, I would do that. The rest of the time, I would sit there and be absorbed in Him. And there was nothing else I could do. The Guru is sufficient — and the devotee of the Guru is one who knows that."tags: FinnishDVD
La Ubicación Corporal de la Felicidad poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español length: 12:23 date added: May 16, 2022 event date: November 28, 1981 language: Spanish views: 661; views this month: 5; views this week: 1 Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
Un discurso clásico dado por Avatar Adi Da en 1981 sobre la naturaleza de la Verdadera Felicidad y cómo puede ser Realizada momento a momento, pero no a través de su búsqueda.
Brak słów by Go opisać poster: Adi Da Video Polska length: 09:34 date added: May 16, 2022 language: Polish event speaker: Aniello Panico views: 409; views this month: 9; views this week: 3 [Contains Polish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
In this video excerpt, "Brak słów by Go opisać" ("There are no words to describe Him"), longtime devotee, Aniello Panico, talks about his first contact with Adi Da Samraj in 1972 at the Melrose Ashram in Los Angeles.
For more stories and videos from Aniello, click here.tags: Polish
Ken Welsh Prepares for the Role of Narrator in The Mummery Book poster: AdiDaUpClose length: 06:45 date added: May 12, 2022 event date: January 2000 language: English event speaker: Ken Welsh views: 814; views this month: 10; views this week: 4 As part of our commemoration of renowned actor Kenneth Welsh (who passed away on May 5, 2022), we have created this enjoyable "peek" inside Ken's process of preparing to play the role of narrator in the January, 2000 ten-hour long performance of The Mummery Book.
The video excerpt was edited (by Chris Tong) from a much longer, unreleased documentary (created by well-known film director, Terence Gross) about the making of The Mummery Book. (Consequently, the audio and visual quality are a little spotty in places.)
At a certain point in the process (3:02), Avatar Adi Da (“Beloved”) sits in at a rehearsal, and then begins to actively participate in making suggestions for the production. Finally (at 5:45), there is a brief glimpse of the end of the actual performance, after which Adi Da expresses His appreciation by coming up and embracing Ken.
La Condizione Perfetta È poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 22:29 date added: April 25, 2022 event date: July 7, 2005 language: Italian views: 732; views this month: 18; views this week: 10 [Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
Adi Da talks about the presumption of the egoic "separate self" sense that is the root of human suffering. He contrasts this with our actual Position in Truth: the Position of Conscious Light.
This talk is from the first occasion in many years in which Avatar Adi Da spoke directly to a gathering of His devotees in California. Questions from devotees about intimate, familial, and social issues are met with Avatar Adi Da's Compassion and Humor, as well as His Liberating Wisdom.
At 19:58, a formal Darshan occasion begins (at Adi Da Samrajashram) and continues to the end of this video clip.tags: Avataric DiscourseItalianDVD
El Gurú es suficiente poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español length: 12:41 date added: April 18, 2022 event date: July 15, 1973 language: Spanish views: 539; views this month: 43; views this week: 40 [Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
In this rare historical footage from 1973, Adi Da speaks about the relationship with the Guru in Satsang (the Company of the Awakened One) as the Way of Truth, and Reality Itself.
ADI DA: "During My 'Sadhana Years', whenever My Guru asked Me to do something, I would do that. The rest of the time, I would sit there and be absorbed in Him. And there was nothing else I could do. The Guru is sufficient — and the devotee of the Guru is one who knows that."tags: SpanishDVD
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