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Guru as Prophetvideo
poster: belleislesound
length: 58:23
date added: February 8, 2020
event date: December 23, 1973
language: English
views: 1537; views this month: 21; views this week: 3
A talk by Avatar Adi Da titled "Guru as Prophet", given on December 23, 1973. The full talk is available on the double CD, Money, Food, and Sex / Guru as Prophet. A written version of this talk is available in the book, My "Bright" Word.

In this talk, Adi Da distinguishes between the Spiritual function and the "prophet" function of the True Guru. As prophet, the Guru offends, criticizes, and undermines the usual ego-based life by confounding the search and the need for consolation and fascination. This process works to bring about a crisis of understanding in anyone not yet involved in the real Spiritual process.

Adi Da explains that teachings about ordinary life or even about Spiritual life tend to console the seeker in some way, exploiting the search for self-fulfillment. But contact with the True Guru frustrates the seeker instead, and draws the individual into the feeling of dilemma that is at the root of his or her search. This serves the crisis that must precede the real Spiritual process whereby the True Guru's Spiritual Function may be discovered.

Later in the Discourse, Avatar Adi Da returns to the primary theme of the Guru-devotee relationship. When the ego-frustrating process is engaged as Satsang, or relationship to the Guru, then present Realization of the Divine can be Awakened by Grace, and the real Spiritual process can begin.

ADI DA: To the extent that I appear in public at all—for example, by writing books, or even simply by the existence of the gathering of My devotees in this world—My visible Role can only be that of Prophet. I do not serve people's random needs to be fulfilled, to be consoled, to be fascinated. Every individual who is moved to Realize Real God, Truth, and Reality in My Avataric Divine Company must approach Me as My formally practicing devotee—and, in every such case, the usual egoic process will (and must) be Offended, Criticized, and Undermined by Me.

As the Avataric Incarnation of the Very Divine Person, I must be Paradoxical, I must be Free—in order to Serve the Divine Liberation of My devotees. The qualities of My Avataric Divine Activity cannot be predetermined. I do not consistently assume the qualities of any particular archetype—the holy man, the Yogi, the Sage. I must be Free to Appear as I will. I am always Acting to Undo the egoic life of My devotees—even if only by Merely Being Who I Am.
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Ego-Death and the Chaos Of Experiencevideo
poster: frank marrero
length: 56:00
date added: August 6, 2012
event date: January 1, 1979
language: English
views: 3455; views this month: 14; views this week: 2
Excerpt from "Ego-Death and the Chaos Of Experience", an early talk from Adi Da, in which He speaks about the true spiritual process of ego death. Adi Da compares this to the mystical and seeking paths of inward or outward experiences in which the seeker is following the path as a reaction to life itself.

Criticism of Conventional Religionistsvideo
poster: frank marrero
length: 23:59
date added: June 11, 2012
language: English
views: 2236; views this month: 3; views this week: 2
Adi Da speaks strongly and clearly in His Admonition to devotees to not turn the Way of Adidam into a conventional seekers' path.
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Avataric Discourse  

The Seeker, Meeting the Guru and the Big Gulpvideo
part 1 of James Steinberg Interview

poster: TheBeezone
speakers: Ed Reither, James Steinberg
length: 12:20
date added: January 29, 2011
event date: January 26, 2011
language: English
views: 4500; views this month: 14; views this week: 1
Ed Reither of The Beezone interviews longtime devotee James Steinberg about his early life up to and including becoming a devotee of Adi Da Samraj.



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Ed Reither   James Steinberg  

The Self-Evident Falsity of the Search for Changelessnessvideo
poster: Chandirah
length: 01:45
date added: February 1, 2009
language: English
views: 5243; views this month: 9; views this week: 3
A short discourse by Adi Da on the limitations of mind.

[Apologies for the less than perfect sound quality, it is from an old tape recording originally.]

This talk is part of a larger collection of talks, on the CD, Reality Is Beyond "Point of View.
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Search   Seeker   philosophy   Changelessness   Guru   Spirituality   Mind   Teachings   Dharma   CD  




 
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