Adi Da Samraj describing his Realization of Nirvikalpa Samadhi at Swami Muktananda's ashram in India in 1968 and how it differed from His Seventh Stage Realization in the Vedanta Temple in 1970.
special terminology: siddhi; all-and-All
This clip is excerpted from a longer clip which can be found here.
Adi Da Samraj responds to a question from devotee Ruchiradama Nadikanta while she speaks about the Ashtavakra Gita, a text within the sixth stage tradition of Advaita Vedanta.
Adi Da (at 2:30) clarifies the distinctions between the first six stages of life and the seventh stage Realization. He focuses on the distinction between the most advanced Realization of the sixth stage of life, sixth stage Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi, and the seventh stage Realization. Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi is demonstrated by Ramana Maharshi, for example, and suggested by texts such as the Ashtavakra Gita, the Ribhu Gita, and the Tripura Rahasya (all mentioned by Adi Da in this clip) which Adi Da calls "premonitory" relative to the seventh stage of life. Sahaj Nirvikalpa Samadhi differs from the less advanced trance samadhis of the sixth stage in that one recognizes conditional existence as arising in the Self, and one can function in the world open-eyed. Even so, there is still a separation between Self and world. The seventh stage Realization is signalled by the regeneration of Amrita Nadi, and the complete dissolution of any difference between Consciousness and Its Radiance. Consequently, the lifetime of the seventh stage Realizer is signed by a progressive Outshining of conditional existence that goes through four stages: Divine Transfiguration, Divine Transformation, Divine Indifference, and Divine Translation.
For more about samadhis like sixth stage Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi, click here and here.
The Streams of Buddhism poster: delphiyes length: 27:28 date added: August 2, 2012 views: 371; views this month: 29; views this week: 6
A devotee asks Adi Da a question about the various forms of Realization in the Zen tradition. Adi Da replies by giving an elaborate description of the understandings within the Zen and other sixth stage traditions, relative to His schema of the seven stages of life.
Locate What Is Real poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:49 date added: February 23, 2012 event date: October 10, 2004 views: 752; views this month: 38; views this week: 9
This is an excerpt from the DVD, Locate What Is Real, an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on October 10, 2004.
On the full DVD: * Adi Da describes how Reality is the true “first experience” for everyone — more fundamental to existence than identification with the apparently “born” being. * He speaks about how music and other arts can function as extensions of Spirituality. * He talks about Ramana Maharshi and the sixth stage orientation, in contrast to His seventh stage Reality-Way. * He addresses a devotee’s experience of emotional trauma, and how such events can affect one’s life. * He describes His own Submission, in His early life, to the process of Christian mystical experience.
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the fifth stage of life, as taught by Adi Da Samraj.
This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.
An overall description of the seven stages of life as presented in this webinar can be found here.
poster: TheBeezone speakers: Ed Reither, Frank Marrero length: 14:02 date added: July 21, 2011 views: 753; views this month: 23; views this week: 2
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the fifth stage of life, as taught by Adi Da Samraj.
This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.
An overall description of the seven stages of life as presented in this webinar can be found here.
poster: TheBeezone speakers: Ed Reither, Frank Marrero length: 17:26 date added: July 21, 2011 views: 788; views this month: 25; views this week: 5
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the fifth stage of life, as taught by Adi Da Samraj.
This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.
An overall description of the seven stages of life as presented in this webinar can be found here.
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In this discourse, Adi Da Samraj suggests that the Way He offers is not based on this assumption of separate self, but rather identification with that that is transcendent from the body-mind, the Divine Self-Condition.
The devotee asking the question of Adi Da was a former student of Zen Buddhism, so in this discourse Adi Da refers to some metaphors that are part of the Zen Buddhism Tradition.
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