poster: TheBeezone length: 14:14 date added: September 8, 2012 event date: 1988 language: English views: 5296; views this month: 13; views this week: 4
Avatar Adi Da describes the three options of human destiny: one can reinforce one's present existence in gross (physical) form; one can go beyond gross existence into subtler dimensions of existence; or one can transcend conditional existence altogether, in the Great Process of seventh stage Divine Self-Realization. He suggests that most people (and most devotees) are opting (generally unconsciously) for the first (and lowest) option.
For those who discover the heart-impulse to the Great Process, Avatar Adi Da offers Graceful Means — but, He clarifies, a most intensive ego-transcending process will be required of such devotees, a constant relinquishment of identification with the separate self.
Fear is Inherent in the Body poster: TheBeezone length: 07:31 date added: September 8, 2012 event date: 2004 language: English listens: 2016; listens this month: 3; listens this week: 0
Adi Da explains how fear is inherent in identification with the body and how we must transcend it.
Adi Da talks about fear and the self-contraction. "Wherever there is an 'other', fear arises."
Adidam South Africa poster: samraj07 length: 01:59 date added: September 2, 2012 language: English views: 2036; views this month: 6; views this week: 2
Devotee (and Adidam missionary for South Africa) Gavin Brown offers a personal invitation to all those living in South Africa who are interested in learning more about Adi Da to connect with him.
Adi Da's Final Darshan poster: frank marrero length: 09:04 date added: August 19, 2012 event date: November 26, 2008 language: English views: 3469; views this month: 9; views this week: 3
The final Darshan given by Adi Da Samraj (on November 26, 2008) before His Divine Mahasamadhi the following day. Accompanied by an excerpt from the talk, Love Is How I Got To Here, from April 16, 1995.
Audio excerpt from Adi Da's talk, "Sex, Laughter, and Real-God-Realization" (now available on CD).
Sexuality, humor, and Awakening to the Divine Condition are three forms of ecstasy, or unbounded feeling, that disrupt the conventional sense of “order” in society. Pleasure undoes the body. Humor undoes the mind. And Realization undoes the sense of “self”. The Fullness of Real-God-Realization Comprehends and Transcends the limitations of social norms, spiritual presumptions, and self-identification, granting the capability of Real Happiness and True Freedom.
Adi Da Samraj talks about the principle of egoity: how this principle underlies the Great Tradition; how it makes existence "samsara" (illusion), in which we imagine that we are living in the real world; and how understanding this principle is the key to the Way of Adidam.
This is an excerpt from the key talk, "Self-Understanding", given by Adi Da on April 8, 1993. More from the same talk here (text) and here (video).
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True Discipline poster: TheBeezone length: 01:22 date added: August 18, 2012 event date: April 15, 1974 language: English listens: 2801; listens this month: 6; listens this week: 1
An excerpt from Garbage and the Goddess on true discipline. "Happiness is the responsibility. Freedom is the discipline."
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Adi Da Samraj talks about combining oneself with His Argument to the point where one loses sympathy with the painful self-contraction, and one can see that it is one's own activity, and completely unnecessary. Transcendence of the self-contraction allows one to Realize the Native State of Prior Happiness.
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The Fundamental Error poster: TheBeezone length: 00:10 date added: August 18, 2012 language: English listens: 1964; listens this month: 2; listens this week: 0
Adi Da Samraj describes the fundamental error of all paths in the Great Tradition.
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Purification and the Fire poster: TheBeezone length: 00:49 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English listens: 1588; listens this month: 2; listens this week: 0
Adi Da talks about sadhana and purification.
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Hearing the Teaching Argument poster: TheBeezone length: 01:38 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English listens: 2225; listens this month: 4; listens this week: 1
Adi Da talks about hearing the Teaching argument, which is the basis of sadhana and self-understanding.
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Adi Da talks about purifying forms of the self-contraction which keep one from being aware of the Divine Condition.
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The Beginner's Discipline poster: TheBeezone length: 01:11 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English listens: 2189; listens this month: 5; listens this week: 1
Adi Da talks about the early phase of sadhana: taking on life conditions.
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Adi Da talks about the listening process, and the use of various means for self-reflection (the Teaching, the disciplines, reflection by others), so that the listening process can culminate in hearing or fundamental self-understanding (and the transition to level 1.3 of the Way of Adidam).
Note: In this clip, Adi Da refers to the practice of self-inquiry, which is no longer a part of the practice of Adidam.
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