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Sacred Sighting: 2008 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 10:49 date added: July 18, 2013 event date: August 13, 2008 language: English views: 2755; views this month: 7; views this week: 3 A wonderful Sacred Sighting of Adi Da (at Adi Da Samrajashram) just a few months before His Divine Mahasamadhi. comments: 1
Sacred Sighting: August 13, 2008 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 10:47 date added: September 1, 2013 event date: August 13, 2008 language: English views: 4069; views this month: 31; views this week: 9 A wonderful Sacred Sighting of Adi Da (at Adi Da Samrajashram) just a few months before His Divine Mahasamadhi.tags: DarshanAdi Da Samrajashram
Sacred Sighting: April 8, 2008 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 03:38 date added: April 29, 2017 event date: April 8, 2008 language: English views: 2250; views this month: 58; views this week: 47 An occasion of Sacred Sighting of Adi Da at His Hermitage Ashram in Fiji, on April 8, 2008.
While Adi Da often sat in formal meditation halls with devotees, He also granted these occasions of sighting Him in more natural environments as well, as in this occasion.tags: DarshanAdi Da Samrajashram
Sacred Sighting: August 14, 2008 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 04:25 date added: July 5, 2018 event date: August 14, 2008 language: English views: 842; views this month: 7; views this week: 0 Sacred Sighting of Adi Da Samraj on August 14, 2008, on Adi Da Samrajashram.
Silent Sacred Sighting poster: AdiDaVideos length: 07:13 date added: September 2, 2022 event date: June 2, 2008 language: English views: 594; views this month: 13; views this week: 7 Avatar Adi Da Samraj sits with His devotees at Adi Da Samrajashram, in a Sacred Sighting on June 2, 2008.tags: Darshan comments: 1
Sacred Sightings: California, 2005 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 04:08 date added: November 27, 2012 event date: 2005 language: English views: 3124; views this month: 11; views this week: 4 Avatar Adi Da Samraj with devotees at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California, during His visit in the summer of 2005.
In the first Darshan occasion, Adi Da sits with devotees at Seventh Gate Shrine. (More from this occasion can be seen here.)
In the second Darshan occasion, Adi Da walks past devotees and then sits with them in front of Ordeal Bath Lodge. (More from that occasion here, where Adi Da embraces a young boy.)tags: Darshan
No one Is Thinking These Words poster: AdiDaVideos length: 35:02 date added: March 20, 2013 event date: July 7, 2005 language: English views: 2544; views this month: 8; views this week: 5 In this Discourse, Avatar Adi Da responds to a question about the "problem" of mind and the presumption of a separate "self".tags: Avataric Discourse
poster: AdiDaVideos length: 22:30 date added: August 28, 2013 event date: July 7, 2005 language: English views: 5720; views this month: 13; views this week: 5 Video excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da Samraj on July 7, 2005, in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention.
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 Discourse
Beyond Sex, Science, and self poster: AdiDaVideos length: 09:59 date added: December 16, 2013 event date: January 21, 2005 language: English views: 6277; views this month: 30; views this week: 10 Adi Da: "Sex is fundamental ego-identity, lived. And generally speaking, it is a problem for everyone. . . The social pattern of 'self' and 'other' is founded upon emotional-sexual patterning to a very great degree. . . So it certainly is an important dimension of bondage, and therefore an important aspect of sadhana. The Perfect Practice is not based on any reference to the body-mind, or any method of the body-mind."
In this Avataric Discourse (from January 21, 2005), Adi Da explains why the Perfect Practice (the most advanced development of the Way of Adidam) has nothing to do with sex (or the ego-"I" altogether), and is not a "method" of the body-mind or something to be applied to the body-mind. The Self-Condition prior to the body-mind is the domain of the Perfect Practice. The Self-Condition is not a separate "self", but the Nirvanic Condition that is always already the case, and that inherently transcends the body-mind.
This Must Be Realized poster: AdiDaVideos length: 09:48 date added: August 19, 2014 event date: November 11, 2005 language: English views: 4051; views this month: 15; views this week: 7 In this Discourse (which took place on November 11, 2005 at The Mountain Of Attention), Avatar Adi Da answers a devotee's question about the human condition. He criticizes reductive viewpoints (scientific, religious, etc.) that try to account for a multi-level phenomenon (such as evolution) in terms of just one level (the gross level of bodies), ignoring other levels that participate in the phenomenon (the impact of subtle or "mind" level influences on evolution, the impact of molecular level influences on evolution, etc.). He also criticizes the presumption that everything can be explained, and points out that the multi-level phenomenon that is life and experience is (when fully examined) so complex that it is "irreducible", beyond comprehension. Beyond all the apparent (and incomprehensible) arising that is conditional existence is the indivisible Conscious Light in which all is arising. To Realize Conscious Light is to be liberated from all need for explanations. As Adi Da puts it: "When It is Realized, it becomes entirely clear what everything is and how it is happening."tags: Avataric Discourse
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