poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:49 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: June 20, 1972 language: English listens: 4917; listens this month: 10; listens this week: 4 An excerpt from "The Avon Lady", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da explains how there is no search and no dilemma when one is in Satsang (the company of the Guru).
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:06 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: September 21, 1972 language: English listens: 4370; listens this month: 8; listens this week: 4 An excerpt from "Walking the Dog", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Using the analogy of a man walking his dog to describe the usual man's self-indulgence and sub-consciousness, Avatar Adi Da Samraj humorously expounds on the true nature of our own egoity.
poster: SusanaWeingarten length: 10:01 date added: July 1, 2012 language: English views: 3148; views this month: 5; views this week: 4 A dance that creatively develops the meaning of Satsang. Dedicated to Adi Da.
Choreographers/Dancers: Susana Weingarten and Tom Evert Music: Phillip Glass and Ravi Shankar Voiceover: Adi Da Costume Design: Janet Bolick "Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson
Orpheus in the Modern World poster: CoaguLAradio length: 60:00 date added: July 4, 2012 event date: October 5, 2011 language: English listens: 6074; listens this month: 9; listens this week: 4 Art Panel: Orpheus in the Modern World (October 5, 2011) — The later work and aesthetic philosophy of Adi Da Samraj was the subject of discussion between Los Angeles art writers and those close with the late artist and spiritual teacher. (This is a recording of first hour of the hour and 15 minutes panel.)
Sex, Laughter, and Real-God-Realization poster: DawnHorsePress length: 03:21 date added: August 18, 2012 event date: September 7, 1975 language: English listens: 5580; listens this month: 11; listens this week: 4 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.tags: CD
poster: TheBeezone length: 14:14 date added: September 8, 2012 event date: 1988 language: English views: 5300; views this month: 13; views this week: 4 This audio clip is from the CD, What Is Your Intention?. This talk was originally published in Chapter 6 of the Love Ananda-Gita.
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.
The Quandra Loka Suite poster: scribe108 length: 06:32 date added: November 22, 2012 language: English views: 5939; views this month: 13; views this week: 4 In late 2002 and early 2003, Adi Da Samraj created the photographic suite, Quandra Loka. The images are generally multiple exposures on a single black-and-white frame of film. Adi Da then created configurations (diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs) from the single frame images.
Music is "Facing Beloved", from the CD, Facing Beloved, with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Subash Chandran (ghatam) and Ganesh Kumar (kanjira). This piece is based on a melody from J.S. Bach (siciliano) with elements of Raga Kirwani.tags: Image-ArtQuandra LokaCD
Sacred Sighting: November 14, 2008 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 06:47 date added: November 27, 2012 event date: November 14, 2008 language: English views: 4204; views this month: 14; views this week: 4 Avatar Adi Da in an occasion of silent Darshan with His devotees on the veranda at Samraj Mahal, Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji.
Sacred Sightings: California, 2005 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 04:08 date added: November 27, 2012 event date: 2005 language: English views: 3118; views this month: 6; 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
Antonia Vidor: Beyond the Illusion poster: antoniavidor length: 20:07 date added: December 10, 2012 event date: 2012 language: English views: 3529; views this month: 11; views this week: 4 A mini-documentary about the extraordinary life lived by Antonia (Toni) Vidor, the daughter of famous, old-Hollywood director King Vidor. Antonia was born into privilege, enduring her parents' stormy marriage and "spectacle" life. Ultimately, she would come to choose a radically different life, coming to rest with her Spiritual Teacher, Adi Da Samraj.
Light-in-Everybody poster: AuraBakkerMedia length: 02:42 date added: December 31, 2012 event date: 2012 language: English listens: 6587; listens this month: 9; listens this week: 4 Light-in-Everybody is a song written for the Celebration of Light-in-Everybody, with Love and Light and Joy, and Gratitude to Heart-Master Adi Da Samraj.
poster: ANDREANEADAR length: 02:12 date added: February 26, 2013 event date: July 22, 2012 language: English views: 3963; views this month: 11; views this week: 4 Music by premier Florentine composer Andrea Portera, from the ballet, Not-Two Is Peace, performed on July 22 and 23, 2012.
Not-Two Is Peace: A Vision for Humanity poster: jaspervanlaar length: 09:29 date added: March 31, 2013 language: English views: 4245; views this month: 19; views this week: 4 The Florence Dance Company prepares and performs at the Pergola Theatre, Florence, in the March 2013 performances of Not-Two Is Peace. Accompanied by interviews with some of the dancers and members of the public responding to the performance.
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