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Retreat participants' stories about Adi Da from the four-day October, 2011 Public Retreat at the European Danda, in Maria Hoop, Netherlands. Clip ends (at 13:26) with Adi Da's Darshan.

For upcoming retreats at the European Danda, check our Special Events page.

Videographer: Matt Braithwaite

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Adi Da contrasts the egoic model of life and love, which is based on a "victim" strategy, with the self-transcending model, which is based on self-responsibility. He describes the purpose and nature of devotional groups in serving practice of the Way of Adidam.

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A beautiful tour of Da Love-Ananda Mahal, the Ruchira Sannyasin Sanctuary, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Includes pictures of Adi Da at Da Love-Ananda Mahal.

Photography and videography by Bruce Czopek, Aaron Nakagawa, and Carmen Morrow. Edited by Carmen Morrow. Original music by Aaron Nakagawa.

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A slideshow of images of Adi Da taken at Sacred Occasions in 2008 in Naitauba, Fiji.

Images from and comments about the August 2011 Retreat — "After the Passing of the Master" (led by Anthony Costabile) — at the European Danda in Maria Hoop.

For upcoming retreats at the European Danda, check our Special Events page.

Videographer: Matt Braithwaite

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A slideshow from Paul Embling of photos of Adi Da Samraj. Original, devotional music by Paul Embling ("Big Softy").

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Tom Williams, a former Presbyterian minister and longtime devotee of Avatar Adi Da, tells the story of how he "fell in love with God". He describes how he moved from an ordinary childhood, to study for the ministry, to despair that his faith and his service had failed to deepen his relationship to God. In a personal crisis, he became a pastoral counselor and then a marriage and family counselor — before finally finding the books of Avatar Adi Da and at last receiving the gift of sighting his Heart-Master at the "Love of the God-Man" celebration in northern California in 1984.

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Tom Williams, a former Presbyterian minister and longtime devotee of Avatar Adi Da, tells the story of how he "fell in love with God". He describes how he moved from an ordinary childhood, to study for the ministry, to despair that his faith and his service had failed to deepen his relationship to God. In a personal crisis, he became a pastoral counselor and then a marriage and family counselor — before finally finding the books of Avatar Adi Da and at last receiving the gift of sighting his Heart-Master at the "Love of the God-Man" celebration in northern California in 1984.

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The Adidam Music Fest will be held Friday, September 30, at 7.30pm. The event will be held at Rudramandir, 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA. (map)

Take part in an ecstatic evening of music, dancing, stories, refreshments and good company. The occasion will feature classical Indian music with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Samrat Kakkari (tabla). At the end of the evening will be trance dancing with the East/West jazz fusion group, "Facing East Trio". The evening is dedicated to the spiritual inspiration of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Suggested donation is $15. For more information, visit www.adidambayarea.net or call 415.492.0930.

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John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) will perform ragas and tell leelas of their trip to Fiji this Sunday, August 28th, 2011, at 4 pm, in Hands Up Hall (the Gauer house), in Lake County, California.

Suggested donation: $15 (no one will be turned away)
Call 301.346.0789 for more information

From the CD, Facing Beloved, by the group, Facing East. This is the second track, "Bass Alap". Steve Zerlin plays fretless bass.

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In this talk, Adi Da offers guidance on how to relate and serve children in the process of fully maturing and becoming a loving, balanced human being, capable of relating to others and to the Divine Itself.

This talk excerpt can be found on the CD, Remember About Being Happy: Instructions to and about Children. On this CD, Adi Da gives humorous and loving answers to questions from children and speaks of the freedom and the responsibility that parents and guides must grant to children for the sake of their "growth and out-growing".

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Adi Da reciting a poem, "When things have left him", from His book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing.

Music is "Temple Water Music", by Aaron Nakagawa and friends.

Video by James Newcome. Copyright 2011 ASA.

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Photographic Image of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Soundtrack is "Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah" (I Salute Such a Guru), from devotee Antonina Randazzo's CD, Come To Me.

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In this Adidam Revelation Discourse from January 21, 2005, Adi Da reveals that Liberation cannot ever be achieved through sex, science, or religion! And He makes the astounding assertion, “Realization has nothing to do with the body-mind.”

Watch this DVD for Adi Da's Instruction on True Freedom, which He says is discovered only in the utter transcending of “point of view”, by means of the Transmission of Reality Itself. "The 'self'-contraction, the 'point of view', the 'point-of-view'-machine and what it presumes to be Reality, the illusions of Reality created by 'point of view' — these are the important matters to be understood. The 'you' to which you refer as 'I', the ego-'I', is a 'point-of-view'-machine. It is subject to the illusions of the cosmic apparition, the illusions that 'point of view' itself is subject to — space-time, mass, and so forth."

The DVD, Beyond Sex, Science, and "self", is available from The Dawn Horse Press. Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew. A CD version is also available.

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