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What is Cultism?video
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 19:00
date added: January 2, 2014
event date: December 16, 1978
language: English
views: 5404; views this month: 19; views this week: 1
Adi Da criticized religious cultism, long before the subject gained any popular attention. (For an audio clip of His earliest criticisms — in June, 1972 — click here.) This discourse, given in 1978 at The Mountain Of Attention, is one of His summary addresses on the subject. Adi Da observes that the primary characteristic of a cult member is shared enthusiasm (like enjoying the energy of the crowd at a football game). For example, in "the cult of the Spiritual Master", everybody is enjoying the enthusiasm (their own and each other's) associated with having "found" the great Master; but no one is actually engaged in significant deepening of the devotional and spiritual relationship with the Master, and practicing on that basis — hence no Spiritual growth or Realization occurs.

Adi Da: "My purpose in My Teaching is to make it possible for you to duplicate what I have done — not to be eternally separated from Me, but to be in Communion with Me — to be intimate with Me in Spiritual terms, so that you, yourself, may live this practice, and fulfill it in your own case."
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cult  

Beyond Sex, Science, and selfvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 09:59
date added: December 16, 2013
event date: January 21, 2005
language: English
views: 6242; views this month: 38; views this week: 4
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 excerpt is from the DVD, Beyond Sex, Science, and self. Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew. A CD version is also available.
tags:
Avataric Discourse   Perfect Practice   DVD   CD  
comments: 3

Why One Needs A Guruvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 07:04
date added: November 17, 2013
event date: December 27, 1988
language: English
views: 4548; views this month: 10; views this week: 2
In this video clip from the 1988 talk, "What Is Your Intention?", Adi Da criticizes the "do-it-yourself" approach to spirituality that is popular in the world today, and speaks about why a teacher is necessary.

The full talk is available on the DVD, The Commitment To Real-God-Realization.

For more on this subject, read our article, Why Great Spiritual Realization Requires a Spiritual Transmission Master.
tags:
DVD  
comments: 1

The Art of Adi Da Samraj at Cenacolo di Ognissantivideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 05:40
date added: November 7, 2013
event date: 2008
language: English
event speakers: Dr Christina Acidini, Dr Monica Bietti, Gary Coates, Paula Crema
views: 3504; views this month: 6; views this week: 3
Interviews and overview of Adi Da's solo exhibition at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti in Florence, Italy, in 2008. How Adi Da's art was chosen for exhibition in Florence at Cenacolo di Ognissanti.
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Image-Art   Florence   Cenacolo di Ognissanti   Christina Acidini   Monica Bietti   Gary Coates   Paula Crema  

You Can't Get There From Here!video
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 07:05
date added: October 14, 2013
event date: October 24, 2004
language: English
views: 2860; views this month: 12; views this week: 4
Excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da at Adi Da Samrajashram on October 24, 2004.

For more on Adi Da's running theme, "You Can't Get There from Here", read our article, Why No Self-Applied Technique is Capable of Realizing the Divine.
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Avataric Discourse  

Devote Your Life To God-Realizationvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 19:34
date added: September 8, 2013
event date: July 2, 1988
language: English
views: 6583; views this month: 14; views this week: 4
On July 2, 1988, in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, "Contemplation, Satsang, Sadhana", which would appear in the May/June 1988 issue of Crazy Wisdom Magazine.

In this excerpt ("Devote Your Life To God-Realization"), Adi Da speaks about the necessity for "sadhana", or spiritual practice, in relationship to the God-Realized Spiritual Master.

"All there is is a mechanism to be dealt with. You're not uniquely born. It's the same mechanism as in all other cases. And, in all cases it requires a tremendous ordeal."

Beginning at 17:30 (and continuing to the end of this video), a formal Darshan occasion is shown.
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Darshan  

Sacred Sighting: August 13, 2008video
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 10:47
date added: September 1, 2013
event date: August 13, 2008
language: English
views: 4035; views this month: 19; views this week: 3
A wonderful Sacred Sighting of Adi Da (at Adi Da Samrajashram) just a few months before His Divine Mahasamadhi.
tags:
Darshan   Adi Da Samrajashram  

Sacred Sighting: August 8, 2008video
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 07:01
date added: August 28, 2013
event date: August 8, 2008
language: English
views: 3480; views this month: 13; views this week: 4
A wonderful Sacred Sighting of Adi Da (at Adi Da Samrajashram) just a few months before His Divine Mahasamadhi.
tags:
Darshan   Adi Da Samrajashram  
comments: 1

The Perfect Condition Isvideo
part 2 of Avataric Discourse: July 7, 2005

poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 22:30
date added: August 28, 2013
event date: July 7, 2005
language: English
views: 5705; views this month: 10; views this week: 2
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.

The complete Avataric Discourse is available on the DVD, Relinquish the Mummery of This World. (This video excerpt is from Part 3 of the DVD.)

At 19:58, a formal Darshan occasion begins (at Adi Da Samrajashram) and continues to the end of this video clip.
tags:
Avataric Discourse  

The Unity of Humankindvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 09:46
date added: July 27, 2013
event date: August 22, 2004
language: English
views: 4976; views this month: 11; views this week: 2
Excerpt from the Avataric Discourse of August 22, 2004.

Adi Da describes how humankind is a single family, a single species in "diaspora" — dispersed across the earth as the result of migrations from a single point of origin (in Africa) thousands of years ago. Making much of superficial differences due to race, nation, religion, language, tribe, political system, etc. obscures this more fundamental, deeper reality of the unity of humankind. For the sake of everyone's survival, humankind must begin to live on the basis of its unity, and establish a global cooperative order that includes and serves everyone.
tags:
Avataric Discourse   peace  
comments: 2

Meditation Techniques Don't Touch Fearvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 14:45
date added: July 27, 2013
event date: August 23, 2004
language: English
views: 3710; views this month: 4; views this week: 1
Excerpt from the Avataric Discourse of August 23, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram.

Adi Da explains how ordinary meditation techniques accomplish nothing more than relaxation. They don't touch the egoic identification with the body-mind. Only the Way of Adidam (practiced in every detail) does that. Practice of the Way of Adidam does not require one to stop fear (which continues to serve a useful, practical role for the survival of the body-mind). But in every moment of real practice of the Way of Adidam, one is released from identification with the body-mind, and so one is not bound by any fear the body-mind may be experiencing.
tags:
Avataric Discourse  

Sacred Sighting: 2008video
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 10:49
date added: July 18, 2013
event date: August 13, 2008
language: English
views: 2745; views this month: 10; views this week: 2
A wonderful Sacred Sighting of Adi Da (at Adi Da Samrajashram) just a few months before His Divine Mahasamadhi.

comments: 1

No one Is Thinking These Wordsvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 35:02
date added: March 20, 2013
event date: July 7, 2005
language: English
views: 2535; views this month: 4; views this week: 1
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  

The Grace Of Sufferingvideo
part 1 of The Grace of Suffering

poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 13:13
date added: March 20, 2013
event date: January 18, 1976
language: English
views: 7340; views this month: 18; views this week: 5
In this seminal discourse (at The Mountain Of Attention), from the early years of His Teaching Work, Adi Da speaks about the inevitable process of self-revelation and self-understanding that prepares the being for true Spiritual life.

The full talk is available on the CD, The Grace of Suffering, and on DVD as Volume 2 of the 25th Anniversary DVD Series.
tags:
CD   DVD  

Sacred Sighting: July 19, 2008video
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 06:58
date added: February 16, 2013
event date: July 19, 2008
language: English
views: 3866; views this month: 11; views this week: 1
Adi Da Samraj sits silently with devotees, on a windy day in front of the brass gates to the inner courtyard of Aham Da Asmi Sthan, at Adi Da Samrajashram in Fiji.
tags:
Darshan   Adi Da Samrajashram   Aham Da Asmi Sthan  
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