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Onko Muurahaisella Egoa?video
poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi
length: 18:44
date added: August 31, 2019
event date: October 20, 2004
language: Finnish
views: 1587; views this month: 36; views this week: 9
[Contains Finnish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

"Onko Muurahaisella Egoa?" ("Is an ant an ego?") is a video excerpt from a humorous and profoundly insightful Avataric Discourse (given by Adi Da on October 20, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram), Adi Da considers the difference between self-consciousness and egoity, referring to both humans and non-humans (including dogs, ants, and trees).

ADI DA: [Laughs] You generally attribute egoity to human beings, but you wonder about everything else. For instance, what about not something relatively inert like a rug or even just standing there and not seeming to be particularly responsive, like a tree. But what about a dog? Is a dog, do you think dogs are egos when you see them, just as readily as you think of human beings as egos? But, why do you draw the line? I mean how far does it go? Where do you stop thinking of living entities, at least, as egos? Do you just presume everything bigger than a cricket is an ego? Or is everything that moves in your, from your perspective experientially or in your natural presumptions, how far do, does the fact of egoity extend in your presumption.

Well, is an ant an ego in your presumption?

The word “ego” is actually a Greek word which means “I”. I consider it with you and talk about it in terms of self-contraction and so forth, but, so that’s the elaboration on its meaning, but the word simply means “I” which means the reference, self-reference, the reflexive, reflexive pronoun as it’s called of self-reference. So, does an ant feel self-referential?

You observe them protecting themselves and struggling with others. Couldn’t do so without some kind of self-consciousness, could it? So, you naturally presume that even something like an ant is, is a self, an ego, self-aware. Does something have to move from its spatial location? Does it have to be able to take a walk or, such as an ant or a human being, or can a tree? Does a tree have self-consciousness, exhibit self-consciousness. . .

What about trees? They are entities with apparent self-consciousness of a kind. They are in that sense, egos. But are they egoic? Are they functioning egoically? Are they feeling that they are in bondage and moved to seek as human beings are and as you feel in your own case, you see? Trees don’t seem to behave, generally speaking, in quite that way. They are self-conscious as organisms, but they don’t seem to be particularly disturbed about being trees. They seem more characterized by some kind of contemplation in which they don’t feel disturbed.

But if you observe non-humans, virtually all of them show signs of setting themselves apart and entering into a contemplative state that resembles some kind of a samadhi or meditative condition.

Why do you think human beings are disturbed? You see, why is human egoity what it is? If you observe how it appears in evidence in non-humans, suggests that human beings are the way they are because they’re confined, and not just confined by walls and bars. Some people are, and they get very disturbed there, and walk back and forth or get catatonic.

Your bondage is your own activity, and it also extends from conditions. Conditions can reinforce or seem to justify self-contraction. But still what you’re suffering is self-contraction itself.

So, human beings are actually confined, and they are self-confined, and otherwise, also, living in various modes and degrees of confinement by conditions of life and in fact, human beings feel confined by bodily existence, because however healthy you may be at the moment, you know you’re going to die, and are potentially, potentially, you could suffer any number of great happenings. And you anticipate that inevitably, you will, sooner or later, experience some fundamental difficulties that you would prefer not to have to endure, including disease and death.

Well, everything that’s physically living is going to die. The trouble, the difference is does it drive you crazy, make you seek, or are you at ease, because you haven’t lost touch with what transcends that possibility?
tags:
Avataric Discourse   Finnish  

Religious Truthvideo
poster: Religion99
length: 07:09
date added: February 5, 2009
language: English
views: 1573; views this month: 2; views this week: 1
Adi Da on Religious Truth
tags:
scientism  

Wprowadzenie do Awatara Adi Da Samrajvideo
poster: Adi Da Video Polska
length: 13:37
date added: May 20, 2017
language: Polish
event speaker: Nick Elias
views: 1572; views this month: 15; views this week: 2
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ADI DA: "Wszystko Transcenduję i Ogarniam wszystko. . . I wszystkim oferuję Moje Boskie Awataryczne Objawione Nauczanie jako Uniwersalną i Unikalna Mądrość, która pokonuje wszelkie bariery. Jestem Boskim Awatarem - Transcenduję Wschód i Zachód."

Życie Awatara Adi Da było niespotykaną demonstracją Oświeconego Stanu, nazwanym przez Niego ”Jasnością" Świadomego Światła, która jest Samą Rzeczywistością.

Awatara Adi Da Samraj powtarzał, że Droga jaką Naucza jest ego-transcendującym związkiem, a nie służącą ego techniką. Droga opiera się na uznaniu i zwracaniu się do Niego. To milcząca intuicja serca — nie tylko kwestia wiary, idei czy sposobów poszukiwania spełnienia (materialnego bądź duchowego). Wszystkim, którzy zwracają się do Niego, Awatara Adi Da Samraj Ujawnia Boski Stan Błogostanu Świadomego-Światła.

Aby uzyskać więcej informacji o Drodze Serca proszę pisać na adres: adidavideo.pl@gmail.com.
tags:
Polish  

It's Up to Youvideo
poster: TheBeezone
length: 00:45
date added: September 12, 2012
event date: 1988
language: English
views: 1562; views this month: 3; views this week: 2
Adi Da talking in 1988 to devotees in New Zealand, pointing out that what they do with any life experience is entirely up to them - including the option to transcend the experience altogether.

Facing Beloved / No One Like Me - John Wubbenhorstvideo
disc one, track 2 of May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts

poster: CDBaby
length: 06:50
date added: February 9, 2020
language: English
views: 1538; views this month: 30; views this week: 6
"Facing Beloved / No One Like Me" is by John Wubbenhorst. It is track 2 from Disc One of the double CD, May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts. John Wubbenhorst plays bansuri, drum master Subash Chandran plays ghatam and konnokol, and drum master Ganesh Kumar plays kanjira.

May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts is a deeply moving, sacred, contemplative CD that celebrates Adi Da's Life of Love and Blessing. This tribute to Adi Da Samraj includes music from many different genres, ranging from Indian classical to jazz to world music and other contemporary styles.

With over two hours of devotional songs filling this double CD, you can listen to pieces composed and performed by many devotee artists, including Naamleela Free Jones, Tamarind Free Jones, Ray Lynch, John Wubbenhorst, John Mackay, Sally Howe, Crane Kirkbride, Antonina Randazzo, Katya Grineva and many others.

Some of the twenty-five pieces on May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts were written and offered in the days immediately following Adi Da's Passing on November 27, 2008, or in the year-long period of formal mourning that followed. Other songs were offered to Him in person during His Lifetime. This CD also contains new songs never released before by Naamleela, Tamarind, and other musicians.
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music   CD  

Guru as Prophetvideo
poster: belleislesound
length: 58:23
date added: February 8, 2020
event date: December 23, 1973
language: English
views: 1537; views this month: 21; views this week: 3
A talk by Avatar Adi Da titled "Guru as Prophet", given on December 23, 1973. The full talk is available on the double CD, Money, Food, and Sex / Guru as Prophet. A written version of this talk is available in the book, My "Bright" Word.

In this talk, Adi Da distinguishes between the Spiritual function and the "prophet" function of the True Guru. As prophet, the Guru offends, criticizes, and undermines the usual ego-based life by confounding the search and the need for consolation and fascination. This process works to bring about a crisis of understanding in anyone not yet involved in the real Spiritual process.

Adi Da explains that teachings about ordinary life or even about Spiritual life tend to console the seeker in some way, exploiting the search for self-fulfillment. But contact with the True Guru frustrates the seeker instead, and draws the individual into the feeling of dilemma that is at the root of his or her search. This serves the crisis that must precede the real Spiritual process whereby the True Guru's Spiritual Function may be discovered.

Later in the Discourse, Avatar Adi Da returns to the primary theme of the Guru-devotee relationship. When the ego-frustrating process is engaged as Satsang, or relationship to the Guru, then present Realization of the Divine can be Awakened by Grace, and the real Spiritual process can begin.

ADI DA: To the extent that I appear in public at all—for example, by writing books, or even simply by the existence of the gathering of My devotees in this world—My visible Role can only be that of Prophet. I do not serve people's random needs to be fulfilled, to be consoled, to be fascinated. Every individual who is moved to Realize Real God, Truth, and Reality in My Avataric Divine Company must approach Me as My formally practicing devotee—and, in every such case, the usual egoic process will (and must) be Offended, Criticized, and Undermined by Me.

As the Avataric Incarnation of the Very Divine Person, I must be Paradoxical, I must be Free—in order to Serve the Divine Liberation of My devotees. The qualities of My Avataric Divine Activity cannot be predetermined. I do not consistently assume the qualities of any particular archetype—the holy man, the Yogi, the Sage. I must be Free to Appear as I will. I am always Acting to Undo the egoic life of My devotees—even if only by Merely Being Who I Am.
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CD  

Organizing a Book of Stories about Adi Davideo
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld
length: 01:54
date added: October 15, 2017
event date: October 1, 2017
language: English
event speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld
views: 1533; views this month: 9; views this week: 3
A short video about how longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld organized many stories — from his diary over 40 years in Adi Da's Blessing Company — to create a new book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master, and a CD with the same title.
tags:
CD   DVD  

Le creazioni di Adi Da che saranno esposte al Museo del Bargello a Firenzevideo
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
length: 06:46
date added: August 11, 2018
language: Italian
views: 1531; views this month: 15; views this week: 2
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Per la prima volta in 150 anni di storia, il famoso Museo del Bargello ospita la mostra in solitario di un artista contemporaneo nato negli Stati Uniti: Adi Da Samraj.

Adi Da Samraj creating the Orpheus One and Linead One suites. Accompanied by Adi Da talking about His Image-Art. Edited by Carmen Morrow.
tags:
Orpheus One   Linead One   Image-Art   Italian  

Techniki medytacji nie usuwają lękuvideo
poster: Adi Da Video Polska
length: 14:52
date added: August 26, 2018
event date: August 13, 2004
language: Polish
views: 1531; views this month: 7; views this week: 2
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Awatar Adi Da ponownie analizuje powierzchowne podejście do życia i medytacji; ponownie oświetla źródło strachu jako samo-ograniczenie, które tworzy oddzielne życie. Żadna technika nie cofa strachu, tylko radykalne samozrozumienie i radykalna odpowiedzialność usuwa źródło i substancję lęku i separacji.

"Techniki medytacji nie usuwają lęku" ("Meditation Techniques Do Not Touch Fear") is an 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   Polish  

Cos'è il Cultismo?video
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
length: 19:00
date added: August 11, 2018
event date: December 16, 1978
language: Italian
views: 1528; views this month: 11; views this week: 4
[Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

Adi Da critica il cultismo in genere e in particolare quello religioso. Questo discorso, che risale al 1978, è uno dei ricorsi sullo stesso tema che si sono susseguiti negli anni.

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, "Cos'è il Cultismo?" ("What Is Cultism?"), 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."
tags:
Italian  

The Way and the Realization: Commentary by Frank Marrerovideo
poster: frank marrero
length: 06:14
date added: March 10, 2009
language: English
event speaker: Frank Marrero
views: 1525; views this month: 7; views this week: 4
Adi Da's distinction between "the Way" and "the Realization" as THE litmus test in evaluating spiritual ways.

I Am Not Elsewherevideo
disc one, track 4 of After My Lifetime

poster: CDBaby
length: 05:06
date added: October 30, 2018
event date: April 22, 1995
language: English
views: 1520; views this month: 12; views this week: 2
This is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da on April 22, 1995 at Adi Da Samrajashram.

This excerpt is disc one, track 4 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.

The album is available through iTunes and The Dawn Horse Press. For more about this double CD, read this special Adidam Revelation Magazine article.

Note: Due to distribution policies set by CDBaby (and beyond the control of this website and Adidam), this video may not be playable in every country. However, sometimes, even when you can't play it on this page, you may be able to play it on YouTube: click here.
tags:
CD  

Ilon ruumiillinen sijaintivideo
poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi
length: 12:23
date added: September 30, 2020
event date: November 28, 1981
language: Finnish
views: 1520; views this month: 50; views this week: 11
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Avatar Adi Dan antama puhe vuodelta 1981, joka käsittelee Aidon Ilon luonnetta ja sen Toteutusta hetkestä hetkeen, joka ei onnistu sitä etsimällä.

This is a video excerpt from Adi Da's classic talk, "The Bodily Location of Happiness", which He gave on November 28, 1981. This talk was originally published in the book, The Bodily Location Of Happiness. The full talk is available on CD and on a new DVD, The Location Of Happiness.
tags:
CD   DVD   Finnish  

Pozytywne rozczarowanievideo
poster: Adi Da Video Polska
length: 06:00
date added: September 15, 2018
language: Polish
views: 1493; views this month: 11; views this week: 3
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W tym fragmencie nigdy wcześniej nieopublikowanego dyskursu Adi Da mówi o konieczności rozczarowania się życiem śmiertelnika w pozytywnym sensie. Pozytywne rozczarowanie pojawia się, kiedy zaczynasz rozumieć i rezygnujesz ze stresujących i ostatecznie daremnych poszukiwań osobistego przetrwania, ziemskiego szczęścia i ostatecznego spełnienia w życiu. Tylko wtedy może pojawić się ponowne „poznawanie” i ekstatyczny udział w Rzeczywistości, i w relacjach z Prawdziwym Urzeczywistnionym.

In "Pozytywne rozczarowanie" ("Positive Disillusionment"), a video excerpt from an Avataric Discourse, Adi Da speaks about the necessity to become disillusioned with mortal life in a positive sense. Positive disillusionment is emerging when one begins to understand and relinquish the stressful and ultimately futile search for personal survival, worldly happiness, and ultimate life fulfillment. Only then can one be drawn into recognizing, learning about, and ecstatically participating in Reality Itself, in relationship to a True Realizer.
tags:
Avataric Discourse  

La Nature de la Souffrance Humainevideo
poster: Vidéos d'Adi Da
length: 06:06
date added: July 9, 2018
language: French
event speaker: Nick Elias
views: 1491; views this month: 13; views this week: 2
[Contains French subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

La Nature de la Souffrance Humaine ("The Nature of Human Suffering") is an excerpt from the video presentation, "Reality, Truth, and Conscious Light".

Darshan of Avatar Adi Da begins at 2:34.
tags:
Darshan   French  
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