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Radical Understanding poster: frank marrero length: 09:48 date added: June 10, 2012 language: English views: 1873; views this month: 7; views this week: 4
Excerpts from discourses throughout Adi Da's lifetime in which He explains the term "self-contraction" and the necessity of coming to a full and radical understanding of the action of this mechanism in order to begin true spiritual practice in His Company.
A Sudden Door poster: madjym length: 03:22 date added: June 23, 2012 language: English views: 2276; views this month: 10; views this week: 4
Devotee Jym Daly creating a portrait of Adi Da Samraj.
Jym writes: "Life can carry on in its pattern for what seems like forever, then in one moment there can be a sudden door. The spiritual process is one which makes the door a constant presence."
The Obligation and the Law poster: TheBeezone length: 04:02 date added: August 12, 2012 event date: 1988 language: English listens: 2202; listens this month: 7; listens this week: 4
Adi Da talks about right life and disciplines in the context of the Way of Adidam.
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The Beginner's Discipline poster: TheBeezone length: 01:11 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English listens: 2197; listens this month: 9; listens this week: 4
Adi Da talks about the early phase of sadhana: taking on life conditions.
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Hearing the Teaching Argument poster: TheBeezone length: 01:38 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English listens: 2232; listens this month: 8; listens this week: 4
Adi Da talks about hearing the Teaching argument, which is the basis of sadhana and self-understanding.
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Escape From the Fear poster: TheBeezone length: 00:37 date added: October 14, 2012 language: English listens: 1874; listens this month: 7; listens this week: 4
Adi Da on the fear and self-contraction that underlies every moment of egoic life.
In this discourse, Adi Da proposes that all human lifetimes are a “quest for the historical self”. He describes how this search is based on the activity of “self”-contraction — the erroneous presumption of an actual, defined, knowable “self”.
Lord of the Dance poster: Bleakhouse7 length: 06:52 date added: November 5, 2012 language: English views: 4552; views this month: 14; views this week: 4
Soundtrack: the hymn, "Lord of the Dance". Performers: Colin Decio (voice and instruments). Colin is the winner of the John Ireland Chamber Music Prize. Ingrid Prosser (voice - mezzo soprano). Ingrid is from New Zealand. Words by Sydney Carter (who wrote them in 1967, inspired partly by Jesus of Nazareth, but also partly by a statue of Shiva as Nataraja). Set to the tune of the American Shaker song, "Simple Gifts".
From the performers: "The Divine World Teacher Adi Da Samraj was born on November 3, 1939. This is our gift to the Divine Person on the Anniversary of His birth."
Adi Da Samraj Darshan Slideshow poster: Mirykov length: 04:44 date added: January 23, 2013 language: English views: 2871; views this month: 13; views this week: 4
Photos of Adi Da Samraj.
The slideshow is set to the chant, "Govinda", by the Radha Krishna Temple (London 1971).
Adi Da talks about how being in the Company of a Spiritual Realizer is the best possible use of one's life, but it doesn't guarantee Realizing the Master's State, because Realization depends on the practitioner as well.
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Terry Patten Interview poster: Eivind Figenschau Skjellum length: 07:31 date added: August 2, 2014 event date: July 2014 language: English event speaker: Terry Patten views: 2375; views this month: 19; views this week: 4
Excerpt from Eivind Figenschau Skjellum's interview of Terry Patten, author and well-known teacher of Integral Spirituality.
Terry talks about the time he spent in Adi Da's Company — and the Miracle to which he can bear witness, and for which he will be forever grateful.
Scenes of the devastation created by the Valley Fire in September, 2015, in the areas near and at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California.
For more on the Valley Fire at The Mountain Of Attention, click here.
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In this excerpt from an Avataric Discourse from October 12, 2004, on Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da addresses the inevitability of death, the life of profound purpose that outshines mortality, and how living life as a sacrifice in the Divine is the key to the death process.
Sacred Sighting: April 8, 2008 poster: AdiDaVideos length: 03:38 date added: April 29, 2017 event date: April 8, 2008 language: English views: 2252; views this month: 60; views this week: 4
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.
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"La Esencia Del Camino de Adidam" ("The Essence of the Way of Adidam") is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da at Adi Da Samrajashram on April 12, 2004.
Adi Da describes why conventional religious and spiritual approaches fail to fully realize the Divine. He then summarizes, in a simple way, the practice He offers: the Reality-Way of Adidam.
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