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The Dual Sensitivity That Moves The Heart (excerpt)– Two Discourses Given by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj on June 20 and 21, 1995. A 2-CD Set from the Dawn Horse Press.

Excerpt from Disc One (entitled "The Dual Sensitivity At The Origin of The Divine Way of Adidam").

In these two exquisite Discourses, recorded over two consecutive nights on the island of Naitauba in Fiji, Avatar Adi Da Communicated essential Instruction on what He calls the "dual sensitivity" — or the simultaneous sensitivity to the suffering of mortal existence and to the heart’s impulse toward True Happiness.

On the first night, Avatar Adi Da spoke with His devotees about how they distract themselves from mortality by fixating on passing pleasures and self-fulfillment, in their relationships and in ordinary life altogether — and how this effort suppresses the heart’s impulse to True Happiness.

On the second night, Avatar Adi Da discussed how the tradition of Buddhism is characterized by the sensitivity to the mortal condition, and the tradition of Advaitism is characterized by sensitivity to the heart’s impulse to Realize the Happiness beyond conditional existence. Through this in-depth analysis, Avatar Adi Da also clarifies the sympathetic likenesses between these traditions and the Reality-Way of Adidam, and simultaneously clarifies the unique "dual sensitivity" that is fundamental to the Reality-Way of Adidam.

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It was common during Adi Da's lifetime for His devotees to offer musical performances to Him as gifts of their gratitude and love. This video excerpt form 2013, five years after His Bodily passing, includes a variety of music, including traditional Indian chanting, a choral rendition and adaption of Beethoven's Ode to Joy and even gospel music! We offer this excerpt in this world-wide season of celebration and gratitude for the unity of humankind.

This video clip features performances from many devotees, including Mel McMurrin singing "Mary Don’t You Weep", Crane Kirkbride ("Ode to Divine Joy"), the voices of the Adidam Choir, and the piano-playing of Naamleela Free Jones. You can also hear the Choir singing devotee and Billboard Award-winning composer Ray Lynch's song, "This Is the Great Gift".

Available as a CD, Ode To Divine Joy, from the Dawn Horse Press.

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Testimonials from people who have attended the "Awakened To Brightness" Retreats.

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Adi Da addresses the "do-it-yourself" approach to spirituality that is popular in the world today, and speaks about why a teacher/Realizer is necessary.

Video includes a Sacred Sighting of Adi Da (recorded July 18, 2008, at Adi Da Samrajashram), beginning at 1:30.

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A brief overview of the many forms of Wisdom, Blessing, and Agency that Avatar Adi Da has made available to all beings for all time, including His written Teaching, His Transcendental Image-Art, His Empowered Sanctuaries, and most especially, His Eternal Presence, which is as potent after His lifetime as during His lifetime, making God-Realization possible for all, for all time.

A recording of Adi Da speaking begins at 1:15.

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A devotee of Avatar Adi Da speaks about His Unique Offering and how it differs from other approaches. In an excerpt from one of His essays, "There Is A Way And Reality Itself Is It" (in The Aletheon), Adi Da states: "What I Bring to here is not mythology. What I Bring to here is not ‘religion’. What I Bring to here is not anything that human beings already ‘know’. What I Bring to here is not a path or a search that is already evident in the history of the Great Tradition of humankind. What I Bring to here has never been offered before, never heard of before, never practiced before."

In this excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given on September 18, 2004, at Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da points out that all fear is fear of death or extinction. This fear is like a constant background noise, from which we constantly try to distract ourselves with the games of life. Adi Da describes the choice we face: to live in fear, the "native mood of the ego" — or to realize the profundity of the “inherently fearless condition”.

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In this discourse excerpt entitled "The Body Arises in a Universal Field", Avatar Adi Da examines our mistaken belief that we are a separate "me". He reveals our true nature as being one with the Divine Life Force that pervades us.

A simple description of how the Guru/devotee relationship works and is activated. For a free screening of the online film, Conscious Light: The Divine Life Light and Revelation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, click here.

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This video features leelas (stories) from several devotees about their awakened recognition of Adi Da's Divine State of Being and of their reception of His Divine Spiritual Blessing Presence. Leelas from: Miki Malinka, Greg Wells, Claire Murdoch, David Rosen, Nara Wood, Evelyn Selig, and Lisa Lurie.

"You Must Know The Place You Are In" is a video excerpt from the award-winning documentary, Conscious Light, about the life and work of Adi Da Samraj.

Drawing on an extensive archival collection of film, photography, and audio recordings, as well as interviews with students who have lived with Adi Da and who practice His teachings, Conscious Light takes the viewer on a journey from Adi Da's birth, through His thirty-six years of Teaching and Blessing, to the legacy and spiritual relationship that is eternally available to all after His passing.

For more information and screening locations, visit the Conscious Light website.

Conscious Light is also available as a DVD from the Dawn Horse Press.

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For the first time, on April 25, 1972, Avatar Adi Da Samraj invited people to approach Him as Spiritual Teacher at His new ashram center on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. That evening, Avatar Adi Da first sat in silence for perhaps an hour with those present, Transmitting to them the Sublimity of His Radiant State of Realization. Then, Adi Da spoke.

ADI DA: Are there any questions?

No one replied, so Avatar Adi Da Samraj spoke again.

ADI DA: Everyone has understood?
QUESTIONER: I have not understood. Explain it to me.
ADI DA: Very good. What have you not understood?

And so began Adi Da's Teaching Work.

From a 2004 Avataric Discourse. Avatar Adi Da communicates both verbally and through bodily gestures that the assumption of a separate self or ego self is an illusion and not the truth of Reality itself.

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A devotee confesses to Adi Da that, when he reads Adi Da's Teaching, he feels a direct Transmission from Adi Da Himself. Adi Da then talks about how His Teaching Word is a form of Spiritual Transmission, that enables Divine Communion with Him (if the devotee is in the right devotional disposition), in the same way that a Murti photograph does, or any of the other forms of Agency that Adi Da has created for this purpose.

For more on this subject, read our section, The Mantric Force of Adi Da's Word.


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In this excerpt from "Reality, Truth and Conscious Light", Adi Da addresses the need for the Adept Realizer and how this ancient relationship has been at the core of all great religious traditions.

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