poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 23:52 date added: October 4, 2010 event date: 2008 language: English listens: 7554; listens this month: 19; listens this week: 2
On November 27, 2008, Adi Da Samraj passed from His body in His Hermitage Sanctuary in Fiji. This extended podcast includes:
* a chronicle of His passing;
* 8:37: an audio excerpt from a talk Adi Da gave in 1995, in which He spoke about His physical death and the continuation of His spiritual and world work;
* 16:43: continuation of the chronicle of His passing. Interviews with devotees who made the pilgrimage to Naitauba shortly after Adi Da's passing.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 16:40 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: 2005 language: English listens: 5179; listens this month: 10; listens this week: 3
In this excerpt (from an Avataric Discourse from 2005), a devotee asks Adi Da a question about the nature of the ego and what is causing the sense of self-separation. In response, Adi Da describes how the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of anything. Our own activity (of separating from the Divine) causes the assumption of separation.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 09:45 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: January 21, 2005 language: English listens: 7076; listens this month: 15; listens this week: 7
In this talk excerpt, Adi Da addresses the fact that Truth or God-Realization is not dependent on, nor does it have anything to do with, the functions and activities of the body-mind. It cannot be achieved through sex, science, or even religion.
This excerpt is from the DVD, Beyond Sex, Science and "self". Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew. Also available as a CD.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 10:25 date added: October 5, 2010 event date: April 1986 language: English listens: 8041; listens this month: 23; listens this week: 4
In this historical recording from April, 1986, Adi Da Samraj recites the final section of His Love-Ananda Gita (now called The Lion Sutra and published in Part 15 of The Aletheon). In it, Adi Da communicates His most "radical" transcendental teaching regarding true renunciation of the egoic motive of separation and Realization of the Divine Self-Condition.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 20:18 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: 1986 language: English listens: 3965; listens this month: 7; listens this week: 1
In this excerpt (from a talk Adi Da gave in Holland in 1986), Adi Da describes how doubt is not ultimately a sign that we have been "betrayed" in some way. The radical solution to doubt is to identify with the Divine Itself, beyond the temporary cycles of the body and mind and beyond the sense of being a separate self.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:57 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: February 1, 1985 language: English listens: 4011; listens this month: 9; listens this week: 5
In this talk (from Feb. 1, 1985), Adi Da describes what actually happens during and after the death process. While we survive death, that fact is of no consolation. At death, there is the falling off of the physical body, but the mind, psyche, and personality created and reinforced during one's life (and previous lifetimes) continue. Without the anchor of the body, we drift aimlessly into the disturbances of mind and psyche that remain. Therefore, what occurs after death is directly associated with what one does in life.
This talk is also published as "This Liberating Impulse" in the book, Easy Death.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:05 date added: October 5, 2010 event date: May 31, 1980 language: English listens: 3962; listens this month: 9; listens this week: 2
In this discourse from May 31, 1980, a student of Avatar Adi Da asks Him for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da responds both with compassion and also with very practical advice.
[The recording of Adi Da's voice is slightly distorted, but understandable.]
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:45 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: 1978 language: English listens: 6187; listens this month: 8; listens this week: 2
In this talk from 1978, Adi Da notes that cultism is rooted in the childish need to believe and to depend on a person, group, myth, or symbol — without assuming responsibility for oneself. He then points out that the tendency to create a cult (of whatever kind) is present in everyone, every level of human society and culture. Adi Da criticizes the tendency toward cultism in the world at large and within His community of devotees. He calls His devotees to understand and relinquish all modes of false and childish dependency on Him as a Spiritual Master, and to make only the most serious and mature approach to Him, for the great purpose of Spiritual Awakening and Divine Enlightenment.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 11:00 date added: October 5, 2010 event date: 1977 language: English listens: 3722; listens this month: 6; listens this week: 4
This podcast is an excerpt from a 1977 discourse, in which Adi Da responds to a devotee's question about the difficulty — and apparent inability — to love.
[Note: there is nothing further on the audio clip after 11:00.]
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 20:50 date added: October 5, 2010 event date: 1976 language: English listens: 9301; listens this month: 10; listens this week: 6
Adi Da Samraj communicates his "Bright" Realization and the purpose of His liberating work through poems He wrote between 1971 and 1976, published in the book, Crazy Da Must Sing.
On August 12, 1982 (two weeks after writing the last poem), Adi Da read aloud the collected poems from Crazy Da Must Sing to a group of His devotees in a single session. His recitations of some of those poems are included in this podcast. A recording of the entire occasion (with His reading of all the poems) is available on this CD from the Dawn Horse Press.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 25:49 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 7011; listens this month: 16; listens this week: 5
In an excerpt from His historic talk from 1972, "Money, Food, and Sex" (now published in My "Bright" Word), Adi Da addresses the dilemma those taking up "spiritual life" encounter when bringing discipline to the areas of money, food, and sex.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 19:02 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 5422; listens this month: 18; listens this week: 6
This podcast is drawn from two talks.
In the first excerpt (from the talk, What Is Your Intention?), Adi Da speaks of the indispensable need for a true and fully accomplished Spiritual Realizer if anyone hopes to discover the ultimate nature of Reality and Truth.
In the second excerpt (at 8:40), Adi Da explains the true way of recognizing Him, the Spiritual Master, and how it is that felt recognition that ultimately becomes the Way of Perfect Liberation.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 16:53 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4882; listens this month: 7; listens this week: 3
Adi Da Samraj responds to a question from a devotee who had lost a grandchild and was asking for some understanding that might ease his sorrow. Adi Da describes how there is no answer to the pain of loss, except for Divine Realization.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 34:44 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 5477; listens this month: 14; listens this week: 4
This podcast is drawn from two talks.
In the first excerpt (from 1985), Adi Da describes how the habits of attention, while alive, determine what happens in and after death. He dispels the myth, "When you die, you go to heaven." He gives a clear picture of how the death process works, and why spiritual life is absolutely necessary in serving that process.
In the second excerpt (at 12:55), devotee Carolyn Lee relates a wonderful story from 1983. While in Adi Da's physical Company in Fiji (five hours from any hospital), a devotee has a near-fatal accident. For the full (text) version of this story, read A Devotee's Journey into Death and Back.
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