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Our multimedia library currently contains 1,204 YouTube video clips and audio clips about (or related to) Adi Da and Adidam.[1] Enjoy! videoindicates a video, and audio an audio. Special categories of interest include:
   
   
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Musical Tribute to Sri Adi Da Samrajvideo
poster: Mahesh Vinayakram
length: 07:31
date added: April 2, 2024 New
language: English
views: 570; views this month: 570; views this week: 60
A musical tribute to Sri Adi Da Samraj by Mahesh Vinayakram.

Mahesh Vinayakram is a leading Carnatic vocalist and a UNESCO Millennium Award winner. In 2016, Mahesh was the first Indian male singer to be cast by Cirque du Soleil. He has also sung in Bollywood and Hollywood movies. He has travelled extensively to various countries to collaborate with world class artists like Ustad Zakir Hussain, drummer Steve Smith, world percussionist Pete Lockett, composer A.R. Rahman, and many others. He has released many albums, which are available in all major online stores.
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music  

Adidamin Tie ei perustu uskomuksiinvideo
poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi
length: 08:22
date added: April 1, 2024 New
event date: October 20, 2004
language: Finnish
views: 404; views this month: 404; 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.]

Tässä otteessa puheesta vuodelta 2004, Avatar Adi Da käsittelee sitä, että Adidam Ruchiradamin Todellisuus-Tie ei perustu uskomuksiin tai tekniikoihin, jotka tavoittelevat itsensä parantamista, hallintaa tai toteutusta "lopputuloksena". Sen sijaan, vaistonomainen tai sanaton tunnistus Avatar Adi Da Samrajin Olotilasta annetaan heti, kun yhteys Häneen muodostuu. Siitä lähtien, Tie avautuu itsensä todistavana heräämisprosessina, joka paljastuu joka hetkellä, kun olento tunnistaa Adi Dan Jumalaisen Läsnäolon ja Tilan. Sen pohjalta yksilö liikuttuu kääntymään sydämellään Avatar Adi Dan puoleen Tietoisen Valon Vapauttavana Olentona ja Läsnäolona.

This video excerpt, "Adidamin Tie ei perustu uskomuksiin" ("The Way of Adidam Is Not About Beliefs") is from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da Samraj at Adi Da Samrajashram, on October 20, 2004.

In this excerpt, Avatar Adi Da speaks to the fact that The Reality Way of Adidam Ruchiradam is not a system of beliefs or techniques for seeking self-improvement, mastery, or realization as an “end result”. Rather, intuitive or tacit recognition of Avatar Adi Da’s State of Being is given from the initial contact with Him. From then, the Way unfolds as a self-authenticating process of awakening that is revealed in each moment of recognition of Adi Da’s Divine Presence and State. On that basis, one is heart-moved to turn to Avatar Adi Da as the Liberating Being and Presence of Conscious Light.
tags:
Finnish   Avataric Discourse  

Prepare for Death by How You Livevideo
Track 2 of The Ultimate Outshining of Death

poster: CDBaby
length: 10:56
date added: April 4, 2024 New
event date: 2004
language: English
views: 144; views this month: 144; views this week: 40
This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Outshining of Death.
tags:
CD   Avataric Discourse  

Real self-Understanding Is Right Nowvideo
poster: AdiDaUpClose
length: 03:47
date added: July 12, 2022
event date: April 8, 1993
language: English
views: 1410; views this month: 138; views this week: 33
This is an excerpt from track 1 of the CD, Real self-Understanding Is Right Now, available from The Dawn Horse Press.

On the CD is a seminal Discourse on self-understanding given by Adi Da on April 8, 1993. In this Discourse, Adi Da calls all those inclined to Realize True Freedom to first recognize the failure of their search — which is based on the illusion of separation. Rather than engaging the ordinary pursuit of union with all others and things from which we feel separate, Avatar Adi Da says we must find out that our inherent Condition is one of Perfect Non-separation.

ADI DA: You are doing this contraction. The stress you say you are feeling is the result of that. . . The more you feel that you yourself are doing it, the more it relaxes. . . You are, as it relaxes, directly surrendered, truly forgetting yourself, entering into the Field of Non-Separateness — which is My Very Nature, Condition, Sign, Demonstration, Transmission.
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CD  

Inaugurazione della Mostra - Museo del Bargello Firenze, Italiavideo
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
length: 07:20
date added: April 15, 2021
event date: 2015
language: Italian
event speakers: Tommaso Sacchi, Michael Fleck, Francesca Faggi, Pien Rademakers, Christina Acidini, Giuliano Serafini, Serena Croce
views: 894; views this month: 118; views this week: 82
[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.]

Opening night gala (July 9, 2015) for Adi Da Samraj, “The Ascent of Orpheus” exhibition at the Bargello National Museum, Florence. Includes opening events and interviews.

For more information about the exhibition, click here or visit the website for the exhibit (from web designer, Chris Tong).
tags:
Image-Art   Italian  

Adi Da: His Unique Offeringvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 08:14
date added: April 1, 2023
language: English
event speaker: Vanessa Kenoyer
views: 524; views this month: 110; views this week: 4
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."

You Don't Love Mevideo
part 1 of The Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 08:47
date added: March 25, 2017
language: English
views: 4124; views this month: 108; views this week: 3
An audio excerpt from Adi Da Samraj's early talk, "Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity", accompanied by more recent photos of Adi Da.

Adi Da: "When we look out into the universe we feel insulted, rejected, unloved. And so we make philosophy out of our apparent independence. Fundamentally, it is not our experiences in particular relationships that tell us we are not loved. Some people do not love us, surely, but nevertheless we are simply, always, and already philosophically disposed to believe that we are not loved. It is our interpretation of existence, not on the basis of any relational experience we have had with other human beings, but on the basis of our apparent independence itself. Our sense of independent bodily existence means separation to us, whereas, you see, it is really only the sense of independent bodily existence. When you become strong — if you ever can become truly strong — autonomous, able to take a deep breath, then you stop interpreting the universe as a form of rejection, as a great parent from whose company you have been expelled, under whose domination you live, who has rejected you and does not love you. Everyone is simply born into the conventional condition of independence and everyone interprets that condition as rejection, as 'you don't love me.' "

"Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity" is available as a CD here. A transcript is also available online and as a chapter in the book, The Yoga Of Right Diet.

The Relationship With the Spiritual Master Makes Surrender Possiblevideo
part 3 of Surrender of self Is A Koan

poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 12:38
date added: April 5, 2020
event date: October 28, 1978
language: English
views: 1282; views this month: 102; views this week: 1
From a question and answer session with Adi Da on October 28, 1978, in Land Bridge Pavilion at the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California. This is track 3 on the DVD, Surrender of self Is A Koan.

In this excerpt, Adi Da addresses the fact that although the struggle and distractions in the early stages of spiritual practice are great, there is also great help in the relationship with the Spiritual Master. Attention to all of the ups and downs of the body-mind can be transcended and surrendered through that relationship.
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DVD  

No One Like Me Has Appeared In This Place Beforevideo
disc two, track 1 of After My Lifetime

poster: CDBaby
length: 01:03
date added: November 6, 2018
event date: August 12, 1982
language: English
views: 2829; views this month: 88; views this week: 5
This is Poem 24 from Adi Da's book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing—Inclined to His Weaker Side. It was recited by Adi Da on August 12, 1982, at Da Love-Ananda Mahal in Kauai, Hawaii.

No one like me has appeared in this place before.
Am I only to live and die,
and thus feed the earth?
Should I only live and die,
and thus create the mystery of a holy ground?
Will generations pass this place
of my dilemmas,
feel the movements under foot
and never know the reasons
and the meaning
of the currents of bliss that fill them?
Will the earth itself
perform my only shout?
Will the rot of my few bodies
be my only song?
Will no one understand?
Will all of this,
even the holy ground,
fall unknown into the sea,
without a parcel of my living left
to heal the feet of pilgrims?
No one else can suffer the mysteries of my birth
or death.
And only my own children
can build a temple
where I rise and fall.

This recitation is disc two, track 1 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.

The entire August 12, 1982 occasion where Adi Da recited all the poems from Crazy Da Must Sing can be heard on this CD.

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   poem  
comments: 1

Translation into the Divine Domainvideo
Track 5 of The Ultimate Outshining of Death

poster: CDBaby
length: 12:16
date added: April 5, 2024 New
event date: 2004
language: English
views: 83; views this month: 83; views this week: 14
This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Outshining of Death.
tags:
CD   Avataric Discourse  

Recognizing Adi Da as the Divine: Stories from Devoteesvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 16:32
date added: August 12, 2021
language: English
event speakers: Miki Malinka, Greg Wells, Claire Murdoch, David Rosen, Nara Wood, Evelyn Selig, Lisa Lurie
views: 579; views this month: 58; views this week: 53
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.

Inhimillinen menetys ja suruvideo
poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi
length: 15:14
date added: March 5, 2024 New
event date: October 3, 2004
language: Finnish
views: 460; views this month: 57; views this week: 8
[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.]

Adi Da vastaa myötätuntoisesti radikaalista näkökulmastaan omistautujalle, jonka lapsenlapsi on kuollut.

In this video excerpt, "Die Freiheit von allem Verlust" ("The Liberation From All Loss"), Adi Da Samraj talks about the pain of loss, and about liberation. This is His compassionate response to a devotee's question about the Devotional Prayer Of Changes and the death of the devotee's grandchild.

This video excerpt is from the DVD, Easy Death. Subtitles in English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew.
tags:
death   Devotional Prayer of Changes   DVD   Avataric Discourse   Finnish  

What Is Doubt?video
part 4 of The Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 13:25
date added: March 26, 2017
event date: July 20, 1986
language: English
views: 3382; views this month: 56; views this week: 4
In 1986, Adi Da made His first visit to the European community of His devotees. He travelled through England, France and Holland. In the South of Holland, in the village of Maria Hoop close to the German border, a former Catholic monastery was found which could be rented for a few weeks. Devotees swiftly cleaned buildings and the grounds. Adi Da stayed in a specially prepared wing of the monastery for several days. During this time, He granted Darshan and held "Question and Answer" occasions in the chapel (now called Adi Da Kapel) with German, English, Dutch, French and American devotees. The former monastery has since been acquired by the European community of Adidam and is now known as The European Danda.

In this rare excerpt from one of the "Question and Answer" occasions, Adi Da addresses the primal human emotion of doubt in a most direct and simple manner. He 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.

The Sunshine Makersvideo
poster: frizz lefryd
length: 07:43
date added: May 8, 2010
language: English
views: 10739; views this month: 55; views this week: 10
One of Adi Da's favorite cartoons, "The Sunshine Makers" is a classic from the golden age of animation. Released on January 11, 1935 (an auspicious day of the year, in the sacred calendar of Adidam), the cartoon was directed by Ted Eshbaugh, the first artist/technician to figure out how to create animated cartoons in color. This restored print is the highest quality available, and is from the DVD, Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parade Cartoons.
tags:
cartoon   animation  
comments: 14

Where is Heaven?video
poster: Mormon Transhumanist Association
length: 41:02
date added: July 4, 2014
event date: May 10, 2014
language: English
event speaker: Mike LaTorra
views: 7210; views this month: 55; views this week: 13
A video of the talk, "Where is Heaven?", by devotee, professor, and Zen Abbot Michael LaTorra - one of 14 talks by speakers of different religious faiths at the Religion and Transhumanism Conference in Oakland, California, on May 10, 2014. This conference was co-sponsored by the Brighter Brains Institute and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and videoed by the Mormon Transhumanist Association.

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Thanks to the many videographers who took the footage, to the many editors who created these videos and audios, and to the 132 people and organizations who posted these videos and audios on YouTube and other places on the Web. Special thanks to Lynne Thompson, who did a lot of the data entry for our audio/video database.


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