Audios/Videos of Adi Da and Adidam:
Multi-Part Series


Adi Da


Our Audio/Video Library currently contains 46 multi-part series (3 or more parts), listed below (in decreasing order of number of parts). When no description for the entire series was available, we used the description for part 1 of the series.


series name # parts total time
audioThe Radical Truth Audio Series 22 parts 06:42:08
Radical Wisdom and Living Truth for a new global culture: An introduction to Avatar Adi Da Samraj and the Way of Adidam. For more audio clips in the series, or to subscribe to the podcast feed, visit the Adidam Podcast website.
 
videoAfter My Lifetime 18 parts 02:05:23
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.
 
videoAt the Feet of the Spiritual Master (audio) 16 parts 01:52:09
Part 1 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.

For more information about Gerald, and his life with Avatar Adi Da Samraj, please visit www.storiesofthespiritualmaster.com.
 
  1. Introduction
  2. Meeting my Heart Master
  3. The First Night
  4. Painting the Trellis
  5. The Back Room
  6. Like the Gopis with Krishna
  7. The Opening Can Wait
  8. The Vision of Love
  9. Silent Break
  10. Introduction to Avatar Adi Da Samraj
  11. Breakfast with the Divine
  12. My Father's Passing
  13. Picture Perfect
  14. Banyan Bay Samadhi
  15. The Silver Hall Divine Revelation
  16. The Five Reality Teachings
videoSelf-Understanding and Divine Communion 11 parts 01:13:09
This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

This excerpt is from a talk Adi Da gave on March 11, 1973.
 
videoThe Master Is The Means 10 parts 01:16:03
The CD, The Master Is The Means, is a compilation of talks in which Avatar Adi Da describes the spontaneous heart-response to the Spiritual Master as the great, effective, and anciently known Means of Spiritual Awakening.

By exposing the true nature of ego, and pointing out our false and limiting presumptions about Spiritual Masters, Avatar Adi Da enables a free consideration of what is truly needed to Realize the Truth of our Condition. He provides a traditional context for the purpose of His human Form here, while also communicating the utterly unique appearance and offering He Is.

Thia is track 1 from the CD.
 
videoMay You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts 10 parts 54:46
"5:05" is by Naamleela Free Jones. It is track 1 from Disc One of the double CD, May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts.

The title is a reference to the time of Avatar Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi at 5:05pm (Fiji time) on November 27, 2008.

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.
 
videoReality Is Beyond Point of View 10 parts 01:13:37
This talk excerpt is track 1 of the CD, Reality Is Beyond "Point Of View", a selection of talks by Adi Da (from the 30 years of His formal Teaching-Work) on the true nature of Reality. Brings together samples from His vast Divine Instruction relative to the true nature of Reality — as the unknowable Condition that is Always Already the Case, prior to the presumption of a separate “point of view”.

The album is available through iTunes, Spotify, and The Dawn Horse Press.

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.
 
videoThe Sanctuary Kitchen 10 parts 54:11
In keeping with Adi Da's recommendation that devotees eat a maximally raw diet [see Adi Da's Green Gorilla], Douglas Short — the head chef at First People (The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary kitchen) when this video series was made — instructs us on how to make a series of raw dishes (from beet salad to vegetable sushi to raw chocolate orange truffles), and an occasional cooked vegetarian dish (like red lentil dal soup).
 
  1. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Vegetable Sushi 1
  2. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Vegetable Sushi 2
  3. The Sanctuary Kitchen: How To Peel a Kiwi
  4. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Raw Truffles
  5. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Jicama and Fresh Mint Salad
  6. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Red Lentil Dal Soup
  7. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Salad Dressing
  8. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Joke of the Week
  9. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Joke of the Week
  10. The Sanctuary Kitchen: Quinoa Tabouli
videoScience Is A Method, Not A Philosophy 10 parts 02:18:36
This is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on December 28, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram.

This excerpt is disc two, track 1 of the double-CD, Science Is A Method, Not A Philosophy, in which Avatar Adi Da unravels present-day scientific presumptions, with great humor and penetrating insight. Adi Da reveals how scientific materialism has replaced the sacred orientation in life and indoctrinated humankind into limited belief systems, discussing common views about evolution, astronomy versus astrology, ancient religions, the expanding universe, the "language" of mathematics and shape, and more. In addition, He masterfully describes how knowledge is an effort to achieve power over nature, based on the fundamental illusion that there is such a thing as an independent (or "objective") "point of view". In this process, Avatar Adi Da calls His listeners to be free of all false authorities, and to consider the Way that perfectly transcends "point of view" itself.

The album is available through iTunes and The Dawn Horse Press.

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.
 
videoA Tribute to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj 10 parts 02:01:41
This series contains excerpts from the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him. A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.
 
  1. Adi Da's Divine Life and Work: Ruchiradama Nadikanta
  2. Slideshow: 2000-2008
  3. Testimonial from a Longtime Devotee: James Steinberg
  4. Testimonial from a Longtime Devotee: Gerald Sheinfeld
  5. Testimonial from a Longtime Devotee: Crane Kirkbride
  6. Slideshow: Remember The Mystery
  7. Growing Up as a Devotee of Adi Da: Rachel Kuhn
  8. Growing Up as a Devotee of Adi Da: Megan Anderson
  9. Image-Art Testimonial: Ben Grisso
  10. Image-Art Testimonial: Stanley Hastings
audioThe Liberating Word of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Volume 1 9 parts 01:08:53
Tracks from the free, downloadable CD, The Liberating Word of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Volume 1.
 
videoMusic from the Ballet, Not-Two Is Peace 9 parts 34:31
Music by premier Florentine composer Andrea Portera, and by Naamleela Free Jones, from the ballet, Not-Two Is Peace, performed on July 22 and 23, 2012 and March 15 and March 17, 2013.
 
  1. In the Beginning (Andrea Portera, 2012)
  2. Still Life (Andrea Portera, 2012)
  3. Ego I: self-ish-ness (Andrea Portera, 2012)
  4. Orange Light (Andrea Portera, 2012)
  5. Ego Not Eco (Andrea Portera, 2012)
  6. War: Private, Neighborhood and Global Destruction (Andrea Portera, 2012)
  7. In The Time Of Light (Naamleela Free Jones, 2012)
  8. C+T
  9. Finale (Andrea Portera, 2013)
videoThe Impulse to God-Realization 8 parts 01:08:49
An excerpt from the talk, "The Grace of Suffering", given by Adi Da on January 18, 1976.

This excerpt is track 1 of the CD, The Impulse to God-Realization, a collection of talks focusing on Adi Da's clarifying Wisdom on the Impulse to Realize God that is inherent in all beings, and His Divine Offering and Instruction on the Ultimate Means to cultivate this heart-Impulse, thereby allowing it to become the guiding force of one's entire life.

The album is available through iTunes and The Dawn Horse Press.

This selection of Talks by Avatar Adi Da Samraj focuses on His clarifying Wisdom on the Impulse (inherent in all beings) to Realize God, and His Divine Offering and Instruction on the Ultimate Means to cultivate this heart-Impulse, thereby allowing it be the guiding force of one's entire life. As Avatar Adi Da points out, the real Spiritual Process cannot be truly initiated until and unless one’s Impulse to God-Realization becomes the governing principle of one's life.

The full talk, "The Grace of Suffering", is available on the CD, The Grace of Suffering, and on DVD as Volume 2 of the 25th Anniversary DVD Series.

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.

"The Grace of Suffering" is a beautiful talk by Adi Da. But it IS very compressed, making quite a few points in a short space, and depending to a significant degree on a familiarity with Adi Da's spiritual teaching. Here are some notes that may help.

Throughout the talk, the technical term, "sadhana" (spiritual practice), is used.

Genuine spiritual practice is not about belief systems, mere rituals, or a little "peace of mind", but rather about actually locating the Divine, through the tangible Transmission of the Spiritual Master.

After a recent illness, a devotee mentions to Adi Da that he notices how the physical suffering of illness was distracting enough that he was not "able" to find Adi Da's Transmission when he is ill.

Adi Da acknowledges this, and responds with three more general points.

1. The illness didn't "make" the devotee lose the thread of practice; rather, he allowed himself to be distracted from God by the illness. When the devotee gets this, and sees how he himself is "doing" the turning away, he'll be able to "do better next time" by not turning away even when ill.

2. Until Divine Enlightenment — in other words, until there is no limit on one's spiritual practice — sadhana (spiritual practice) is always only reflecting back to devotees the remaining limits in their practice: where they are still turning away from the Divine, where they still need to become responsible for not turning away.

In the beginning, the "turning away" is very "crude": even mere physical suffering is enough to distract one from God. (If we find ourselves saying, "what do you mean, MERE physical suffering?" that definitely identifies us as spiritual beginners! :-) ) But as one grows in practice, and ceases to turn away in such a crude manner (as one becomes a "saint", "yogi", "sage", etc.), one discovers that one is still turning from the Divine at an even subtler level of the being (in the mind, the psyche, etc.)

It is only when that "turning away" has been inspected, understood, and transcended in every dimension of the being that Divine Realization occurs.

In this sense, for the genuine spiritual practitioner, physical suffering — along with every other circumstance that reveals to us our turning away from the Divine — is truly a Grace, enabling us to grow in our practice.

3. Where we are turning away is a reflection of what we are identifying with: the body, the mind, the soul, etc. (For example, if physical illness is enough to distract us from God, then the physical body is what we currently are identified with.) God-Realization only occurs when all "identities" less than God are understood and transcended.

In this sense, "there are no winners in God" — the Way is not about seeking, accomplishment, or winning, but rather about surrender to God, sacrifice of self, and ego-death. There's no "one" left to "win"! But the One Who Remains is perfectly, eternally happy.
 
videoAwaken To Brightness 7 parts 58:04
“The Brightness Will Outshine You” is track 1 on the CD, Awaken To Brightness.

This CD contains a selection of Discourses from 1974 to 1997, which cover a broad spectrum of Avatar Adi Da’s Instruction. They provide a basic introduction to His Wisdom-Teaching and include Adi Da addressing principle matters of Spiritual life.

These Talks encompass the relationship to the Spiritual Master, the principle of Attraction, what occurs in the death process, the fundamental error at the root of all seeking, the limits of conventional religion and scientific materialism, and more.
 
videoBright Reality Media Interviews 7 parts 03:15:18
Max Rykov in conversation with Demet Dayanch, a devotee of Adi Da Samraj. Demet lives in London, England. She speaks about her life as a devotee of Adi Da, her passion for writing, and how these interweave. This video is the first of two parts.

At the time of this interview (1/13/2021), Demet is the author of two books of fiction. Beauty Stone is her first book. Her new book, Aboan, has just been launched at the time of this interview.
 
videoThe Cosmic Mandala 7 parts 58:02
"The Cosmic Mandala" is a talk from 1982 in which Adi Da describes the Cosmic Mandala and how it is experienced and "seen" in the death process.

This excerpt from the talk is track 1 of the CD, The Cosmic Mandala, which is available through The Dawn Horse Press.

The transcript of this talk appears in Adi Da’s book, Easy Death.

Adi Da's Instruction is a means to understand the phenomena in the death process and to, by His Grace, transcend the mechanism of attention by which we remain bound to the limitation of experience.

Note: This video may not be available in every country.
 
videoDeath and the Purpose of Existence 7 parts 01:00:10
Adi Da recites "The Heart Of Understanding", the prologue to His autobiography, The Knee Of Listening.

This excerpt is track 1 of the CD, Death and the Purpose of Existence, a collection of talks and recitations that exemplify Avatar Adi Da’s essential Wisdom-Teaching on death and dying.

The album is available through iTunes, Microsoft, and The Dawn Horse Press.

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.
 
audioThe Divine Siddha-Method Audio Series 7 parts 32:40
Excerpts from talks by Adi Da on the 2-CD set, The Divine Siddha-Method Audio Series. Includes excerpts from "The Avon Lady", "Walking the Dog", "Money, Food, and Sex", and "Guru as Prophet". The talks on these CDs are also published in the book, My "Bright" Word.
 
  1. The Avon Lady, excerpt 1
  2. The Avon Lady, excerpt 2
  3. Walking The Dog
  4. Guru As Prophet
  5. Money, Food, and Sex
  6. I Will Do Everything
  7. Identification of the Beloved
videoThe Five Declarations of Ultimate Knowledge 7 parts 27:16
Excerpts from an Avataric Revelation Discourse given at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, later published in Reality Is All The God There Is. Adi Da offers his unique renderings of the Dharma of the great sages of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, including Gotama Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna, Shankara, and Ribhu. Rather than simply translate their teachings from available source texts, Avatar Adi Da respeaks them as one who has personally realized their truth. He reveals that the Buddhist "Nirvana" and the Advaitic "Brahman" point to the same Transcendental Condition. Avatar Adi Da’s rendering restores to these texts the profundity intended by the Spiritual Masters who created them.
 
  1. The Five Declarations: Introduction
  2. The First Declaration
  3. The Second Declaration
  4. The Third Declaration
  5. The Fourth Declaration
  6. The Fifth Declaration
  7. The Five Declarations: Epilogue
videoNaitauba Farm Crew 7 parts 48:42
During the course of His lifetime, Adi Da established Naitauba as a sacred place of pilgrimage retreat for members of Adidam from all over the world. The farm on Naitauba, which grows food for those who reside and make pilgrimage to Naitauba, is based on principles outlined in Adi Da's book, Not Two Is Peace. Through cooperative management, we aim for self-sufficiency at the local level, and through sustainable farming methods, to grow healthy food free of toxicity. This video series brings what is involved to life, by documenting the ongoing efforts and insights of the Naitauba Farm Crew. For much more, visit the Naitauba Organic Farm website.
 
  1. The Naitauba Organic Farm Crew
  2. 2011 Happenings of the Naitauba Farm Crew
  3. How We Make Compost on Naitauba
  4. How We Trim Trees on Naitauba
  5. How We Make Boards with a Chain Saw on Naitauba
  6. How We Make Honey on Naitauba
  7. 2012 Happenings of the Naitauba Farm Crew
audioNot-Two Is Peace: Recitations 7 parts 01:28:52
Renowned actor Kenneth Welsh recites selected chapters from Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace, which He wrote out of concern for humanity's plight. It contains Adi Da's essential wisdom on the root of human conflict: the limits and errors of conventional religion and politics. He points to the necessity of re-establishing human civilization based on principles of mutual trust, cooperation, tolerance, "prior unity", and the limitless participation of all humankind in transforming its own destiny.
 
videoReadings from Tasting The Moon 7 parts 01:06:32
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads excerpts from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. Her book is the story of a "no holds barred” pathway through life — from the author’s eccentric childhood, through the tumult of the 1960's, to the ashram of Adi Da Samraj, the spiritual teacher she encountered in the 70's. With disarming and raw candor, Meg recounts the ego-deaths and transformations she went through as she followed her unorthodox teacher around the globe — and to uncharted spiritual dimensions not located on the map.
 
  1. Catholic Guilt
  2. Love and Sex in the 1960s
  3. Sitting with the Guru
  4. Opera as Blessing
  5. Frustrated Fashionista
  6. Tantric Yogini Wanna Be
  7. Spiritual Satisfaction
audioRecitations from Not-Two Is Peace 7 parts 50:42
Ruchiradama Nadikanta has created a series of seven recitations from Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace, accompanied by the bansuri flute music of John Wubbenhorst. These recordings were made in Ordeal Bath Lodge at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary. Ruchiradama Nadikanta offered these recitations as a 2013 New Year's gift to everyone. Feel free to share these recitations. Adi Da wrote Not-Two Is Peace out of concern for humanity's plight. It contains Adi Da's essential wisdom on the root of human conflict: the limits and errors of conventional religion and politics. He points to the necessity of re-establishing human civilization based on principles of mutual trust, cooperation, tolerance, "prior unity", and the limitless participation of all humankind in transforming its own destiny.
 
videoScience and the Myth of Materialism 7 parts 01:10:22
Adi Da: "The world is not physical in nature; the world is psycho-physical."

This talk excerpt is track 1 of the CD, Science and the Myth of Materialism, a collection of talks from throughout the 30 years of Avatar Adi Da’s formal Teaching-Work that brings together samples from His vast Divine Instruction relative to the psycho-physical nature of the world, the limits of scientific materialism, and the Inherent Unity of Existence.

The album is available through iTunes, Microsoft, and The Dawn Horse Press.

Note: This video may not be available or viewable in every country.
 
videoJames Steinberg Interview 6 parts 01:07:35
Ed Reither of The Beezone interviews longtime devotee James Steinberg about his early life up to and including becoming a devotee of Adi Da Samraj.



 
  1. The Seeker, Meeting the Guru and the Big Gulp
  2. The Guru, The Teaching and The Lessons
  3. Experiences Are Not It
  4. The Time of Adi Da's Incarnation
  5. The Seven Schools of God Talk
  6. The Presence of the Guru
videoThe Radical Truth Video Series 6 parts 47:02
Radical Wisdom and Living Truth for a new global culture: An introduction to Avatar Adi Da Samraj and the Way of Adidam. For more video clips in the series, or to subscribe to the podcast feed, visit the Adidam Podcast website.
 
videoAttention, Mind and Ego 5 parts 01:15:47
In this video series, Beezone editor Ed Reither talks with teacher Frank Marrero about the concept of "attention" in the teachings of Adi Da Samraj.
 
  1. Attention, Mind and Ego: Introduction
  2. Attention, Mind and Ego: Free Attention
  3. Attention, Mind and Ego: Feeling-Attention
  4. Attention, Mind and Ego: the Seven Stages of Life
  5. Attention, Mind and Ego: Common Understanding
videoTasting The Moon 5 parts 26:03
Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life, by Meg Fortune McDonnell, is the story of a "no holds barred" pathway through life — from the author’s eccentric childhood, through the tumult of the 1960's, to the ashram of Adi Da Samraj, the spiritual teacher she encountered in the 70's. In this video series, Meg talks with her father, Robert McDonnell, about working together on the book. Dr. Robert McDonnell (aka "Bob" or "Dad") is a Shakespeare scholar and former professor of English Literature, as well as a family therapist. He has compiled and edited five books of literary criticism (including King Lear: Text, Sources, Criticism), prior to his work on Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life.
 
videoThe Ultimate Outshining of Death 5 parts 43:44
Adi Da Samraj talks about the pain of loss, and about liberation. This is in response to a devotee's question about the Devotional Prayer Of Changes and the death of the devotee's grandchild.

This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Outshining of Death.
 
videoBeyond The Illusion 4 parts 22:59
In this video series, Toni Vidor tells stories from her long and unusual life. As the eldest child of film director King Vidor and actress Eleanor Boardman, Toni grew up amidst the glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Era. After college, she rejected the life offered by her parents’ wealth and fame. From the late 1940's to the early seventies, she was an equestrian, healer, as well as a pioneer of alternative living. During this time, a process awakened in her that triggered a steady stream of psychic phenomena, some ecstatic, others terrifying. She became a spiritual seeker and met a dazzling array of teachers, none of whom satisfied her thirst for spiritual truth, until she found her Spiritual Master, Adi Da Samraj. For much more aboout Toni's life and her relationship with her Spiritual Master, Adi Da, read her book, Beyond The Illusion.
 
  1. First Meeting with Adi Da
  2. The Search for the Elusive Mercury Bead
  3. Adi Da's Love for Non-Humans
  4. A Lesson about Healing
videoCyclone Tomas Relief Fund for Naitauba Island, Fiji 4 parts 08:36
Clips of Cyclone Tomas in action on Naitauba, in mid-March, 2010, wreaking unprecedented destruction to this sacred island. Stories by residents. To learn more, and to help, visit the Cyclone Tomas Relief Fund site.
 
videoDeath Is a Living Process 4 parts 45:36
Adi Da recites "The Heart of Understanding", the Prologue to His autobiography, The Knee Of Listening. "The Heart of Understanding" also is the Prologue to His book, Easy Death.

The recitation is accompanied by photos of Adi Da.

"The Heart of Understanding" is extraordinarily good news: death itself can be transcended! The death of the body-mind is not a problem, and is utterly acceptable, if one realizes and stands as Consciousness Itself, in which all mortal forms and limited worlds are arising.

In the final words of "The Heart of Understanding", Adi Da reveals that He is That: Consciousness Itself. Because this is so, He transmits that Revelation to all beings, and provides (and is) the means whereby all of us finally can be free of mortality and the mortal vision.

This excerpt is track 1 of the CD, Death and the Purpose of Existence, a collection of talks and recitations that exemplify Avatar Adi Da’s essential Wisdom-Teaching on death and dying.

The album is available through iTunes, Microsoft, and The Dawn Horse Press.
 
  1. The Heart of Understanding
  2. How To Serve A Dying Person
  3. Death Is A Living Process
  4. Serving My Mother's Death
videoEuropean Danda Retreat March 2012 4 parts 18:22
Videos of the March, 2012 Retreat at The European Danda. Includes James Steinberg (the retreat host) telling a couple of incredible (and humorous) stories about Adi Da's extraordinary Spiritual Power; and Tilly, talking about the virtues of growing up in the Adidam culture. For future retreats, visit our Special Events section.
 
  1. I Must Be Psychic!
  2. Growing Up as a Devotee of Adi Da
  3. The Secret of Practice
  4. Staying In Relationship to Bhagavan
videoMy Life with Adi Da Samraj 4 parts 36:08
Longtime devotee Aniello Panico tells the story of his first encounter with Adi Da Samraj, in 1972, at the Melrose Ashram in Los Angeles.

For more stories and videos from Aniello, click here.
 
  1. My First Encounter with Adi Da Samraj
  2. My Earliest Times With Adi Da
  3. Adi Da Blesses My Mother
  4. Adi Da and the Passing of My Son
videoReality, Truth and Conscious Light 4 parts 26:55
Adi Da's entire human lifetime was a unique demonstration of His Eternal Form — the State He calls the "Bright", the Conscious Light that is Reality Itself.

From His birth on November 3, 1939 on Long Island in New York, to His passing from the body on November 27, 2008, on the Island of Naitauba, Fiji, His Life is the story of the Intervention of the "Bright" in human time.

The fruits of Avatar Adi Da's Lifetime are the establishment of a new and unique possibility for the transformation of all beings and the world itself. His Revelation is of the Divine Reality, which is always Shining — like the sun — as the Prior Condition of every one and every thing.
 
  1. An Introduction to Avatar Adi Da Samraj
  2. Why One Needs A Teacher
  3. The True Nature of Reality
  4. Sacred Sighting
videoSurrender of self Is A Koan 4 parts 42:05
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 1 on the DVD, Surrender of self Is A Koan.

In this excerpt, Avatar Adi Da speaks directly and humorously to a beginner who assumes her lack of devotional self-surrender is a "problem", rather than a process. He contrasts the beginner's necessarily muscular, “tear your guts out”, tapas-filled practice of relatively superficial surrender (counter-egoically cutting into lifetimes of self-possession) with the mature devotee's spontaneous, profound, and complete surrender. A central principle of the process is “just do it” persistence.
 
  1. True Surrender Is Not a Problem
  2. There Is No One To Surrender
  3. The Relationship With the Spiritual Master Makes Surrender Possible
  4. Remember The Mystery in Which You Live
videoThe Third Stage of Life 4 parts 01:27:17
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the third stage of life, developing during the ages of 14 and 21, as taught by Adi Da Samraj.

The third stage is life is the ongoing maturity from adolescence to adulthood or full maturity with the development of conceptual abstract mind and the psychic dimension of existence. There is also discussion of the frontal personality of the psycho physical being.

See also the book, The First Three Stages Of Life.

This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.

An overall description of the seven stages of life as presented in this webinar can be found here.
 
videoThe Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life 4 parts 36:14
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.
 
  1. You Don't Love Me
  2. Adi Da Speaks to a Young Devotee about How to Love
  3. Sex Is Fundamental ego-Identity
  4. What Is Doubt?
videoDivine Love 3 parts 24:44
In part one of this three-part series, 20 year-old Max Rykov describes first hearing about Avatar Adi Da Samraj and how Beloved Adi Da began to manifest in his life.

More from Max here.
 
videoThe Fire Must Have Its Way 3 parts 38:30
This is an excerpt from the longer talk, "The Fire Must Have Its Way". The full talk is available on the DVD, The Fire Must Have Its Way, on which this is track 1. It is also available as a CD. The talk also appears in written form in the book, My "Bright" Sight and online here.

The bottom line: If you want to feel good, you have to learn how to feel good!

ADI DA: Somehow in the midst of this round of existence you realize that you can feel a lot better than you now feel, that you can feel absolutely blissful, that you can love absolutely, that you can be absolutely free. But feeling blissful stands in contrast to your common state. You are addicted to reactive emotion, low levels of energy, gross fixations of attention, psycho-physical obstruction. You are addicted to countless programs that are less than love. In every moment your attention is moving toward one or another object, and your feeling in every moment is an expression of the program of mind into which you are locked in that moment.

Now, what have you learned in your whole life? Have you learned to feel perfectly? To feel absolutely? Did you ever go through a period of study in which you learned to feel to Infinity, to feel Absolute Divinity? No, you learned all the reactive patterns of life, all the desires for ordinary things. You knew them even before you became familiar with them again in this body. You cannot feel any better than you can feel, and you are addicted to feeling less than love, to being less than ecstasy.
 
  1. Have You Learned To Feel Perfectly?
  2. Live In The Fire and Be Purified
  3. There Is No Light Without Fire
videoThe First Stage of Life 3 parts 33:19
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the first stage of life (conception to 7 years of age), as taught by Adi Da Samraj.

They discuss the first stage of life misadaptation to constantly be seeking pleasure and the admonition of Adi Da Samraj to discipline the body, transcending patterns and thus allowing the body to live in the pleasure dome of natural life force energy without abberation.

More information on the disciplines as recommended by Adi Da Samraj can be found here.

See also the book, The First Three Stages Of Life.

This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.
 
audioThe Gnosticon Discourse Series 3 parts 25:31
This is a track from the CD, The Ribhu Gita, the first volume in The Gnosticon Discourse Series from the Dawn Horse Press.

In a historic occasion at Walk About Joy (near Tat Sundaram Hermitage) on December 11, 2005, Avatar Adi Da Samraj reads His own renderings of portions of the epitome Non-dualist text, The Ribhu Gita. He then offers illuminating Instruction on the specific distinctions between the revelation communicated in this great text and the “Perfect Practice” of Adidam.

The collection of Avatar Adi Da’s renderings and related discourses became the seed of His book, The Gnosticon, in which He thoroughly examines the Transcendental Teachings of the ancient Sages in relation to His Transcendental Spiritual Way of Adidam.
 
videoThe Second Stage of Life 3 parts 40:12
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the second stage of life (age 7 to 14), as taught by Adi Da Samraj.

The second stage is life is an expansion from the more physical aspects of development to the feeling/emotional/socialization aspects of life and the discussion moves around teaching children and adults to understand their development through this stage of life and how to mature with it.

More information on children and use of the teachings of Adi Da Samraj in childrearing can be found here.

See also the book, The First Three Stages Of Life.

This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.
 
videoThe Seventh Stage of Life 3 parts 33:39
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the seventh stage of life, as taught by Adi Da Samraj.

This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.

An overall description of the seven stages of life as presented in this webinar can be found here.
 
videoThe Sixth Stage of Life 3 parts 44:09
Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the fifth stage of life, as taught by Adi Da Samraj.

This video is part of a more comprehensive video webinar on the seven stages of life. An introduction and index to all the videos in the webinar can be found here.

An overall description of the seven stages of life as presented in this webinar can be found here.
 
videoTransmitting Truth through Dance 3 parts 28:38
"Ego Act" is a dance based on Adi Da's wisdom about the nature of egoity, or, Adi Da describes it, "the fundamental activity of self-contraction, or the presumption of separate and separative existence".

Choreographer/Dancer: Tom Evert
Music: George Crumb (as interpreted by The Kronos Quartet)
Costume Design: Raymond Zander III
Props: Tom Evert
"Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson

© 2012 Dancevert
 
  1. Ego Act
  2. Satsang
  3. True Water

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