Beyond the Familiar (video)


This is Episode 4 of the 6-part series, The Radical Truth Video Series:
Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6
Total length: 47:02
 
Beyond the Familiar   Adi Da Samraj discusses the notion of familiarity and its transcendence in the Way of Adidam.

This is an excerpt from a longer evening of consideration with Adi Da (October 29, 2004), which can be found on the DVD, The Illusion of Familiarity.

This talk excerpt is followed by a clip of Darshan of Adi Da (at 5:53).

Avataric Discourses. From mid-2004 to early 2006, Avatar Adi Da offered a unique series of Discourses, broadcast live over the Internet to His devotees worldwide. During these occasions, Avatar Adi Da answered questions from those present in the room with Him, but also from devotees all over the world via speakerphone. As He had always done, even from the beginning of His Teaching Work, Avatar Adi Da addressed each devotee personally, but was also Instructing all beings, in all times and places. Many of these Discourses are available as DVDs and CDs from The Dawn Horse Press.

"Radical" Truth Video Series. This video clip is part of the "Radical" Truth Video Series. For more video clips in the series, or to subscribe to the podcast feed, visit the Adidam Podcast website.

Darshan (or Sacred Sighting of the Guru) is a particularly potent occasion in which devotees focus on the Divine Revelation that Adi Da is Spiritually Transmitting. (A video recording like this one, of a Darshan occasion, also Spiritually Transmits.) The occasion is usually silent, but is occasionally accompanied by devotees chanting. In some occasions, you may see Adi Da scanning above the heads of the devotees present, working to draw His Divine Light down into each devotee. (ADI DA: "I am alive as Amrita Nadi, the Heart and its spire, the 'Bright' or Conscious Light. This is always so. When I come to you, I Intensify the Field of Brightness, the field of uncreated Light that rests above your head and which is drawn down into the body when the mind is formless in the Heart. Whenever I have been with you I have done this from the Heart. The communication of the Heart and its Light are my constant practice.") You may also hear devotees blowing the sacred conch, at the beginning and end of a Darshan occasion, to let everyone know of the Sighting of the Guru. Often, near the end of an occasion, Adi Da will bless a bowl of prasad (often dates, or something similar that is sweet and edible), which is then distributed to everyone present. At the end of a Darshan occasion, you may also see devotees prostrating on the ground in gratitude for the Revelation their Guru just granted them. Adi Da describes Darshan as "the fundamental principle" of Spiritual Realization in this video talk excerpt. Over time, through constant meditation on the Revelation being transmitted by the Realizer, The Realizer's Realization is duplicated in the devotee.
Poster: AdidamVideos   Post Date: February 1, 2009
Length: 07:24   Views: 6441   Views This Month: 19   Views This Week: 6
Event Date: October 29, 2004
Language: English
Tags:
Darshan   DVD   Avataric Discourse   Radical Truth Video Series  



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Beyond the Familiar (video)


This is Episode 4 of the 6-part series, The Radical Truth Video Series:
Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6
Total length: 47:02
 
Beyond the Familiar   Adi Da Samraj discusses the notion of familiarity and its transcendence in the Way of Adidam.

This is an excerpt from a longer evening of consideration with Adi Da (October 29, 2004), which can be found on the DVD, The Illusion of Familiarity.

This talk excerpt is followed by a clip of Darshan of Adi Da (at 5:53).

Avataric Discourses. From mid-2004 to early 2006, Avatar Adi Da offered a unique series of Discourses, broadcast live over the Internet to His devotees worldwide. During these occasions, Avatar Adi Da answered questions from those present in the room with Him, but also from devotees all over the world via speakerphone. As He had always done, even from the beginning of His Teaching Work, Avatar Adi Da addressed each devotee personally, but was also Instructing all beings, in all times and places. Many of these Discourses are available as DVDs and CDs from The Dawn Horse Press.

"Radical" Truth Video Series. This video clip is part of the "Radical" Truth Video Series. For more video clips in the series, or to subscribe to the podcast feed, visit the Adidam Podcast website.

Darshan (or Sacred Sighting of the Guru) is a particularly potent occasion in which devotees focus on the Divine Revelation that Adi Da is Spiritually Transmitting. (A video recording like this one, of a Darshan occasion, also Spiritually Transmits.) The occasion is usually silent, but is occasionally accompanied by devotees chanting. In some occasions, you may see Adi Da scanning above the heads of the devotees present, working to draw His Divine Light down into each devotee. (ADI DA: "I am alive as Amrita Nadi, the Heart and its spire, the 'Bright' or Conscious Light. This is always so. When I come to you, I Intensify the Field of Brightness, the field of uncreated Light that rests above your head and which is drawn down into the body when the mind is formless in the Heart. Whenever I have been with you I have done this from the Heart. The communication of the Heart and its Light are my constant practice.") You may also hear devotees blowing the sacred conch, at the beginning and end of a Darshan occasion, to let everyone know of the Sighting of the Guru. Often, near the end of an occasion, Adi Da will bless a bowl of prasad (often dates, or something similar that is sweet and edible), which is then distributed to everyone present. At the end of a Darshan occasion, you may also see devotees prostrating on the ground in gratitude for the Revelation their Guru just granted them. Adi Da describes Darshan as "the fundamental principle" of Spiritual Realization in this video talk excerpt. Over time, through constant meditation on the Revelation being transmitted by the Realizer, The Realizer's Realization is duplicated in the devotee.
Poster: AdidamVideos   Post Date: February 1, 2009
Length: 07:24   Views: 6441   Views This Month: 19   Views This Week: 6
Event Date: October 29, 2004
Language: English
Tags:
Darshan   DVD   Avataric Discourse   Radical Truth Video Series  



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(Check this if you want art to return listings for art gallery, but not for heart.)





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