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Achille Bonito Oliva speaks (Italian) at the opening of Adi Da Samraj's solo exhibition, 'Orpheus and Linead', at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York - September 9, 2010. Translated by Teresa Romero.

"Adi Da has a flexibility in his expression that encompasses all the art forms and techniques of the East and West. His work is a multiplication of space in time and time in space.... He's like a barman shaking Western space in the fluidity of Eastern concepts and forms. Adi Da wants to ultimately affirm art as a form of, a spiritual representation of the Divine nature of man, which can articulate a new vision of space and a new vision of time. This relationship between the East and West is very important. In a historical moment such as this, it is important to affirm, as a fundamental value of art at this time, the coexistence of differences."

Tags: Sundaram Tagore Gallery   Achille Bonito Oliva   Orpheus Linead   Image-Art  

Slideshow of the Divine Island Hermitage of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, mixed with a selection of art from the Spiralled Light page.

Song is David Byrne, "Dream Operator".

Created by Eo Anderson, developer of the Facebook page, The Spiralled Light of Kali Yuga.

Tags: David Byrne   Naitauba   Adi Da Samrajashram   slideshow  

Adi Da Samraj creating the Orpheus One and Linead One suites. Accompanied by Adi Da talking about His Image-Art. Edited by Carmen Morrow.

Tags: Orpheus One   Linead One   Image-Art  

Music by Aura Bakker. Sung by Aura Bakker. Poem by Adi Da Samraj, from the book, Crazy Da Must Sing:

The world is endlessly allowed to be until I die.
I Am the Heart's Shout.
The worlds are endlessly involved with me while I appear, in forms that know them.
But when I die and disappear from worlds where I have lived, there is no absence.
My life has never made a world for me.
I Am the Heart that Shouts them.

Tags: Aura Bakker   music   The Heart's Shout  

The Art of Adi Da Samraj
with music by "Facing East"
John Wubbenhorst (bansuri)
Steve Zerlin (bass)
Samrat Kakkeri (tabla)

July 16th, 7:30 pm
Land Bridge Pavillion
The Mountain Of Attention
$10 suggested donation
Money to benefit The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary and cover the musicians' travel expenses.

Tags: Mountain Of Attention   John Wubbenhorst   Steve Zerlin   Samrat Kakkeri   Facing East  

One of the core practices of The Transcendental Spiritual Way of Adidam in relationship with His Divine Presence Adi Da Samraj. Part of "The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries", in Part 11 of The Aletheon. The musical recitation appears on the CD, The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries.

Tags: Reality-Teachings   The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries   Aletheon   CD  

This excerpt is from the Adidam Revelation Discourse of October 24, 2004. A devotee's question about memory and a bicycle accident sparks Avatar Adi Da's Discourse about the nature of the human mechanism. Likening the mind to "cyberspace", Avatar Adi Da describes the "codes" human beings use to interpret perceptions and give apparent meaning to the "game" of life. He also exposes as an illusion the very presumption of being a separate, perceiving self. Adi Da Samraj calls everyone to relinquish the commitment to all presumptions and Awaken to that Realization which is not a state, but a Force that Spiritually Outshines all of illusory existence.

This excerpt is part of the longer DVD, Cracking the Code of Experience. Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, and Polish. A CD version is also available.

Tags: avataric discourse   CD   DVD  

Separative vs. transcendental existence. Performed for the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Featuring the Irish Company, Fidget Feet, with Jym Daly, Chantal McCormick, Jenny, Lee, Steve, and the voice and wisdom of Adi Da Samraj.

Tags: theater   Fidget Feet  

This is the selection, "Descending Grace", from the CD, "True Water" recorded by John Wubbenhorst (flutes,vocals and keyboards) and Ken Anoff (percussion). This recording, inspired by the wisdom of Adi Da, is a unique collection from these world travelers, available at www.facingeast.com.

Tags: Facing East   John Wubbenhorst   Ken Anoff  

This is an improvisation that took place in July 2008 on the island of Naitauba, Fiji. On this occasion, we were playing while Adi Da Samraj was working on His Divine Image-Art. It was truly a blissful and ecstatic time.

The music is from John Wubbenhorst's and Otto Probst's CD, Breath of Devotion.

Tags: Facing East   John Wubbenhorst   Otto Probst   Kalimba   chant   Naitauba   CD  

Keith Ferrone, director of the Florence Dance Company, introduces the ballet, Quattro Maggiore ("Four Seasons"): Adi Da Samraj for Vivaldi, in a packed auditorium with 1,300 guests, on January 30, 2010. Music by Vivaldi, art by Adi Da. The performance is in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the newspaper, 'Il Resto del Carlino'.

Tags: Dance   Florence Dance Company   image-art   Vivaldi  

Dr. Cristina Acidini (the Superintendent of the Authority for Cultural Heritage and State Museums in Florence, Italy) speaks about the exhibition of Adi Da Samraj's image-art at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, February 2008.

Tags: image-art   Artist   Spirituality   Florence   Cenacolo di Ognissanti  

Dr. Monica Bietti (Director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, formerly with the Superintendency of Artistic Heritage of Bologna and Florence) speaks about the exhibition of Adi Da Samraj's image-art at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, February 2008.

Tags: Image-Art   Spirituality   Cenacolo di Ognissanti   Monica Bietti  

Interviews from the opening reception for Transcendental Realism at the LA Contemporary Gallery, August 2008.

Tags: Image-Art   Transcendental Realism   spirituality   LA Contemporary Gallery  

Adi Da Samraj in the process of creating His artistic work, 2000-2004.

Tags: Image-Art   photography