Adi Da Up Close
Audio/Video Library

Music by premier Florentine composer Andrea Portera, from the ballet, Not-Two Is Peace, performed on July 22 and 23, 2012.

This piece is called "Ego 1 — self-ish-ness".

Tags: music   peace   Florence Dance Company  

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.

This is Recitation 5: The Truth of Prior Unity Is The Instrinsic Self-Revelation of Reality Itself.

These recordings were made in Ordeal Bath Lodge at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.

Ruchiradama Nadikanta is offering these recitations as a New Year's gift to everyone. Feel free to share these recitations. For more recitations from Not-Two Is Peace, click here.

Tags: peace   recitation   Ruchiradama Nadikanta  

Flo Morrissey's cover of "Love Comes To Here In Time", which she recorded as a tribute to Adi Da. (For more music from Flo, click here.)

Words by Adi Da Samraj, in Mei-Ling Israel, The World As Light.

Music by Naamleela Free Jones from her album, Eyes In Other Worlds.

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Adi Da speaks about our failure to notice the Divine Reality and why this is so: self contraction of the body-mind as "Narcissus", the separate self.

Tags: self contraction   Avataric Discourse  

Devotee Frank Marrero shares a leela of his time in Adi Da's Company. Many years later, he has come to see that Adi Da was teaching him about self-understanding and samadarshan: "The vision of sameness - a vision that penetrates beyond the apparent differences between beings to their transcendental nature."

Tags: Frank Marrero   leela  

A video excerpt from part 6 ("The Glasses of Consciousness") of the DVD, You Are The Question You Ask, which was drawn from Adi Da's Avataric Discourse of August 30, 2004.

Adi Da talks about how human beings presume that they are just a body and a mind, and this creates the mistaken sense of separation from others and the Divine.

special terminology: self-contraction

Tags: Avataric Discourse  

In this discourse, Adi Da proposes that all human lifetimes are a “quest for the historical self”. He describes how this search is based on the activity of “self”-contraction — the erroneous presumption of an actual, defined, knowable “self”.

The full DVD, The Quest for the Historical Self, can be purchased at the Dawn Horse Press.

Tags: Avataric Discourse   DVD  

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 6 on the DVD, Surrender of self Is A Koan. It is also available in audio form as Track 3 of the free, downloadable CD, The Liberating Word of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Volume 1.

Adi Da answers a question from a 10-year-old boy who wants to not be so angry all the time. Very sweet exchange!

Tags: children   CD   DVD  

Adi Da talks about fear, and the response to existence and the search that is the response to it.

Adi Da describes the ego as a process or action, and our suffering as the result of that action ("pinching oneself"). Therefore, merely analyzing the "I" thought (for example) is not sufficient for self-transcendence. Transcendence of the act that is ego is a matter of counter-egoic behavior.

Tags: self-contraction  

We invite you to participate in a profound transformation at the depth of life and consciousness — a transformation made possible by the Divine Appearance and Self-Revelation of Adi Da Samraj. Come and experience His Blessing-Transmission, His Avataric Teachings, and His Divine Image-Art. Feel and receive Adi Da’s Spiritual Presence, which is powerfully communicated via Sacred Sightings of Him (recorded during His physical Lifetime). Enjoy the live Sacred Offerings of gifted devotee musicians who serve the process of retreat with keen sensitivity and feeling.

For more about this retreat, click here.

Narrator: Anthony Costabile
Videographer: Matt Braithwaite

Tags: European Danda   retreat  

This audio clip is from the CD, What Is Your Intention?. This talk was originally published in Chapter 6 of the Love Ananda-Gita.

Avatar Adi Da describes the three options of human destiny: one can reinforce one's present existence in gross (physical) form; one can go beyond gross existence into subtler dimensions of existence; or one can transcend conditional existence altogether, in the Great Process of seventh stage Divine Self-Realization. He suggests that most people (and most devotees) are opting (generally unconsciously) for the first (and lowest) option.

For those who discover the heart-impulse to the Great Process, Avatar Adi Da offers Graceful Means — but, He clarifies, a most intensive ego-transcending process will be required of such devotees, a constant relinquishment of identification with the separate self.

The talk, What Is Your Intention?, is also available on the DVD, The Commitment to Real-God Realization. A video clip from that DVD is available here.

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Adi Da talks about purifying forms of the self-contraction which keep one from being aware of the Divine Condition.

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Adi Da talks about the listening process, and the use of various means for self-reflection (the Teaching, the disciplines, reflection by others), so that the listening process can culminate in hearing or fundamental self-understanding (and the transition to level 1.3 of the Way of Adidam).

Note: In this clip, Adi Da refers to the practice of self-inquiry, which is no longer a part of the practice of Adidam.

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Tags: discipline   right life  

Darshan of Adi Da.

[Note: At the end of the video, the viewer is directed to a site, karmafree.com — this site no longer exists.]

Music is Ray Lynch, "Drifted in a Deeper Land", from his album, No Blue Thing; and Ray Lynch, "The Temple", from his album, The Sky Of Mind.

In the background is a recording of Adi Da reciting from the Lion Sutra.

Tags: Darshan   Ray Lynch   Sacred Sighting