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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  

John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) play an evening of North Indian ragas. 7 pm, June 26, 2010.

Adidam Center
1707 Glastonberry Road
Potomac, MD. 20854

$15 suggested donation.
Call 301-346-0789 for more information.

Tags: John Wubbenhorst   Samrat Kakkeri   music  

This excerpt is from the Adidam Revelation Discourse of October 20, 2004. In response to a series of questions about self-awareness, the nature of the “ego”, and how the self-contraction is caused, Avatar Adi Da speaks of the self-confinement of human beings (in contrast to non-humans as natural contemplatives), the effort to trace any experience or thought to its Source, and the Divine Reality as the True Condition of all things (not the “cause” of any thing). This Discourse concludes with Avatar Adi Da's confession of the direct and tacit “Point of View” of Divine Realization — the universe as Unconditional Light.

This excerpt is part of the longer DVD, The Divine Is Not The Cause. Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew. A CD version is also available.

A version of this excerpt with German subtitles can be watched here.

Tags: avataric discourse   CD   DVD  

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  

This excerpt is from one the Adidam Revelation Discourse of November 6, 2004. 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”. His Discourse exposes that neither experience nor memory nor the sensations of the physical body actually define a separate entity. The “I” is a fiction, a lie—and Reality Itself is Self-Evident only when the activity of the “self”-contraction is transcended.

This excerpt is part of the longer DVD, The Quest for the Historical Self. A CD version is also available.

A version of this excerpt with German subtitles can be watched here.

Tags: avataric discourse   CD   DVD  

This video footage of Naitauba is from 2009. The music was improvised at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, California, in 2005. It can be found on the CD, Baba Da's Great Tradition Improvisation Fusion Orchestra. Musicians: John Wubbenhorst (flute), Byron Duckwall (cello), Michael Sheppard (keyboards).

Tags: CD   Naitauba   Baba Da   John Wubbenhorst   Byron Duckwall   Michael Sheppard   music  

Step-by-step guide to subscribing to Adidam's podcast, "The Radical Truth" - particularly for those not familiar with podcasts or ITune. The key thing: you need to download Apple's ITune application to your desktop.

We also have all the video podcasts released to date (by AdidamVideos) here in our Library.

Visit the Adidam Podcasting site for more information.

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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  

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

Tags: Image-Art   Transcendental Realism   spirituality   LA Contemporary Gallery  

This is a showcase of a portion of Adi Da's Sacred Image-Art. Adi Da is a very prolific artist, having created well over 70,000 images. This is just a small selection.

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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   danavira mela  

Katya Grineva, Romantic Classical pianist, at her 11th performance at Carnegie Hall, a Tribute Concert to Adi Da, on June 12, 2009, to an almost sold-out concert hall. An extraordinarily talented pianist.

Tags: piano   music   Katya Grineva  

A brief excerpt of a Divinely inspired performance, in honor of Adi Da Samraj. A truly gifted pianist! In this brief clip, she is playing Chopin's famous "Rainbow Fantasy".

Tags: piano   Katya Grineva   concert   music   Chopin   Rainbow Fantasy  

Humankind is Literally One Family!

Wisdom from Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace.

Tags: peace   prior unity   world friend   not two is peace  

The Working Presumption of Prior Unity, is the right and true context for all human exchange.

Wisdom from Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace.

Tags: truth   Adi Da   love   peace   bliss   joy   meditation   unity   prior unity   world friend   beloved   not two is peace   oneness   abundance   world   enlightment