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Carolyn Lee Interviewvideo
poster: MitchellRabin
speakers: Mitchell Rabin, Carolyn Lee
length: 29:11
date added: January 14, 2024
language: English
views: 670; views this month: 69; views this week: 8
Mitchell Rabin, host of the New York City-based community cable TV show, A Better World, interviews Carolyn Lee, Ph.D, the author of several books on Adi Da Samraj. The focus of this interview is Carolyn’s book, The Promised God-Man is Here.

Note: The audio and video are slightly out of synch for much of this video.
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The Knowledge of Lightvideo
track 4 of Awaken To Brightness

poster: CDBaby
length: 07:51
date added: January 2, 2024
language: English
views: 109; views this month: 24; views this week: 2
“The Knowledge of Light” is track 4 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. 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.
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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas: A Danavira Mela Considerationvideo
poster: AdiDaUpClose
length: 03:49
date added: December 23, 2023
language: English
views: 542; views this month: 66; views this week: 13
CHRIS TONG: Happy Danavira Mela to everyone!

I’ve sung Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas to Beloved Adi Da many times over the years — at the Manner of Flowers, at Adi Da Samrajashram, at First People / Great Food Dish, etc. (as one of a small group of singers, and usually also as the keyboardist) — and I’m singing it to Him again (and all of you!) here. It is one of my favorite songs at this time of year.

For me (starting with Judy Garland's original film version), it has always been an emotion-filled song, by turns joyful, playful, nostalgic, and wistful — so that is how I sing it here.

This song as a bridge to God. In Beloved Adi Da’s Company, everything (from Mickey Mouse to cookie-making) becomes “a bridge to God”.

ADI DA: “You must Awaken and discover the Divine World wherein everything is a bridge to the Infinite, One Being.”

And so for me, the words of this song have always taken on a significance beyond the usual secular understanding of the song. They lead me through a consideration that I’ll share with you here.

Have yourself
a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on our troubles
will be out of sight

Have yourself
a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on our troubles
will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more

Through the years
we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star
upon the highest bough
And have yourself
a merry little Christmas now.

That wistfulness: Raymond’s problem. On the surface, the words of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas are purely joyful — "faithful friends" coming together each year in a joyous Christmas celebration. And yet, one of the emotions I feel when I sing this song is wistfulness. So where is the wistfulness coming from? It's that big "IF" in the song: "if the fates allow". In fact, as every one of us knows (more and more, with each passing year), fate (conditional existence) only allows such reunions for a limited number of years. As I sing, I have a vision of a photograph of a gathering of friends, from a Christmas or Danavira Mela many years ago, and, in this vision, each face in the photograph — one by one over the years — turns "ghostly", either through our circumstances (high school, college, living near each other) no longer being shared, or life paths that have moved in different directions, or the passing on of that person. My awareness of that inevitable reality is the source of the wistfulness and nostalgia. The inevitable disappearance of the (mortal) loved one is “Raymond’s problem”, a phrase Adi Da uses, based on the central character of The Mummery Book.

Danavira Mela: A Divine Celebration in the midst of a conditional universe. The joy and playfulness of the song comes from the celebration we can still have together, even in the midst of an ever-changing, conditional universe. One of my (and many other devotees’) favorite quotes of Beloved Adi Da has always been this extraordinary prayer, from “Death is a Perfect Insult” in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body:

“Let us surrender into Infinity with all our friends and hold on to no thing or condition that ever appears. Let us forget all things in present Happiness, and so forgive the universe for all its playful changes. Let us always love one another, and so forgive one another for appearing, for changing, and for passing out of present sight. So be it.”

When I sing this song, I hear it giving further guidance for just how to do this.

The line, “Hang a shining star upon the highest bough”, is a call to a sacred puja, that “surrender into Infinity” of the separate self. The “highest bough” is like the reference to a “Higher Power” in the AA tradition: however you understand God or what is greater than you, surrender yourself to That, commune with That, and allow that Communion to transform you into a “shining star”, a radiant light that you share with others during this season. For devotees of Adi Da, of course, that “highest bough” is the Very Divine, in the human form of Beloved Adi Da.

Just as the word “light” has two senses, so the admonition, “Let your heart be light”, has two meanings.

The first meaning is: “Be light-hearted”. This is a call to self-understanding, released of the primary knot of self at the heart, and so free of all sense of dilemma. “Our troubles will be out of sight”: the dilemma we thought we were in vanishes when the heart is unknotted.

The second meaning is: “Let your heart be Light”. This is a call to the heart to commune with the Divine, and so be heart-awakened by the Divine, and thereby serve as a “shining star”, a “light”, a radiant beacon of light and love for all, through feeling to Infinity, feeling to, through and beyond the changing (including all the mortal beloveds) to the Changeless (the Immortal Beloved who is all of us), in all directions in every moment — the call to serve the awakening of Light in everybody.

And so it is in this spirit that I sing this song and this wish for all my friends: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas”!

ADI DA: Know that I Bless you through and beyond time and space. Live a life of celebration. True life, ego-transcending life, is a celebration, a joyous occasion of meeting with others in the universal circumstance of prior unity and in the joy of Communion with the Indivisible Divine Reality.

That is why I look forward to this season every year. It is the greatest season of the year. It is a marvelous season. I hope it is a happy time for you and for all of your friends.
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Reality Is Conscious Lightvideo
track 8 of Reality Is Beyond Point of View

poster: CDBaby
length: 06:03
date added: June 19, 2023
language: English
views: 232; views this month: 14; views this week: 6
This talk excerpt is track 8 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.
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Cómo servir al moribundovideo
poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español
length: 10:42
date added: January 18, 2023
event date: May 31, 1980
language: Spanish
views: 279; views this month: 9; views this week: 1
[Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

"Cómo servir al moribundo" ("How To Serve a Dying Person") is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, on May 31, 1980.

In this discourse, a student of Adi Da asks Him for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da then responds both with compassion and also with very practical advice on how to serve the dying.

[The recording of Adi Da's voice is slightly distorted, but understandable.]
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El proceso espiritual siempre se havivido en tiempos difícilesvideo
poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español
length: 10:16
date added: September 19, 2022
event date: November 28, 1981
language: Spanish
views: 666; views this month: 24; views this week: 1
[Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

This is a video excerpt from Adi Da's classic talk, "The Bodily Location of Happiness", which He gave on November 28, 1981. This talk was originally published in the book, The Bodily Location Of Happiness. The full talk is available on DVD and on CD, and as an online transcript.

ADI DA: Life is foolishness. This is no time, in any case, to be tolerant of foolishness. The world is mad, and these are dreadful times. Things are not going to be easier in the years ahead. The spiritual process has always been lived in difficult times. Therefore, the spiritual process tolerates no fool. The spiritual process itself will spit you out. It is not an easy attainment, but a profoundly difficult affair. Even what you have listened to today has been heard by only a fraction of the human race in all of history. The opportunity to practice is extremely rare, and the fulfillment of practice is practically unknown.

In some sense you could say this life is hell. . . The nature of this hell is that we are self-possessed. We are born in un-Happiness and we do not transcend it readily. We constantly pursue Happiness through all kinds of incredibly complex means, and we never attain It. . .

If Spiritual Realizers did not turn about and Teach, this would truly be a hell instead of being like a hell. It would truly be a hell if there were no possibility of Enlightenment, if there were no Teaching, no Spiritual Masters, no sacred Way, no sacred community, no capacity for understanding or self-transcendence.
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Spanish   CD   DVD  

La Ubicación Corporal de la Felicidadvideo
poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español
length: 12:23
date added: May 16, 2022
event date: November 28, 1981
language: Spanish
views: 656; views this month: 27; views this week: 2
Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

Un discurso clásico dado por Avatar Adi Da en 1981 sobre la naturaleza de la Verdadera Felicidad y cómo puede ser Realizada momento a momento, pero no a través de su búsqueda.

This is a video excerpt from Adi Da's classic talk, "The Bodily Location of Happiness", which He gave on November 28, 1981. This talk was originally published in the book, The Bodily Location Of Happiness. The full talk is available on DVD and on CD, and as an online transcript.

ADI DA: Life is foolishness. This is no time, in any case, to be tolerant of foolishness. The world is mad, and these are dreadful times. Things are not going to be easier in the years ahead. The spiritual process has always been lived in difficult times. Therefore, the spiritual process tolerates no fool. The spiritual process itself will spit you out. It is not an easy attainment, but a profoundly difficult affair. Even what you have listened to today has been heard by only a fraction of the human race in all of history. The opportunity to practice is extremely rare, and the fulfillment of practice is practically unknown.

In some sense you could say this life is hell. . . The nature of this hell is that we are self-possessed. We are born in un-Happiness and we do not transcend it readily. We constantly pursue Happiness through all kinds of incredibly complex means, and we never attain It. . .

If Spiritual Realizers did not turn about and Teach, this would truly be a hell instead of being like a hell. It would truly be a hell if there were no possibility of Enlightenment, if there were no Teaching, no Spiritual Masters, no sacred Way, no sacred community, no capacity for understanding or self-transcendence.
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CD   DVD   Spanish  

La Condizione Perfetta Èvideo
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
length: 22:29
date added: April 25, 2022
event date: July 7, 2005
language: Italian
views: 715; views this month: 18; views this week: 2
[Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

Video excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da Samraj on July 7, 2005, in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention.

Adi Da talks about the presumption of the egoic "separate self" sense that is the root of human suffering. He contrasts this with our actual Position in Truth: the Position of Conscious Light.

This talk is from the first occasion in many years in which Avatar Adi Da spoke directly to a gathering of His devotees in California. Questions from devotees about intimate, familial, and social issues are met with Avatar Adi Da's Compassion and Humor, as well as His Liberating Wisdom.

The complete Avataric Discourse is available on the DVD, Relinquish the Mummery of This World. (This video excerpt is from Part 3 of the DVD.)

At 19:58, a formal Darshan occasion begins (at Adi Da Samrajashram) and continues to the end of this video clip.
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Avataric Discourse   Italian   DVD  

Come servire una persona nel processo di mortevideo
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
length: 10:42
date added: March 16, 2022
event date: May 31, 1980
language: Italian
views: 372; views this month: 40; views this week: 2
[Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

"Come servire una persona nel processo di morte" ("How To Serve a Dying Person") is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, on May 31, 1980.

In this discourse, a student of Adi Da asks Him for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da then responds both with compassion and also with very practical advice on how to serve the dying.

[The recording of Adi Da's voice is slightly distorted, but understandable.]
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Italian  

Divine Spirit Tree of Lightvideo
poster: k3tH6fqKscY
length: 04:05
date added: December 23, 2021
event date: December 2021
language: English
views: 603; views this month: 23; views this week: 5
A video tour of the Adidam Melbourne community's Danavira Mela Celebration decorations and tree, December, 2021.

music: Pentatonix, "How Great Thou Art"
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Danavira Mela  

The Knowledge Of Lightaudio
poster: AdiDaUpClose
length: 04:14
date added: November 30, 2021
event date: February 3, 1985
language: English
listens: 686; listens this month: 25; listens this week: 1
An audio excerpt from the new CD, The Knowledge Of Light, from The Dawn Horse Press.

In the early months of 1985, Avatar Adi Da was residing at His Hermitage-Island in Fiji, working intensively to complete the first edition of His Supreme Scriptural Text, The Dawn Horse Testament. Avatar Adi Da began this occasion by reciting a newly written essay, which He subsequently added to The Dawn Horse Testament — and then spoke at length about the import of the essay.

In this Discourse, Avatar Adi Da invites everyone to consider the implications of the common understanding that everything — all that you see, hear, breathe, taste, smell, feel — is energy, or light. Rather than suggesting yet another method of seeking within the infinite forms of experienced light, Avatar Adi Da Offers (and Is) the direct Transmission of Light — which Reveals Itself to be the Self-Radiant Bliss of Consciousness Itself.

ADI DA: The most intimate presumption, the real presumption — that all this is Light — should be sufficient to make your hair stand on end. Real Communion with Light, or True Baptism — founded on “self” understanding — produces ecstasy, profound transformation of the being, liberates you from all of your egoic psychology.
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Trailer del film, Conscious Lightvideo
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
speakers: Ruchiradama Nadikanta, James Steinberg, Jonathan Condit, Marchelle Deranleau, June Mori, Lisa Lurie, Greg Wells, Elze Wit
length: 02:25
date added: November 22, 2021
language: Italian
views: 781; views this month: 26; views this week: 4
The trailer for Conscious Light, an award-winning documentary on the life of Adi Da Samraj.

“Conscious Light” è un documentario sulla vita straordinaria del grande adepto spirituale Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Con materiale d'archivio e le testimonianze di alcuni studenti di Adi Da Samraj, “Conscious Light” conduce lo spettatore lungo un intenso viaggio nella vita di Adi Da: dalla nascita alla sua vita di Insegnamento, fino alla sua dipartita, delineando altresì il suo sodalizio e la relazione spirituale con Lui, tangibile, viva e sempre attuale nel presente.

“Conscious Light” è stato premiato con diversi riconoscimenti fra cui The Audience Choice Award for Documentary rilasciato dalla Awareness Film Festival di Los Angeles.

Dopo essere stato proiettato in sale di tutto il mondo, “Conscious Light” può ora essere visto online con sottotitoli in numerose lingue, incluso l’italiano.

La visione è gratuita (le donazioni sono tuttavia sempre benvenute!).
Ulteriori informazioni cliccando su: www.consciouslightfilm.com/screenings
“Una potente visione della straordinaria vita e opera di uno dei più grandi maestri spirituali del mondo moderno” Stuart Gibson, Senior Advisor, UNESCO

In every time and place, human beings have sought to grasp the ultimate mysteries of life and death. From time to time, great spiritual realizers have appeared in the world to reveal and transmit the secrets of reality and truth to all. Avatar Adi Da Samraj (1939-2008) is one of the rarest of such beings. His entire life was devoted to the discovery, demonstration, and spiritual revelation of the highest truth.

Conscious Light offers a penetrating glimpse into the remarkable life and enlightened teachings of Avatar Adi Da and His work to create an enduring legacy of potential spiritual realization for everyone.

Drawing on an extensive archival collection of film, photography, and audio recordings, as well as interviews with students who lived with Adi Da and practice His teachings, this intimate documentary takes the viewer on a journey of spiritual awakening in the company of one of the great spiritual masters of all time.

For more information, screening locations and ticket purchase go to the Conscious Light film website.
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The Time Honored Guru-Devotee Relationshipvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 01:51
date added: November 12, 2021
language: English
views: 421; views this month: 7; views this week: 1
A simple description of how the Guru/devotee relationship works and is activated. For a free screening of the online film, Conscious Light: The Divine Life Light and Revelation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, click here.
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No hay Luz sin fuegovideo
poster: Videos de Adi Da - Español
length: 08:16
date added: September 16, 2021
event date: July 17, 1978
language: Spanish
views: 471; views this month: 13; views this week: 2
[Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

"No hay Luz sin fuego" ("There Is No Light Without Fire") is a video 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 5. It is also available as a CD. The talk also appears in written form in the book, My "Bright" Sight and online here.
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Spanish   CD   DVD  

Hengellistä prosessia on aina eletty vaikeina aikoinavideo
poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi
length: 10:16
date added: August 3, 2021
event date: November 28, 1981
language: Finnish
views: 767; views this month: 28; views this week: 5
[Contains Finnish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]

Tämä on ote Adi Dan puheesta "Ilon ruumiillinen sijainti", jonka Hän antoi 28. marraskuuta 1981.

This is a video excerpt from Adi Da's classic talk, "The Bodily Location of Happiness", which He gave on November 28, 1981. This talk was originally published in the book, The Bodily Location Of Happiness. The full talk is available on DVD and on CD, and as an online transcript.

ADI DA: Elämä on typeryyttä. Nyt ei ole muutenkaan aika suvaita typeryyttä. Maailma on hullu, ja nämä ovat karmeita aikoja. Asiat eivät helpotu tulevina vuosina. Hengellistä prosessia on aina eletty vaikeina aikoina. Hengellinen prosessi ei siis suvaitse typerystä. Hengellinen prosessi sylkäisee sinut ulos. Se ei ole helppo saavutus, vaan syvästi vaikea koettamus. Jopa se, mitä tänään kuulitte on vain ihmiskunnan murto-osan kuulemaa kautta historian. Mahdollisuus harjoittaa hengellistä prosessia on erittäin harvinainen, ja sen täyttymys on\Nkäytännössä tuntematon.

Jossain mielessä voisi sanoa, että tämä on elämä on helvettiä. Uskonnollisella kielellämme puhumme siitä, mitä voi tapahtua kuoleman jälkeen. Voit joko nousta taivaaseen tai joutua puhdistautumaan kiirastuleen, tai voit joutua helvettiin. Ja sitten ehkä joudut kiirastuleen tai tilapäiseen helvettiin, mutta ehkä sinulla on riittävästi hyvää onnea syntyä ihmiseksi, jotta voit omistautua hengelliselle prosessille. Tämän helvetin luonne on, että olemme itseemme käpertyneitä. Synnymme ilottomuudessa emmekä helposti pääse tämän ilottomuuden yli. Tavoittelemme iloa jatkuvasti kaikenlaisin uskomattoman monimutkaisin keinoin emmekä ikinä saavuta sitä.

Jos Hengelliset Mestarit eivät olisi alkaneet opettamaan, tämä todellakin olisi helvetti eikä vain helvetin kaltainen. Tämä todellakin olisi helvetti jos täällä ei olisi Valaistuksen mahdollisuutta, jos täällä ei olisi Opetusta, ei Hengellisiä Mestareita, ei Pyhää Tietä, ei Pyhää yhteisöä, ei kykyä ymmärtää tai ylittää itseään.

ADI DA: Life is foolishness. This is no time, in any case, to be tolerant of foolishness. The world is mad, and these are dreadful times. Things are not going to be easier in the years ahead. The spiritual process has always been lived in difficult times. Therefore, the spiritual process tolerates no fool. The spiritual process itself will spit you out. It is not an easy attainment, but a profoundly difficult affair. Even what you have listened to today has been heard by only a fraction of the human race in all of history. The opportunity to practice is extremely rare, and the fulfillment of practice is practically unknown.

In some sense you could say this life is hell. . . The nature of this hell is that we are self-possessed. We are born in un-Happiness and we do not transcend it readily. We constantly pursue Happiness through all kinds of incredibly complex means, and we never attain It. . .

If Spiritual Realizers did not turn about and Teach, this would truly be a hell instead of being like a hell. It would truly be a hell if there were no possibility of Enlightenment, if there were no Teaching, no Spiritual Masters, no sacred Way, no sacred community, no capacity for understanding or self-transcendence.
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