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No One Like Me Has Appeared In This Place Beforevideo
disc two, track 1 of After My Lifetime

poster: CDBaby
length: 01:03
date added: November 6, 2018
event date: August 12, 1982
language: English
views: 2744; views this month: 20; views this week: 3
This is Poem 24 from Adi Da's book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing—Inclined to His Weaker Side. It was recited by Adi Da on August 12, 1982, at Da Love-Ananda Mahal in Kauai, Hawaii.

No one like me has appeared in this place before.
Am I only to live and die,
and thus feed the earth?
Should I only live and die,
and thus create the mystery of a holy ground?
Will generations pass this place
of my dilemmas,
feel the movements under foot
and never know the reasons
and the meaning
of the currents of bliss that fill them?
Will the earth itself
perform my only shout?
Will the rot of my few bodies
be my only song?
Will no one understand?
Will all of this,
even the holy ground,
fall unknown into the sea,
without a parcel of my living left
to heal the feet of pilgrims?
No one else can suffer the mysteries of my birth
or death.
And only my own children
can build a temple
where I rise and fall.

This recitation is disc two, track 1 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.

The album is available through iTunes and The Dawn Horse Press. For more about this double CD, read this special Adidam Revelation Magazine article.

The entire August 12, 1982 occasion where Adi Da recited all the poems from Crazy Da Must Sing can be heard on this CD.

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.
tags:
CD   poem  

The God Who Truly Isvideo
track 8 of Death and the Purpose of Existence

poster: CDBaby
length: 10:24
date added: January 21, 2017
event date: March 28, 1994
language: English
views: 5186; views this month: 25; views this week: 6
An excerpt from "The God Who Truly Is", a talk given by Adi Da on March 28, 1994 at Adi Da Samrajashram. The complete talk can be found on the 2-CD set, Love Is How I Got To Here / The God Who Truly Is.

In this talk, Avatar Adi Da describes the Way of Adidam as the utter transcendence of fear — including fear of being without a body or world (in the Divine State of Infinite, Eternal Love-Bliss). He speaks about finding True God as Source rather than "Creator", and He describes the mechanism that is actually responsible for generating the conditional universe. Adi Da closes with spontaneous and ecstatic poetry, communicating the Sublime Peace that is Realized in His Sphere of Love-Bliss.

This excerpt is track 8 of the CD, Death and the Purpose of Existence, a collection of talks and recitations that exemplify Avatar Adi Da's essential Wisdom-Teaching on death and dying.

The album is available through iTunes, Microsoft, 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.
tags:
CD   death  

Hymns To Meaudio
poster: PaulineChew
length: 10:01
date added: December 5, 2015
language: English
listens: 2820; listens this month: 12; listens this week: 1
Track 2 from Pauline Chew's album, Shapeless As The Water.

Words are from poem 13 ("Hymns To Me") in Adi Da's book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing.

Hymns to me,
am I the song,
the untouched glamour of the poem,
the word and rhythm of the Real.
Then sing.
And sing of me,
am not the soul.
The type whose singing sings the Heart,
the vowel and consonants am I.
Then sing.
And say of me,
he is the sound,
the syllable who is my form,
and hymns me, is me, song to song.

And I will sing you all the more.
Then sing.
tags:
poem   music  

43video
poster: PaulineChew
length: 08:03
date added: November 8, 2015
language: English
views: 4645; views this month: 33; views this week: 9
Track 5 from Pauline Chew's album, Songs For Baba Da. . . And The World.

Words are from poem 43 in Adi Da's book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing.

My loved one sits upon my knee.
My left hand is on her head.
My right hand guides
her listening to my Heart.
My touching awakens her need,
her love for me,
and makes her know me while I speak.

My loved one lies with me.
Our loving appears as every form
of all the worlds.
Our sounds together
make all sounds.
We are the thing that is seen and heard.
We are the rhythmed mind of everything.

Troubles arise for one
who does not know the act
in which he lives.
Therefore, I display the image
of my loved one and me.
One who does not understand
gains power for his lust in holy places.
But one who understands
becomes the lovers’ act that is.
tags:
music   poem  

Love and Sex in the 1960svideo
part 2 of Readings from Tasting The Moon

poster: Tastingthemoon
speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell
length: 07:35
date added: April 7, 2012
language: English
views: 13607; views this month: 18; views this week: 4
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story is excerpted from the chapter titled "On the Road," which goes on to describe the ferment of the sexual revolution, beat poetry, living theater, and alternative lifestyles of the early 1970's.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.
tags:
Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   On the Road   devotee book  

The Symbolvideo
poster: JimNewcome
length: 02:10
date added: August 12, 2011
language: English
views: 4175; views this month: 11; views this week: 3
Adi Da reciting a poem, "When things have left him", from His book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing.

Music is "Temple Water Music", by Aaron Nakagawa and friends.

Video by James Newcome. Copyright 2011 ASA.
tags:
poem   poetry  

Forehead, Breath, and Smileaudio
poster: DawnHorsePress
length: 05:20
date added: November 7, 2010
language: English
listens: 4433; listens this month: 13; listens this week: 1
“Forehead, Breath, and Smile” — track 8 from Naamleela Free Jones' album, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Produced in 2005, this album is one of Naamleela's most original and creative musical works. The songs were composed over a period of five years, to the ecstatic sacred poetry of Adi Da Samraj. Bringing together her training in both Eastern and Western music, and featuring several guest artists, a unique environment of natural and modern sounds, and the talents of Grammy-nominated producer Damian Taylor, the result is an exquisite melding of words, meaning, music, and beauty.
tags:
Naamleela   music   CD  

Confessional Poems of Liberation and Loveaudio
podcast 14 of The Radical Truth Audio Series

poster: AdidamPodcasts
length: 20:50
date added: October 5, 2010
event date: 1976
language: English
listens: 9291; listens this month: 13; listens this week: 1
Adi Da Samraj communicates his "Bright" Realization and the purpose of His liberating work through poems He wrote between 1971 and 1976, published in the book, Crazy Da Must Sing.

On August 12, 1982 (two weeks after writing the last poem), Adi Da read aloud the collected poems from Crazy Da Must Sing to a group of His devotees in a single session. His recitations of some of those poems are included in this podcast. A recording of the entire occasion (with His reading of all the poems) is available on this CD from the Dawn Horse Press.
tags:
Radical Truth Audio Series   poem   poetry   Crazy Da Must Sing   CD  

I Am the Heartvideo
poster: frank marrero
length: 00:28
date added: December 6, 2009
language: English
views: 3242; views this month: 6; views this week: 2
Three beautiful pictures of Adi Da, accompanied by His reading of His poem, "I am the Heart", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
tags:
poem   poetry  

We Are Waitingvideo
poster: frank marrero
length: 03:39
date added: September 30, 2009
language: English
views: 5875; views this month: 16; views this week: 5
Darshan of Adi Da, accompanied by Adi Da's recitation of His poem, "We are waiting for something to happen to this", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
tags:
Darshan   poem   poetry  

Darshan of Adi Da Samraj with His Poemsvideo
poster: frank marrero
length: 01:19
date added: February 6, 2009
language: English
views: 5718; views this month: 11; views this week: 4
Adi Da Samraj in Darshan, accompanied by His recitation of several of His poems from Crazy Da Must Sing.
tags:
Adi Da   Poem   poetry   Darshan   Guru   Spiritual Master   Change   Ego   Separation  

I've Grown Used to Miraclesvideo
poster: jef108
length: 01:19
date added: February 1, 2009
language: English
views: 2931; views this month: 11; views this week: 1
Adi Da recites His poem, "I've grown used to miracles", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
tags:
poem   poetry  

I Am as One Who Left His Home To Do a Thing for Manvideo
poster: jef108
length: 02:04
date added: February 1, 2009
language: English
views: 2981; views this month: 4; views this week: 1
Adi Da recites His poem, "I Am As One Who Left His Home To Do a Thing for Man", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
tags:
poem   poetry  

Give the ego gone to Mevideo
poster: jef108
length: 03:01
date added: January 27, 2009
event date: July 10, 2005
language: English
views: 7873; views this month: 22; views this week: 3
Darshan of Adi Da, as He sits at three locations at The Mountain Of Attention (the second is in front of Ordeal Bath Lodge; the third is at The Manner Of Flowers).

Give the ego gone to Me.
Find out My Self-of-Radiance,
Which Is All-Love-As-Bliss.
Let the ego be Un-Happened—
now.
tags:
ego   egoless   Divine   Darshan   shaktipath   bliss   god   siddha   guru   silent blessing   spirituality   beauty   poetry  




 
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