Adi Da Up Close
Audio/Video Library

“Remembrance” is by Aaron Nakagawa, Stephan Blas, and Paul Jones. It is track 10 from Disc One of the double CD, May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts.

May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts is a deeply moving, sacred, contemplative CD that celebrates Adi Da's Life of Love and Blessing. This tribute to Adi Da Samraj includes music from many different genres, ranging from Indian classical to jazz to world music and other contemporary styles.

With over two hours of devotional songs filling this double CD, you can listen to pieces composed and performed by many devotee artists, including Naamleela Free Jones, Tamarind Free Jones, Ray Lynch, John Wubbenhorst, John Mackay, Sally Howe, Crane Kirkbride, Antonina Randazzo, Katya Grineva and many others.

Some of the twenty-five pieces on May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts were written and offered in the days immediately following Adi Da's Passing on November 27, 2008, or in the year-long period of formal mourning that followed. Other songs were offered to Him in person during His Lifetime. This CD also contains new songs never released before by Naamleela, Tamarind, and other musicians.

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“Made By Your Hand” is by Sally Howe. It is track 9 from Disc One of the double CD, May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts.

May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts is a deeply moving, sacred, contemplative CD that celebrates Adi Da's Life of Love and Blessing. This tribute to Adi Da Samraj includes music from many different genres, ranging from Indian classical to jazz to world music and other contemporary styles.

With over two hours of devotional songs filling this double CD, you can listen to pieces composed and performed by many devotee artists, including Naamleela Free Jones, Tamarind Free Jones, Ray Lynch, John Wubbenhorst, John Mackay, Sally Howe, Crane Kirkbride, Antonina Randazzo, Katya Grineva and many others.

Some of the twenty-five pieces on May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts were written and offered in the days immediately following Adi Da's Passing on November 27, 2008, or in the year-long period of formal mourning that followed. Other songs were offered to Him in person during His Lifetime. This CD also contains new songs never released before by Naamleela, Tamarind, and other musicians.

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Words by Adi Da (from His book of poems, "Crazy Da Must Sing"), music by Pauline Chew. It is track 8 from Disc One of the double CD, May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts.

May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts is a deeply moving, sacred, contemplative CD that celebrates Adi Da's Life of Love and Blessing. This tribute to Adi Da Samraj includes music from many different genres, ranging from Indian classical to jazz to world music and other contemporary styles.

With over two hours of devotional songs filling this double CD, you can listen to pieces composed and performed by many devotee artists, including Naamleela Free Jones, Tamarind Free Jones, Ray Lynch, John Wubbenhorst, John Mackay, Sally Howe, Crane Kirkbride, Antonina Randazzo, Katya Grineva and many others.

Some of the twenty-five pieces on May You Ever Dwell In Our Hearts were written and offered in the days immediately following Adi Da's Passing on November 27, 2008, or in the year-long period of formal mourning that followed. Other songs were offered to Him in person during His Lifetime. This CD also contains new songs never released before by Naamleela, Tamarind, and other musicians.

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Solomone Finau (aka Solo), a longtime Fijian devotee, who lives at Adi Da Samrajashram in Fiji, pays tribute to Adi Da in a heartfelt communication.

Excerpt from First Evening: Track 9 on the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him.

Tags: Italian   Leela   Solo   Mahasamadhi   tribute   DVD  

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Adi Da huomioi, että jokainen meistä kuuluu ihmislajiin, emmekä ole erillä toisistamme.

"Ihmiskunnan Yhtenäisyys" ("The Unity of Humankind") is an excerpt from the Avataric Discourse of August 22, 2004.

Adi Da describes how humankind is a single family, a single species in "diaspora" — dispersed across the earth as the result of migrations from a single point of origin (in Africa) thousands of years ago. Making much of superficial differences due to race, nation, religion, language, tribe, political system, etc. obscures this more fundamental, deeper reality of the unity of humankind. For the sake of everyone's survival, humankind must begin to live on the basis of its unity, and establish a global cooperative order that includes and serves everyone.

Tags: Finnish   Avataric Discourse  

words: Avatar Adi Da Samraj
music: Chris Tong
sung by: the Adidam New England Choir
(with all devotees joining in)
choir members:
Chris Tong, Paul Caswell, Patricia Rydle, Lisa Alexandra Fry
pianist / choir director: Chris Tong
date: Danavira Mela, 1993

CHRIS: I just ran across an old audio tape with this recording. The quality is not the best, and the choir is not professional, but there is so much heart-feeling in devotees’ singing, and our Beloved Heart-Master’s Words are so beautiful and heart-moving, that I felt compelled to share this for Danavira Mela.

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Adi Da Samrajille omistautuneet keskittyvät ja juhlivat Hänen kirjoitetun ja puhutun Sanansa Mahtavaa Lahjaa maaliskuun aikana Adidamin pyhässä kulttuurissa. Suosittelemme tätä videota tapana osallistua tämän juhlan merkitykseen. Siinä on kolme osaa: ensin, vanhempi toimittaja Jonathan Condit antaa yleiskatsauksen Avatar Adi Dan kirjallisuuden tarkoituksesta; seuraavaksi Avatar Adi Da Itse puhuu tavasta, miten Hänen Sanansa voi vastaanottaa Hänen elävän Hengellisen Säteilyn Levityksenä; ja lopulta Dawn Horse Pressin päätoimittaja Megan Anderson kertoo omasta paveluksestaan Avatar Adi Dan Mestaritekstin, "The Aletheon":in, parissa.

Tags: Avataric Discourse   Finnish  

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Harvinainen ja julkaisematon Puhe heinäkuun 20. päivältä 1986 Hollannissa. Adi Da käsittelee epäilystä, tuota alkukantaista ihmistunnetta, suoraan ja yksinkertaiseen tapaan.

In 1986, Adi Da made His first visit to the European community of His devotees. He travelled through England, France and Holland. In the South of Holland, in the village of Maria Hoop close to the German border, a former Catholic monastery was found which could be rented for a few weeks. Devotees swiftly cleaned buildings and the grounds. Adi Da stayed in a specially prepared wing of the monastery for several days. During this time, He granted Darshan and held "Question and Answer" occasions in the chapel (now called Adi Da Kapel) with German, English, Dutch, French and American devotees. The former monastery has since been acquired by the European community of Adidam and is now known as The European Danda.

In "Mitä on epäilys?" ("What Is Doubt?"), a rare excerpt from one of the "Question and Answer" occasions, Adi Da addresses the primal human emotion of doubt in a most direct and simple manner. He describes how doubt is not ultimately a sign that we have been "betrayed" in some way. The radical solution to doubt is to identify with the Divine Itself, beyond the temporary cycles of the body and mind and beyond the sense of being a separate self.

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Devotee Lisa Lurie talks about her awakened recognition of Adi Da's Divine State of Being and of her reception of His Divine Spiritual Blessing Presence.

Tags: Polish  

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Cheech Marrero oli yksi varhaimmista Adi Dalle omistautuneista. Tässä "liilassa", tai tarinassa, joka kertoo omistautujan ja Jumalaisen Gurun välisestä suhteesta, Cheech puhuu ratkaisevasta hetkestä hänen suhteessaan Adi Dan kanssa.

This is the beautiful story of how our friend, Cheech Marrero, found Adi Da. Cheech has been around Adi Da for a long time, since the early 1970's, and is a great example of what a person becomes after living a life around a great Spiritual Master like Adi Da.

You can also read Cheech's story here.

Tags: Finnish  

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"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.

Tags: Spanish   CD   DVD  

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Avatar Adi Da Samraj kutsui ihmisiä lähestymään Häntä Hengellisenä Opettajana ensimmäistä kertaa 25. huhtikuuta 1972 Hänen uudessa ashramissaan Melrose Avenuella Los Angelesissa. Tuona iltana Avatar Adi Da ensin istui hiljaa noin tunnin verran läsnäolijoiden kanssa, Levittäen heille Hänen Säteilevää Toteutuksen Olotilansa Ylevyyttä.

Sitten Adi Da puhui:
ADI DA: "Onko kellään kysymyksiä?"
Kukaan ei vastannut, joten Avatar Adi Da Samraj kysyi uudelleen:
ADI DA: "Kaikki ovat ymmärtäneet?"
KYSYJ Ä: "En ymmärtänyt. Selitä minulle."
ADI DA: "Hyvä on. Mitä et ymmärtänyt?"

Ja niin alkoi Adi Dan Opetustyö!

For the first time, on April 25, 1972, Avatar Adi Da Samraj invited people to approach Him as Spiritual Teacher at His new ashram center on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. That evening, Avatar Adi Da first sat in silence for perhaps an hour with those present, Transmitting to them the Sublimity of His Radiant State of Realization. Then, Adi Da spoke.

ADI DA: Are there any questions?

No one replied, so Avatar Adi Da Samraj spoke again.

ADI DA: Everyone has understood?
QUESTIONER: I have not understood. Explain it to me.
ADI DA: Very good. What have you not understood?

And so began Adi Da's Teaching Work.

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Devotee Antonina Randazzo talks about Adi Da's passing and His Eternal Presence, and how He assured devotees that He would never leave them, and how she can confirm this in her own life.

Tags: Italian  

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Devotee Antonina Randazzo talks about Adi Da's passing and His Eternal Presence, and how He assured devotees that He would never leave them, and how she can confirm this in her own life.

Tags: Czech  

This video features leelas (stories) from several devotees about their awakened recognition of Adi Da's Divine State of Being and of their reception of His Divine Spiritual Blessing Presence. Leelas from: Miki Malinka, Greg Wells, Claire Murdoch, David Rosen, Nara Wood, Evelyn Selig, and Lisa Lurie.