The Recognition of My State poster: AdiDaVideos length: 10:30 date added: November 3, 2012 event date: October 20, 2004 language: English views: 4091; views this month: 20; views this week: 11
In this talk ("Tacit Recognition Of My State") Adi Da describes what He means by recognition of Him (as the Divine), and response to Him on that basis.
special terminology: Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga; Murti forms; Samadhi.
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.
For more about the significance of recognition in becoming Adi Da's devotee, click here.
poster: AdiDaVideos length: 06:45 date added: October 30, 2012 event date: October 28, 1978 language: English views: 3360; views this month: 12; views this week: 8
poster: TheBeezone length: 14:14 date added: September 8, 2012 event date: 1988 language: English views: 5304; views this month: 15; views this week: 5
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.
Audio excerpt from Adi Da's talk, "Sex, Laughter, and Real-God-Realization" (now available on CD).
Sexuality, humor, and Awakening to the Divine Condition are three forms of ecstasy, or unbounded feeling, that disrupt the conventional sense of “order” in society. Pleasure undoes the body. Humor undoes the mind. And Realization undoes the sense of “self”. The Fullness of Real-God-Realization Comprehends and Transcends the limitations of social norms, spiritual presumptions, and self-identification, granting the capability of Real Happiness and True Freedom.
True Discipline poster: TheBeezone length: 01:22 date added: August 18, 2012 event date: April 15, 1974 language: English listens: 2809; listens this month: 10; listens this week: 4
An excerpt from Garbage and the Goddess on true discipline. "Happiness is the responsibility. Freedom is the discipline."
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poster: DawnHorsePress length: 01:00 date added: August 6, 2012 event date: 2012 language: English listens: 3059; listens this month: 15; listens this week: 13
"Brahmanandam", track 1 from Hansa, an album of ancient Indian prayers and poems set to new music by Tamarind Free Jones and Gawain Mathews.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 00:48 date added: August 6, 2012 event date: 2012 language: English listens: 3485; listens this month: 13; listens this week: 10
Title track from Hansa, an album of ancient Indian prayers and poems set to new music by Tamarind Free Jones and Gawain Mathews.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:03 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: December 23, 1973 language: English listens: 5051; listens this month: 10; listens this week: 4
An excerpt from "Guru As Prophet", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da speaks of the Guru's role as prophet in the world, which is to create "an aggravation, a criticism, an undermining of the usual life". He speaks of how the Guru in the function of prophet is always working to produce a condition in which people's illusions may be undone.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:34 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 5705; listens this month: 18; listens this week: 7
An excerpt from "Money, Food, and Sex", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da criticizes the typical conception of Spirituality as having nothing to do with the realities of day-to-day life and says that taking responsibility for money, food, and sex creates the foundation practice of genuine spiritual practice.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:06 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: September 21, 1972 language: English listens: 4373; listens this month: 10; listens this week: 4
An excerpt from "Walking the Dog", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Using the analogy of a man walking his dog to describe the usual man's self-indulgence and sub-consciousness, Avatar Adi Da Samraj humorously expounds on the true nature of our own egoity.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:49 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: June 20, 1972 language: English listens: 4920; listens this month: 10; listens this week: 4
An excerpt from "The Avon Lady", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da explains how there is no search and no dilemma when one is in Satsang (the company of the Guru).
poster: Tastingthemoon speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell length: 11:59 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 5022; views this month: 12; views this week: 4
poster: Tastingthemoon speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell length: 07:35 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 13632; views this month: 21; views this week: 14
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.
poster: Tastingthemoon speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell length: 09:30 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 5306; views this month: 12; views this week: 5
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