Testimonianze di devoti di Adi Da poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano speaker: Stanley Hastings length: 11:18 date added: July 15, 2021 language: Italian views: 492; views this month: 8; views this week: 1 [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.]
Stanley Hastings talks about his childhood and adolescence growing up in the Adidam community. Like many other young people, as a teenager, he decided to see for himself what the world had to offer. After several years of experimenting, he decided to return to Adi Da and the Way of life He offered — to fully participate again in the life of the community and to serve Adi Da directly.tags: Italian
Ben Grisso on Adi Da's Art Creation Process poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano speaker: Ben Grisso length: 08:30 date added: June 28, 2021 event date: November 29, 2009 language: Italian views: 821; views this month: 32; views this week: 5 [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.]
Devotee Ben Grisso, who grew up in the Adidam community, and who worked with Adi Da on His Divine Image-Art, offers this testimonial to Adi Da's life and work.
Excerpt from Second Evening: Track 11 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.
Negli Alti e Bassi della Vitail Guru É una Costante di Stabilitŕ poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 09:58 date added: May 18, 2021 event date: July 29, 1973 language: Italian views: 548; views this month: 12; views this week: 3 [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.]
By tendency, people are bound to the natural cycle of ups and downs. Neither bodily pleasures nor spiritual pursuits result in True Freedom from this constant phasing. One path merely accentuates the descending (or bodily) experiences and the other, the ascending (or subtle) experiences.
In this Discourse, Avatar Adi Da reveals with absolute clarity how the relationship with the Guru gives freedom from this trap—because the Guru is the Manifestation of the Condition that is Prior to this mechanical cycling, not part of it.
Watching this DVD will transport viewers to a special moment in Adidam history. July 29, 1973, was the day Avatar Adi Da left Los Angeles for a Yajna (sacred journey) through India and Nepal. He returned as “Bubba Free John”, His first spontaneously revealed Teaching-Name. Thus, this was the last Discourse He gave as “Franklin Jones” (Avatar Adi Da’s birth name).tags: Italian
Inaugurazione della Mostra - Museo del Bargello Firenze, Italia poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano speakers: Tommaso Sacchi, Michael Fleck, Francesca Faggi, Pien Rademakers, Christina Acidini, Giuliano Serafini, Serena Croce length: 07:20 date added: April 15, 2021 event date: 2015 language: Italian views: 779; views this month: 20; views this week: 3 [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.]
Opening night gala (July 9, 2015) for Adi Da Samraj, “The Ascent of Orpheus” exhibition at the Bargello National Museum, Florence. Includes opening events and interviews.
Adi Da Samraj: Vita e Opere poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano speaker: Ruchiradama Nadikanta length: 25:38 date added: April 2, 2021 event date: November 28, 2009 language: Italian views: 533; views this month: 16; views this week: 1 [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.]
An overview of Adi Da's life and work by Ruchiradama Nadikanta, a long-time devotee. She is a member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order, the order of fully renunciate practitioners in Adidam.tags: Italian
Testimonianza di una devota di Adi Da poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano speaker: Isabelle Trudeau length: 04:18 date added: March 10, 2021 event date: 2021 language: Italian views: 492; views this month: 14; views this week: 3 [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.]
Isabelle Trudeau, a devotee of Adi Da, talks about the process by which she recognized Adi Da as her Spiritual Master and about her decision to formally take up the Way of Adidam.tags: Italian
Il Processo Spirituale prende semprevita in momenti difficili poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 10:16 date added: January 11, 2021 event date: November 28, 1981 language: Italian views: 845; views this month: 18; views this week: 3 [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.]
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.tags: CDDVDItalian
La Storia di come ho trovato Adi Da nel 1973 poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano speaker: Cheech Marrerro length: 10:39 date added: December 12, 2020 language: Italian views: 731; views this month: 13; 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.]
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.
Vivete con il Fuoco che vi Purifica poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 15:27 date added: August 12, 2020 event date: July 17, 1978 language: Italian views: 392; views this month: 7; views this week: 1 [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.]
This is an 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 3. It is also available as a CD. The talk also appears in written form in the book, My "Bright" Sight and online here.tags: CDDVDItalian
Non C'č Luce Se Prima Non C'č Fuoco poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 08:16 date added: July 13, 2020 event date: July 17, 1978 language: Italian views: 657; views this month: 10; views this week: 1 [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.]
Questo testo č un estratto da un piů completo discorso intitolato " Il Fuoco deve fare il suo Percorso". Il completo discorso di Adi Da Samraj č disponibile in inglese sul DVD "The Fire Must Have Its Way".
"Non C'č Luce Se Prima Non C'č Fuoco" ("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: ItalianDVDCD
Adidam non č un modo religioso poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 10:17 date added: May 4, 2020 event date: January 21, 2005 language: Italian views: 885; views this month: 15; views this week: 1 [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.]
"Adidam non č un modo religioso" ("Adidam is Not a Religious Way") is a video excerpt from an Avataric Discourse, given by Adi Da on January 21, 2005, at Adi Da Samrajashram.
ADI DA: "Religion" belongs to a domain of efforts that are "point-of-view"-based, cosmological in nature, associated with myths of apparent Reality as perceived. None of that has anything to do with the Realization of Reality Itself.tags: Avataric Discourse, DVDItalian
Dedicate la vostra vita alla Realizzazione del Divino poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 19:34 date added: March 31, 2020 event date: July 2, 1988 language: Italian views: 1108; views this month: 21; 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.]
On July 2, 1988, in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, "Contemplation, Satsang, Sadhana", which would appear in the May/June 1988 issue of Crazy Wisdom Magazine.
In this excerpt, "Dedicate la vostra vita alla Realizzazione del Divino" ("Dedicate Your Life To God-Realization"), Adi Da speaks about the necessity for "sadhana", or spiritual practice, in relationship to the God-Realized Spiritual Master.
"All there is is a mechanism to be dealt with. You're not uniquely born. It's the same mechanism as in all other cases. And, in all cases it requires a tremendous ordeal."
Beginning at 17:30 (and continuing to the end of this video), a formal Darshan occasion is shown.tags: DarshanItalian
Die Freiheit von allem Verlust poster: Adi Da Videos Deutschland length: 15:47 date added: March 31, 2020 event date: October 3, 2004 language: German views: 1194; views this month: 29; views this week: 5 [Contains German 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.]
In this video excerpt, "Die Freiheit von allem Verlust" ("Human Loss and Grief"), Adi Da Samraj talks about the pain of loss, and about liberation. This is in response to a devotee's question about the Devotional Prayer Of Changes and the death of the devotee's grandchild.
Questo Posto Non E' Utopia poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano length: 10:38 date added: February 18, 2020 event date: October 6, 2005 language: Italian views: 1102; views this month: 13; views this week: 3 [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.]
"Questo Posto Non E' Utopia" ("This Place Is Not a Utopia") is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da Samraj on October 6, 2005, at the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
ADI DA: "I find people's sorrows and losses to be heartbreaking and terrible and an immense burden and I am sympathetic and bless people in their trouble. However you must understand that is the nature of this place. This is not utopia, it is not paradise. It is a place of death, endings, suffering, brief amusements. It is not enough and merely to react to your difficulties for overlong and try to make an entire life out of it is fruitless. You do have to move on beyond that reaction to any moments suffering and loss. You must know the place you’re in and live in accordance with that knowledge instead of being sympathetic with some false view of the world or self or trying to idealize some aspect of potential experience, indulging in what amounts to addictions, repetitions of experiences, in order to avoid the knowledge of what is inherent in life, as well as all the hell that is coming on earth and is here. You will not be fulfilled.”tags: ItalianAvataric Discourse
poster: Aniello Panico speaker: Aniello Panico length: 09:48 date added: January 21, 2020 language: English views: 1728; views this month: 28; views this week: 7 Longtime devotee Aniello Panico tells a story from one of the happiest days of his life: the day Bhagavan Adi Da met and Blessed his mother (when she was 79 or 80 years old) at the Mountain Of Attention, during the Ten-Day Gathering of 1995-1996. This video tells the whole joyous story.
ANIELLO: "I like to share this story because it shows the human compassion and humor of the Guru."
The cookbook Aniello and Brenda helped create for Aniello's mother, Elodia Rigante's Italian Immigrant Cooking, and a New York Times article on the book, Recapturing the Flavors of an Era (August 27, 1995). Aniello, quoted in the article, "We all got heavier putting this cookbook together. . . I gained seven pounds."
For a photo of Adi Da with Aniello's mother, click here.
For a photo of Adi Da holding Aniello's mother's hand, click here.
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