poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 16:40 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: 2005 language: English listens: 5201; listens this month: 26; listens this week: 11
In this excerpt (from an Avataric Discourse from 2005), a devotee asks Adi Da a question about the nature of the ego and what is causing the sense of self-separation. In response, Adi Da describes how the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of anything. Our own activity (of separating from the Divine) causes the assumption of separation.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 25:49 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 7051; listens this month: 47; listens this week: 20
In an excerpt from His historic talk from 1972, "Money, Food, and Sex" (now published in My "Bright" Word), Adi Da addresses the dilemma those taking up "spiritual life" encounter when bringing discipline to the areas of money, food, and sex.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 16:10 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4274; listens this month: 20; listens this week: 11
In this passionate talk, Adi Da speaks to the crisis mankind is in and the urgency for true spiritual practice and the disposition that undermines mankind's assumption of separation.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:45 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: 1978 language: English listens: 6223; listens this month: 39; listens this week: 25
In this talk from 1978, Adi Da notes that cultism is rooted in the childish need to believe and to depend on a person, group, myth, or symbol — without assuming responsibility for oneself. He then points out that the tendency to create a cult (of whatever kind) is present in everyone, every level of human society and culture. Adi Da criticizes the tendency toward cultism in the world at large and within His community of devotees. He calls His devotees to understand and relinquish all modes of false and childish dependency on Him as a Spiritual Master, and to make only the most serious and mature approach to Him, for the great purpose of Spiritual Awakening and Divine Enlightenment.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:05 date added: October 5, 2010 event date: May 31, 1980 language: English listens: 3974; listens this month: 16; listens this week: 9
In this discourse from May 31, 1980, a student of Avatar Adi Da asks Him for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da responds both with compassion and also with very practical advice.
[The recording of Adi Da's voice is slightly distorted, but understandable.]
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 17:31 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4931; listens this month: 27; listens this week: 14
In this podcast, which is drawn from two talks and a recitation from Adi Da's Teaching, Avatar Adi Da brings His unique clarity and offers commentary on the commercialization of religion. He describes how the consumer mentality has infiltrated the area of religion. We hear from the media and the popular psyche that you can buy religion and become "spiritual" without real change — and Adi Da points out how this presumption is false. Adi Da contasts consumer religion with true religion.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 23:52 date added: October 4, 2010 event date: 2008 language: English listens: 7586; listens this month: 36; listens this week: 21
On November 27, 2008, Adi Da Samraj passed from His body in His Hermitage Sanctuary in Fiji. This extended podcast includes:
* a chronicle of His passing;
* 8:37: an audio excerpt from a talk Adi Da gave in 1995, in which He spoke about His physical death and the continuation of His spiritual and world work;
* 16:43: continuation of the chronicle of His passing. Interviews with devotees who made the pilgrimage to Naitauba shortly after Adi Da's passing.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 19:02 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 5440; listens this month: 24; listens this week: 11
This podcast is drawn from two talks.
In the first excerpt (from the talk, What Is Your Intention?), Adi Da speaks of the indispensable need for a true and fully accomplished Spiritual Realizer if anyone hopes to discover the ultimate nature of Reality and Truth.
In the second excerpt (at 8:40), Adi Da explains the true way of recognizing Him, the Spiritual Master, and how it is that felt recognition that ultimately becomes the Way of Perfect Liberation.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 22:59 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 3503; listens this month: 13; listens this week: 4
Fear is an inherent characteristic of identification with the mortal body. Adi Da explains that such fear cannot be escaped, but that identification with the body can be understood and utterly transcended in the Divine Self-Condition.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 11:00 date added: October 5, 2010 event date: 1977 language: English listens: 3736; listens this month: 18; listens this week: 9
This podcast is an excerpt from a 1977 discourse, in which Adi Da responds to a devotee's question about the difficulty — and apparent inability — to love.
[Note: there is nothing further on the audio clip after 11:00.]
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 20:10 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4029; listens this month: 20; listens this week: 12
This podcast is drawn from two talks in which Adi Da talks about science and scientific materialism. He describes what science can serve and what the limits are in its endeavor to discover the truth about Reality.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:57 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: February 1, 1985 language: English listens: 4023; listens this month: 18; listens this week: 9
In this talk (from Feb. 1, 1985), Adi Da describes what actually happens during and after the death process. While we survive death, that fact is of no consolation. At death, there is the falling off of the physical body, but the mind, psyche, and personality created and reinforced during one's life (and previous lifetimes) continue. Without the anchor of the body, we drift aimlessly into the disturbances of mind and psyche that remain. Therefore, what occurs after death is directly associated with what one does in life.
This talk is also published as "This Liberating Impulse" in the book, Easy Death.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 20:18 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: 1986 language: English listens: 3978; listens this month: 16; listens this week: 6
In this excerpt (from a talk Adi Da gave in Holland in 1986), Adi Da 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.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 09:45 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: January 21, 2005 language: English listens: 7121; listens this month: 55; listens this week: 22
In this talk excerpt, Adi Da addresses the fact that Truth or God-Realization is not dependent on, nor does it have anything to do with, the functions and activities of the body-mind. It cannot be achieved through sex, science, or even religion.
This excerpt is from the DVD, Beyond Sex, Science and "self". Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew. Also available as a CD.
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