The Sunshine Makers poster: frizz lefryd length: 07:43 date added: May 8, 2010 language: English views: 10751; views this month: 58; views this week: 15
One of Adi Da's favorite cartoons, "The Sunshine Makers" is a classic from the golden age of animation. Released on January 11, 1935 (an auspicious day of the year, in the sacred calendar of Adidam), the cartoon was directed by Ted Eshbaugh, the first artist/technician to figure out how to create animated cartoons in color. This restored print is the highest quality available, and is from the DVD, Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parade Cartoons.
"The Sunshine Makers" is the third cartoon in the "Rainbow Parade Series", which was produced by Van Beuren Studios to compete with Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies". The series consisted of 27 full color, animated shorts, and was distributed to theaters by RKO between 1934 and 1936. (You can watch more of these here.)
"The Sunshine Makers" later became a regular on 1950's television, after the sale of RKO's film library. In his book, Of Mice and Magic, well-known film critic Leonard Maltin writes that his childhood (in the 1950's) included "countless viewings" of the cartoon.
"The Sunshine Makers" is also one of Adi Da's favorite cartoons, because of its depiction of Light and Happiness (magnified and spread by the "Sunshine gnomes" in the cartoon) dissolving and outshining the force of egoity (the "gloomies").
In his article, "The Sunshine Makers cartoon from 1935", James Steinberg writes, "Bhagavan Adi Da loved that cartoon! He thought that it showed the simplicity of the argument of the open hand and the closed fist, or that our un-happiness is just something that we presume. Just like He used to tell us when we came to the Mountain of Attention, or came to see Him altogether, that we could 'leave it at the gate'. There is no reason to presume the dilemma in the face of the Divine (or truly altogether). We used to watch 'The Sunshine Makers' cartoon with Him when we had to watch it on a 16mm projector. I saw it multiple times with Bhagavan and He would laugh heartily as it was shown and watch our faces to see our reactions beaming with Happiness. He always used to tell us that we could just 'drop it in the moment' (our self-contraction) and that it was 'just an act'."
Further notes on the cartoon:
* It's a musical! Almost all speech is set to music.
* At 0:43: The "Sunshine gnomes" start their morning with a conscious exercise routine that begins with bowing down to the Transcendental Sun (the source of their sunshine): "Hail, His Majesty, the Sun!"
* At 7:00: When the "gloomies" refuse to "take their medicine", the gnomes force "sunshine" down their throats. In the words of the great Spiritual Master, Sri Ramakrishna: "There are three classes of physicians: superior, mediocre, and inferior. The physician who feels the patient's pulse and just says to him, 'Take the medicine regularly' belongs to the inferior class. He doesn't care to inquire whether or not the patient has actually taken the medicine. The mediocre physician is he who in various ways persuades the patient to take the medicine, and says to him sweetly: 'My good man, how will you be cured unless you use the medicine? Take this medicine. I have made it for you myself.' But he who, finding the patient stubbornly refusing to take the medicine, forces it down his throat, going so far as to put his knee on the patient's chest is the best physician. This is the manifestation of the tamas of the physician. It doesn't injure the patient; on the contrary, it does him good."
poster: realityway speaker: Max Rykov length: 08:38 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3590; views this month: 7; views this week: 3
In the final part of this three-part series, Max Rykov speaks of his recognition and experience of Who Adi Da Is.
poster: realityway speaker: Max Rykov length: 07:42 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3913; views this month: 6; views this week: 4
In the second part of this three-part series, 20 year-old Max Rykov continues to describe the process he went through before becoming a formal devotee of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, including some of the difficulties he initially came up against.
poster: realityway speaker: Max Rykov length: 08:24 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 4133; views this month: 8; views this week: 5
In part one of this three-part series, 20 year-old Max Rykov describes first hearing about Avatar Adi Da Samraj and how Beloved Adi Da began to manifest in his life. More from Max here.
The Silver Hall poster: realityway speaker: Jonathan Condit length: 05:57 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 5971; views this month: 8; views this week: 2
The Silver Hall is a set-apart hall in Adi Da's home on Naitauba, Fiji. Adi Da uses this hall for the purpose of "Transmission Sittings" during which He Initiates his mature devotees into the Spiritual dimension of the relationship to Him. The Silver Hall continues to be used for this very special purpose, after Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi.
A brief excerpt of a Divinely inspired performance, in honor of Adi Da Samraj. A truly gifted pianist! In this brief clip, she is playing Chopin's famous "Rainbow Fantasy".
poster: frank marrero speaker: Frank Marrero length: 08:48 date added: March 17, 2009 language: English views: 2690; views this month: 4; views this week: 3
The miraculous nature of the Master's sensitivity to devotees is detailed.
poster: frank marrero speaker: Frank Marrero length: 05:07 date added: March 17, 2009 language: English views: 3118; views this month: 4; views this week: 4
The extraordinary sensitivity of the Spiritual Master: "divine radar"... three stories are told illustrating this.
The Fire Must Have Its Way poster: frank marrero length: 01:55 date added: February 5, 2009 event date: July 17, 1978 language: English views: 4386; views this month: 12; views this week: 3
Beloved Da Stands firm in Divine insistence that the Light comes from the fire of spiritual purification.
What can possibly carry you deeper than your everyday self? Any focus or occupation added from the outside can't disolve your apparent limitations and boundaries; it only reinforces them.
The Sacred Arts in Adidam poster: satsang length: 03:39 date added: February 5, 2009 language: English views: 2679; views this month: 5; views this week: 1
The true and sacred purpose of music and art is to connect the viewer or the listener with the Divine. Adi Da has created a complete sacred culture in which all devotees are called to take up a particular sacred art as a part of their practice of the Way of Adidam.
Love Is How I Got To Here poster: Chandirah length: 02:53 date added: February 1, 2009 language: English views: 4228; views this month: 5; views this week: 1
Adi Da talks about what there is to Realize, in the enlightenment process, freedom, love-bliss, the Divine Self condition. Apologies for the less than perfect sound quality.
poster: AdidamVideos length: 05:28 date added: February 1, 2009 event date: 2005 language: English views: 4979; views this month: 6; views this week: 3
Adi Da gives a Radical and profound description of the true nature of the Divine Reality, Stating that the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of anything, Adi Da goes on to describe how it is our own separation from that which is the very Divine, that causes the assumption of separation.
This talk excerpt is followed by a clip of Darshan of Adi Da (at 4:27).
Love of the God-Man poster: jonobono length: 09:29 date added: February 1, 2009 event date: October 10, 1983 language: English views: 4262; views this month: 15; views this week: 10
Talk given by Adi Da on October 10, 1983, in which He makes clear that only ego-transcending responsive devotion to the Real-God-Man relieves the heart of the ego's "self"-created "purgatory" of separation, separativeness, and unlove.
Adi Da: "What is supremely attractive in the conditionally manifested universe and in the human "world" is the Real-God-Man. All beings, male or female, must become Attracted, Distracted by That One. This is the Ultimate Means, the Supreme Means, the Supreme Yoga. It is for this reason that the Divine Appears in manifested form in the likeness of those beings who are to be Drawn out of bondage — but only in their likeness. . . Those who become capable of recognizing That One become capable of responding to That Attraction. And those who become capable of being Distracted by That One become participants in this Supreme Way, Which is truly the Way of Divine Avataric Grace, because it requires no effort. It requires nothing but My Divine Avataric Grace and the response to it."
The Way Is Not a System! poster: frank marrero length: 02:54 date added: February 1, 2009 language: English views: 3223; views this month: 4; views this week: 1
Beloved Adi Da (as Bubba here) Humorously confronts a questioner (the editor of the Communion's magazine) about the abstract nature of his questions.
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