No one Is Thinking These Words poster: AdiDaVideos length: 35:02 date added: March 20, 2013 event date: July 7, 2005 language: English views: 2542; views this month: 7; views this week: 4
In this Discourse, Avatar Adi Da responds to a question about the "problem" of mind and the presumption of a separate "self".
poster: AdiDaVideos length: 13:13 date added: March 20, 2013 event date: January 18, 1976 language: English views: 7358; views this month: 17; views this week: 10
In this seminal discourse (at The Mountain Of Attention), from the early years of His Teaching Work, Adi Da speaks about the inevitable process of self-revelation and self-understanding that prepares the being for true Spiritual life.
On the evening of October 12, 2004, Avatar Adi Da not only answered His devotees’ questions (ranging from the capacity of discrimination to living a Divinely Purposed life), He also addressed the chronic self-reference "I" in the patterns of speech. He pointed out that there is no actual experience of such a one, though language and thought are built upon the illusion of a separate "self". Adi Da contrasted this ego-based condition to the Wordless and Thoughtless State of the Divine.
This 12-minute excerpt is from the DVD, The Wordless Condition Prior to "I", which presents Adi Da's entire Avataric Discourse of October 12, 2004 (approximately 3 hours and 36 minutes altogether).
After Death Mind Makes You poster: AdiDaVideos length: 15:23 date added: January 21, 2013 event date: December 12, 1988 language: English views: 3065; views this month: 7; views this week: 2
In a sobering discourse, Adi Da speaks of the condition after death in which mind determines one's circumstance, without the limitations of the body, brain and unconsciousness. He addresses the fact that where one's attention is fixed during life affects attention and destiny after life. He recommends that devotees direct their attention to sadhana so that the purification process gives one wisdom that frees one from karmic limitations.
This talk is published as "After Death, Mind Makes You", in the book, Easy Death.
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.
This video excerpt is from the DVD, Easy Death. Subtitles in English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew.
Serving the Dying poster: AdiDaVideos length: 10:43 date added: January 21, 2013 event date: May 31, 1980 language: English views: 2059; views this month: 2; views this week: 1
In this discourse from May 31, 1980 at The Mountain Of Attention, a student of Avatar Adi Da asks Him for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da then responds both with compassion and also with very practical advice on how to serve the dying.
Self-Contraction poster: TheBeezone length: 00:53 date added: November 30, 2012 event date: 2004 language: English views: 3117; views this month: 9; views this week: 5
Adi Da speaks about our failure to notice the Divine Reality and why this is so: self contraction of the body-mind as "Narcissus", the separate self.
What makes Avatar Adi Da’s seventh stage Revelation utterly unique? To find out, listen to this CD set and learn about Adi Da’s singular seventh stage Way as He describes It directly and in the context of other genuine esoteric traditions. These Discourse excerpts are an incredible resource for understanding Adi Da’s seventh stage Way with the guidance of His “map” of the six stages of life, which correlates to the structures of the human being.
Disc 1 is a collection of Discourse excerpts in which Adi Da clarifies His seventh stage Way by distinguishing it from other esoteric traditions.
Disc 2 is a single Discourse in which Adi Da describes the signs and requirements of His seventh stage Way.
The Quandra Loka Suite poster: scribe108 length: 06:32 date added: November 22, 2012 language: English views: 5947; views this month: 19; views this week: 11
In late 2002 and early 2003, Adi Da Samraj created the photographic suite, Quandra Loka. The images are generally multiple exposures on a single black-and-white frame of film. Adi Da then created configurations (diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs) from the single frame images.
Music is "Facing Beloved", from the CD, Facing Beloved, with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Subash Chandran (ghatam) and Ganesh Kumar (kanjira). This piece is based on a melody from J.S. Bach (siciliano) with elements of Raga Kirwani.
Adi Da Samraj describing his Realization of Nirvikalpa Samadhi at Swami Muktananda's ashram in India in 1968 and how it differed from His Seventh Stage Realization in the Vedanta Temple in 1970.
special terminology: siddhi; all-and-All
This clip is excerpted from a longer clip which can be found here.
poster: AdiDaVideos length: 07:42 date added: November 4, 2012 event date: August 30, 2004 language: English views: 5075; views this month: 13; views this week: 9
A video excerpt from part 6 ("The Glasses of Consciousness") of the DVD, You Are The Question You Ask, which was drawn from Adi Da's Avataric Discourse of August 30, 2004.
Adi Da talks about how human beings presume that they are just a body and a mind, and this creates the mistaken sense of separation from others and the Divine.
The Recognition of My State poster: AdiDaVideos length: 10:30 date added: November 3, 2012 event date: October 20, 2004 language: English views: 4090; views this month: 19; views this week: 13
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.
In this discourse, Adi Da proposes that all human lifetimes are a “quest for the historical self”. He describes how this search is based on the activity of “self”-contraction — the erroneous presumption of an actual, defined, knowable “self”.
The Essence of the Way of Adidam poster: AdiDaVideos length: 05:39 date added: October 30, 2012 event date: April 12, 2004 language: English views: 8761; views this month: 45; views this week: 12
Adi Da describes why conventional religious and spiritual approaches fail to fully realize the Divine. He then summarizes, in a simple way, the practice He offers: the Reality-Way of Adidam.
poster: AdiDaVideos length: 06:45 date added: October 30, 2012 event date: October 28, 1978 language: English views: 3360; views this month: 14; views this week: 9
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