Notes on the Adidam Mission poster: TheBeezone length: 07:55 date added: September 18, 2012 event date: 2004 language: English views: 3723; views this month: 6; views this week: 4 In 2004, Adi Da Samraj talks to devotee Peter Harvey-Wright about using the Devotional Prayer of Changes to serve the Adidam Mission. He distinguishes conventional "neurotic prayer" (in which a person relates to God like a big "Parent") from the Prayer of Changes, which requires not just visualization but a change in action. As part of that change in action, He mentions the "barefoot Mission" (a phrase meant to emphasize the one-on-one nature of a truly effective Mission). He also stresses the importance of an authentic culture of Adidam as essential for attracting new devotees.tags: MissionDevotional Prayer of ChangesAvataric Discourse
Adidam South Africa poster: samraj07 length: 01:59 date added: September 2, 2012 language: English views: 2041; views this month: 8; views this week: 5 Devotee (and Adidam missionary for South Africa) Gavin Brown offers a personal invitation to all those living in South Africa who are interested in learning more about Adi Da to connect with him.tags: South Africa
Locate What Is Real poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:49 date added: February 23, 2012 event date: October 10, 2004 language: English views: 4164; views this month: 8; views this week: 2 This is an excerpt from the DVD, Locate What Is Real, an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on October 10, 2004.
On the full DVD: * Adi Da describes how Reality is the true “first experience” for everyone — more fundamental to existence than identification with the apparently “born” being. * He speaks about how music and other arts can function as extensions of Spirituality. * He talks about Ramana Maharshi and the sixth stage orientation, in contrast to His seventh stage Reality-Way. * He addresses a devotee’s experience of emotional trauma, and how such events can affect one’s life. * He describes His own Submission, in His early life, to the process of Christian mystical experience.tags: avataric discourseDVDsixth stage traditions
poster: antoniavidor speaker: Toni Vidor length: 02:06 date added: January 14, 2012 language: English views: 4796; views this month: 13; views this week: 5 After becoming Adi Da's devotee, Toni Vidor talks about meeting Him for the first time at Ordeal Bath Lodge, at The Mountain Of Attention. She is stunned by what she sees!
poster: antoniavidor speaker: Toni Vidor length: 07:01 date added: January 13, 2012 language: English views: 4589; views this month: 17; views this week: 12 Toni Vidor talks about her mission to India to find (at Adi Da's request) the elusive "mercury bead", said to possess rejuvenative qualities and provide healing. How she Gracefully fulfilled Adi Da's seemingly impossible request.
The Sermon on the Mount poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:42 date added: October 4, 2011 event date: May 26, 2006 language: English listens: 4808; listens this month: 15; listens this week: 5 On May 28, 2006, with breathtaking clarity and insight, Avatar Adi Da offered a rendering of the moral and Spiritual Teachings of Jesus of Galilee, revealing the true depth of Jesus’s authenticity as a great Realizer, in continuity with the ancient esoteric tradition of Spiritual Transmission-Masters. This communication is available on the double CD from the Dawn Horse Press, The Spiritual Gospel of Saint Jesus of Galilee.
This audio excerpt is Adi Da's rendering of Jesus' Teaching from Matthew 5:1 – 5:10: "The Sermon on the Mount".tags: JesusGospelSermon on the MountCD
Beyond Sex, Science, and self poster: DawnHorsePress length: 10:00 date added: July 27, 2011 event date: January 21, 2005 language: English views: 6199; views this month: 19; views this week: 14 In this Adidam Revelation Discourse from January 21, 2005, Adi Da reveals that Liberation cannot ever be achieved through sex, science, or religion! And He makes the astounding assertion, “Realization has nothing to do with the body-mind.”
Watch this DVD for Adi Da's Instruction on True Freedom, which He says is discovered only in the utter transcending of “point of view”, by means of the Transmission of Reality Itself. "The 'self'-contraction, the 'point of view', the 'point-of-view'-machine and what it presumes to be Reality, the illusions of Reality created by 'point of view' — these are the important matters to be understood. The 'you' to which you refer as 'I', the ego-'I', is a 'point-of-view'-machine. It is subject to the illusions of the cosmic apparition, the illusions that 'point of view' itself is subject to — space-time, mass, and so forth."
Wake Up! poster: AdiDaUpClose length: 05:45 date added: July 17, 2011 language: English listens: 1974; listens this month: 4; listens this week: 1 In this audio clip (from 1987?), Adi Da passionately reiterates His Need for Instrumentality and Agency to continue the human demonstration of His Work here, and the accessibility of His Transmission.
The Sphere of My Inherent Radiance poster: AdiDaUpClose length: 15:42 date added: July 9, 2011 event date: July 3, 1988 language: English listens: 4827; listens this month: 11; listens this week: 3 In this talk, given at The Mountain Of Attention on July 3, 1988, Avatar Adi Da Samraj discourses on His Spiritual Transmission, which He describes as transcending space-time and occurring in the "True Realm of Reality". He Reveals the mystery of how it is "very easy" for Him to Spiritually Bless the entirety of the cosmos with His Transmission.
ADI DA: "If you walked into a room, and there were a light shining in the ceiling, it would be shining in all directions. You would see the light at one point, depending on your position in the room, and say 'It's shining on me', as if in some sense the lightbulb noticed you! But in fact the lightbulb is radiating in all directions indifferently. You are in a position to notice it.
Of course you had to come into the room to notice it. If you didn't come into the room, if you stood outside the room, in other words, if you stood apart from this Transmission, from My Company, through some barrier or other, of your own obstruction in mind and emotion and so on, then you wouldn't come in contact with Me, you wouldn't be able to receive this Transmission."
poster: TheBeezone speakers: James Steinberg, Ed Reither length: 05:42 date added: February 1, 2011 event date: January 26, 2011 language: English views: 4726; views this month: 10; views this week: 5 Ed Reither of The Beezone interviews longtime devotee James Steinberg about his early life up to and including becoming a devotee of Adi Da Samraj. James talks about the early times of Adidam and people's desire to have transmission experiences from Adi Da Samraj and how Adi Da Samraj constantly emphasized that Spiritual Realization had nothing to do with any conditional experience regardless of whether it is spiritual or material.
[This clip is actually only 5 minutes and 42 seconds in length.]
poster: TheBeezone speakers: Ed Reither, James Steinberg length: 11:02 date added: January 29, 2011 language: English views: 4653; views this month: 10; views this week: 4 Ed Reither of The Beezone interviews longtime devotee James Steinberg about his early life up to and including becoming a devotee of Adi Da Samraj. James talks about the early days of Adidam and people's desire to have transmission experiences from Adi Da Samraj and how Adi Da Samraj constantly emphasized that Spiritual Realization had nothing to do with any conditional experience regardless of whether it is spiritual or material.
Interview of Anthony Costabile by Never Not Here TV poster: NNHTV speaker: Anthony Costabile length: 96:40 date added: January 19, 2011 event date: January 2011 language: English views: 4077; views this month: 8; views this week: 2 Never Not Here TV is a weekly public access TV show in the Chicago area devoted to interviewing people with interesting ideas about the meaning of life. Richard Miller of NNHTV talks with devotee Anthony Costabile about Adi Da and Adidam. Anthony is one of the principal missionaries and communicators for Adidam. He currently lives in the Chicago Ashram.tags: Anthony Costabile
The Silver Hall poster: realityway speaker: Jonathan Condit length: 05:57 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 5977; views this month: 13; views this week: 7 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.
poster: frank marrero speaker: Frank Marrero length: 07:56 date added: March 17, 2009 language: English views: 3544; views this month: 7; views this week: 3 Continuation (two minute "overlap" with part 1).
How Frank Marrero's struggle with Adi Da's "Divinity" was undone by Adi Da's Transmission at the Initiations after The Day of the Heart, in 1981.tags: Frank MarreroLeelaInitiation
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