poster: CDBaby length: 15:20 date added: December 1, 2018 event date: August 22, 2004 language: English views: 1922; views this month: 16; views this week: 3 This is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on August 22, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc one, track 2 of the double-CD, Science Is A Method, Not A Philosophy, in which Avatar Adi Da unravels present-day scientific presumptions, with great humor and penetrating insight. Adi Da reveals how scientific materialism has replaced the sacred orientation in life and indoctrinated humankind into limited belief systems, discussing common views about evolution, astronomy versus astrology, ancient religions, the expanding universe, the "language" of mathematics and shape, and more. In addition, He masterfully describes how knowledge is an effort to achieve power over nature, based on the fundamental illusion that there is such a thing as an independent (or "objective") "point of view". In this process, Avatar Adi Da calls His listeners to be free of all false authorities, and to consider the Way that perfectly transcends "point of view" itself.
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poster: CDBaby length: 15:10 date added: November 30, 2018 event date: August 26, 2004 language: English views: 1911; views this month: 8; views this week: 1 This is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on August 26, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc one, track 1 of the double-CD, Science Is A Method, Not A Philosophy, in which Avatar Adi Da unravels present-day scientific presumptions, with great humor and penetrating insight. Adi Da reveals how scientific materialism has replaced the sacred orientation in life and indoctrinated humankind into limited belief systems, discussing common views about evolution, astronomy versus astrology, ancient religions, the expanding universe, the "language" of mathematics and shape, and more. In addition, He masterfully describes how knowledge is an effort to achieve power over nature, based on the fundamental illusion that there is such a thing as an independent (or "objective") "point of view". In this process, Avatar Adi Da calls His listeners to be free of all false authorities, and to consider the Way that perfectly transcends "point of view" itself.
Note: Due to distribution policies set by CDBaby (and beyond the control of this website and Adidam), this video may not be playable in every country. However, sometimes, even when you can't play it on this page, you may be able to play it on YouTube: click here.tags: CDAvataric Discourse
poster: CDBaby length: 04:14 date added: November 24, 2018 event date: May 10, 2006 language: English views: 1719; views this month: 13; views this week: 4 This is an excerpt from "The Fall of Happen's Text", Chapter 36 of The Happenine Book, recited by Adi Da on May 10, 2006 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc two, track 8, the final track of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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poster: CDBaby length: 17:42 date added: November 22, 2018 event date: March 29, 1994 language: English views: 1921; views this month: 16; views this week: 4 This is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da on March 29, 1994 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc two, track 8 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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poster: CDBaby length: 10:25 date added: November 21, 2018 event date: August 13, 2004 language: English views: 1667; views this month: 12; views this week: 4 This is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on August 13, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc two, track 7 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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Modlitwa dla Świata poster: Adi Da Video Polska speaker: Jacqueline Clemons length: 03:32 date added: November 19, 2018 language: Polish views: 2110; views this month: 19; views this week: 5 [Contains Polish 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.]
Piosenkarka i autorka tekstów Jacqueline Clemons śpiewa "The Universal World-Prayer", modlitwę o pokój napisaną przez Adi Da Samraj. Muzyka Nicka Milo i Jacqueline Clemons.
Beloved, Inmost Heart of every heart, donotLet our human hearts be broken by our merely mortal suffering here — but Make our mortal human hearts break-Free to an unconditional love of You, that we may, Thus, love all living beings with Love's own True, and Truly broken, Heart.
Composed by Jacqueline Clemons and Nick Milo, and sung by Jacqueline Clemons, this soulful rendition of Adi Da's prayer for world peace, "The Universal World-Prayer", was sung many times at The Parliament of the World's Religions in Cape Town, South Africa, in December, 1999.
The song accompanies a slideshow of pictures of Adi Da.
Adi Da's Universal World-Prayer coincides with His Instructions to not "live the Law backwards": trying to love others (or attempting to bring about world peace), while failing to first love God (and have our love of others be the overflow of our communion with God).tags: musicCDPolish
poster: CDBaby length: 07:14 date added: November 17, 2018 event date: August 26, 2004 language: English views: 1681; views this month: 11; views this week: 3 This is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on August 26, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc two, track 6 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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poster: CDBaby length: 07:14 date added: November 15, 2018 event date: November 25, 1993 language: English views: 1605; views this month: 10; views this week: 3 This is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da on November 25, 1993 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc two, track 5 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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poster: CDBaby length: 06:00 date added: November 12, 2018 event date: May 29, 1995 language: English views: 1586; views this month: 13; views this week: 1 This is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da on May 29, 1995 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc two, track 4 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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poster: CDBaby length: 08:34 date added: November 10, 2018 event date: November 10, 1996 language: English views: 1379; views this month: 17; views this week: 1 This is an excerpt from "Incarnating My Pattern Here In Perpetuity", a talk given by Adi Da on November 10, 1996 in Land Bridge Pavilion at the Mountain Of Attention.
This excerpt is disc two, track 3 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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poster: CDBaby length: 04:03 date added: November 8, 2018 event date: November 30, 1985 language: English views: 1711; views this month: 11; views this week: 1 This is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da on November 30, 1985 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc two, track 2 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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Purnima poster: NAADA OM length: 06:13 date added: November 6, 2018 event date: 2017 language: English views: 2544; views this month: 22; views this week: 5 NAADA OM is a World Music collaboration between composer, singer, and harmonium player, Felix Woldenberg, and percussionist and arranger, Alan Corne. In 2017, Felix and Alan made two trips to the beautiful island of Naitauba in Fiji to offer Sacred music for a variety of celebrations: Da Purnima, Naitauba Padavara and Da Jayanthi.
This is an excerpt from the Purnima album, which can be purchased through NAADA OM's online store.
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As sacred musicians and devotees of Adi Da, Felix Woldenberg and Alan Corne have been involved in providing music as part of the devotional culture at Adi Da Samrajashram for two decades. They were involved in many sacred musical occasions offered in honour of, and gratitude to Bhagavan Adi Da Samraj during his lifetime at celebrations held between 2003 and 2006.
Bhagavan Adi Da Samraj instructed Felix and Alan in different ways and settings about the devotional relationship to the spiritual master, as well as the function and purpose sacred music and chant serves in the context of that relationship and in the sacred culture of practitioners who respond to the master.
Though Felix and Alan have undergone all sorts of musical training both in the East and West, the instruction they received in Bhagavan Adi Da's company is directly responsible for the devotional musical aesthetic which the NAADA OM collaboration encompasses.
NAADA OM's music can be divided into three categories: 'Devotional Songs or Bhajans'—based on traditional call-and-response chanting; 'Mantric Chants'—generally slow chants sung in unison utilizing mantras; and 'Sacred Offerings'—musical works encompassing elements of Western classical harmony, Bhajans, and Indian Dhrupad, Hindustani, and Qawwali classical traditions -- in which the audience participates only as listeners.
Traditionally, Bhajans and Kirtan tend toward stimulating the participant emotionally and physically, in contrast NAADA OM's orientation aims to move the participant to a depth of feeling in a space of stillness where the body-mind is brought to equanimity rather than being stimulated, thereby supporting the participant in a greater awareness of, and heart response to the Source-condition of his or her own being.
To continue the yearly service to the devotional culture of Adi Da Samrajashram, NAADA OM is releasing four albums made up of recordings from live performances that occurred during the 2017 celebrations.
All proceeds from the sale of these albums will go to support NAADA OM's return to Naitauba on a yearly basis, and thereby the creation of new musical offerings and future album releases.tags: musicCD
poster: CDBaby length: 01:03 date added: November 6, 2018 event date: August 12, 1982 language: English views: 2744; views this month: 20; views this week: 3 This is Poem 24 from Adi Da's book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing—Inclined to His Weaker Side. It was recited by Adi Da on August 12, 1982, at Da Love-Ananda Mahal in Kauai, Hawaii.
No one like me has appeared in this place before. Am I only to live and die, and thus feed the earth? Should I only live and die, and thus create the mystery of a holy ground? Will generations pass this place of my dilemmas, feel the movements under foot and never know the reasons and the meaning of the currents of bliss that fill them? Will the earth itself perform my only shout? Will the rot of my few bodies be my only song? Will no one understand? Will all of this, even the holy ground, fall unknown into the sea, without a parcel of my living left to heal the feet of pilgrims? No one else can suffer the mysteries of my birth or death. And only my own children can build a temple where I rise and fall.
This recitation is disc two, track 1 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
The entire August 12, 1982 occasion where Adi Da recited all the poems from Crazy Da Must Sing can be heard on this CD.
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poster: CDBaby length: 05:30 date added: November 5, 2018 event date: November 6, 2004 language: English views: 1794; views this month: 16; views this week: 2 This is an excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on November 6, 2004 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc one, track 9 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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poster: CDBaby length: 09:21 date added: November 4, 2018 event date: August 13, 1995 language: English views: 1831; views this month: 13; views this week: 2 This is an excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da on August 13, 1995 at Adi Da Samrajashram.
This excerpt is disc one, track 8 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
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