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Part 12 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 11 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 10 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master. A video clip is being watched by the live audience, but only the audio from that video is available here. (You can watch the actual video clip here.)
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Part 9 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 8 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 7 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 6 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 5 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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In this excerpt from an Avataric Discourse, Adi Da speaks about the necessity to become disillusined with mortal life in a positive sense. Positive disillusionment is emerging when one begins to understand and relinquish the stressful and ultimately futile search for personal survival, worldly happiness, and ultimate life fulfillment. Only then can one be drawn into recognizing, learning about, and ecstatically participating in Reality Itself, in relationship to a True Realizer.
ADI DA: The teaching of Truth is for those who are disillusioned in the positive sense, who have been sobered in their lives by grasping the nature of existence and being cured of search.
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Part 4 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 3 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 2 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Part 1 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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By tendency, people are bound to the natural cycle of ups and downs. Neither bodily pleasures nor spiritual pursuits result in True Freedom from this constant phasing. One path merely accentuates the descending (or bodily) experiences and the other, the ascending (or subtle) experiences.
In this Discourse, Avatar Adi Da reveals with absolute clarity how the relationship with the Guru gives freedom from this trap—because the Guru is the Manifestation of the Condition that is Prior to this mechanical cycling, not part of it.
Watching this DVD will transport viewers to a special moment in Adidam history. July 29, 1973, was the day Avatar Adi Da left Los Angeles for a Yajna (sacred journey) through India and Nepal. He returned as “Bubba Free John”, His first spontaneously revealed Teaching-Name. Thus, this was the last Discourse He gave as “Franklin Jones” (Avatar Adi Da’s birth name).
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Video excerpt from an early discourse by Adi Da Samraj on July 29, 1973.
Adi Da would later make a similar communication in a very memorable way in “The Divine Avataric Self-Disclosure” (in The Aletheon):
ADI DA: The conditionally Apparent “world”-Process Of “Everything Changing” Is Simply The Natural “Play” Of Cosmic Life, In Which the (Always) two sides of every possibility come and go, In Cycles Of appearance and disappearance. Winter’s cold alternates with summer’s heat. Pain, Likewise, Follows every pleasure. Every appearance Is (Inevitably) Followed By its disappearance. There Is No Permanent “experience” In The Realm Of Cosmic Nature. One whose Whole bodily Devotion To Me Is Constant Simply Allows All Of This To Be So. Therefore, one who Truly Listens To Me and “Knows” Me Spontaneously Ceases To Add “self”-Contraction (and, Thus, “conditional-experience-causing” energy and intention) To This Relentless Round Of Natural and Futile Changes. . . Intrinsically egoless Self-Realization Of Me Is Possible Only When a living being (or body-mind-“self”) Has Whole bodily Ceased To React To The Always Changing Imposition Of Cosmic Nature. . . Those who Perfectly “Know” Me Tacitly Understand That whatever Is Not Always Already (or Eternally) Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Only Changes. . . Those who Perfectly “Know” Me Acknowledge (Tacitly, and With every Whole bodily act) That What Is Always Already The (One and Only) Case Never Changes. Such True Devotees Of Mine (who Perfectly “Know” Me) Perfectly Realize That The Entire Cosmic Realm Of Change—and Even the To-Me-Surrendered Whole body (itself)—Is Entirely Pervaded By Me (Always Self-Revealed As That Which Is Always Already The Case).
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