The Sunshine Makers poster: frizz lefryd length: 07:43 date added: May 8, 2010 language: English views: 10797; views this month: 68; views this week: 32
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."
I Am the Heart poster: frank marrero length: 00:28 date added: December 6, 2009 language: English views: 3261; views this month: 17; views this week: 5
Three beautiful pictures of Adi Da, accompanied by His reading of His poem, "I am the Heart", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
We Are Waiting poster: frank marrero length: 03:39 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 5915; views this month: 36; views this week: 18
Darshan of Adi Da, accompanied by Adi Da's recitation of His poem, "We are waiting for something to happen to this", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
poster: realityway speaker: David length: 09:36 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3255; views this month: 12; views this week: 7
In the second part of this two-part series, David continues to tell the story of how he found and became a formal devotee of his Master, Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
poster: realityway speaker: David length: 08:22 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3022; views this month: 12; views this week: 7
In the first part of this two-part series, David tells the story of recognizing Avatar Adi Da Samraj to be his Master, and then describes the first time he saw Avatar Adi Da.
poster: realityway speaker: Max Rykov length: 08:38 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3604; views this month: 19; views this week: 11
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: 3928; views this month: 20; views this week: 13
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: 4153; views this month: 25; views this week: 16
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: 5993; views this month: 26; views this week: 14
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.
Some informal shots of the crew and Florence Dance Company rehearsing and setting up the Image-Art of Adi Da Samraj at the 2009 Florence Dance Festival.
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