poster: antoniavidor speaker: Toni Vidor length: 02:06 date added: January 14, 2012 language: English views: 4818; views this month: 32; views this week: 10 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: 4609; views this month: 34; views this week: 10 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.
I Will Work With You Directly Forever poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine length: 05:21 date added: November 16, 2011 event date: July 11, 1995 language: English listens: 3897; listens this month: 20; listens this week: 10 An excerpt from the two-CD set, After My Lifetime — a collection of Adi Da's talks (1974–2004) in which He considers the passing of His physical body, the significance of this Yogic Event, the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
For more about this double CD, read the special article on the Adidam Revelation Magazine.
"I Am the Infinite One. And This Body was My Means, for a while, to make this plain to you — that is all. I Appear through every element in every plane, every domain within the cosmic domain. This is So. It is Eternally So. Always will be So, therefore. Always was So — but you did not notice Me directly. This is My first and consequential Incarnation to inform you about My Infinite and Eternal Nature and Work."
—His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj (July 11, 1995)tags: MahasamadhiCD
poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine speaker: Tom Williams length: 09:09 date added: September 18, 2011 language: English views: 3989; views this month: 27; views this week: 11 Tom Williams, a former Presbyterian minister and longtime devotee of Avatar Adi Da, tells the story of how he "fell in love with God". He describes how he moved from an ordinary childhood, to study for the ministry, to despair that his faith and his service had failed to deepen his relationship to God. In a personal crisis, he became a pastoral counselor and then a marriage and family counselor — before finally finding the books of Avatar Adi Da and at last receiving the gift of sighting his Heart-Master at the "Love of the God-Man" celebration in northern California in 1984.tags: Tom Williams
poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine speaker: Tom Williams length: 09:08 date added: September 18, 2011 language: English views: 4232; views this month: 20; views this week: 12 Tom Williams, a former Presbyterian minister and longtime devotee of Avatar Adi Da, tells the story of how he "fell in love with God". He describes how he moved from an ordinary childhood, to study for the ministry, to despair that his faith and his service had failed to deepen his relationship to God. In a personal crisis, he became a pastoral counselor and then a marriage and family counselor — before finally finding the books of Avatar Adi Da and at last receiving the gift of sighting his Heart-Master at the "Love of the God-Man" celebration in northern California in 1984.tags: Tom Williams
The Adi Da Museum of Art poster: Adidam Europe length: 01:09 date added: July 16, 2011 language: English views: 4147; views this month: 28; views this week: 12 The Adi Da Museum of Art is dedicated to the promotion of the art of Adi Da Samraj through exhibitions, lectures, round-table discussions, documentaries as well as seminars on his art and its relationship to various artistic traditions. The Adi Da Museum of Art also exhibits works and supports scholarship inspired by the art and philosophy of Adi Da Samraj.
The gallery maintains a permanent exhibition of works by Adi Da Samraj and is open from Wednesday to Saturday, and once a month on a Sunday, but can also be visited by appointment. The gallery is located in an old monastery in Maria Hoop in the south of Holland close to the borders of Germany and Belgium.
Note: You may not be able to play this particular video on this site on your iPad or iPhone, but you can still watch it on YouTube.tags: image-artEuropean Danda
poster: adidatribute length: 04:35 date added: July 6, 2011 language: English views: 8697; views this month: 66; views this week: 24 Slideshow showing Adi Da's relationship with children, with images/words from His book for children (and adults): What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy.
This video is an excerpt from Second Evening: Track 6 on the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him.
We Just Happened to Have Musical Instruments in Our Hands poster: FacingEast108 speaker: John Wubbenhorst length: 04:46 date added: June 11, 2011 event date: November 2010 language: English views: 7286; views this month: 57; views this week: 27 This recording of Above the Clouds was made in November 2010, during a three day, 24-hour-a-day vigil of meditation and puja on the veranda of Aham Da Asmi Sthan, Adi Da's home on the island of Naitauba. Devotee John Wubbenhorst speaks of the sacred occasion of being dropped out into the space of being 'not really there' while the Guru plays the musical instrument (and the instrument that is one's body-mind).
"Above the clouds, There Is Always The Sun — Forever Free Of Earthly Weather. By Tendency, You Are Always Looking At the local weather, and Not At The Sun Itself. That Is What egoity Is About — Always Suffering The Changes Of The local Patterning That Is the body-mind In its egoic Bondage. Instead, You Must (In every moment) Turn To Me . . . "
poster: AdiDaUpClose speaker: Terry Cafferty length: 09:12 date added: April 5, 2011 event date: August 2009 language: English views: 5062; views this month: 36; views this week: 16 Terry Cafferty is an aerospace engineering consultant specializing in orbiting imaging systems, and has worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Hughes Aircraft, and Raytheon. Terry tells how, even in the midst of a conventionally "successful" life, he became aware of his own inability to truly love, feel, and be in relationship with others. The crisis engendered by this realization led him to consider spiritual practice, and ultimately led him to his Spiritual Master, Avatar Adi Da Samraj.tags: leelaTerry Cafferty
poster: AdiDaUpClose speaker: Terry Cafferty length: 14:32 date added: April 4, 2011 event date: August 2009 language: English views: 5563; views this month: 48; views this week: 27 Terry Cafferty is an aerospace engineering consultant specializing in orbiting imaging systems, and has worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Hughes Aircraft, and Raytheon. Terry tells how, even in the midst of a conventionally "successful" life, he became aware of his own inability to truly love, feel, and be in relationship with others. The crisis engendered by this realization led him to consider spiritual practice, and ultimately led him to his Spiritual Master, Avatar Adi Da Samraj.tags: Terry Caffertyleela
poster: TheBeezone speakers: Ed Reither, James Steinberg length: 12:59 date added: February 13, 2011 event date: January 26, 2011 language: English views: 3925; views this month: 30; views this week: 17 Ed Reither of The Beezone interviews longtime devotee James Steinberg. James tells how, even though he came to Adi Da because He was "a teacher who can deal with me", nonetheless there were moments when James resisted Adi Da's "dealing" with him. He tells the story of one such moment and how studying the details of the Guru-devotee relationship in the spiritual traditions helped move him into right relationship with his Guru.
poster: TheBeezone speakers: Ed Reither, Frank Marrero length: 10:49 date added: January 31, 2011 language: English views: 4761; views this month: 28; views this week: 19 Beezone editor and teacher Ed Reither interviews devotee and teacher Frank Marrero about the first stage of life (conception to 7 years of age), as taught by Adi Da Samraj.
They discuss the first stage of life and the maladapted aspect or tendency (beyond the first 7 years of life) towards unconsciousness in forms of behavior such as sleepiness, laziness and numbness. All first stage behaviors are bodily based and it is a stage of the development of bodily autonomy.
When well adapted to the first stage of life, one can rest with ease in the body in fullness. There is discussion about Adi Da Samraj's teaching that the first stage of life has reached a stage of maturity when the child breaks the bond with the mother (two as one) so they may enjoy relationship without dependency.
Adi Da Samraj teaches all His devotees to observe and understand their maladapted patterns in the first three stages of life while maintaining a living relationship with Him in each moment.
More information on the disciplines as recommended by Adi Da Samraj can be found here.
My Spiritual Teacher, Adi Da poster: samraj07 speaker: Gavin Brown length: 07:53 date added: October 2, 2010 language: English views: 4068; views this month: 15; views this week: 8 UK devotee Gavin Brown talks briefly about his relationship to his Guru and spiritual teacher, Avatar Adi Da. Gavin gives a brief reading from Adi Da's essay, "Radical Adidam" (from Volume 2 of The Aletheon).
"Adi Da has a flexibility in his expression that encompasses all the art forms and techniques of the East and West. His work is a multiplication of space in time and time in space.... He's like a barman shaking Western space in the fluidity of Eastern concepts and forms. Adi Da wants to ultimately affirm art as a form of, a spiritual representation of the Divine nature of man, which can articulate a new vision of space and a new vision of time. This relationship between the East and West is very important. In a historical moment such as this, it is important to affirm, as a fundamental value of art at this time, the coexistence of differences."tags: Sundaram Tagore GalleryAchille Bonito OlivaOrpheus LineadImage-Art
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