February 22, March 2, and March 5, 2014 — An evening of sacred devotional music and chanting, in honor of Adi Da Samraj. Beautiful video Darshan of Adi Da and stories of His Divine play, told by longtime devotees.
John Wubbenhorst, who has played for Bhagavan Adi Da many times, will be offering bansuri. Dhrupad vocals will be offered by Nirmalya Dey and Ashoka Dhar. Rishabh Dhar will be playing pakhawaj. Felix Woldenberg will lead us in chanting.
Adi Da: "The worship that occurs in Sacred Arts is surrender to the Divine Form and through that surrender, reception of the Divine Shakti or the Divine Energy of that Divine Form. If you surrender to the Divine Form in the Bodily Human Divine Form of the Guru, then the Divine Shakti will move you. To practice Sacred Art, you must surrender to the Guru and receive the Guru’s Transmission. The Guru's Divine Transmission does the sacred art."
Sacred Music and Practice of the Way of Adidam poster: brightworld1 length: 01:53 date added: July 28, 2014 event date: July 2014 language: English views: 4802; views this month: 17; views this week: 10 Devotees describe the beneficial impact of sacred music on their practice of the Way of Adidam, during the Celebration of Da Purnima on Adi Da Samrajashram, in July, 2014. The music was performed by John Wubbenhorst and Peter Van Gelder (sitar), on many different occasions.
John writes: "It was a very full Celebration of Da Purnima at Adi Da Samrajashram in Fiji. Peter Van Gelder (sitar) and myself (bansuri flute) came for music service and we were very busy every day. Each morning we would sit for several hours practicing the most refined compositions from Peter's music guru Ali Akbar Khan and we would chose what we felt would be the best gifts for our Guru, Adi Da, that day. Almost every day there would be offerings and also many chanting occasions. It is very tangible the difference between playing at Adi Da Samrajashram and playing music anywhere else. The island is so full of Beloved Adi Da that as soon as we would start to play, we would feel the music coming from a deeper place and that would in turn help everyone to drop into deeper communion with Beloved, which would then allow the music to be deeper — and on and on."tags: music
John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) will be playing North Indian ragas. John will also tell leelas of his recent five weeks in Fiji at Adi Da Samrajashram. The concert is a special fund raising event for Bright World Arts, a unique non-profit group promoting the arts.
time: Saturday, January 7, at 7:30 pm place: Hands Up Hall (the Adidam Lake County regional hall) 12055 Shenandoah Circle Middletown, CA suggested donation: $15 Call 301-346-0789 for more information.
Sacred Musical Offering: June 3, 2012, Mountain Of Attention poster: brightworld1 length: 01:23 date added: May 28, 2012 event date: June 3, 2012 language: English views: 4487; views this month: 7; views this week: 4 Peter van Gelder (sitar), John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) will perform a Sacred Offering of classical Indian ragas on 2pm on June 3, 2012, in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention.
This is a fundraising event to support sending musicians to Naitauba for Da Purnima.
Suggested donation: $15. (No one is turned away.) For more information, call: 301-346-0789.
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Time: 7:30 pm Place: 8572 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 (map) Suggested donation: $20
Call 310-358-0555 for more information or to reserve.tags: Facing East
North Indian Ragas: Musician Travel Fundraiser poster: FacingEast108 length: 01:09 date added: June 11, 2011 event date: June 12, 2011 language: English views: 4348; views this month: 6; views this week: 5 John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) provide a Sacred Offering of North Indian ragas. Concert benefits sacred musicians' travel to Naitauba, Fiji.
Time: 2:30pm, June 12, 2011 Place: Land Bridge Pavilion, The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary
Ragas and Leelas: John Wubbenhorst and Samrat Kakkeri poster: FacingEast108 length: 01:16 date added: July 9, 2011 event date: July 29, 2011 language: English views: 3645; views this month: 6; views this week: 4 At 7:30 pm, on Friday, July 29, 2011, John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) will be telling leelas of their trip to Adi Da Samrajashram and playing ragas. (John and Samrat were in Fiji June 30-July 23.)
Ragas and Leelas with John Wubbenhorst poster: FacingEast108 length: 01:26 date added: August 27, 2011 event date: August 28, 2011 language: English views: 2909; views this month: 2; views this week: 2 John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) will perform ragas and tell leelas of their trip to Fiji this Sunday, August 28th, 2011, at 4 pm, in Hands Up Hall (the Gauer house), in Lake County, California.
Suggested donation: $15 (no one will be turned away) Call 301.346.0789 for more information
Adidam Music Fest: September 30, 2011 poster: brightworld1 length: 02:03 date added: September 5, 2011 event date: September 30, 2011 language: English views: 5060; views this month: 9; views this week: 7 The Adidam Music Fest will be held Friday, September 30, at 7.30pm. The event will be held at Rudramandir, 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA. (map)
Take part in an ecstatic evening of music, dancing, stories, refreshments and good company. The occasion will feature classical Indian music with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Samrat Kakkari (tabla). At the end of the evening will be trance dancing with the East/West jazz fusion group, "Facing East Trio". The evening is dedicated to the spiritual inspiration of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
The Art of Adi Da Samraj with music by Facing East poster: FacingEast108 length: 01:55 date added: July 10, 2010 event date: July 16, 2010 language: English views: 4044; views this month: 7; views this week: 6 The Art of Adi Da Samraj with music by "Facing East" John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) Steve Zerlin (bass) Samrat Kakkeri (tabla)
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: 7244; views this month: 20; views this week: 11 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 . . . "
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