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Łaska Cierpieniavideo
poster: Adi Da Video Polska
length: 13:12
date added: October 5, 2017
event date: January 18, 1976
language: Polish
views: 4465; views this month: 33; views this week: 17
[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.]

Adi Da mówi o tym, że kiedy człowiek zrozumiemie, że zwykłe życie jest niewolą i ograniczeniem, wtedy praktyka duchowa staje się możliwa.

In this seminal discourse (at The Mountain Of Attention), from the early years of His Teaching Work, Adi Da speaks about the inevitable process of self-revelation and self-understanding that prepares the being for true Spiritual life.

The full talk is available on the CD, The Grace of Suffering, and on DVD as Volume 2 of the 25th Anniversary DVD Series.


This is a beautiful talk by Adi Da. But it IS very compressed, making quite a few points in a short space, and depending to a significant degree on a familiarity with Adi Da's spiritual teaching. Here are some notes that may help.

Throughout the talk, the technical term, "sadhana" (spiritual practice), is used.

Genuine spiritual practice is not about belief systems, mere rituals, or a little "peace of mind", but rather about actually locating the Divine, through the tangible Transmission of the Spiritual Master.

After a recent illness, a devotee mentions to Adi Da that he notices how the physical suffering of illness was distracting enough that he was not "able" to find Adi Da's Transmission when he is ill.

Adi Da acknowledges this, and responds with three more general points.

1. The illness didn't "make" the devotee lose the thread of practice; rather, he allowed himself to be distracted from God by the illness. When the devotee gets this, and sees how he himself is "doing" the turning away, he'll be able to "do better next time" by not turning away even when ill.

2. Until Divine Enlightenment — in other words, until there is no limit on one's spiritual practice — sadhana (spiritual practice) is always only reflecting back to devotees the remaining limits in their practice: where they are still turning away from the Divine, where they still need to become responsible for not turning away.

In the beginning, the "turning away" is very "crude": even mere physical suffering is enough to distract one from God. (If we find ourselves saying, "what do you mean, MERE physical suffering?" that definitely identifies us as spiritual beginners! :-) ) But as one grows in practice, and ceases to turn away in such a crude manner (as one becomes a "saint", "yogi", "sage", etc.), one discovers that one is still turning from the Divine at an even subtler level of the being (in the mind, the psyche, etc.)

It is only when that "turning away" has been inspected, understood, and transcended in every dimension of the being that Divine Realization occurs.

In this sense, for the genuine spiritual practitioner, physical suffering — along with every other circumstance that reveals to us our turning away from the Divine — is truly a Grace, enabling us to grow in our practice.

3. Where we are turning away is a reflection of what we are identifying with: the body, the mind, the soul, etc. (For example, if physical illness is enough to distract us from God, then the physical body is what we currently are identified with.) God-Realization only occurs when all "identities" less than God are understood and transcended.

In this sense, "there are no winners in God" — the Way is not about seeking, accomplishment, or winning, but rather about surrender to God, sacrifice of self, and ego-death. There's no "one" left to "win"! But the One Who Remains is perfectly, eternally happy.
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CD   DVD   Polish  

Świadome Światło, film dokumentalnyvideo
poster: Adi Da Video Polska
length: 02:25
date added: June 7, 2020
language: Polish
views: 838; views this month: 24; views this week: 15
[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.]

„Świadome Światło” wielokrotnie nagradzany dokument o niezwykłym życiu wielkiego duchowego mistrza Adi Da Samraj. 11 czerwca, godzina 19.30 – 21.00 CEST
Opierając się na obszernych zbiorach archiwalnych filmów, fotografii i nagrań audio, jak również na wywiadach z uczniami, którzy mieszkali z Adi Da i praktykują jego nauki, „Świadome Światło” zabierze Cię w podróż od narodzin Adi Da poprzez 36 lat jego nauczania aż po przekaz jego spuścizny i żywego duchowego związku z nim.
Zarejestruj się teraz na stronie i zarezerwuj miejsce: www.consciouslightfilm.eu
Po zarejestrowaniu otrzymasz od nas potwierdzenie i linka do filmu.

The award-winning film, Conscious Light, offers a penetrating insight into the extraordinary life and Enlightened teachings of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, who offers a completely elaborated way of absolute Enlightenment for all.

For more information and screening dates and times, visit the film's website.
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Conscious Light   DVD   Polish  

43video
poster: PaulineChew
length: 08:03
date added: November 8, 2015
language: English
views: 4684; views this month: 36; views this week: 20
Track 5 from Pauline Chew's album, Songs For Baba Da. . . And The World.

Words are from poem 43 in Adi Da's book of poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing.

My loved one sits upon my knee.
My left hand is on her head.
My right hand guides
her listening to my Heart.
My touching awakens her need,
her love for me,
and makes her know me while I speak.

My loved one lies with me.
Our loving appears as every form
of all the worlds.
Our sounds together
make all sounds.
We are the thing that is seen and heard.
We are the rhythmed mind of everything.

Troubles arise for one
who does not know the act
in which he lives.
Therefore, I display the image
of my loved one and me.
One who does not understand
gains power for his lust in holy places.
But one who understands
becomes the lovers’ act that is.
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music   poem  

A Brief Introduction to the Teaching and Person of Avatar Adi Da Samrajvideo
poster: TheBeezone
length: 23:16
date added: March 12, 2012
event date: March 2012
language: English
views: 3050; views this month: 9; views this week: 5
Beezone editor Ed Reither talks with teacher Frank Marrero about this introductory booklet (which Frank compiled).

Above The Cloudsaudio
poster: DawnHorsePress
length: 03:14
date added: October 21, 2013
event date: November 2010
language: English
listens: 5047; listens this month: 14; listens this week: 9
Excerpt from the album of devotional music, Above The Clouds.

"In November 2010, a group of musicians traveled to the sacred hermitage island of Adi Da Samrajashram (Naitauba, Fiji) for spiritual retreat. We played daily at many of the holy sites on the island. We particularly fell into a blissful mood when playing on the veranda of our Guru's house."

"There, in the open air, with fresh breezes blowing, gentle waves washing, and birds chirping, we fell into deep devotion as we played. The music on this recording was spontaneously created on these occasions."
John Wubbenhorst

In celebration of the month of Da Naitauba (October), this album is currently on sale from the Dawn Horse Press at 40% off through October 31.
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CD  

Achille Bonito Oliva: Opening Night Remarks, Sundaram Tagore Gallery Exhibit of Adi Da's Image-Artvideo
poster: Daplastique
speaker: Archille Bonito Oliva
length: 10:51
date added: September 29, 2010
event date: September 9, 2010
language: English
views: 6805; views this month: 26; views this week: 18
Achille Bonito Oliva speaks (Italian) at the opening of Adi Da Samraj's solo exhibition, 'Orpheus and Linead', at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York - September 9, 2010. Translated by Teresa Romero.

"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."
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Sundaram Tagore Gallery   Achille Bonito Oliva   Orpheus Linead   Image-Art  

Adi Da Samraj: First Discourse - April 25, 1972video
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 07:47
date added: April 10, 2021
event date: April 25, 1972
language: English
views: 555; views this month: 16; views this week: 4
For the first time, on April 25, 1972, Avatar Adi Da Samraj invited people to approach Him as Spiritual Teacher at His new ashram center on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. That evening, Avatar Adi Da first sat in silence for perhaps an hour with those present, Transmitting to them the Sublimity of His Radiant State of Realization. Then, Adi Da spoke.

ADI DA: Are there any questions?

No one replied, so Avatar Adi Da Samraj spoke again.

ADI DA: Everyone has understood?
QUESTIONER: I have not understood. Explain it to me.
ADI DA: Very good. What have you not understood?

And so began Adi Da's Teaching Work.

Adi Da Samraj: Sacred Sighting - California, 2005video
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
length: 04:07
date added: August 2, 2017
event date: 2005
language: Italian
views: 2244; views this month: 12; views this week: 3
Questo č il canale che celebra Adi Da Samraj – realizzatore spirituale unico, maestro, autore e artista. Adi Da Samraj ha dedicato la sua vita alla creazione di strumenti utili all'umanitŕ per realizzare la Veritŕ ultima – quello che lui ha chiamato il “Luminoso”, ossia la Indivisibile Realtŕ in cui noi tutti appariamo.

Per ulteriori informazioni su Adi Da Samraj, si prega di scrivere a: videodidida@gmail.com.
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Italian   Darshan   Mountain Of Attention  

Adi Da Samraj Talks about His Childhood and Youthvideo
poster: frank marrero
length: 17:45
date added: July 26, 2012
language: English
views: 3268; views this month: 17; views this week: 8
Adi Da Samraj talks about the play of His deeper personality vehicle in the context of His childhood and youth.

For more information on the life of Adi Da, read our biography page, and read Adi Da's autobiography, The Knee Of Listening.
tags:
Avataric Discourse  

Adi Da Samraj: Vita e Operevideo
poster: Video di Adi Da, Canale italiano
speaker: Ruchiradama Nadikanta
length: 25:38
date added: April 2, 2021
event date: November 28, 2009
language: Italian
views: 548; views this month: 14; views this week: 8
[Contains Italian 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.]

An overview of Adi Da's life and work by Ruchiradama Nadikanta, a long-time devotee. She is a member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order, the order of fully renunciate practitioners in Adidam.
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Italian  

Adi Da Samraj, Wspomnienia ucznia - Dorastałem we wspólnocie Adidamvideo
poster: Adi Da Video Polska
speaker: Stanley Hastings
length: 11:18
date added: February 5, 2021
language: Polish
views: 700; views this month: 17; views this week: 11
[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.]

Dorastając we wspólnocie Adi Da, Stanley opowiada o swoim dzieciństwie i dojrzewaniu w Adidam, opowiada o tym, jak jako nastolatka, podobnie jak wielu innych młodych osób, postanowił na własnej skórze przekonać się, co świat ma do zaoferowania. Po kilku latach eksperymentowania postanowił wrócić do Adi Da i oferowanego przez niego stylu życia, aby ponownie w pełni uczestniczyć w życiu wspólnoty i bezpośrednio służyć Adi Da.

Stanley Hastings talks about his childhood and adolescence growing up in the Adidam community. Like many other young people, as a teenager, he decided to see for himself what the world had to offer. After several years of experimenting, he decided to return to Adi Da and the Way of life He offered — to fully participate again in the life of the community and to serve Adi Da directly.
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Polish  

Adi Da Samrajin Taide: Näyttelyt Italiassavideo
poster: Adi Da Videot Suomi
speakers: Stuart Gibson, Achille Bonito Oliva, Teresa Romero, Cristina Acidini, Monica Bietti, Paula Crema, Gary Coates
length: 12:23
date added: February 4, 2021
language: Finnish
views: 851; views this month: 28; views this week: 24
[Contains Finnish 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.]

Tämä video on tallenne kahdesta huomattavasta taidenäyttelystä, jossa Adi Dan taideteokset olivat esillä: Venetsian Biennaalista ja Cenacolo Di Ognissantista Firenzessä.

Two important art exhibitions in which Adi Da was invited to participate were the Venice Biennale (2007) and the Cenacolo di Ognissanti in Florence (2008), where His Art was exhibited in the same room as the famous large fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio of "The Last Supper".

Narrated by Stuart Gibson. Additional comments from Achille Bonito Oliva (translated into English by Teresa Romero), Cristina Acidini (Superintendent of Museums, Florence, Italy), Monica Bietti (Assistant Superintendent of Museums, Florence, Italy), Paula Crema (artist), and Gary Coates (Professor of Architecture).
tags:
image-art   Finnish  

Adi Da's Art at the Saatchi Gallery, Londonvideo
poster: MASSOUTREACH
length: 04:55
date added: October 16, 2013
event date: October 9, 2013
language: English
views: 4341; views this month: 20; views this week: 14
A beautiful video tour of the exhibition of Adi Da's Image-Art (and of the visitors to the exhibition) at the 2013 STRARTA Art Fair, in the Saatchi Gallery, London, from October 9-13, 2013. Exhibited works are drawn from Adi Da's Orpheus One Suite, Linead One Suite, and Quandra Loka Suite. The tour includes a glimpse of some of the other art works at the Art Fair as well.

Filmed and edited by Matthew Braithwaite and Dean Steadman
Music by Jon Hopkins
tags:
Image-Art   Quandra Loka   Orpheus   Linead  

Adi Da's Divine Life and Work: Ruchiradama Nadikantavideo
part 1 of A Tribute to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj

poster: AdiDaVideos
speaker: Ruchiradama Nadikanta
length: 25:39
date added: November 3, 2012
event date: November 28, 2009
language: English
views: 10043; views this month: 35; views this week: 14
An overview of Adi Da's life and work by Ruchiradama Nadikanta, a long-time devotee. She is a member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order, the order of fully renunciate practitioners in Adidam.

Excerpt from First Evening: Track 2 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.

A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.
tags:
Leela   Ruchiradama Nadikanta   Mahasamadhi   tribute   DVD  

Adi Da's Life and Workvideo
poster: adidatribute
speaker: Ruchradama Nadikanta
length: 15:30
date added: July 5, 2011
event date: November 28, 2009
language: English
views: 6626; views this month: 9; views this week: 5
Ruchiradama Nadikanta, senior devotee of Avatar Adi Da and a member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order, offers this testimonial to the life and work of Adi Da Samraj.

Excerpt from First Evening: Track 2 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.

A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.

For more excerpts from this DVD, click here.
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Ruchiradama Nadikanta   tribute   Mahasamadhi   DVD  
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