The Heart and the Light | | |
An Introduction to The Pneumaton by
Jonathan Condit, Ph.D. | | xv |
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| I. The Bright Is
the Heart and the Light | | xvii |
| | Reality’s
Revelation of Itself | | |
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| II. The Traditional
Searches for the Light | | xxxiii |
| | The
Essence of All True Spirituality | | |
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| III.
The Way of the Heart and the Light | | xlvii |
| | The
Divine Process of All-Brightening | | |
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| IV.
The Bodily Revelation of Heart-and-Light | | lxxi |
| | A
Celebration in Words and Photographs of Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Gift of His Transcendental
Spiritual Self-Transmission | | |
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| Overview
of The Pneumaton | | lxxxv |
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PART
ONE | | |
Religion
and Spirituality | | 3 |
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| The
Dogmas of Social Morality Versus The Esoteric Spiritual Teaching That Is At The
Origin of Traditional Religions | |
5 |
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| A
Prophetic Criticism of “Great Religions” | | 26 |
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| The
Western Prohibition Against Higher Knowledge and Realization Versus The
Eastern Advocacy of Higher Knowledge and Realization | |
33 |
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| The
Culturally Prescribed God-Idea of Exoteric Religion Is Not The Divine Itself but
Only A Cultural (and Entirely Conditional) Means For Turning To The Divine | | 31 |
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| The
Necessity For A Global Unity-Culture To Replace The Ancient Bi-Polar Culture of
Separate West and Separate East | | 36 |
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| Exoteric
and Esoteric: The Public and The Secret Dimensions of Religion | | 41 |
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| The
Wisdom of Esotericism | | 45 |
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| The
Criticism That Cures The Heart | | 46 |
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| The
Three Great Principles of All Truth | | 54 |
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PART
TWO | | |
The
Seventh Stage Revelation | | 57 |
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| God-Talk,
Real-God-Realization, Most Perfect Divine Self-Awakening, and The Seven Possible
Stages of Life | | 59 |
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| The
Seventh Stage Way | | 98 |
| | The
Forty-Six Divine Statements of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi | | |
PART
THREE | | |
The
Unique Life-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj — Including
His Thorough Process of Investigating, and Transcending, The Traditional Realms
of Mysticism | | 101 |
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| The
Bright and The Thumbs Are My True First Room | | 103 |
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| My
Life-Demonstration of The Guru-Devotee Relationship | | 116 |
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| My
“Learning” of Mysticism — In The Hindu Manner | | 143 |
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| My
“Learning” of Mysticism — In The Christian Manner | | 153 |
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| My
Most Perfect Re-Awakening As The Bright | | 175 |
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PART
FOUR | | |
Devotion
To The Spiritual Master Is The Foundation of All True Spirituality | | 187 |
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| Adept-Realizers
Are The Root of All Esoteric Traditions | | 189 |
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| Beyond
The Cultic Tendency In Religion and Spirituality, and In Secular Society | | 192 |
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| Cultism
Is The Beginner’s Level of Human Existence | | 196 |
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| The
Great Esoteric Tradition of Devotion To The Adept-Realizer | | 199 |
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| The
Super-Physics of Divine Enlightenment | | 209 |
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PART
FIVE | | |
The
Non-Conformist Moral, Devotional, and Spiritual Teachings of Saint Jesus and The
Conventional Public Religious Message of Institutional Christianity | |
217 |
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| The
“Official” (Exoteric) Fabrications and The Secret (Esoteric) Truth About Jesus
of Galilee | | 219 |
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| The
Forgotten Spiritual Esotericism of Saint Jesus and The Christian Social Exotericism
That Succeeded It | |
236 |
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| The
Universal Non-Religious Message of Jesus of Galilee | |
266 |
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| The
Principal Christian Idea | | 274 |
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| All
Illusion Is False Explanation | |
277 |
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| The
Necessity For The Conversion of Christianity Into A Non-Jewish Esoteric Spiritual
School of Life | | 279 |
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| The
“Official” Christianity That Won, The “Official” and Non-“Official” Christianities
That Lost, and The Original Christianity That Would Yet Succeed Them All | |
284 |
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| Beyond
The Scapegoat-Christ | | 291 |
| | The
Original Way of Jesus of Galilee | | |
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| The
Secrets of The “Kingdom of God” | | 295 |
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PART
SIX | | |
The
Spiritual Gospel of Saint Jesus of Galilee, Re-Told — and Revealed Again — By
His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj | | 299 |
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PART
SEVEN | | |
The
Spiritual Instructions and The Spiritual Transmission of Traditional Yogis and
Saints | | 333 |
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| Conversation
of Saint Seraphim with N. A. Motovilov Translated by J.C. Troncale, PhD,
with Teresa Hudson | | 335 |
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| Sri
Ramakrishna’s Transmission of His Own Spirit-Person Into The Person of Swami Vivekananda | |
363 |
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| The
Spiritual Teachings of Swami Muktananda — As Written To His Divine Presence, Avatar
Adi Da Samraj | | 365 |
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| The
Spiritual Teachings of Bhagavan Nityananda— As Recorded and Revealed By His Divine
Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj | | 371 |
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| My
Example of The Formal Transmission, Via The Traditional “Rite of Inheritance”,
of The Inherent Right To Transmit and Teach The Process of Spiritual Ascent | | 376 |
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| The
Process of Spiritual Ascent | | 380 |
| | The
Progressive Steps of The Fifth Stage of Life | | |
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PART
EIGHT | | |
Real
Ecstasy | | 383 |
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PART
NINE | | |
Atma
Nadi Shakti Yoga | | 401 |
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| The
Intrinsically egoless Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam | | |
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PART
TEN | | |
Cosmic
Spiritual Baptism Versus Divine Transcendental Spiritual Baptism | | 509 |
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| The
Lesser and Greater Traditions Associated With The Kundalini Shakti | | 511 |
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| My
Unique Avataric Self-Revelation of The Divine Process of Transcendental Spiritual
Self-Transmission of The Bright | | 518 |
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| The
Divine Yoga of My Crashing-Down Avataric Descent | | 523 |
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| Cosmic
Spiritual Baptism Versus Divine Transcendental Spiritual Baptism | | 538 |
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PART
ELEVEN | | |
Hridaya
Rosary (Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction) | | 573 |
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| Prologue:
The Rose Garden of The Heart | | 575 |
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| First
Thorn: The Essential “Method” (Right, True, and Full) of Direct and Whole bodily
(or Total Psycho-Physical) Devotional Communion With Me | | 587 |
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| Second
Thorn: The Four-Part Exercise (Right, True, and Full) of Whole-bodily-Responsively
ego-Transcending Devotion To Me | | 593 |
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| Third
Thorn: The Process Associated With The Four-Part Exercise (Right, True, and Full)
of Whole-bodily-Responsively ego-Transcending Devotion To Me | | 596 |
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| Fourth
Thorn: Details of The Right, True, and Full Practice of “Samraj Asana”, The “Healing
Pose” of Whole bodily (or Total Psycho-Physical) Devotion To Me | | 603 |
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PART
TWELVE | | |
The
Fundamental Practice of Total Psycho-Physical Turning To Me | | 615 |
| | | |
| Make
Divine Yoga Out of Each Moment | | 617 |
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| Devotional
Communion With Me Is Inherently Prior To egoity | | 620 |
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| Always
Transcend Your Own Childish and Adolescent ego-Patterning | | 624 |
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| The
Secret of Practicing True Devotion To Me | | 628 |
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| Turn
The Principal Faculties of The Body-Mind To Me — and Disregard Their Contents | | 635 |
| | | |
| When
You Devotionally Recognize Me, The Faculties Follow, In Devotional Response To
Me | | 643 |
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| The
Only Liberating Discovery | | 648 |
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PART
THIRTEEN | | |
The
Reality-Way | | 651 |
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| The
Way of The Mirror Is Me | | 653 |
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| Mere
Concentration Versus True Surrender | | 673 |
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| The
Ancient Walk-About Way | | 690 |
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| My
Spiritually Bright Silence | | 704 |
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| True
Devotion To Me Is Prior Coincidence With Me — Not The Search
For Union and Unity With Me | | 708 |
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| True
Devotion Is Perfect Knowledge Demonstrated By Renunciation | | 716 |
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| My
Transcendental Spiritual Transmission-Work | | 723 |
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| The
Essentials of Reality-Practice In The Reality-Way of Adidam | | 726 |
| | | |
| Acausal
Adidam | | 728 |
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PART
FOURTEEN | | |
The
True Divine Transcendental Spiritual Process | | 743 |
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| Reality
Itself Is Not A Size | | 745 |
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| No
Seeking / Mere Beholding | | 753 |
| | Transcendental
Spiritual Initiation of The Primary Practice of The Radical Reality-Way of Adidam
Ruchiradam | | |
| | | |
| The
Thumbs Is The Fundamental Sign of The Avataric Crashing-Down of My Divine Person | | 805 |
| | | |
| The
Divine Reality-Way of Adidam Is Revealed and Given Only By Me —
Avatarically, From Above and Beyond | | 826 |
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PART
FIFTEEN | | |
The
Transcendental Spiritual Revelation and The Transcendental Spiritual Transmission
of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj | | 833 |
| Testimonials
By His Ruchira Sannyasin Devotees | | |
| | | |
| Introduction
| | 835 |
| | | |
| Avatar
Adi Da Is The Eternal Divine Body of Conscious Light | | 839 |
| | by
Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba | | |
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| The
Love-Bliss of The Da Avatar | | 883 |
| | by
Ruchiradama Nadikanta Naitauba | | |
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PART
SIXTEEN | | |
As
Is | | 929 |
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| The
Perfect Word “Is” and The ego-Word “I” | | 931 |
| | | |
| The
Way of Is | | 941 |
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PART
SEVENTEEN | | |
The
Boundless Self-Confession | | 949 |
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LAST
WORD | | |
I
Say This | | 991 |
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APPENDICES | | |
| | | |
| The
“Secret Gospel” of Mark | |
997 |
| | | |
| Avatar
Adi Da’s Esoteric Revelations Relative to Certain Christian Symbols and Doctrines | | 1007 |
| | Selected
Passages from The Pneumaton | | |
| | | |
Notes
to the Text of The Pneumaton | | 1019 |
| | |
GLOSSARY
| | 1059 |
| | |
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
| | |
| | | |
| An
Annotated Bibliography of Selected Writings and Discourses of His Divine Presence
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Relating to the Seventh Stage Way of Adidam and the Esoteric
Spiritual Traditions of the Fourth and the Fifth Stages of Life | | 1121 |
| | | |
| Selections
from Avatar Adi Da’s Basket of Tolerance Bibliography,
Relating to the Esoteric Spiritual Traditions of the Fourth and the Fifth Stages
of Life | | 1145 |
| | | |
The
Universal Offering of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj | | 1159 |
| by
Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba | | |
| | |
The
Sacred Literature of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj | | 1165 |
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INDEX | | 1187 |