About Us
About This Site
This site is not officially associated with Adidam. The perspectives or commentaries that you find on this site represent the viewpoints of the individual authors (presenters, interviewees, etc.) or our editorial and review staff. They should not be taken as an official viewpoint. The only voice truly representative of the Teaching of Adidam is that of Avatar Adi Da Samraj. This site provides personal perspectives about Adi Da Samraj and Adidam: stories of personal interactions with Adi Da, as well as expository pieces sharing personal insights into some aspect of Adi Da's Teaching or the Way of Adidam. This site is designed and managed by a group of Adi Da's devotees, and is greatly benefitted by the contributions of hundreds of other devotees and appreciators of Adi Da. As we elaborate in our introduction, the purpose of this site is to bring a living dimension to Adi Da Samraj's Teaching, principally through the devotee's story of his or her relationship to Avatar Adi Da Samraj, the practice, and the worldwide gathering of devotees. Also: If you are wanting to find out what's currently happening in Adidam around the world, the Adi Da Up Close site is your most current and comprehensive resource.
The Adi Da Up Close site was launched in February, 2007 — 17 years ago. Since that time, much has changed in web design and technology. I'm delighted to say that the Adi Da Up Close site is now being "upgraded" to keep up with the times! We are converting it to a more contemporary design, and are making it mobile-friendly. We've begun with replacing the home page with the new version, and will be converting the entire site to the new design over the next few months.
Site Development: 2007 - Present
Since the launch of the Adi Da Up Close site in February, 2007, we have greatly expanded this site! In this article, we mention a few metrics we use for measuring that expansion:1,940 pages; excellent Google search engine listings; 2,600 shared pages on Faceabook per year; over 4,310,000 views/listens to the clips in our Audio/Video Library; etc. The site has gone through three major phases of development:
- Leela site. If you were visiting this site in 2007, you would have mainly found leelas: stories from devotees about Who Adi Da is and His Work of liberating all beings.
- Multimedia resource. In 2009, we added an Audio/Video Library, which reflects the increasingly multimedia nature of the Web.
- Adidam news resource. From around 2010 on, we expanded the site to also make it the premier online "news resource" for Adidam and what's happening in Adidam around the world.
Responses to Our Site
We're delighted to have received responses to our site from 51 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, East Timor, Eritrea, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Liberia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Zambia. Here are some!
The 200 Most Shared Pages on Our Site
To date, our visitors have shared 186,104 pages on our site with their Facebook friends (usually by pressing the "Like" button at the bottom of a page). Our site currently contains pages. On this page are our "top 200" pages — the pages most shared on Facebook, starting with the most popular. (Number of page shares are in parentheses on the left.) Thanks so much to everyone who has shared these pages! For those trying to decide which pages on our site to share with friends, here are some good ones.
The "Adi Da Up Close" Website Staff
Many people have helped make this site what it is today. We thank them with this page.
Contributors, Sources, and Helpers
In addition to our primary Source — Adi Da Himself — and the Adi Da Up Close staff, we have drawn upon, and are indebted to, hundreds of contributors, sources, and helpers as we created and evolved this site. It is a living example of what Adi Da calls "everybody-all-at-once"! We'd like to acknowledge and express our gratitude to as many of those contributors as possible.
