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Welcome to our website (now fifteen years old), which celebrates the life, work, and ongoing Transcendental Spiritual Transmission of the Divine World-Teacher, Adi Da Samraj, through hundreds of personal accounts of devotees' direct relationship to Adi Da. This site is a source of firsthand information for those who want to learn more about Adi Da and the Way of Adidam, the new, God-Realizing Way of life that Adi Da offers to everyone. This site is also the most current and comprehensive source of information on what's happening in Adidam around the world. New content is being added all the time, so check back often. Just discovering Adi Da or Adidam? Please take a moment to read our introduction. Enjoy our site!

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Contemplative Video of 2025 Image-Art Calendar Images & QuotesFidziläisen omistautujan kertomusThe Need for a RealizerAdi Da Samraj's Esoteric Interpretation of Santa ClausAn Introduction to Avatar Adi Da SamrajHuman History Is One Great Tradition
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The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Image-Art Revelation June is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Image-Art Revelation, which includes the Celebration of the Initiation of Free Light-Imagery.

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The Celebration of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas July 9-10 is The Celebration of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas, the ultimate mode and final period of Adi Da's Divine Self-Revelation.

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The Celebration of Da Purnima Da Purnima (July 16-17) is Adidam's unique version of the traditional Guru Purnima celebration. During this Celebration, the great and Divine Guru-Function of the Divine Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, is honored. "Purnima" means "full". Guru Purnima is traditionally celebrated during the brightest full moon of the year, usually occuring in July.

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Featured Introductory Events June (and later): Featured intro Adidam events around the world. Learn about Adi Da's teaching on the nature of reality and human suffering, and the illusion of the separate self.

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Online Screenings of Conscious Light
Online Screenings of Conscious Light:
This award-winning film draws the participant into the direct experience of Adi Da's Transmission of Reality.
No screenings in June.

   
The Adidam Academy
Start dates for teleconference courses:
The Greatest Gift:
January 4, 2025
3 sessions

Online Conscious Light Webinar SeriesFollow-Up Events — If you have already seen the film, Conscious Light, check out these online follow-up events!

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Adidam History: Tuesday, November 26 (today)
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Today is the Supreme Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Divine Mahasamadhi (honoring Bhagavan Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, 2008). This is November 27, Fiji time. The three-day Mahasamadhi Vigil begins at 5:05pm Fiji Time.
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Amma (Swami Prajnananda) is born, in Ahmedabad, India. Amma was a Sanskrit professor and one of the earliest and closest disciples of Swami Muktananda. She served as his assistant and secretary for many years. She wrote the earliest essays on Muktananda's Siddha Yoga, kundalini and Shaktipat, and thereby gave a form to Muktananda's teachings. Adi Da writes of His interactions with Amma in The Knee Of Listening.
1980:At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gathers with devotees and talks about the "attitude of participation" as the foundation for a Real-God-Realizing life. "If you take up the attitude of science, the analytical, 'self'-contracted view, and make that the sole position from which to understand your existence, you define yourselves in limitation, in 'Narcissistic' roles, as a contracted, independent entity. In other words, the attitude of science is always tending toward the contracted state, the independent principle, whereas the attitude of participatory 'knowledge' is always tending toward universal expansiveness, universal connectedness. The body must feel into the Universal Field. The mind must feel into the Universal Field. This is fundamental to the Spiritual process. MORE
1984:At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, "For The Love". (Text excerpt here.) Adi Da (talking to devotee, Aniello Panico): "Eating beings is always disturbing — not necessarily the eating, but the witnessing of the eating. There is nothing I can do about this, Aniello. This world is dreadful. Do you have any idea what is happening in conditional nature? All beings are My own. Yet, you must sacrifice them in order to live. You beings, you humans here, require the murdering of living beings to eat and survive. You must come to terms with this fact. To do so you must come to terms with your own life and death and accept the fact that you are a sacrifice, and that conditionally manifested existence is not merely a jolly time. All of you could potentially die a painful death and live a painful lifetime. By entering into relationship with Me, I am Giving you another slice of possibility. . . I love rats, Aniello. I Embrace them — rats, mice, walls, amoebas, frogs — I Embrace everybody. I Love everybody. I want to Wake Up every being into this Ecstasy in the midst of death."
2002:Sacred Images for Avatar Adi Da's Sukra Kendra at The Mountain Of Attention, and Hanuman statues for all Sukra Kendras, arrive at Da Love-Ananda Mahal (after completing a Yajna of Holy Sites in India) and are Blessed by Avatar Adi Da.
2008:At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da completes The Aletheon with a change to the title page; He adds "Final Word (Something New Must Emerge)" to Not-Two Is Peace.
2008:The Divine Mahasamadhi of Avatar Adi Da, 5:05 p.m., November 27 (Fiji Time), Adi Da Samrajashram.
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 NOVEMBER is The Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Avataric Incarnation and the Divine Mahasamadhi. Short Adidam name for November: Da Jayanthi. For more about the annual cycle of months and Celebrations in Adidam, click here. The 2024 Sacred History calendar lists Adidam History events for each day of the year. A 2024 Adidam Pocket Calendar is also available. The 2024 Image-Art calendar features a selection of images from the suite Geome Three: The Scale of Perfection. The image-art of Adi Da reveals that the natural world is entirely constructed from these "primary geometries".
NEW: The Perpetual Brightness Calendar, with a special compilation of daily photographs and quotations, created in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Adidam (1972-2022).
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Easy Death: Transcending Mortality and Death in the Divine

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Our Video LibraryOur Audio/Video Library contains over 1,100 video and audio clips of Adi Da talking or giving Darshan, devotees telling stories about Adi Da, videos of Adi Da's Image-Art, videos on Adi Da's Not-Two Is Peace, and more. Over 4,320,000 views/listens to date.
  

Presentations given by devotees that include personal stories and provide context for aspects of Adi Da's Work and Instruction.

Books by devotees, on subjects that support or resonate with Adi Da and the Way of Adidam.
 
 
 
 

Because of His unique, extraordinary Teaching, Adi Da's books are the first introduction to Him for many people. This site provides an introduction to the books of Adidam, including an overview; recently published books; free e-books; forthcoming books; an index of the books of Adidam; and differences in Adi Da's Teaching over time.

  
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A brief guide to the changes in Adi Da's name over the years, corresponding to the progressive changes in His Spiritual Work and His Revelation.
 
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Related sites more about Adi Da and Adidam, including books, regional Adidam sites around the world, Adi Da's art, and more.

 
 
 
 
 

The annual cycle of Adidam celebrationsThe annual cycle of Adidam celebrations. Special presentations on many of the Celebrations, including Danavira Mela, Da Jayanthi (Adi Da's Birthday), the Divine Avataric Self-"Emergence", the Divine Avataric Translation, the Establishment of Adidam, and more.

  

Adidam regional contacts, events, courses, centers, and study groups near you.

Also: Facebook and MeetUp groups of interest.

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