poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 03:59 date added: July 14, 2021 language: English views: 537; views this month: 3; views this week: 3
Part 11 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 14:43 date added: July 12, 2021 language: English views: 531; views this month: 3; views this week: 3
Part 10 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master. A video clip is being watched by the live audience, but only the audio from that video is available here. (You can watch the actual video clip here.)
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 01:45 date added: July 10, 2021 language: English views: 489; views this month: 2; views this week: 2
Part 9 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 05:44 date added: July 9, 2021 language: English views: 547; views this month: 2; views this week: 2
Part 8 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 06:16 date added: July 8, 2021 language: English views: 538; views this month: 1; views this week: 1
Part 7 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
Club Rat poster: AdiDaUpClose speaker: Chris Tong length: 01:04 date added: July 6, 2021 language: English listens: 1019; listens this month: 0; listens this week: 0
On July 7, 1992 (Fiji time), at Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da created "Club Rat", a most unusual gathering during the height of a Celebratory period. For those unfamiliar with Club Rat, you can read Chris Tong's story about it here.
Music plays a central role in the story. For this reason, in celebration of the 29th anniversary of Club Rat (on July 7, 2021), Chris has recreated part of the rock song he wrote and performed that evening, Club Rat, so you can at least get a taste of the actual music from that night. (Adi Da had called for an evening of rock music. Club Rat was the opening song of a night of music that would go on to include much more than rock music. . .)
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Club Rat. Club Rat. The funky place where God is at. Club Rat. Club Rat. The funky place where. . . only skanks and whores walk through its doors. There you find Your Self and lose yourself. When the Lord's in town Everyone gets down. Club Rat. Club Rat. The funky place where God is at. (etc.)
CHRIS: This recreation is just as we presented it to Beloved Adi Da during the Club Rat gathering, except for some improvements due to better musical equipment and technology (e.g., drum machines instead of upside-down, plastic "piss buckets" 😜 — read the full story for more about that! ).
I wrote Club Rat, keeping in mind the intensity and "badness" of the pop rock music Beloved Adi Da was listening to at the time (like Michael Jackson's Beat It).
The lyrics are drawn from Adi Da's instructions to us about Club Rat, such as: Club Rat was to be the most "funky" place ever; participating devotees had to be "skanks and whores" — in other words, no suppressed energy or emotional-sexual complication (so He could work with our entire energy, not just the superficial part we usually show to or share with others socially); etc.
The lyrics also drew on current, ongoing considerations Adi Da was having with devotees at the time, such as His Calling to us to "get down" (He was riffing on the popular 1970's slang phrase, giving it His Own unique meaning): a reminder for us to incarnate whole bodily (rather than being merely a "point" in the head, refusing to "get down" below the head).
The line, "When the Lord's in town" was a reference to Beloved Adi Da visiting the "village" of Qaravi: the area of the island of Naitauba where His devotees lived and where "Club Rat" (Hymns To Me) was located.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 01:45 date added: July 5, 2021 language: English views: 600; views this month: 2; views this week: 2
Part 6 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 09:59 date added: July 4, 2021 language: English views: 542; views this month: 3; views this week: 3
Part 5 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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In this excerpt from an Avataric Discourse, Adi Da speaks about the necessity to become disillusined with mortal life in a positive sense. Positive disillusionment is emerging when one begins to understand and relinquish the stressful and ultimately futile search for personal survival, worldly happiness, and ultimate life fulfillment. Only then can one be drawn into recognizing, learning about, and ecstatically participating in Reality Itself, in relationship to a True Realizer.
ADI DA: The teaching of Truth is for those who are disillusioned in the positive sense, who have been sobered in their lives by grasping the nature of existence and being cured of search.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 08:02 date added: July 3, 2021 language: English views: 520; views this month: 4; views this week: 4
Part 4 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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A retrospective of Adi Da's monumental-size art. Includes clips of Adi Da talking about His work. Also includes slides from various exhibitions and some quotes about Adi Da's art from an art critic, art historian, and museum curator.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 07:12 date added: July 1, 2021 language: English views: 506; views this month: 2; views this week: 2
Part 3 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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Isabelle Trudeau, a devotee of Adi Da, talks about the process by which she recognized Adi Da as her Spiritual Master and about her decision to formally take up the Way of Adidam.
"You Must Know The Place You Are In" is a video excerpt from the award-winning documentary, Conscious Light, about the life and work of Adi Da Samraj.
Drawing on an extensive archival collection of film, photography, and audio recordings, as well as interviews with students who have lived with Adi Da and who practice His teachings, Conscious Light takes the viewer on a journey from Adi Da's birth, through His thirty-six years of Teaching and Blessing, to the legacy and spiritual relationship that is eternally available to all after His passing.
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 06:16 date added: June 30, 2021 language: English views: 526; views this month: 2; views this week: 2
Part 2 of longtime devotee Gerald Sheinfeld's reading of his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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