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Contemplative Video of 2025 Image-Art Calendar Images & Quotes

The 2025 Image-Art Calendar, "Transcendental Realism: Self-Portraits of Reality Itself" is now available.

Celebrating 25 years since the "Initiation of Free Light-Imagery" (in June of 2000), the 2025 Image-Art Calendar is a selection of Adi Da’s artistic works from the late 1960s through 2008. Each image exemplifies a unique period of Adi Da’s aesthetic expression, while demonstrating his entire body of artistic work as a singular communication of beauty and profundity beyond "point of view". It is a sublime and enduring communication of Transcendental Realism!

This contemplative video is a reading of the quotes accompanying the images on the calendar, along with the images themselves.

Music is "Noon Dreams", from John Wubbenhorst, Bansuri Dreams.

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The Need for a Realizer

Adi Da addresses the "do-it-yourself" approach to spirituality that is popular in the world today, and speaks about why a teacher/Realizer is necessary.

Video includes a Sacred Sighting of Adi Da (recorded July 18, 2008, at Adi Da Samrajashram), beginning at 1:30.

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You Can't Get There From Here (excerpt)

An excerpt from Track 3 (entitled "Realization Has No self") of the CD, You Can Get There From Here.

The famous punch line "You can't get there from here" is Avatar Adi Da's starting point for this engaging Discourse. He uses this humorous paradox to perfectly crystallize the condition of all who are caught in the trap of seeking.

"The 'self' can't get to God", Avatar Adi Da clarifies, because the act that generates the sense of "self" is the act of recoil from the Divine. Life is rightly lived not by concentrating on "fixing" this recoil but as the feeling-embrace of the requirements and conditions of existence. And Avatar Adi Da offers the Way "out" of the trap of "self" -and-"other": Locate the supreme attractiveness of His Radiant Divine State, and "self" is dissolved in "Brightness".

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Hänen ainutlaatuinen tarjouksensa

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Adi Dalle omistautunut Vanessa kertoo Hänen ainutlaatuisesta tarjouksestaan, ja siitä, miten se eroaa muista lähestymistavoista. Otteessa Hänen esseestään Se, Mitä Tuon tänne, Adi Da sanoo:

"Se, Mitä Tuon tänne, ei ole mytologiaa.
Se, Mitä Tuon tänne, ei ole "uskontoa".
Se, Mitä Tuon tänne, ei ole mitään, jonka ihmiset jo "tuntevat".
Se, Mitä Tuon tänne, ei ole tie tai tavoittelu, joka olisi jo ilmennyt ihmiskunnan Suuren Perinteen historiassa.
Se, Mitä Tuon tänne, on jotain, jota ei ole ikinä ennen tarjottu, josta ei ole ikinä ennen kuultu, jota ei ole ikinä ennen harjoitettu."

Vanessa Kenoyer, a devotee of Avatar Adi Da, speaks about His Unique Offering and how it differs from other approaches. In an excerpt from one of His essays, "There Is A Way And Reality Itself Is It" (in The Aletheon), Adi Da states: "What I Bring to here is not mythology. What I Bring to here is not ‘religion’. What I Bring to here is not anything that human beings already ‘know’. What I Bring to here is not a path or a search that is already evident in the history of the Great Tradition of humankind. What I Bring to here has never been offered before, never heard of before, never practiced before."

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Poems from Crazy Da Must Sing, Inclined to His Weaker Side


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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Luxuriate in the Life of Contemplation


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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Love Is How I Got to Here


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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Listen to Me


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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The Great Secret


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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Enchantment


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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The Baptism of Immortal Happiness


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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What Is the Conscious Process?


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.


Garbage and the Goddess


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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Study, Enquiry, And Satsang


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

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The Heaven-Born Gospel of the Ruchira Avatar


This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.

This excerpt is from a talk Adi Da gave on March 11, 1973.

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