Avatar Adi Da describes the three options of human destiny: one can reinforce one's present existence in gross (physical) form; one can go beyond gross existence into subtler dimensions of existence; or one can transcend conditional existence altogether, in the Great Process of seventh stage Divine Self-Realization. He suggests that most people (and most devotees) are opting (generally unconsciously) for the first (and lowest) option.
For those who discover the heart-impulse to the Great Process, Avatar Adi Da offers Graceful Means — but, He clarifies, a most intensive ego-transcending process will be required of such devotees, a constant relinquishment of identification with the separate self.
Fear is Inherent in the Body poster: TheBeezone length: 07:31 date added: September 8, 2012 event date: 2004 language: English listens: 2033; listens this month: 0; listens this week: 0
Adi Da explains how fear is inherent in identification with the body and how we must transcend it.
The Wrong Side of the Water poster: frank marrero length: 12:14 date added: August 2, 2012 language: English views: 1874; views this month: 0; views this week: 0
Adi Da answers a devotee's question about the process of initiation in His Company and the response that is required.
The Streams of Buddhism poster: frank marrero length: 27:28 date added: August 2, 2012 language: English views: 3232; views this month: 1; views this week: 1
A devotee asks Adi Da a question about the various forms of Realization in the Zen tradition. Adi Da replies by giving an elaborate description of the understandings within the Zen and other sixth stage traditions, relative to His schema of the seven stages of life.
Avataric Master poster: swaybone11 length: 02:47 date added: July 29, 2012 event date: July 20, 2012 language: English views: 2095; views this month: 0; views this week: 0
Devotee Theo Cedar Jones (frontman, guitarist and lyricist of the rock group, Swaybone) sings his song, "Avataric Master" (to the tune of The Who's "Pinball Wizard") at Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California.
poster: frank marrero length: 11:04 date added: July 12, 2012 language: English views: 2988; views this month: 0; views this week: 0
Adi Da Samraj talks about the relationship with Him that develops on the basis of recognition of Him as the Divine Person and responding via the devotional sadhana (practice) He gives.
Midnight Sun or Narcissus? poster: frank marrero length: 47:41 date added: July 8, 2012 event date: 2004 language: English views: 3633; views this month: 0; views this week: 0
This video clip begins with silent Darshan. Then Adi Da addresses a questioner who is taken by a vision of the "Midnight Sun". Adi Da clarifies that the vision was a state that the ego experienced therefore was not the true vision of the Midnight Sun which is itself the egoless condition.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:03 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: December 23, 1973 language: English listens: 5113; listens this month: 1; listens this week: 1
An excerpt from "Guru As Prophet", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da speaks of the Guru's role as prophet in the world, which is to create "an aggravation, a criticism, an undermining of the usual life". He speaks of how the Guru in the function of prophet is always working to produce a condition in which people's illusions may be undone.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:34 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 5762; listens this month: 1; listens this week: 1
An excerpt from "Money, Food, and Sex", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da criticizes the typical conception of Spirituality as having nothing to do with the realities of day-to-day life and says that taking responsibility for money, food, and sex creates the foundation practice of genuine spiritual practice.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:06 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: September 21, 1972 language: English listens: 4426; listens this month: 0; listens this week: 0
An excerpt from "Walking the Dog", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Using the analogy of a man walking his dog to describe the usual man's self-indulgence and sub-consciousness, Avatar Adi Da Samraj humorously expounds on the true nature of our own egoity.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:49 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: June 20, 1972 language: English listens: 4976; listens this month: 1; listens this week: 1
An excerpt from "The Avon Lady", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da explains how there is no search and no dilemma when one is in Satsang (the company of the Guru).
Adi Da answers a devotee's question about forms of mind and emotion that arise in meditation. He speaks of this as the ordeal of sadhana that must be undertaken and persisted in in His Company in order to Realize Him.
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