Adi Da Samraj

The Knee Of Listening has transformed the lives of thousands of secular and religious seekers since it was first published in 1972. Avatar Adi Da& ’ s spiritual autobiography tells the miraculous story of His unique incarnation and revelation in the West for the sake of liberating all beings. This newly expanded edition includes: - An expanded description of Avatar Adi Da's early life, leading up to His Divine Re-Awakening in 1970. - The secrets of Adi Da's & " Pre-History& " before His birth in 1939. - Revelations about the Spiritual Work of the great Realizers in Adi Da's lineage, and His unique Demonstration of the Seventh Stage of Life. - The profound events of & " Yogic death& " (in 1986, 1999, and 2000) that occurred after His Divine Re-Awakening--events that completed Adi Da's process of Incarnating the Divine Conscious Light.

The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light : the Spiritual Autobiography of the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj

The Knee of Listening

Talks and Essays on the Inherent and Ultimate Transcendence of Death and Everything Else

Easy Death

The Seven Stages of Life (Book Ten of the "Seventeen Companions") contains Avatar Adi Da's Instruction on the complete process of human development, from birth to Divine Enlightenment.

Transcending the Six Stages of Egoic Life, and Realizing the Ego-transcending Seventh Stage of Life, in the Divine Way of Adidam

The Seven Stages of Life

More than a verbal explanation of what his art is "really" all about, this body of words, much like Adi Da's art itself, is a "transformational evironment". If you have seen Adi Da's art, and wonder what or who it was that moved you, a careful consideration of this text will serve to integrate the immediacy of the aesthetic experience into a transformed understanding-of Adi Da's art, of art altogether, and of the most profound dimensions of human experience. Book jacket.

The Image-art of Egoless Coincidence with Reality Itself

Transcendental Realism

The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation

Peter Frank

Achille Bonito Oliva

In this catalog of Adi Da Samraj's collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2007, some of his most recent works are reproduced in stunning color. Adi Da Samraj's art conveys a profound spiritual message through the drama of visual form. That form can be figurative or purely abstract. It can be photographic or purely digital. It can be narrative?even humorous?or purely philosophical. It can be beautiful or it can be disorienting. All of his art is intended to assist the process of going beyond "ego," and discovering "reality itself, truth itself, and the beautiful itself." Achille Bonito Oliva, the chief curator writes: "Adi Da Samraj's two- and three-dimensional shapes are always concrete communicative realities, statements of a mental order that is never repressive or closed off, but always germinating and unpredictable. In all instances, shapes germinate and multiply with sudden offshoots that reveal the potential of a new geometric eroticism."

The Art of Adi Da Samraj

This book was conceived by Adi Da Samraj at the end of 2005. He was first moved to make his own rendering, or 'interpretive translation', of a traditional Advaitic text, The Heart of the Ribhu Gita, in order to elucidate (and thereby honor) its full meaning. Adi Da Samraj then did the same with other great teachings from the traditions of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism. In each case, he brought the essence of the instruction to the fore, with elegance and illumined understanding. Texts whose meanings were only partially (or cryptically) expressed even in the original suddenly shone forth, like rough gems cut by an expert hand. Such was the original kernel of The Gnosticon, an anthology of these masterful 'translations', together with discourses about the traditional texts, given by Adi Da Samraj. Avatar Adi Da's final work on The Gnosticon (only months before His passing in November 2008) included the addition of the essays Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga and The Boundless Self-Confession.

The "perfect Knowledge" Reality-teachings of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

The Gnosticon

Mei-Ling Israel

Adi Da Samraj's exhibition at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia (2007), Transcendental Realism, marks the first time his work is being shown to the public. The purpose of The World As Light is to provide an overview of his entire artistic oeuvre of the past forty years?accompanied by key statements he has made on his own art and on the artistic process in general. His art can be understood as an intensive investigation of the human condition?the condition of presumed existence as a ?self? in the midst of a world that is ?not-self?. Adi Da's art is meant to call into question the most basic presumptions of ordinary human life: the ?fact? of existing as an independent ?self?, the ?fact? of every ?self? being separate from every other ?self?, the ?fact? of the ?self? being separate from the world of ?everything else?. Indeed, Adi Da intends his art to communicate the profundity that is known when all presumptions of ?separateness? are relinquished.

An Introduction to the Art of Adi Da Samraj

The World as Light

The Aletheon is a fathomless gift to the world immense in both its scope and profundity. It is a supreme masterpiece of wisdom, instruction, and Divine Self-Revelation. Avatar Adi Da's work on The Aletheon ended on the very day of his passing when he called for the title page of The Aletheon and finalized the wording, thereby forever bringing to a close his final great writing-labor of love. Adi Da had written many extraordinary and comprehensive books before The Aletheon. The early years of Avatar Adi Da's active Teaching-Work were an astounding demonstration of his willingness to submit himself to ordinary egos, and to work by reflecting egos to themselves and calling egos to true esoteric practice. What is unique about The Aletheon is that it was written after that time of submission to ordinary beings had been completed, when Avatar Adi Da was demonstrating the culminating phase of his outshining revelation. In writing The Aletheon, Avatar Adi Da had utterly relinquished his previous modes of self-submission and teaching, and expressed only his own purest communication of Truth.

The Divine Avatric Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

The Aletheon

This text contains discourses from the early years of Adi Da's teaching work. These talks date back to 1972, when Adi Da opened his first ashram in Los Angeles. This text teaches the ancient trans-egoic truths, and transforms the student by paradox and example.

Talks on the Spiritual Technique of the Saviors of Mankind

The Method of the Siddhas

Avatar Adi Da Samraj describes the limitations and illusory nature of the 'I', and how the 'I' can be transcended so that there is awakening to 'the unqualified feeling of being that is absolute consciousness itself'.

The Principal Essay of the Da Avabhasa Upanishad

The Ego-"I" is the Illusion of Relatedness

In My "Bright" Word, Avatar Adi Da elucidates the fundamentals of "radical" self-understanding, which principles are the foundation of His Revelation of the Way of Adidam. These include: The basic principle of egoic existence, the search, which Avatar Adi Da later communicated in its simplest terms: You want to feel goodbecause you feel bad. Therefore, you are seekingin order to feel good. The essential ego-fault and the means for overcoming it: (1) Truth cannot be Realized by seeking for it. The seeking itself is the problem. When there is no seeking, Truth (or Reality) is Obvious. (2) Freedom (or Divine Liberation) is not dependent on any objective entity or process. Freedom (or Divine Liberation) Is Always Already the Case.The single logic of egoic life: The logic (or process) of separation itself, of enclosure and immunity, informs every function of the living being, every experience, every act, every event.The Grace-Given process of Radical self-understanding: (1) Observe your own self-contracting activity. Understand your own self-contracting activity. Transcend your own self-contracting activity.My Bright Word is a Gift Avatar Adi Da has Given to all--for the purpose of Divine Liberation for those who choose It. In this book, Avatar Adi Da makes it possible for anyone to read the first formal Instruction Given by the Divine Heart-Master, the Very Incarnation of Truth Itself (or Reality Itself).

Discourses from the Divine Siddha-Method of the Ruchira Avatar

My "Bright" Word

An Introduction to the Way of the Heart

The Holy Jumping-off Place

7" x10", hardcover in embossed slipcase, 1410 pages Adi Da Samraj's paramount "Source-Text", this Great Divine Testament is unparalleled in its magnitude and depth. It represents the fruit of Adi Da Samraj's Immense Work of Teaching and Revelation over more than three decades. An extraordinary Scripture, containing Adi Da Samraj's detailed Revelation of every aspect of the process culminating in Divine Enlightenment. Includes: * Adi Da Samraj's Divine Self-Confession * The nature of His Life and Work * His fundamental Teaching-Arguments * The True Nature of God * The characteristic philosophical faults of East and West * The three basic human personality types * How sexuality relates to Spiritual practice * What actually happens in the process of death and reincarnation * The nature of the ego and how it is utterly transcended * Detailed descriptions of all the practices Adi Da Samraj Gives to His devotees * What Divine Enlightenment really is, and how It is Realized

The Testament of Divine Secrets of the Divine World-teacher, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj

The Dawn Horse Testament of the Ruchira Avatar

Between 1998 and 2006, Adi Da Samraj focused on camera-based imagery, creating a highly complex body of work (in both black-and-white and color) that now exceeds 60,000 images and a great many hours of videotape. The Spectra Suites, his latest book, is a consequence of his work from that great library. In these suites Adi Da Samraj combines digitally generated imagery with images he created using still and video cameras. To achieve each finished work he then meticulously crafts every detail by digital means. Each of the 10 Spectra Suites is based on one or more of his fundamental images--many of which are a powerful visual and philosophical complexity. These fundamental images are, for him, preliminary sketches. Each new image for the suites began as his response to a number of his own photographs collected on a nearby wall as a general representation of his subject. Rather than projecting them as a photorealist might, Adi Da Samraj used his photographs as a kind of "focus of recollection and presence" to bring the often immovable, disparate, complex, and multiple subjects of his art into the interior of his working studio. Adi Da Samraj has said that his intention as an artist is to visually communicate the Truth of Reality Itself by "allowing Reality to manifest Itself." This is the first major full-color monograph on this spiritual master's art, and is published in conjunction with a showing of his work at the Venice Biennale, June-November, 2007.

The Spectra Suites

Prophetic Wisdom about the Myths and Idols of Mass Culture and Popular Religious Cultism, the New Priesthood of Scientific and Political Materialism, and the Secrets of Enlightenment Hidden in the Body of Man

Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon be Announced by the White House!

"Hridaya Rosary" is Adi Da Samraj's beautifully precise and exquisitely poetic description of the Spiritual process in his company?the process that is spontaneously entered into when one is spiritually awakened by him. In this remarkable text, Adi Da Samraj talks about his own state of perfect Love-Bliss-Happiness. He makes clear that this Divine beauty can truly be known only when the ego is transcended. In "Hridaya Rosary," Adi Da Samraj says: ?There must be this Spiritual Infusion. I must Invade the body-mind in the course of your real practice, such that meditation, or any moment of profound exercise, is profoundly Full, Love-Bliss-Full, and shows itself to be the Primary Condition and Zone of a born life.? ?A great teacher with the dynamic ability to awaken in his listeners something of the Divine Reality in which he is grounded, with which he is identified, and which, in fact, he is.? ISRAEL REGARDIE, author, The Golden Dawn

(Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction)

Hridaya Rosary

The Dawn Horse Press Avatar Adi Da's Revelation of the Nature of God and the nature of the cosmos, including His discussion of why the ultimate questions of existence cannot be satisfactorily answered by either conventional religion or conventional science.

Reality, Truth, and the "Non-Creator" God in the True World-Religion of Adidam

Real God Is the Indivisible Oneness of Unbroken Light

Donald Burton Kuspit

Louis Stern Fine Arts

52 Views : April 8-May 10, 2003

Quandra Loka (the Indivisible Space of Conscious Light)

"New talks and essays from the Avatar Adi Da on death and ultimate transcendence; accounts of profound events of yogic death in Avatar Adi Da's own life; stories of his blessing in the death transitions of his devotees" -- Cover.

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