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The Radical Truth
by Adi Da Samraj
Discourses by The Great Avataric Sage, Adi Da Samraj, on The Ultimate Nature of Reality, Truth, and Real God.
Episodes
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Truth is Prior to the Body/Mind
In this discourse Adi Da Samraj adresses the fact that Truth or God Realization is not dependent on, nor does it have anything to do with, the functions and activities of the body mind.
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Be Purposed to Realization - Beyond Race, Gender, or Any Form of 'self'-Identity.
In this discourse, a devotee asks Adi Da Samraj about her practice of Adidam as an African-American woman in a predominantly white community.
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Money, Food, and Sex
In an historic discourse from 1972, Adi Da addresses the dilemma those taking up 'spiritual life' encounter when bringing discipline to the areas of money, food, and sex.
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Helping the Dying
In this discourse given May 29, 1980, a student of Avatar Adi Da asks for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da responds both with compassion, and also with very practical and useful advice.
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The Responsibility for Love
An excerpt from a 1977 discourse of Adi Da Samraj, in which he responds to a devotee's question about the difficulty - and apparent inability - to love.
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'My Work Is Urgent'
Adi Da speaks to the crisis mankind is in and the urgency for true spiritual practice - the disposition that undermines mankind's assumption of separation.
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Adi Da's Reading of His Love-Ananda Gita
In this historical recording of April of 1986, we hear Adi Da Samraj reciting the final section of his Love-Ananda Gita. In it Adi Da communicates his most 'radical' transcendental teaching regarding true renunciation of the egoic motive of seperation and Realization of the Divine Self-Condition.
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'When you Live you Make Mind...'
In this discourse, given in 1985, Adi Da communciates that while we survive death, that fact is of no consulation. At death there is the falling off of the physical body, but the mind, psych and personality created during one's life continue without the anchor of the body. Without this anchor we...
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Adi Da's Poetry: Confessional Poems of Liberation and Love
Adi Da Samraj communicates his 'Bright' realization and the purpose of his liberating work through poems He wrote between 1971 and 1976. The poems included in this podcast were selected from the full collection of Adi Da's poetry. The recitations are placed in an order that relates to Avatar Adi...
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The Death of Adi Da Samraj
On November 27, 2008 Adi Da Samraj passed from His body in His hermitage sanctuary in Fiji. This extended podcast includes a chronicle of this time of His passing, an audio excerpt from 1999 of Adi Da speaking about His physical death and continuation of His spiritual and world work, and finally...
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The Commercialization of Religion
The consumer mentality has infiltrated the area of religion. We hear from the media and the popular psyche that you can buy religion and become 'spiritual' without real change - and this presumption is false. In this episode, which includes two segments from discourses and a recitation from His...
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All Religious History is One Great Tradition
The history of human spirituality is actually One Great Tradition. In this discourse Avatar Adi Da calls upon us to study and understand the searches, doctrines and spiritual attainments of mankind as a whole, not as seperate traditions or paths. He also urges mankind to transcend merely...
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The Romanticism of Science
Does religion have the answer to truth.. or does science explain it all? In this discourse Adi Da Samraj speaks to what science can serve and what are the limits in its endeavor to discover the truth about Reality.
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Transcending the Mood of Doubt
Doubt is not a sign that we may be betrayed. Adi Da describes the "solution" to doubt - identifying with the Divine, beyond temporary cycles of body and mind.
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The Only Way Beyond Fear
Avatar Adi Da Samraj addresses the root cause of fear which is at the core of all suffering. He speaks about the "self-contraction" or the activity of presumed identification exclusively with the separate and mortal body as the place where fear arises. Rather than avoiding the fear inherent in...
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What is Adidam?
Adi Da clarifies that the Way of Adidam is based solely on the inherent heart-response to his spiritual state. That heart-response in feeling relationship to Adi Da leads to the self-understanding and willingness to take up the real ego-transcending practice and ultimately to the outshining of...
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"God" Is not the Cause
A devotee askes Adi Da a question about the nature of the "ego", and how the sense of self-separation is caused. In response, Adi Da gives a Radical and profound description of the true nature of the Divine Reality, Stating that the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of...
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Cults and Cultism
In this talk Avatar Adi Da notes that cultism is rooted in the childish need to believe and to depend on a person, group, myth, or symbol - without assuming responsibility for oneself. He then points out that the tendency to create a cult of whatever kind is present in everyone - at every level…
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Death and The Purpose of Existence
In this episode, Avatar Adi Da describes how the habits of attention, or the patterning of mind while alive determine what happens in and after death. He dispels the myth of "when you die you go to heaven", and elucidates the process of life, death and reincarnation. Adi Da also gives a clear...
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Beyond Death, Sorrow, and Loss: A Discourse by Adi Da Samraj
In this episode, Avatar Adi Da Samraj responds to a question from a devotee who had lost a grandchild and was asking for some understanding that might ease his sorrow. Avatar Adi Da describes how there is no answer to the pain of loss except for Divine Realization. He Calls His devotee to use the...
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The Need for The Spiritual Master
You will hear two excerpts from Talks by Avatar Adi Da: In the first excerpt, Avatar Adi Da Samraj speaks of the ancient and time-honored understanding of the indispensable need for a true and fully accomplished spiritual Realizer if anyone hopes to discover the ultimate nature of Reality and...
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The Bright
Avatar Adi Da reads His own description of the unique State of Spiritual Freedom He has enjoyed since His birth. From His earliest childhood, He has used the term "The 'Bright'" to convey His experience of the overwhelming Spiritual Radiance of Reality. Adi Da is alive now in our time and the...
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Discourses by The Great Avataric Sage, Adi Da Samraj, on The Ultimate Nature of Reality, Truth, and Real God.
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