The Way of Adidam: Five Steps to an Ecstatic Life of Communion With Real God,Used

Product Description 'For those who would embrace a religious life based on heartbreaking FreedomI Am here.' Avatar Adi Da Samraj 'Adidam is not a conventional religion, not a conventional way of life. Adidam is about the transcending of the ego'I' and the Freedom of Divine SelfRealization. Adidam is not based on mythology or belief. Adidam is a 'reality practice'. Adidam is a 'reality consideration' in which the various modes of egoity are progressively transcended. Adidam is a universally applicable Way of life. Adidam is for those who will choose It, and whose hearts and intelligence fully respond to Me and My Offering. Adidam is a Great Revelation, and It is to be freely and openly communicated to all.' Avatar Adi Da Samraj (c) 2003 The Da LoveAnanda Samrajya Pty Ltd, as trustee for The Da LoveAnanda Samrajya. All rights reserved. Perpetual copyright claimed. Review It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what ITs all about?a rare being. ALAN WATTS Author, The Way of Zen and The Wisdom of InsecurityThe life and teaching of Avatar Adi Da Samraj are of profound and decisive significance at this moment in history. BRYAN DESCHAMP Senior Adviser at the United Nations High Commission for RefugeesThe work of Adi Da [is] one of the most penetrating spiritual experiments happening on the planet in our era. JEFFREY MISHLOVE, Ph.D., Host, PBS television series, Thinking Allowed; Author, The Roots of Consciousness About the Author About Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj From the moment of His Avataric birth (in New York, on November 3, 1939), Adi Da Samraj was consciously aware of His native Divine Condition: the Condition of everyone and everything. As soon as He became able to use language, He gave this Condition a simple but very descriptive Name the 'Bright'. At two years of age, Adi Da Samraj spontaneously decided to relinquish His constant enjoyment of the 'Bright' out of what He describes as a 'painful loving', a sympathy for the suffering and ignorance of human beings. Avatar Adi Da confesses that He chose to 'Learn Man' to pass through all of the 'ordinary' human limitations and presumptions that people suffer, and also to pass through the entire spectrum of 'extraordinary' spiritual phenomena that people can seek and attain in order to discover how to draw human beings into the 'Bright' Divine Condition that He knew as His own True State and the True State of everyone. In His spiritual autobiography, The Knee Of Listening, Avatar Adi Da recounts this amazing and heroic ordeal of submitting utterly to every aspect and stage of human experience: both high and low in the spectrum of human possibility. In 1970, at 30 years of age, Avatar Adi Da finally ReAwakened permanently to the 'Bright', and embarked upon the second great purpose of His Incarnation the process of 'Teaching Man'. In the 30 years since He began teaching Avatar Adi Da Samraj has communicated a vast store of Wisdom. He has published well over 60 books and given thousands of discourses on every subject that impinges on human and spiritual understanding: from the most ordinary and mundane to the most sacred and esoteric. Adi Da's unique WisdomTeaching has inspired the formation of schools, clinics, artisans guilds, and retreat sanctuaries, as well as an international network of communities devoted to the spiritual practice that He has outlined.