The Gnosticon

The “Perfect Knowledge” Reality-Teachings
of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

Softcover: ISBN-10: 1570972818. ISBN-13: 978-1570972812.
Hardcover:
Only edition(s), March 1, 2010.
The Dawn Horse Press
 

Avatar Adi Da Samraj examines the Great Tradition of humankind,
illumines its hidden treasures, and Reveals the Perfect Tradition that resolves the search for wisdom.

Table of Contents

About the cover

FOREWORD by Paul E. Muller-Ortega

The Perfect Tradition: An Introduction to The Gnosticon
by Carolyn Lee, PhD

THE GNOSTICON    The “Perfect Knowledge” Reality-Teachings of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

PART ONE   Religion and Reality

Moving Beyond Childish and Adolescent Approaches To Life and Truth

The Parental Deity and The One To Be Realized

God As The Creator, God As Good, and God As The Real

The Culturally Prescribed God-Idea of Exoteric Religion Is Not The Divine Itself but Only A Cultural (and Entirely Conditional) Means For Turning To The Divine

The Wisdom of Esotericism

The Three Modes of Self-Evidence

The Three Great Principles of All Truth

Real (Acausal) God Is The Perfect Deep of The Happen of Seeming World

God-Talk, Real-God-Realization, Most Perfect Divine Self-Awakening, and The Seven Possible Stages of Life

The Transcendental Spiritual Way of Reality Itself Is Founded On The Tacit and Prior “Perfect Knowledge” of Reality Itself

The Seventh Stage Way

PART TWO   I Am The Divine Avataric Gift of The Bright—and of The Thumbs
That Reveals It

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

PART THREE   Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga

The Intrinsically egoless Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam

PART FOUR   Eleutherios (The Liberator)

The Radical Reality-Teachings of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

I. Eleutherios
II. What Is Consciousness?
III. Truth, Reality, and Real (Acausal) God
IV. The Perfect Practice
V. Freedom

PART FIVE   Reality (Itself) Is All The God There Is

A Discourse Given by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, to His devotees, on January 6, 2006—on the occasion when He first Recited His Renderings of the Maneesha Panchakam, the Dasasloki, and the Devikalottara

PART SIX    The Reality-Teachings of The Sages of Traditional Buddhism and
Advaitism, Presented and Rendered By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

To Realize Nirvana Is To Realize The True Self Buddhist Realism and Its (Ultimately) Inherent Sympathy With Advaitic Idealism

Transcendental Gnosis

The Zero-Point and The Infinite State

There Is A Non-Conditional Condition To Be Realized
    The Reality-Teachings of The Buddhist Sage Gotama Sakyamuni

The Transcendental Truth of Reality
    The Reality-Teachings of The Buddhist Sage Nagarjuna

The Sixth Stage Transcendentalist Ways of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism—and The Seventh Stage Acausal Way of Adidam

What Is Required To Realize The Non-Dual Truth?
    The Controversy Between The Talking School and
    The Practicing School of Advaitism

Ten Declarations of The Transcendental Self-Identity of Consciousness Itself
    The Reality-Teachings of The Advaitic Sage Shankara

The Five Declarations of Ultimate Knowledge

The Reality-Teachings of The Advaitic Tradition As A Whole, On The Necessary Characteristics of An Inherently Perfect Guru, or True Master-Sage

The Way of Knowledge That Becomes Possible

Only At The Final Stage of Maturity
    The Reality-Teachings of The Advaitic Sage of The Devikalottara

The Reality-Teachings of The Sage Ribhu

1. The Plain Truth of Traditional (or Sixth Stage) Non-Dualism, As Represented By The Ribhu Gita
2. The Legendary Story of The Sage Ribhu and His Devotee Nidagha, As Told By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
3. The Essence of The Non-Dualist Reality-Teachings of The Sage Ribhu
4. Abide As That
    On The Practice of Self-Abiding As
    The Indivisible Self-Reality of Intrinsically Self-Evident Being, Itself

Sixth-Stage Method Versus Perfect Practice

A Discourse Given by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, to His devotees, on December 11, 2005—directly after He had first Recited His Rendering of the Ribhu Gita

Advaita Buddha Dharma of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

PART SEVEN The Book of The Gnosticon

A Discourse Given by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, to His devotees, on January 28, 2006—directly after He had first Recited His Renderings of the Reality-Teachings of Gotama Sakyamuni and Nagarjuna

PART EIGHT   The Unique Sixth Stage Foreshadowings of The Only-By-Me
Revealed and Given Seventh Stage of Life

PART NINE   The Searchless Essence of Radical Devotion To Me

PART TEN   The Only Liberating Discovery

PART ELEVEN   The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries

The Revelation of The Preliminary “Perfect Knowledge” Teachings of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

I. A Brief Introduction To The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries

II. The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries

The Preliminary Root-Practice of The Reality-Way of Perfect Knowledge

1. The Five Reality-Teachings
2. The Intrinsic Self-Realization of Reality and Truth By Means of The Preliminary “Perfect Knowledge” Listening-Practice of Transcendental Root-Standing
3. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Objects
4. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Knowledge and The Known
5. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Subjectivity
6. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Attention (or Point of View)
7. Is Happen

III. The Searchless and Acausally Awakened Preliminary Listening-Practice of Perfect Knowledge

IV. As “It” Is

V. My Inherently Free Speech

VI. The Distinction Between The Preliminary Listening-Practice of Perfect Knowledge and The Perfect Practice of Perfect Knowledge

VII. The Imposition of Pattern

VIII. The Mirror and The Checkerboard

IX. The Reality-Practice

X. Transcendental (and Non-Conditional) Spirituality

XI. The Root-Characteristics of Intrinsic Self-Understanding of Reality Itself

XII. The Essence of Perfect Instruction

PART TWELVE   The Reality-Way

The Way of The Mirror Is Me

Mere Concentration Versus True Surrender

The Ancient Walk-About Way

My Spiritually Bright Silence

True Devotion To Me Is Prior Coincidence With Me—Not The Search For Union and Unity With Me

True Devotion Is Perfect Knowledge Demonstrated By Renunciation

My Transcendental Spiritual Transmission-Work

The Essentials of Reality-Practice In The Reality-Way of Adidam

Acausal Adidam

PART THIRTEEN No Seeking / Mere Beholding
    Transcendental Spiritual Initiation of The Primary Practice
    of The Radical Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam

PART FOURTEEN    As Is

The Perfect Word “Is” and The ego-Word “I”

The Way of Is

PART FIFTEEN   The Boundless Self-Confession

PART SIXTEEN    Advaitasara / Nirvanasara

The Root-Essence of The Truth and The Way and The Means and The Realization of Indivisible Transcendence

The “First Room” Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

I. The Truth of Indivisible Transcendence
II. The Way of Indivisible Transcendence
III. The Means of Indivisible Transcendence
IV. The Realization of Indivisible Transcendence

LAST WORD   I Say This

NOTES TO THE TEXT OF THE GNOSTICON
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
Selected Writings and Discourses by Avatar Adi Da Relating to Adidam and the Transcendentalist Traditions
Selections from The Basket of Tolerance Relating to the Transcendentalist Traditions

The Universal Offering of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba

The Sacred Literature of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

INDEX

1200pp