The Pneumaton

The Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Teachings of
His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Softcover: ISBN-10: 1570972885. ISBN-13: 978-1570972881.
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 1570972877. ISBN-13: 978-1570972874
Only editions, 2011.

Table Of Contents

The Heart and the Light

The Transcendental Revelations of the Divine Person
An Introduction to The Pneumaton by Jonathan Condit, Ph.D.

I. The Bright Is the Heart and the Light
        Reality’s Revelation of Itself

II. The Traditional Searches for the Light
         The Essence of All True Spirituality

III. The Way of the Heart and the Light
          The Divine Process of All-Brightening

IV. The Bodily Revelation of Heart-and-Light
    A Celebration in Words and Photographs of Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Gift
    of His Transcendental Spiritual Self-Transmission

Overview of The Pneumaton
 

PART ONE   Religion and Spirituality

The Dogmas of Social Morality Versus The Esoteric Spiritual Teaching That Is At The Origin of Traditional Religions

A Prophetic Criticism of “Great Religions”

The Western Prohibition Against Higher Knowledge and Realization Versus The Eastern Advocacy of Higher Knowledge and Realization

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 Necessity For A Global Unity-Culture To Replace The Ancient Bi-Polar Culture of Separate West and Separate East

Exoteric and Esoteric: The Public and The Secret Dimensions of Religion

The Wisdom of Esotericism

The Criticism That Cures The Heart

The Three Great Principles of All Truth
 

PART TWO   The Seventh Stage Revelation

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

The Seventh Stage Way

The Forty-Six Divine Statements of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi
 

PART THREE
The Unique Life-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
— Including His Thorough Process of Investigating, and Transcending,
The Traditional Realms of Mysticism

The Bright and The Thumbs Are My True First Room

My Life-Demonstration of The Guru-Devotee Relationship

My “Learning” of Mysticism — In The Hindu Manner

My “Learning” of Mysticism — In The Christian Manner

My Most Perfect Re-Awakening As The Bright
 

PART FOUR   Devotion To The Spiritual Master Is The Foundation of All True Spirituality

Adept-Realizers Are The Root of All Esoteric Traditions

Beyond The Cultic Tendency In Religion and Spirituality, and In Secular Society

Cultism Is The Beginner’s Level of Human Existence

The Great Esoteric Tradition of Devotion To The Adept-Realizer

The Super-Physics of Divine Enlightenment
 

PART FIVE  The Non-Conformist Moral, Devotional, and Spiritual Teachings of Saint Jesus
and The Conventional Public Religious Message of Institutional Christianity

The “Official” (Exoteric) Fabrications and The Secret (Esoteric) Truth About Jesus of Galilee

The Forgotten Spiritual Esotericism of Saint Jesus and The Christian Social Exotericism That Succeeded It

The Universal Non-Religious Message of Jesus of Galilee

The Principal Christian Idea

All Illusion Is False Explanation

The Necessity For The Conversion of Christianity Into A Non-Jewish Esoteric Spiritual School of Life

The “Official” Christianity That Won, The “Official” and Non-“Official” Christianities That Lost, and The Original Christianity That Would Yet Succeed Them All

Beyond The Scapegoat-Christ

The Original Way of Jesus of Galilee

The Secrets of The “Kingdom of God”


PART SIX
The Spiritual Gospel of Saint Jesus of Galilee, Re-Told — and Revealed Again — By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

PART SEVEN
The Spiritual Instructions and The Spiritual Transmission of Traditional Yogis and Saints

Conversation of Saint Seraphim with N. A. Motovilov
Translated by J.C. Troncale, PhD, with Teresa Hudson

Sri Ramakrishna’s Transmission of His Own Spirit-Person Into The Person of Swami Vivekananda

The Spiritual Teachings of Swami Muktananda — As Written To His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

The Spiritual Teachings of Bhagavan Nityananda— As Recorded and Revealed By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

My Example of The Formal Transmission, Via The Traditional “Rite of Inheritance”, of The Inherent Right To Transmit and Teach The Process of Spiritual Ascent

The Process of Spiritual Ascent

The Progressive Steps of The Fifth Stage of Life


PART EIGHT   Real Ecstasy


PART NINE   Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga

The Intrinsically egoless Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam


PART TEN   Cosmic Spiritual Baptism Versus Divine Transcendental Spiritual Baptism

The Lesser and Greater Traditions Associated With The Kundalini Shakti

My Unique Avataric Self-Revelation of The Divine Process of Transcendental Spiritual Self-Transmission of The Bright

The Divine Yoga of My Crashing-Down Avataric Descent

Cosmic Spiritual Baptism Versus Divine Transcendental Spiritual Baptism


PART ELEVEN    Hridaya Rosary (Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction)

Prologue: The Rose Garden of The Heart

First Thorn: The Essential “Method” (Right, True, and Full) of Direct and Whole bodily (or Total Psycho-Physical) Devotional Communion With Me

Second Thorn: The Four-Part Exercise (Right, True, and Full) of Whole-bodily-Responsively ego-Transcending Devotion To Me

Third Thorn: The Process Associated With The Four-Part Exercise (Right, True, and Full) of Whole-bodily-Responsively ego-Transcending Devotion To Me

Fourth Thorn: Details of The Right, True, and Full Practice of “Samraj Asana”, The “Healing Pose” of Whole bodily (or Total Psycho-Physical) Devotion To Me


PART TWELVE   The Fundamental Practice of Total Psycho-Physical Turning To Me


Make Divine Yoga Out of Each Moment

Devotional Communion With Me Is Inherently Prior To egoity

Always Transcend Your Own Childish and Adolescent ego-Patterning

The Secret of Practicing True Devotion To Me

Turn The Principal Faculties of The Body-Mind To Me — and Disregard Their Contents

When You Devotionally Recognize Me, The Faculties Follow, In Devotional Response To Me

The Only Liberating Discovery


PART THIRTEEN   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 FOURTEEN   The True Divine Transcendental Spiritual Process

Reality Itself Is Not A Size

No Seeking / Mere Beholding

Transcendental Spiritual Initiation of The Primary Practice of The Radical Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam

The Thumbs Is The Fundamental Sign of The Avataric Crashing-Down of My Divine Person

The Divine Reality-Way of Adidam Is Revealed and Given Only By Me — Avatarically, From Above and Beyond


PART FIFTEEN
The Transcendental Spiritual Revelation and The Transcendental Spiritual Transmission of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

Testimonials By His Ruchira Sannyasin Devotees

Introduction

Avatar Adi Da Is The Eternal Divine Body of Conscious Light
by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba

The Love-Bliss of The Da Avatar
by Ruchiradama Nadikanta Naitauba


PART SIXTEEN   As Is

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

The Way of Is


PART SEVENTEEN    The Boundless Self-Confession

LAST WORD         I Say This

APPENDICES

The “Secret Gospel” of Mark

Avatar Adi Da’s Esoteric Revelations Relative to Certain Christian Symbols and Doctrines

Selected Passages from The Pneumaton

Notes to the Text of The Pneumaton


GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHIES:

An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Writings and Discourses of His Divine Presence Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Relating to the Seventh Stage Way of Adidam and the Esoteric Spiritual Traditions of the Fourth and the Fifth Stages of Life
1121

Selections from Avatar Adi Da’s Basket of Tolerance Bibliography, Relating to the Esoteric Spiritual Traditions of the Fourth and the Fifth Stages of Life
1145

The Universal Offering of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
1159
by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba

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

INDEX

1253 pp.