Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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Real God Is The Indivisible Oneness Of Unbroken Light (1999)
" . . . a truth so awesome and majestic that, when seen in its fullness, it shines as brightly as ten thousand suns. "
Jeffrey Mishlove, PH.D.
host, Thinking Allowed public television series
author, The Roots of Conscioness
www.mishlove.com
" Warning: This book will get under your skin, creep into your heart, reorganize your view of reality, undermine your certaintities and comforts, and show you something more Real. Here is an explanation of the true nature of reality by One who has Realized the Truth."Kathleen Brown, PH.D.
Associate Professor, Penn State University
"Avatar Adi Da Samraj has Gracefully Given the world the most comprehensive, most complete, most clearly stated and beautifully written Assertion of what True Religion and Genuine Spirituality are. Never before has the world been Granted so great a Gift as His Word, His Presence, and His Liberating Power."
Woodrow Anderson
Former Professor of History, Southwest Texas State University
It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what IT'S all about . . . One who knows that he is the Godhead from the beginning doesn't have to use any kind of force to be that—whether spiritual, moral, or material . . . a rare being.
Alan Watts
author, [ The Way of Zen ] [ Joyous Cosmology ] [ Tao of Philosophy ]
[ Nature, Man and Woman ] [ The Wisdom of Insecurity ] [ Taoism : Way Beyond Seeking ]
[ Buddhism : The Religion of No-Religion ] [ On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are ]
This Is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
The Way of Liberation : Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self
forward of the first three paper editions of The Knee of Listening)
(Watts was in the process of becoming a student of Adi Da at the time of his death.)
Alan Watts Electronic University
The Truly Human New World-Culture
Of Unbroken Real-God-Man (1999)If there is a man today who is God-illumined, that man is Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Here is the most ancient tradition of mankind expressed in a way that is startlingly modern. There exists nowhere in the world today, among Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any other groups, anyone who has so much to teach. Avatar Adi Da is a force to be reckoned with—a Pole around which the world can get its bearings.
The Promised God-Man Is Here (1999)
Avatar Adi Da's Divine Emergence marks a new chapter in epochal spiritual history.
This extraordinary book creates a powerful experience of the Reality and Truth of Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Because it so poignantly quotes and clarifies His Teaching and His Life, it has deepened my experience of Him as the Divine Gift established in the Cosmic Domain.
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
author, Sevenfold Peace, Conscious Eating,
Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet
Cousen's Tree of Life site, algae-world site
To dive into the human perfection and divine beauty of the life of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, as described in The Promised God-Man Is Here, is to recognize beyond all doubt that His Avataric Incarnation is the Pure Manifestation of Divine Energy and Being, here before us, to show us Reality Itself and Love Itself, and the Way of Truth that offers eternal Freedom and Happiness.
Emilia Quieroga Barros
President, Center for the Integration of Sciences
Earth Charter Commission, Brazil
We live in a house on fire! To even the most casual observer this world is in trouble. Amidst this backdrop of difficulty and uncertainty, most of us seek to either ignore our real situation or assume that technology will save us. Yet in our quieter moments we realize at some level that things are not working and there has to be a way out.There is a way out. The Person and Wisdom-Teaching of Avatar Adi Da Samraj represents an unparalleled source of Truth, Insight, and Happiness. There is much that I personally have yet to learn. But one thing I KNOW beyond any doubt—Avatar Adi Da Samraj IS Who He says He Is: The Divine Person Incarnate. Read this book and see for yourself.
Leo Burke
corporate leadership development director
This captivating biography of Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj is without precedent. It is the profound Love Story of the Incarnation in human form of the Divine Being, and his great Teaching ordeal to bring humanity out of the illusion of separateness from God, which is the root of all suffering. If you were allowed to read only one book in your lifetime, this should be the one.Lowell Kobrin, PH.D., M.D.
Founding Director,
American Academy of Medical Acupuncture
Generations far into the future are going to celebrate the incredible story of the Ruchira Avatar and His devotees—which is not just High Dharma; it is also high drama. Everything is here: genius, tenderness Blessing beyond belief; fragility, despair, unquenchable sorrow. I have fallen profoundly in love with this Great Being! His Presence here is a miracle of Divine Intervention.David Sawyer
recipient, President's Points of Light Award
My self-constricted ego bristles at the implied Messianism of the title, The Promised God-Man Is Here—yet if God-consciousness is fully present as a liberating force in human form, why should there be any equivocating? His devotees are convinced and Carolyn Lee has assembled a lucid in-depth look at Adi Da, spreading the good news of his incarnation by telling his life story and giving an insider's view of his radical teaching efforts to awaken devotees. I've been inspired by Adi Da's writings for many years. He is a contemporary spiritual Hero, offering his transcendental gifts to a culture without a tradition for or even 'taste' for Avatars . . . yet he bears the burdens of sagehood with persistence and love.
Alex Grey
artist and author,
Sacred Mirrors: The Visonary Art of Alex Grey
[ The Mission of Art
Alex Grey's gallery ]
Dr. Lee has pulled back the veil of mystery and allowed us to meet the god-man behind the curtain. The interviews are intriguing. The history is captivating. The teachings are challenging. This book is 'must' reading for anyone interested in the Promised God-Man.
Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro
author, Minyan: Ten Principles for Living Life with Integrity
Rabbi Shapiro's Virtual Yeshiva
There is no more astonishing and wondrous communication than, The Promised God-Man Is Here. And yet it is so. The life story of Avatar Adi Da Samraj communicates this truth in a way which outshines the mind and awakens the heart. There is no grace greater than to be heart-moved by this revelation of the Heart of Being.
Anthony Corones, PH.D.
lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australia
I have seen editing and writing in the field of health and healing for over twenty years. But I know that the Divine Heart-Master is the Ultimate Healer—because He is the only One Who can awaken you beyond all disease, all change, all suffering, beyond even death itself, to His very Nature: Eternal and Omnipresent Conscious Light.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj is the Divine Heart-Master, the Promised God-Man, the True Healer. And even this book, this Leela or story of His Life, transmits His power to heal—to restore you to sanity and ease, as you recognize and feel that the Divine Being, Real God, is here in human Form, offering you a life of ecstatic Communion with Him. Read this book; fall in love with Adi Da Samraj; be healed at heart.
This remarkable biography of the Spiritual master and God-Realizer Adi Da Samraj is a MUST for anyone concerned with Spiritual values.
Geoffrey Daw
Jungian Analyst, New Zealand
The Way of Adidam—the world-religion revealed by Avatar Adi Da Samraj—brings together the essentials of all the great religions—and goes beyond them. It gives new life to religion by directly demonstrating that all beings and things are constantly emerging and changing within a universal state of Conscious Light. In great detail, The Promised God-Man Is Here gives example after example of what it means to be a practitioner of Adidam, in relationship with Avatar Adi Da Samraj, the human embodiment of the Divine. These practitioners are wise, judicious, mature, loving people who give an account of absolute vital importance to us all. Please read this book and evaluate Adi Da and the Way of Adidam for yourself.
John Morris, PH.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, England
When I first read the Word of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, I was immediately transported into a state of wonderment and awe. Could it be? Could the Divine Person be here now, in this time and place? It didn't take long for my heart to answer a resounding 'Yes'. May the whole world be restored to Faith, Love, and Understanding by the Mystery of Real God, here and Incarnate as Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Read The Promised God-Man Is Here—and find out about Him.
The Promised God-Man Is Here should be required reading for anyone interested in religion. Carolyn Lee has written this work in a way that compels the reader's attention throughout. All of the major events of Adi Da's extraordinary life and work are covered, and the Guru-disciple relationship is depicted in a most colorful way.
Duncan Bazemore, PH.D.
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy,
Humboldt State University
Reading The Promised God-Man Is Here puts you into direct relationship with the Divine Being, Avatar Adi Da Samraj. This relationship starts where all other spiritual systems seek to end—face-to-face with the Living Embodiment of Perfect Love.
Arthur Brown
singer, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
I was swept along, enraptured by every page, unable to put this book down. The life of the living Spiritual Master Avatar Adi Da Samraj is truly the greatest story ever told. Read this book and find out why.
Gary Coates
Professor, Kansas State Universityeditor and author, Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and Community
As I read The Promised God-Man Is Here, the Force of this incredible story washed over and through me. Moving before my eyes and heart were story after story of the lives of devotees being converted to Truth; passage after passage of Avatar Adi Da's talks, essays, ecstatic and poetic communications—some never before published; Divine Compassion, Brilliance, Genius, Love, Fierceness, Blissfulness revealed in every chapter, every story. Adi Da's Heroic struggle and victory with and in His devotees, and, through them, with and in the whole world, came alive in these pages. It became clear that every illusion, false presumption, action of un-love—every aspect of existence in this realm—has been Penetrated, Illumined, and En-Lightened by this Great Avadhoot of our time, via His Heroic Work of Love with His devotees, the most ordinary people, representing every kind and walk of life.
As I turned the last page, I knew in every cell of my body, that this story could only have been enacted by the Very Divine, God Himself. No other being could have wrought such changes, evoked such love, penetrated so deeply the prevailing ego-presumptions, made Himself so vulnerable, yet acted with such selfless courage. The sheer scope of His work in the short period of His life and work are testament to His uniqueness, even amongst the great Spiritual Realizers. In that moment, I knew that the Divine Had Firmly Set His Staff in this world, and that all would come to turn to Him, and that everything in the world has been changed.
I am so grateful to Carolyn Lee for setting this Greatest of Tales to paper; and grateful beyond words that the 'story' was and is there to be told. I invite everyone to partake of this great feast—to read this book, to participate in the unfolding story, and thereby be changed forever.
Elizabeth Lowe (Edgerton), M.A.
Clinical and Humanistic Psychology
This book does not offer another method, sales pitch, or guide to self-improvement. The Promised God-Man Is Here is a global wake-up call, a startlingly profound invitation to a relationship founded in Truth and forged in an incomparably compassionate Love—a love without equal in all experience. This is the Life-Story of the Greatest Spiritual Being of all time—the Divine Being, in Person. Avatar Adi Da Samraj has come to Demand our Hearts and Dissolve the world's suffering in the Intimacy of His Eternal Embrace. He is Here! He is Waiting for you. Surrender to the Reality of Love with the Divine Incarnate!
Lee C. Harrison
AptLee Written Technical Publications
The Promised God-Man Is Here is an outstanding contribution to Spiritual literature. Carolyn Lee takes the reader through the entire development and rise of the religion of Adidam and the epochs of Adi Da Samraj's work with such clarity and detail that one feels as though one is actually there, living and feeling the intensity and importance of these historic occasions. The inclusion of large portions of Avatar Adi Da's writings, and testimonies from devotees, provide the reader the opportunity to experience these years from all perspectives.
Dr. Lee's biography is a great service to current and future generations, and to all who are fortunate enough to be drawn to the Divine Work of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
Greg Wilson, PH.D.
Senior Lecturer, Southern Cross University, AustraliaAham Da Asmi (1998)
Avatar Adi Da is the greatest Spiritual Master ever to walk the earth. He is the God-Man. He reveals the ultimate truth residing in the human heart.
Rev. Thomas E. Ahlburn
Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church,
Providence, Rhode Island
[ a few sermons ]Fly to the side of this God-Man. His Divine Transmission works miracles of change not possible by another Spiritual means.
That God can actually incarnate in human form once seemed unbelievable to me. It breaks my heart that there are so many who have not yet found out that Avatar Adi Da Samraj is here.
Charmian Anderson, PH.D.
transpersonal psychologist
author, Bridging Heaven and Earth
The Heart of Success
[ ap/abc story ]
My relationship with Avatar Adi Da Samraj over the past 25 years has only confirmed His Divine Realization. In the context of this dark time, Avatar Adi Da Samraj simply offers Himself, and the act—if fully understood—will break your heart.
Ray Lynch
composer; Sky of Mind, Deep Breakfast, No Blue Thing
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
[ Ray's Homepage ]
Ruchira Avatar Gita (1998)
If there is a man today who is God-illumined, that man is Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Here is the most ancient tradition of mankind expressed in a way that is startlingly modern. There exists nowhere in the world today, among Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any other groups, anyone who has so much to teach. Avatar Adi Da is a force to be reckoned with—a Pole around which the world can get its bearings.
Avatar Adi Da's Ruchira Avatara Gita has been carved out of the Heart of a great, presently living Master, out of compassion for aspiring humanity. Only those who are ready to go beyond themselves can taste the ambrosia that flows out of such a Heart-Master as Avatar Adi Da. I feel this Gita will be of immense help to aspirants for a divine life.M. P. Pandit
author, The Upanishads; Gateways of Knowledge
Traditions in Sadhana : Studies in Tantra, Veda, Yoga, Philosophy and Mysticism
[ Wisdom of the Veda ] [ Sri Aurobindo and His Yoga ] [ More on Tantras ]
[ The Yoga of Knowledge ] [ Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga (ed.) ]
[ Kundalini Yoga : A Brief Study of Sir John Woodroffe's 'the Serpent Power' ]
[ Vedic Deities ] [ Yoga for the Modern Man ] [ The Yoga of Love ]
[ The Yoga of Self-Perfection ] [ Yoga of Works ] [ Traditions in Mysticism ]
[ Mystic Approach to the Veda and the Upanishad ]
[ Traditions in Occultism ] [ Occult Lines Behind Life ]
[ M. P. Pandit is a widely recognized scholar in the field of Yoga and the Indian Spiritual tradition. He has written or edited more than eighty books of the Spiritual legacy of India, including works on such ancient classical texts as the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Tantras, and the Bhagavad Gita. He is Secretary of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, and has been a practioner of Yoga there for over 50 years.]
Da Love-Ananda Gita (1998)
With great force and loving abandon, Avatar Adi Da dances words into print. He openly confesses His compassion for all beings and calls everyone to release the painful habit and dreadful destiny of the separate self. Receive this feast of blessings. It is a love song from the very Heart of God.
Gary Coates
Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University
editor and author, Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and Community
What happens when the Living Master stops teaching, when he ends his brilliant and shocking discourse, yet remains among his disciples? When all that can be said, has been said, on this dense, implacable plane, the Master remains, calling his disciples to Pure Contemplation of his bodily human Form.
This is the birth of fundamental and radical Scripture. When Avatar Adi Da Samraj says "My bodily (human) Form is (Itself) the Teaching", this is an absolute Phenomenon to which all other truths must bear witness.
Hridaya Rosary (1998)
It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what IT'S all about . . . a rare being.
Alan Watts
author, [ The Way of Zen ] [ Joyous Cosmology ] [ Tao of Philosophy ]
[ Nature, Man and Woman ] [ The Wisdom of Insecurity ] [ Taoism : Way Beyond Seeking ]
[ Buddhism : The Religion of No-Religion ] [ On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are ]
This Is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
The Way of Liberation : Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self
forward of the first three paper editions of The Knee of Listening)
(Watts was in the process of becoming a student of Adi Da at the time of his death.)
Alan Watts Electronic University
What Einstein could never even begin to imagine—as he was riding on his beam of light—Avatar Adi Da has Realized and Revealed: that He is Light itself, incarnate, radiant with heart-love and the truth that we are never separate from the inherent Divinity of unbroken Light, even here, even now.
Scott Anderson, M.D.
Director, Society for Orthomolecular Health Medicine
No message of Liberation has ever been so direct. All stories and traditions of the God-Man pale before the intensely loving and heart-stirring Cry of Avatar Adi Da to simply melt into the Ocean of Divine Love-Bliss that He Is.
J.C. Troncale
Professor, University of Richmond,
Director of Russian and East European Studies
You are holding something unique and remarkable. Consider it. Test it. Feel it. Feel what it awakens in you, and enter into the Company of True Happiness.
Jonathan Lynch
Professor and Research Scientist,
Pennsylvana State University
Eleutherios (1998)
The life and teaching of Avatar Adi Da Samraj are of profound and decisive spiritual significance at this critical moment in history.
Bryan Deschamps
Senior Adviser at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Former Dean of the Carmelite House of Studies, Australia
Former Dean of Trinity College, University of Melbourne
Avatar Adi Da Samraj calls mankind to the absolutely necessary, radical, spiritual re-orientation of our desperately adrift civilization.
Dennis Bumstead, PH.D.
The World BankI do not know how such Divine Intervention works, but I have absolutely no doubt that Avatar Adi Da Is Who He Says He Is.Rolf Carriere
UNICEF Representative,
United Nations Development Specialist
This book is a must for spiritual aspirants . . . an unfailing guide to all true devotees.
K.D. Tangod
writing in Pathway to God magazine
I regard the work of Avatar Adi Da and his devotees as one of the most penetrating spiritual and social experiments happening on the planet in our era.
Drifted in the Deeper Land (1997)
Jeffrey Mishlove, PH.D.
host, Thinking Allowed public television series
author, The Roots of Conscioness
www.mishlove.com
Adi Da Samraj has spoken directly to the heart of our human situation—the shocking gravity of our brief and unbidden lives. Through his words I have experienced a glimmering of eternal life and view my own existence as timeless and spaceless in a way that I never have before.
I regard Heart-Master Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today. The Heart's Shout (1996, 1993)1996 edition:
My opinion is that we have, in the person of Adi Da, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. Adi Da's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.
Adi Da provides a way in which Oneness may be experienced by anyone who is bold enough to follow his teachings. It is important to understand that his vision is neither Eastern nor Western, but it is the eternal spiritual pulse of The Great Wisdom which knows no cultural, temporal, or geographical locus; it represents the apex of awareness of our species.
Ken Wilber
author, The Spectrum of Consciousness
One Taste : The Journals of Ken Wilber
Eye to Eye : The Quest for the New Paradigm
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality : The Spirit of Evolution
The Essential Ken Wilber: An Introductory Reader
A Sociable God:Toward a New Understanding of Religion
Up from Eden : A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution,
The Marriage of Sense and Soul : Integrating Science and Religion
The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad
The Atman Project : A Transpersonal View of Human Development,
No Boundary : Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Quantum Questions : Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists
The Collected Works of Ken Wilbur; Essays on Transpersonal Psychology
Grace and Grit : Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
editor, The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes : Exploring the Leading Edge of Science
consulting editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology
[ Wilber's longer essays about Adi Da ]
[ Ken Wilber Online ]Larry Dossey, M.D.
author, Space, Time & Medicine
The Power of Meditation and Prayer
Be Careful What You Pray For...You Just Might Get It
Beyond Illness : Discovering the Experience of Health
Recovering the Soul : A Scientific and Spiritual Approach
Reinventing Medicine : Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing
Healing Words : The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
Meaning and Medicine; A Doctor's Tales of Breakthrough and Healing
Prayer Is Good Medicine : How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer
Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer : An Exchange Between Larry Dossey, M.D. and Health Care Chaplains1993 edition:. . .most stimulating and profound . . . full of wisdom and understanding.
The truths Adi Da illuminates are spiritual beacons, guiding and inspiring us on our journey toward liberation.
Peter Russell
author, The Brain Book
The Global Brain Awakens : Our Next Evolutionary Leap
The White Hole in Time : Our Future Evolution and the Meaning of Now
Waking Up in Time : Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change
[ The Spirit of Now Homepage ]
Stunning in its depth and breadth.
This collection is a kaleidoscopic guide through the most salient issues of living a life of spirit and purpose. It dazzles the reader, awakening you again and again to the dilemmas of human nature and to the simplest and most direct path of spiritual evolutionThe Heart's Shout . . . provides a way for thirsty souls to drink deeeply of truth.
David Surrenda, PH.D.
Founder and former Dean of the
Graduate School for Holistic Studies
John F. Kennedy University
Adi Da challenges the reader and spiritual practioner to go beyond fixed conventions and egoic limitation to contemplate his Heart-Revelation—that we quite simply are always will be One with the Divine Light we call God.Different people, at different times in their lives, respond to different wake-up calls. This book is the kind of wake-up call that will jolt you beyond those beliefs that "everyone" in our society accepts without question—those which must be overturned if one is to see clearly.
Judith Cornell
Associate Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies
author, Mandala : Luminous Symbols for Healing
Drawing the Light from Within : Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power
The Order of My Free Names (1996)
Willis W. Harman
President, The Institute of Noetic Sciences
(from 1978 until his death in 1997.)
author, Biology Revisioned ] [ Insight into the New Age
New Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
Global Mind Change : The Promise of the 21st Century
The Sphinx and the Rainbow; Brain, Mind and Future Vision
Higher Creativity : Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights
Creative Work : The Constructive Role of Business N A Transforming Society
editor, The New Business of Business : Sharing Responsibility for a Positive Global FutureA great teacher with a 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. He is a man of both the East and the West; perhaps in him they merge and are organized as the One that he is.
Israel RegardieThis Essay is the Confession of the Living God-Man, Whose Loving Heart and Powerful Spiritual Transmission have awakened me to the Love-Blissful reality of the Great One, Who He Is
author, Aha!
Eye in the Triangle ] [ Eight Lectures on Yoga ] [ Magick Without Tears ]
Golden Dawn Tarot Deck ] [ Teachers of Fulfillment ] [ Tree of Life, a Study in Magic ]
Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn ] [ Legend of Aleister Crowley ]
Healing Energy, Prayer and Relaxation ] [ Mysticism, Psychology and Oedipus
What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn
777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
A Garden of Pomegranates : Skrying on the Tree of Life
The Middle Pillar : The Balance Between Mind and Magic
The Golden Dawn : A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic
The One Year Manual : Formerly Twelve Steps to Spiritual Enlightenment
The Art of True Healing : The Unlimited Power of Prayer and Visualization
Roll Away the Stone; An Introduction to Aleister Crowleys Essays on the Psychology of Hashish
Philosopher's Stone :
A Modern Comparative Approach to Alchemy from the Psychological and Magical Points of ViewThe Liberator (Eleutherios) (1995)Adi Da is the greatest Spiritual Master ever to walk the earth. He is the God-Man. He reveals the ultimate truth residing in the human heart and at the heart of all religions.
Larry Dossey
Rev. Thomas E. Ahlburn
Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church,
Providence, Rhode Island
[ a few sermons ]
The Lion Sutra (1995)
. . . As a historian of Asian religions, I find The Lion Sutra is unique . . . Upon reading it, I was left for a long time without words, quiet within and feeling its spiritual impact on my heart . . . The Lion Sutra is a fearless roar of divine possibility in human dimensions, and a whispered word of love . . . from a God-human to those graced and called to deeper commitment . . .
. . . Its message spirals toward a devotional union with a perfected teacher whose God-consciousness is expressed without reservation or disguise . . .
. . . It is a call to perfect peace, perfect freedom and perfect consciousness. It is a lofty vision of spiritual possibility . . .
The Lion Sutra offers profound insight into the problems and prospects of the human condition. Here is to be found unsurpassed wisdom on the nature of God, Truth, Reality, Consciousness.
James E. Royster, PH.D.The Knee of Listening (1995, 1992, 1984, 1978, 1973)
Religious Studies Department
Cleveland State University1995 edition:
The Knee of Listening is without a doubt the most profound Spiritual autobiography of all time.
Roger Savoie, PH.D.That God can, among other things, actually incarnate in human form once seemed unbelievable to me. But reading the Wisdom-Teaching of Adi Da obliterates all doubt about the existence of God right now, here on earth in human form. Read these pages and see for yourself.
author, La Vipère et le Lion and Philosophe Chat
Professor of Philosophy, College Saint-Laurent, Montreal, CanadaKen Wilber
Charmian Anderson, PH.D.
transpersonal psychologist
author, Bridging Heaven and Earth
The Heart of Success
[ ap/abc story ]Adi Da is the greatest Spiritual Master ever to walk the earth. Seeing this, attending to this truth, we need not walk in the dark any longer. Adi Da is the God-Man. He reveals the ultimate truth residing in the human heart and at the heart of all religions.
Rev. Thomas E. Ahlburn
Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church,
Providence, Rhode Island
[ a few sermons ]
There exists nowhere in the world today, among Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, native tribalists, or any other groups, anyone who has so much to teach, or speaks with such authority, or is so important for understanding our situation.
Larry DosseyIn the context of the sacred community of Adidam, the story of Adi Da's ultimate "Divine Emergence" becomes a living, existential truth. In this sense, I regard the work of Adi Da and his devotees as one of the most penetrating spiritual and social experiments happening on the planet in our era.
Jeffrey Mishlove, PH.D.
host, Thinking Allowed public television series
author, The Roots of Conscioness
www.mishlove.com
My relationship with Adi Da as His devotee over the past 21 years has only confirmed my certainty of His Realization and the Truth of His impeccable Teaching.
Ray Lynch
composer; Sky of Mind, Deep Breakfast, No Blue Thing;
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
[ Ray's Homepage ]Adi Da is a man who has truly walked in Spirit and given true enlightenment to many.
Sun BearThis is the autobiography of the Living God-Man, Whose Loving Heart and Powerful Spiritual Transmission have awakened me to the Love-Blissful reality of the Great One, Who He Is. I know of no other teacher who has exposed his life and spiritual journey with such complete abandonment for the teaching of all who pay attention. His story and process are a fascinating portrayal of the ordeal, potency, and blessing of an infinitely expanded spiritual life. This biography is a perfect gift!
founder, The Bear Tribe Medicine Society
[ author, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology
[ Black Dawn/Bright Day ] [ The Path of Power ] [ Buffalo Hearts ]
Dreaming With the Wheel ] [ Dancing With the Wheel ] [ Walk in Balance ]
[ At Home in the Wilderness ] [ The Bear Tribe's Self-Reliance BookBonnie Greenwell, PH.D.Adi Da's life is like a great gentle trail of light in the dark spiritual night of modernity. He can be seen from afar and heard amid the deafening noises of this machine culture.
author, Energies of Transformation: A Guide to the Kundalini Process
founder and member of the executive board of the Kundalini Research Network
[ biography and excerpts ]Malidoma SoméThis fascinating and inspiring story of the metamorphosis of Franklin Jones into Adi Da is high spiritual adventure.
author, Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
Of Water & the Spirit: Ritual Magic, & Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
The Healing Wisdom of Africa : Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and CommunityHarold H. Bloomfield, M.D.What you hold in your hands is not just a book. It is an invitation and an opportunity, a doorway to Joy. When I first read TheKneeofListening, I knew I had found the greatest Spiritual realizer that had ever lived. I urge you to open yourself to the Life that fills these pages. The opportunity has never been so great.
author, The Power of 5 ] [ How to Heal Depression ] [ Healing Anxiety Naturally
Think Safe, Be Safe : The Only Guide to Inner Peace and Outer SecurityBill Gottlieb1992 edition:
[former] Senior Vice-President and Editor-in-Chief, Prevention Magazine Health Books
editor, New Choices In Natural Healing(contains the same Savoie, Greenwell, Wilber, Mishlove, and Watts quotes as above edition)
I was captivated by this Story of the first thirty-one years of Adi Da's Life, by the
incomparable Greatness of the One Who Is both God and Man. His Wisdom
outshines every dichotomy, every dichotomy, every division, every duality. I have
come to respect and honor Him as the most complete Source of Divine Blessing-in my own life and in the world at large. I urge you to open yourself to the life that fills these pages. The opportunity has never been so great.
Bill Gottlieb1984 edition:
former Vice President and Editor-in-chief, Rodale Press
[from the forward to the 1992 edition ]It is becoming quite obvious that no one in the fields of psychology, religion, philosophy, or sociology can afford not to be at least a student of Adi Da.
The teachings of Adi Da, embodied in an extraordinary collection of writings,
provide an exquisite manual for transformation... I feel at the most profound depth
of my being that his work will be crucial to an evolution toward full-humanness.I regard Adi Da as the most significant contemporary writer concerning the core of religion, more profound than Paul Tillich, Gabriel Marcel, and Martin Buber.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
president, Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Board of Directors, World Future Society
Evolutionary Journey
The Revelation; A Message of Hope for the New Millenium
Happy Birth Day Planet Earth : The Instant of Co-Operation
The Hunger of Eve : One Woman's Odyssey Toward the Future
The Revelation : Our Crisis Is a Birth (The Book of Co-Creation)
Conscious Evolution : Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
Intimately acquainted with a vast range of spiritual experience, he peels off all
externals and challenges us to join with him in surrender of our whole selves,
shattering the egoism which contracts and separates us from participation in the
loving, radiant life of God.Donald D. EvansAlan Watts (and forward )
Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
author, Struggle and Fulfillment
Spirituality and Human Nature1978 edition:The event of Adi Da himself is an occasion for rejoicing, for without any doubt whatsoever, he is destined to become the first Western Avatar in the history of the world . . .
It is obvious from all sorts of subtle details that He knows what IT's all about . . . a rare being . . .
Perhaps it is not as devotee, or even as disciple, that one approaches Adi Da, yet it is my strongest conviction that no one in the field of spiritual studies or on a spiritual path can afford not to be at least a student of Adi Da.
What he says, and says very well, is something that most people seem quite reluctant to understand. He has simply realized the he himself as he is . . . a
perfect and authentic manifestation of eternal energy of the universe, and thus is no longer disposed to be in conflict with himself.Alan Watts (and forward )Israel Regardie1973 edition:It is obvious from all sorts of subtle details that He knows what IT's all about . . . a rare being . . .
Dear Franklin,
What he says, and says very well, is something that I have been trying to express for thirty-five years, but which most people seem quite reluctant to understand. He has simply realized the he himself as he is . . . is a perfect and authentic manifestation of eternal energy of the universe, and thus is no longer disposed to be in conflict with himself."
Chiti Shakti, the Kundalini, which brings about Siddha Yoga, is activated in you. The Inner Self which is the secret of Vedanta, the basis of religion, the realization of which is the ultimate object of human life, is awakened in youSwami MuktanandaIsrael Regardie
August, 1969 [ naming letter of Swami Muktananda ]The Method of the Siddhas (1995, 1992, 1973)1995 edition:
I first read The Method of the Siddhas twenty years ago and it changed everything. It presented something new to my awareness: One who understood, who was clearly awake, who had penetrated fear and death, who spoke English (eloquently!), and who was alive and available!
Ray Lynch
(from the forward)
composer; Sky of Mind, Deep Breakfast, No Blue Thing
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
[ Ray's Homepage ]
In modern language, The Method of the Siddhas teaches the ancient all-time trans-egoic truths. It transforms the student by paradox and by example. Consciousness, understanding, and finally the awakened Self are the rewards. What more can anyone want?Elmer Green, Ph. D.
Director Emeritus, Center for Applied Psychophysiology
The Menninger ClinicAdi Da has created virtually the entire basis for a culture founded in love and wisdom. The magnitude of such an undertaking—let alone the accomplishment of it—cannot be overstated.
John White
author, Pole Shift
editor, The Highest State of Consciousness
Kundalini, Evolution, and Enlightenment
The Meeting of Science and Spirit : Guidelines for a New Age
What Is Enlightenment? : Exploring the Goal of the Spiritual PathI have followed Adi Da's work since the early days. I consider his "Blessing Work" of the greatest importance for the world today
Edith Schnapper, PH.D.Regardie
author, The Inward Odyssey
1992 edition:
(contains the same Lynch, Green, Wilber, Watts quotes as above edition)
forward by Ray Lynch
1973 edition:
You will hereafter be known as Dhyanananda (one whose happiness is in absolute surrender to the True Self or Very God) in the field of Yoga.
To say what Adi Da is trying to say is like drawing an asymptotic curve, a curve which is always getting nearer to a straight line, but only touches it at infinity. The Hymn of the True Heart-Master (1995, 1992)1995 edition:
The Hymn of the True Heart-Master boldly seizes upon the greatest (and most misunderstood) secret of spiritual life; that devotional love of the God-Man is the only way to God-Realization.
My relationship with Adi Da as His devotee over the past 21 years has only confirmed my certainty of His Realization and the Truth of His impeccable Teaching.Ray LynchAvatar Adi Da's The Hymn of the True Heart-Master has been carved out of the Heart of a great, presently living Master, out of compassion for aspiring humanity.
composer; Sky of Mind, Deep Breakfast, No Blue Thing
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
[ Ray's Homepage ]
I feel this Gita will be of immense help to aspirants for a divine life. I am thankful that I had an opportunity to read and benefit by it.
1992 edition:Only those who are ready to go beyond themselves can taste the ambrosia that flows out of such a Heart-Master as Avatar Adi Da. This spontaneous hymn of invocation is an invitation to such privileged souls to partake of the Banquet.
The Hymn of the True Heart-Master is a classic of spiritual literature, because it boldly seizes upon the greatest (and most misunderstood) secret of spiritual life: that devotional love of the God-Man (or God-Woman) is the best way to God-Realization.
I feel this Gita will be of immense help to aspirants for a divine life. I am thankful that I had an opportunity to read and benefit by it.
My relationship with Adi Da as His devotee over the past 18 years has only confirmed my certainty of His Realization and the Truth of His impeccable Teaching. He is much more than simply an inspiration for my music, but is a living demonstration that perfect transcendence is actually possible. The offering He makes in The Hymn of the True Heart-Master is incomparable . . . I cannot recommend it highly enough.Ray LynchAhlburn
composer; Sky of Mind, Deep Breakfast, No Blue Thing;
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
[ Ray's Homepage ]The Incarnation of Love (1994)If this book is studies and applied, there will be a humanization and Spiritualization of Man never before seen. Use this direct and unerring approach. Fly to the side of this God-Man. His Divine Transmission works miracles of change not possible by any other Spiritual means.
MishloveThat God can, among other things, actually incarnate in human form once seemed unbelievable to me. But reading the Incarnation of Love, and every other book containing the Words of Adi Da, obliterates all doubt about the existence of God right now, here on Earth in human form. It boggles my mind and breaks my heart that there are so many who have not yet found out that He is Here. Read these pages and see for yourself.
Charmian Anderson, PH.D.Ishta (1994)
transpersonal psychologist
author, Bridging Heaven and Earth
The Heart of Success
[ ap/abc story ]With great force and loving abandon, Avatar Adi Da dances words into print, words refreshed and refreshing, words enlivened and enlivening. He openly confesses His compassion for all beings and calls everyone to release the painful habit and dreadful destiny of the separate self. Receive this feast of blessings, this healing balm, and feel the urgency of His graceful offering. It is a love song from the very Heart of God.
Gary CoatesIn this book, Heart-Master Adi Da calls us all to "feel Me in all your parts". What is that like? Adi Da is the sweetness. the more than wonderful, the Mystery, the most Full. He is Grace Itself. What He Gives is the fullness of Love-Bliss. Coming into His Sphere, as you read His Words, you will feel and receive this incomparable Gift.
Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University
editor and author, Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and CommunityDel SokolThat I, a modern Westerner, can be addressed by the Divine, in terms of all of the things I'm involved with here and now, is truly an unbelievable opportunity.
Clinical Psychologist
Co-Founder of West Portal Couseling Associates
Only a true Master could make such an offering. The magnitude of the insights and information about the process of true spiritual life contained in Ishta is staggering. Read it and receive the Gift of Adi Da's Divine Revelations.Fran ReillyFree Daism (1992)
Founding Consumer Marketing Director for Parenting MagazineI have been reading books by or about Adi Da for six years. The same thing always happens. It is very predictable. Within a few sentences my mouth feels like it falls open, my eyes bulge, them there is a lot of swooning that goes on page after page. You would think that this phenomenon would subside after so long, but it hasn't, not at all. Reading Free Daism leaves me feeling as though I am not reading a text but rather am relating to something living and pervasive—the experience is of one of serenity and perfection.
Charmian Anderson, PH.D.Typically, I read books such as this because they are fascinating and because reading them promises to make me feel good. But as I read this book I began to feel the weight of my own inescapable need for Divine Help. As I read about the miraculous and graceful interventions of Adi Da in the lives of the authors and other practioners of Adidam, I found myself longing to be able to surrender my own tendencies toward unlove and unhappiness. I ached to feel the unreasonable joy, unconditional love and boundless Heart-Radiance that is Sat-Guru Adi Da. By the end of this book I felt personally called to share in the feast of blessings that is offered to everyone through the Mysterious Being who is at the Heart of all gifts and practices which are described so simply and fully in this book.
transpersonal psychologist
author, Bridging Heaven and Earth
The Heart of Success
[ ap/abc story ]Gary CoatesFree Daism is not about a spiritual practice that once was. It is a work in progress, the greatest work mankind can undertake . . . This book is a testimony from devotees who have taken up this practice and also an invitation to join this happy way of life.
Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University
editor and author, Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and CommunityJean-Pierre Dujardin, PH.D.Twirling & Jet Lag (1992)
Ohio State UniversityEvery year I travel from New York to Germany to attend the Frankfurt International Book Fair. And every year I suffer the bane and burden of international travelers—jet lag. But this year I didn't suffer from jet lag—not a bit. What did I do differently? The answer might not be the one you're expecting.
Ruchira Avatar Adi Da has thoroughly explored every (and I mean every) area of human life and the process of Awakening to Divine Reality, and He has created a Wisdom-Teaching of unparalleled scope and profundity—which even includes specific methods for preventing and alleviating jet lag.
This year in Frankfurt I used those methods: a basic, simple exercise called "twirling"; an easy, relaxing Yogic posture; and Polarity Screens, a device that balances and energizes the body. All three of these methods are discussed in this booklet, which is offered to you as a Gift of Adi Da's Instruction—a leaf from the forest of His Wisdom.Bill GottliebAnyone who is the least bit concerned about his or own well-being—physical, mental, spiritual—and that of the world should consider the words of Adi Da. He teaches and is a living demonstration of the present Divine condition and evolutionary future of the human race.
[former] Editor-in-Chief, Prevention Magazine Health Books
editor, New Choices In Natural Healing
[ from the forward ]John WhiteEasy Death (1991, 1983)
author, Pole Shift
editor, The Highest State of Consciousness
Kundalini, Evolution, and Enlightenment
The Meeting of Science and Spirit : Guidelines for a New Age
What Is Enlightenment? : Exploring the Goal of the Spiritual Path1991 edition:
. . . no book has changed my view of the universe more profoundly . . .
I recommend this admirable work only for a certain class of people: those to whom death will someday come. It is a refreshment at every page to read Easy Death. This may seem paradoxical, in view of the fearful uncertainty with which most Westerners look foward to dying. But Adi Da's words about the relation of death to life, love, surender, and transformation have a clarity of mind and emotion that feels like a fresh breeze. His words clear the atmosphere, free the energies, and make breathing easier.
Adi Da has spoken directly to the heart of our human situation—the shocking reality of our brief and unbidden lives. Through his words I have experienced a glimmering of eternal life and view my own existence as timeless and spaceless in a way that I never did before.In dealing with the life of the body one always has to deal with one's habitual denial of death. Easy Death does this with depth and profundity. It takes us through the process of death and dying and leaves us with essential wisdom about both life and death.
Elmer Green, Ph. D.
Director Emeritus, Center for Applied Psychophysiology
The Menninger ClinicStanley KelemanEasy Death is an exciting, stimulating, and thought-provoking book that adds immensely to the ever-increasing literature on the phenomena of life and death. But, more important, perhaps, it is confirmation that a life filled with love instead of fear can lead to ultimately meaningful life and death.
author, Bonding ] [ Human Ground
Living Your Dying ] [ Patterns of Distress
Embodying Experience : Forming a Personal Life
Emotional Anatomy : The Structure of Experience
Love : A Somatic View (Clinical Education in Somatic Process)
Thank you for this masterpiece.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.1983 edition:
author, On Death and Dying
On Life After Death ] [ Remember the Secret
Living With Death and Dying ] [ To Live Until We Say Good-Bye
AIDS : The Ultimate Challenge ] [ Death: The Final Stage of Growth
Dialogues on Death and Dying ] [ Questions and Answers on Death and Dying
The Wheel of Life : A Memoir of Living and Dying
Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition
On Children and Death: How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope With Death
Working It Through : An Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Workshop on Life, Death, and Transition
[ abc story ]Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (see above)
[ This book is ] an extended discource on death itself from the viewpoint of a fully realized Western Adept. You will have to read the book itself in order to appreciate the profundity and clarity of Adi Da's teaching here . . . In his writings and, I am sure, by his personal example, he is transmitting to us the greater meaning of what near-death research has only dimly seen.
Prof. Kenneth RingThese talks and writings of Adi Da on the meaning of death, and its implications for spiritual practice and realization, are eloquent expressions of a life devoted to liberating enlightenment. They represent a modern formulation of the ancient esoteric wisdom teaching of East and West, along with highly pertinent comments on the many fears and illusions surrounding death in our age.
(from the forward)
author, Life at Death
Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience
Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death ExperienceEasy Death is a moving tribute to clear thinking about a muddled subject. Adi Da has captured in these pages the most accurate ideas of time which flow from modern physics; and his view of life as a property which cannot be conceptually wrenched from nature is also coherent with emerging views in many corners of bioscience. He has thus given us a vision of life and death which is based on good science and good sense.I recommend this admirable work only for a certain class of people: those to whom death will someday come.
Divine Distraction (1991)While I was reading this book, it was as if a tropical storm were moving through my mind and heart. Both the profound benefits and the painful costs of discipleship came through it with incredible energy and immediacy. Divine Distraction is for people of every faith, for those who suppose they need none, and above all for those who think they already know the extent and limits of its possibilities.
Divine Distraction can awaken the same awareness as the Bhagavad Gita. Anyone who really wants to know what it is to live in a continuing and transforming relationship to a Spiritual Master should read Divine Distraction. It takes one as far as a book can go. Nothing that is essential gets glossed over or left out. The laments and the laughter, the risks and the realizations are all there. And by turns they attract, touch, and caution the reader that simply everything is at stake in such a relationship. At every level the Master meets the dilemmas of his devotees and transforms them into opportunities for realization.
Gene R. Thursby, Ph.D.If one wishes to understand the sea, ask as a sailor, a lover of the sea. By the same token, if one wishes to understand the heart and nature of the Guru-devotee relationship, ask a real devotee devoted to a real Guru, a teacher and Master of the heart. James Steinberg is such a devotee, whose scholarship bows before insights and knowledge that could only be gained from his living relationship.
Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Florida
author, The Sikhs
Modern Hinduism in India
Ruchira Avatar Adi Da is such a Guru, at Whose feet Steinberg marvels and whom scholars hail as a :"religious genius of the ultimate degree."
An extraordinary relationship. A truly extraordinary being. This book simply takes one's breath away.William M. Kennedy Ed.D."This is a warm, loving, and incredibly moving book about the greatest Spiritual Master ever to walk the earth. Seeing this, attending to this truth, we need not walk in the dark any longer. Here you will find everything you need to know about life, love, and wisdom. I have no doubt whatsoever this is true, no matter who you are, no matter which spiritual tradition you follow. Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda Hridayam is the God-Man, the ultimate expression of the Truth residing in all religions. Of this I am absolutely certain.
Psychologist/Physchotherapist, Dallas, TexasRev. Thomas E. AhlburnThe Dawn Horse Testament (1991, 1985)
Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church,
Providence, Rhode Island
[ a few sermons ]Unlike any other Scripture, The Dawn Horse Testament thoroughly articulates the precise Revelation of God and of the Way of present God-Realization to every human heart. This Testament does not merely describe the Divine. It directly Reveals the Divine to the hearts of those who openly and receptively attend to its beautiful Scriptural form and its holy meanings. It is numinous, Empowered Speech, the inherently Enlightening Word of the Divine World-Teacher, Who is not only Speaking to our hearts but from and as our Very Heart, our One and Only Divine Self. Those who receive it as such attest to the Power of Sri Adi Da's Revelation here: Merely by reading these words silently, or by reciting them or hearing them read aloud, one can be naturally Drawn into faith, equanimity, Wisdom, and Divine Ecstasy in Communion with Sri Adi Da.
The Dawn Horse Testament is a marvel, to be treasured by the spiritual, the religious, and the scholarly of our time and of all ages to come. The clarity and beauty of Truth in this scripture by Heart-Master Adi Da is unsurpassed in any other great text from any sacred path on Earth. There are dozens, even hundreds, of passages of really incomparable Instruction on practices in Da Avabhasa's Way of the Heart that bring His devotees to the cutting edge of human evolution and culture—for instance, His exquisite pages in chapter twenty-one on "The Wound Of Love". The Realization of the One capable of this Work is breathtaking to contemplate. Read it and become Ecstatic and converted to His Way of the Heart.
The Dawn Horse Testament is a genuine scripture, expressing the heart and soul (and body) of the non-separated Divine Being....Heart-Master Adi Da has demonstrated finally and decisively the very ancient, but still, as it turns out, waiting and alive world-alternative to the finitist, individuated and intellectually and critically centered civilization of the West, as well as the inwardly removed and world-and-life-disconnected civilization of the East. There exists nowhere in the world today, among Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, native tribalists or any other groups, anyone who has so much to teach, or speaks with such authority, or is so important for understanding our situation. If we are willing to learn from Him in every way, He is a Pole around which the world can get its bearings.
This not merely my personal opinion; this is a perfectly obvious fact, available to
Roy Finch, Professor-Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion,
City University of New York (Hunter College) and Graduate Center
Chairman of Columbia University Seminar on Religion
anyone of intelligence, sensitivity, and integrity: The Dawn Horse Testament is the
most ecstatic, most profound, most complete, most radical, and most
comprehensive single spiritual text ever to be penned and confessed by the
Human-Transcendental Spirit. That seems an objective fact; here is my personal
and humbler opinion: I am honored (even awed) to be allowed in its Presence, to
hear the potent Message of Sri Adi Da. How can the soul not bow down to such a
Message? The Dawn Horse Testament is a gift of unparalled importance . . . It very likely
marks the beginning of a new vision of what it means to be a human being
transformed.Herbert Long, Th.D.
former Dean of Students,
Harvard Divinity School
Polarity Screens (1991)
Polarity Screens have been used for many years by the community of devotees of the Ruchira Avatar Adi Da, Who introduced the screens to us in the early 1970s. The value of this book is that it introduces the reader both to Polarity Screens and how they are used, and to the incomparable Enlightened Wisdom of Adi Da and the Great Help He Offers to all.
Scott Anderson, M.D.It was through Adi Da's references to Polarity Screens, appearing within His extensive and extraordinary literature, that I first learned of them. Soon, not only myself and family, but also friends, and later also my patients, would try the Polarity Screens and would feel themselves—usually for the first time—as energy. It is the sort of shift in perception that can change one's life!
Director of the Research Division
of the Adidam International Health and Research Institute
I work: with computer equipment all day long and am very sensitive to how it jangles and drains my energy. I use my Polarity Screens twice a day, and I can literally feel the circuit of energy in my body change when I lie on the screens. The 'buzzy' energy reverses its direction, and I feel calm and balanced. Polarity Screens work!
Leslie Crowfoot
graphic artist
I have used Polarity Screens for years. Fifteen to twenty minutes on the screens is the equivalent for me of an hour's nap.
Ciaran MercierUsing Polarity Screens significantly reduces jet lag and travel stress. I never travel without them.
occupational counselorJerry Sheinfeld
businessman
Feeling Without Limitation (1991)
Our means of Help is a person with a message greater than any change, any improvement, any seeking for more. He tells us that there is no ultimate self-help—that the self can never become fully and finally Happy. But He also tells us that beyond this limited, suffering self there is the Divine Self—the Being of Joy and Freedom, the Infinite Consciousness that is the Very Source and Substance of Life. And He tells us—each and every one of us— that this Reality, this Identity, this Happinesss that He calls the "Heart", is true of us now, and It can be Realized.
The Person of Whom I speak is Adi Da—the Speaker of the central Discourse of this booklet. He has Realized the Divine Self, and He Offers a way for everyone to Realize that same Happiness.Adi Da's insight into the "process" of unhapiness is clear, simple, obvious—so true ans so undeniable I feel no one can read it and remain unchanged. And, in the midst of showing you how you "do" unhappiness, Adi Da Awakens you to Happiness. So if you are unhappy and don't know it, you need this book. If you are unhappy and can admit it, you are ready for this book. If you are unhappy and understand that you are doing it, you are ready for Him!
Bill Gottlieb
[former] Editor-in-Chief, Rodale Books
editor, New Choices In Natural Healing
[ from the preface ]Ray LynchI have followed Adi Da's work since the early days. I consider his "Blessing Work" of the greatest importance for the world today
composer; Sky of Mind, Deep Breakfast, No Blue Thing;
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
[ Ray's Homepage ]Edith Schnapper, PH.D.
author, The Inward OdysseyAs in all His utterances, without exception, in Feeling Without Limitation Heart-Master Adi Da reveals again the stressful, complicated character of our dealings with our sufferings. He then makes clear that all our egoic attention to particulars is obstructing our feeling simply of Being, which is our greatest need.
Adi Da not only affirms the central truth of our Divinity, He lives it for us to see, and ultimately, if we are faithful to His Word and His discipline, for us to become.The ego-"I" is the Illusion of Relatedness (1991)
Robert Hume
executive editor,
The National Academy of Sciences (retired)I saw that I am, in Truth, the Consciousness that Witnesses all that arises in body and mind and that even Witnesses but always transcends the root essence of egoity, or the feeling of relatedness itself . . .
Without this living connnection to Sri Adi Da, I would never have found the Way. Without the sheer Attractiveness of Sri Adi Da, I could have not remained interested or impulsed enough to transcend the tendencies and the movement in myself that are bound to the self-contraction and self-despair. Without His exceptional Wisdom, I would never have been drawn beyond the traditional forms of seeking to real Freedom from the Illusion of relatednessKanya Samatva SuprithiWith a masterful skill that is engaging from the beginning and then becomes more and more deeply appealing, Sri Adi Da demonstrates how a whole range of traditional formulations of esoteric wisdom are both recapitulated and transcended in what He calls His "Way of the Heart".
(from the introduction)
. . . Weigh [these] words carefully, and be open to the possibility that Adi Da's presence beyond the words will inspire you to choose a direct and transformative relationship to Him.
Because of this book, you may be moved to change your whole way of life.Of all modern and contemporary writers and teachers, Heart-Master Adi Da stands out in His uncompromising expression of transcendental teaching, founded in direct God-Realization, in numerous books and talks as well as His life. An understanding of His life and works is recommended for anyone who would seriously undertake the ordeal of a real spiritual life. To ignore or casually dismiss this spiritual giant is to deny oneself a glimpse of Truth.
Gene R. Thursby, Ph.D.
Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Florida
(from the forward)
author, The Sikhs
Modern Hinduism in IndiaFather Edward J. Cleary (retired)Heart-Master Adi Da has helpfully overturned many accepted norms in institutionalized Religion and negative Spirituality. The beauty of his utterance is that he assimilates the essentials of Eastern thought down the ages to the Spirit of Freedom so characteristic of the modern era. The Love-Ananda Gita (1990, 1989)
Diocese of Memphis, Tennessee
The most remarkable person I ever met until now was Swami Rudrananda, Rudi, with whom I studied for 14 years. Heart-Master Adi Da also studied with Rudi. It is my view that Adi Da has transcended His own Teacher to become a universal and transcendental spiritual presence. The Love-Ananda Gita is the quintessential expression of His Teaching. This may be the book for which you have been waiting all your life.
Love of the God-Man (1990)(see three quotes from Divine Distraction )
This is not a book! It is an immediate, live demonstration of the fact that the body-mind is perpetually frightened, sad, longing and unfulfilled. As one reads Love of the God-Man, she/he will vacillate between feeling the chronic contraction of the human heart and what it then feels like to transcend that dis-ease—to taste freedom and ecstasy. Nothing whatsoever is powerful enough to break through the knotted tension of the body-mind except Unconditional Love. Adi Da is Unbounded Love. He awakens and accelerates that condition in those who, above all other desires, are dedicated to "locating happiness" and to being perfectly and permanently happy.
Wilber
Charmian Anderson, PH.D.
transpersonal psychologist
author, Bridging Heaven and Earth
The Heart of Success
[ ap/abc story ]Adi Da is the living embodiment of the Great Tradition in the present Age. His teaching, the Way of the Heart, incorporates the essence of Eastern and Western wisdom in an original revelation that transcends them both. His presence among us is both a treasure and a blessing for the whole Earth.
DosseyFrom time immemorial the world's religious traditions have proclaimed that, when ever there is a decline in awareness of the Divine in mankind, the Divine will manifest in human form to restore mankind to Truth through Divine Grace. Such a time is our time and such a one is the Western-born God-Man Adi Da.
David Nelson, M.D.Heart-Master Adi Da has helpfully overturned many accepted norms in institutionalized Religion and negative Spirituality. The beauty of his utterance is that he assimilates the essentials of Eastern thought down the ages to the Spirit of Freedom so characteristic of the modern era. Watts
Diplomate, The American Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyJames Steinberg has written a book that is filled with the communication of love
and wisdom as revealed by Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda. It is a gift of instruction and inspiration to all those who intuit that there must be something else beyond the addictive pleasures and accumulated suffering offered to us by the modern cult of having and getting. As I read the explanations of the ancient and profound devotional relationship between the Guru and the devotee, I was moved beyond my own unconsciously inherited prejudices that inform me that such a bond of mutual love and service is neither desirable nor workable in our time. As I read and pondered the stories of Heart-Master Da's loving play with devotees I often found myself gently moved at the heart and made unreasonably happy. The lessons of this book continue to attract me beyond myself and toward the mystery that is Adi Da.A clarifying exposition of the dynamic relationship between Guru and disciple, their common submission and sacrifice to each other, and their respective inner life. Confronts hard questions and answers them convincingly. A much-needed work that lucidly portrays one of the most powerful processes leading to psycho-spiritual growth and transcendence.
Gary Coates
Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University
editor and author, Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and CommunityJames E. Royster, Ph.D.
Professor of Religious Studies, Cleveland State University
co-editor, "Ethics in World Religions: Systems and Sources"
I have been waiting for Love of the God-Man. James Steinberg provides the missing literary link for anyone on the spiritual path or the fringes of it. Steinberg's book provides a much needed map in an area of relationship so vital yet so unexplored—that of the Guru and the Disciple. I highly recommend this book.The Divine Emergence (1990)
Satya Shepard
President/Director, Life Enhancement Systems,
One Family, Inc., Houston, Texas
Reflected in His own chosen Personality as a Western man Heart-Master Adi Da confronts precisely the depth of exile and pain present in all of our experiences. Here we have the incredible tale of a Teacher Who so loved His Disciples that not only did He choose an incarnation in the West to meet them but when His Disciples would not adopt His Form, He adopted their form to show them their own reflection. The result of this sacrificial effort was Heart-Master Da's Divine Emergence, which marks a new chapter in epochal Spiritual History.
The Divine Emergence of The World-Teacher speaks without compromise of God-Realization, Grace, and submission to Truth in a time when God-Men are suspect, Grace is unacceptable, submission is offensive, and Truth is seemingly dead. In the context of our dark logic, Heart-Master Adi Da simply offers Himself, and the act (if fully understood) will break your heart.My relationship with Heart-Master Adi Da over the past 16 years has only confirmed His Realization and the Truth of His impeccable Teaching. He is much more than simply an inspiration for my music, but is really a living demonstration that perfect transcendence is actually possible.
Ray LynchThis book is the most complete account of the life, teaching and blessing work of Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda that is currently available. As such it fills a critical gap in the sacred literature concerning this World-Teacher. Writing from the viewpoint of a devotee, Mr. Bonder has done a beautiful job in accomplishing an extremely difficult and challenging task. This book has much to teach us about ultimate Freedom and Happiness. It is a guidebook to self-transcendence, Godhood, and Beyond. While reading it I was challenged, uplifted, and transformed. Heart-Master Adi Da is truly a great, great Teacher.
composer; Sky of Mind, Deep Breakfast, No Blue Thing
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
[ Ray's Homepage ]John T. ManniatisWatts
publisher, Paragon House PublishersThe event of Heart-Master Adi Da himself is an occasion for rejoicing, for without any doubt whatsoever, he is destined to become the first Western Avatar in the history of the world. He teaches a Way of Life that itself duplicates but transcends the entire spectrum of traditional spirituality. His teaching contains the
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most concentrated wealth of Transcendent Wisdom found anywhere, I believe, in
the spiritual literature of the world, modern or ancient, Eastern or Western.From time immemorial the world's religious traditions have proclaimed that whenever there is a decline in awareness of the Divine in mankind, the Divine will manifest in human form to restore mankind to Truth through Divine Grace. Such a time is our time and such a one is the Western-born God-Man Heart-Master Adi Da Love-Ananda. For a critical moment in history, characterized by doubt and anti-authority, The Divine Emergence of The World-Teacher chronicles the sacred biography of One born to transform the world though grace and "the authority that grants both certainty and freedom."
David Nelson, M.D.There is much about the life and teachings of Heart-Master Adi Da Love-Ananda which resonates with the life and teaching of Christ. His teachings on sacrifice, commitment, and authority can help Christians better appreciate the kind of relationship which Christ, too, asks of His followers.
Diplomate, The American Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyPhilip St. RomainHeart-Master Adi Da Love-Ananda is the Divine, simply. No argument will prove this, but while reading this account of His unrelenting Work with devotees, Teaching them to feel and transcend their self-possession, you may recognize that He is That, simply.
author, Praying the Daily Gospels : A Guide to Meditation
Living Together, Loving Together : A Spiritual Guide to Marriage
The 'Logic' of Happiness : Proverbs and Practical Wisdom for Spiritual LivingWhen you feel His love for His devotees, and through them for all of mankind, you may realize that the Great One has appeared, here and now, during our lifetime, inviting us in turn to love completely. He is the One we can lose ourselves in without fear and without having to withhold anything. Reading this powerful and magical book may finally open your heart to this great possibility.
Jean-Pierre Dujardin, Ph.D.
Ohio State University
The Two Secrets (1990)
What this book shows me is that much as egoless Gumby elicits from children their native happiness, Heart-Master Adi Da reveals the Atma in each innocent child's soul.
This book will delight anyone who has ever been a child. It is a dialogue between a great Adept and one of the children growing up under His Care. His Loving Guidance and her candid, often humorous account of the process of self-understanding provide a rare and luminous account of the integrity and potential of human growth when it is based on Spiritual Love. The Two Secrets will stand as an inspiring and practical guide as long as books are read.The Two Secrets reveals what it takes for teenagers (adults) to engage the demanding disciplines and practices of the Way of Wisdom, and to grow into the farthest reaches of true human development. Confronting and transcending the ego's tendencies is, indeed, very hard work, as this intimate account of the daily life of a teenager and her Spiritual Master shows.
Patricia Coombs
author of the popular "Dorrie" series
recipient of The New York Times 10 Best Children's Books of the Year Award, and
The Child Study Association Children's Book of the Year AwardThe Two Secrets will do much to revive the ancient, time-honored Gurukula tradition and bring the ultimate question of what-are-we-here-for back into the center of child education.
Rolf CarriereThe Da Upanishad (1989)
UNICEF Representative
United Nations Development Specialist. . . a concentrated exposition in the mold of the ancient Upanishads. Heart-Master Da has helpfully overturned many accepted norms in institutionalized Religion and negative Spirituality. The beauty of his utterance is that he assimilates the essentials of Eastern thought down the ages to the Spirit of Freedom so characteristic of the modern era.
The Da Upanishad is a work of great linguistic beauty, as well as a remarkable description of the 'before' of self and existence. It is a book about the direct realization of Consciousness, characterized by intellectual precision, but also with a depth of feeling that works away beneath the surface of the words.Robert E. CarterIn an age when religion in the West has fallen victim to platitudes, false Messiahs, mindless piety, and social 'do-goodery', the teaching of Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda is a singularly refreshing and challenging exception. Anyone from whatever spiritual tradition who is conscious of his or her own bondage and intent on liberation from the egoic condition will welcome the illuminating and practical discipline offered by The Da Upanishad. This is the perennial call of the world's great and inspired spiritual masters."
author, The Nothingness Beyond God : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nishida KitaroRev. Greg Mayers, C.S.S.R.The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace (1987, 1979)
co-founder of The Contemplative PathIn my own experience as a practitioner, Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda's suggestions for life and health management have dramatically demonstrated their validity amongst my patients, which to my mind is the ultimate test of truth. For anyone interested in maintaining and raising their health, I recommend this book as the fundamental cornerstone.
The event of Heart-Master Adi Da himself is an occasion for rejoicing, for without any doubt whatsoever, he is destined to become the first Western Avatar in the history of the world. His teaching contains the most concentrated wealth of Transcendent Wisdom found anywhere, I believe, in the spiritual literature of the world, modern or ancient, Eastern or Western.The Holy Jumping-Off Place (1986)We look to find Spirit in traditions begun at other times and places, as if this secrecy and distance is a guaranteee of authenticity. Sri Adi Da, who is alive today, is by all relevant criteria a Realized Being. Yet, he remains an Open Secret, still largely unrecognized and unutilized. The pity of it! For Adi Da is an open wound of love, available to all who will resort to him.
Alec Tsoucatos PH.D.The Illusion of Relatedness (1986)
President of Boulder College, ColoradoIn this ecstatic and compelling prose jewel, Da Love-Ananda appeals directly to us in the wilderness of our fractured world to step forward and be consumed in the fire of Bliss and Happiness. This genius speaks the Truth with such an urgency that there must be many who respond. The need is so great.
Tsoucatos
Love of the Two-Armed Form (1985, 1978)
Here for the first time is a Western Spiritual Master of the highest degree. The scope of his Widom is so vast, its insight so profound, and yet he speaks with the elegant and ecstatic voice of the truly Awakened one.
The Four Fundamental Questions (1984, 1980)Adi Da Samraj is an authentic spiritual teacher of the highest order. He offers the essence of the perennial wisdom in a form appropriate for our time. The Four Fundamental Questions serves very well to introduce people in a short, simple way to his teaching and his life's work.
The Transmission of Doubt (1984)This extraordinary book is a mirror of truth.
Joan Halifax
founder, The Ojai Foundation
author, Shaman
Shamanic Voices : A Survey of Visionary Narratives
A Buddhist Life in America : Simplicity in the Complex
Being With Dying: Contemplative Practices and Teachings
The Fruitful Darkness : Reconnecting With the Body of the Earth
The Shaman's Doorway : Opening Imagination to Power and Myth
Arching Backward : The Mystical Initiation of a Contemporary Woman
The Lost Gospel of the Earth : A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and PoliticsThe Transmission of Doubt is a profound work that, when it is understood, may shake science completely off its classic foundations and raise it to a new plateau encompassing all reality.
Guy Murchie
author, Music of the Spheres
The Seven Mysteries of Life
The Soul School : Confessions of a Passenger on Planet EarthWith penetrating insight into the timeless wisdom of self-transcendence, Adi Da Samraj puts the Soul back into science. A most valuable and important book, once again encouraging us to step beyond our beliefs and explore Reality as it is.
The Transmission of Doubt is the most profound examination of the scientific enterprise from a spiritual point of view that I have ever read. I consider it must reading for anyone who cares about science and who is mature enough to recognize that the development of the heart is just as important as the development of the head.
Charles T. Tart
Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis
co-author, Living the Mindful Life
editor, Altered States of Consciousness
Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of SpiritualityThe Adept's argument is radical, logical, pervasive, coherent, and certainly
consistent with my view of the new physics. It even offers the chance of further
scientific enquiry—a new physics of the Spirit is within our grasp now.Fred Alan Wolf
(from the foreward)
author, Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds
Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self
The Eagle's Quest: A Physicist's Search for Truth in the Heart of the Shamanic World
The Dreaming Universe: A Mind-Expanding Journey into the Realm Where Psyche & Physics Meet
The Dreaded Gomboo (1983)
Adi Da Samraj does not mimic or ape the teachings of others; his writings have the feeling of one who has seen and knows through his own eyes.
Stanley KrippnerCompulsory Dancing (1983, 1979)
coeditor, Future Science
Advances in Parapsychological Research (Vol 8)
Dream Scaping : New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others
Broken Images, Broken Selves: Dissociative Narratives in Clinical PracticeThis book contains wisdom and insight far surpassing anything I have ever seen in psychological or spiritual literature. The best evidence is the remarkable change in my life and the lives of hundreds of others. I can only rejoice and urge you to find out for yourself.
Charles Seage, M.D.Adi Da talks sanely about real sanity. His subject is always the same: a way of living this human existence without fear and without obsession. He talks about surrender to God as only one who has done so can.
The Radiant Life Medical Clinic and Research CenterRobert K. Hall, M.D.Co-founder, Lomi School and The Gestalt Institute of San FranciscoScientific Proof of the Existence of God
Will Soon Be Announced by the White House! (1980)This is a mighty book of insight—a penetrating, comprehensive critique of popular cults and mass culture. This book does two things absolutely critical for the survival of Man. First, it exposes the fundamental flaws of organized religion, science, and politics. Second, it gives clear indications for establishing a culture based on wisdom and love. Anyone who is the least bit concerned about his or her own well-being—physical, mental, spiritual— and that of the world should consider the words of Adi Da Samraj. He teaches and is a living demonstration of the present Divine Condition and evolutionary future of the human race
If you read no other book in your lifetime, read this beautiful, profound, disturbing, and hopeful book.
Worth Summers, PH.D.The function of a great educational work is to lead the reader into a new awareness.
Professor of Sociology, California State University
The function of a great spritual writing is to jolt and inspire the reader into a new
state of Being. This book is both. No one can really read this book without
being changed in the process. It is like a rapid-fire succession of electric shocks
each carrying the message: Wake up!A powerfully effective "de-hypnotizer". . . that will not let you rest until you see clearly-and so seeing, choose to act. In modern society's time of troubles this is a much-needed book.
If there is a man this country who is God-illumined, that man is Adi Da. The proof
is in the book Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House! Here is the most ancient tradition of mankind expressed in a way that is startlingly modern. Adi Da is a force to be reckoned with.In our world of political chaos and potential nuclear holocaust there must be many men and women who are awake to the madness around us and ready to hear the voice speaking in these discourses. I pray that this book inspires them to expand in love and to become guides for the millions who are still blinded by fear and mistrust. The need for truth is urgent.
Robert K. Hall, M.D.The Way That I Teach (1978)
co-founder, Lomi School and The Gestalt Institute of San Francisco
(from the appreciation)It is obvious from all sorts of subtle details that He knows what IT's all about . . . a rare being. It looks like we have an Avatar here. I can't believe it, he is really here. I've been waiting for such a one all my life.
Alan Watts
September 14, 1973
[note: 1. only volumes with unique praise were included and 2. Georg Feuerstein was left out at his request.]