The Heart's Shout

Second edition, revised: 3/96.
©1996 The TDL Trust Pty Ltd,
as a trustee for The TDL Trust.
ISBN: 1-57097-109-X.
LOCCCN: 96-83384.

Adi Da, The Da Avatar: An Introduction by His devotees:
The "Bright".
"Forgetting" the "Bright".
God-Realization.
The Immense Bond of Guru-Love.
"Radical Understanding".
The Divine World-Teacher.

The Most Perfect Teaching, The Most Perfect Teacher:
An Introduction to The Heart's Shout:
A note on reading this book.

Part I. I Have Come To Reveal The Joy Of Being:

Section 1. 
The Liberating Relationship (ISHTA):

1. The Divine Physics of Evolution (10/78)
2. Dreaming and Waking (Ch. 6, METH)
3. Coming into the Presence of Very God, by Frank "Cheech" Marrero
4. On Spiritual Transmission (8/5/87, 7/82).
5. The Great Relationship (4/3/88)
6. Aham Da Asmi (DHT)

Section 2. 
The Gift of "Radical" Understanding:

7. The Columbia Experience (Ch. 3, KNEE).
8. A Heart-Awakened Insight (Ch. 3, DHT).
9. The Dreaded Gom-Boo, or The Impossible Three-Day Thumb-and-Finger Problem (9/9/82)
10. From Charlie's Place to Adidamashram: 
     How Adi Da Awakened My Heart, by Brian O'Mahony
11. Self-Understanding (4/8/93)

Section 3. 
What Are Your Conclusions About Reality?:

12. The Asana of Science (10/25/80, DOUBT).
13. Free Inquiry and Scientific Materialism (12/19/92)
14. You Do Not Know What a Single Thing Is (12/23/77).
15. The Divine Trickster Talks Wild, by the Adidam Writers Guild (2/19/79)

Section 4. 
The Truth About God:

16. The Parental Deity and the One to Be Realized (2/7/83).
17. The Tacit Obviousness of God (12/13/93, ISHTA)
18. God Is Guru (1/18 &1/15/94, ISHTA)
19. The Red Sitting Man, by Annie Rogers
20. Beyond the Cultic Tendency in Religion (HYMN)
21. God Is The Deep Of the world (ch. 7, DHT).

Section 5. 
The Seven Stages of Life and The Great Tradition:

22. The Seven Stages of Life, by the Adidam Writers Guild
23. The Religious Ambivalence of the West (11/3/77, TEACH).
24. Exoteric Christianity and the Universal Spiritual Message of Jesus (5/8/82).
25. Moving Beyond the Techniques of East and West (2/12/78, EotWB).
26. I Am Here to Complete the Great Tradition of Mankind (BoT)

PART II Live With Me: The Foundation of Practice in the Way of the Heart:

Section 1. 
Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga:

27. The Testament and the Means of Freedom Itself (HYMN).
28. Divine Distraction (12/16/75).
29. The Master Is the Means (11/25/93, ISHTA)
30. "That Is My Work", by Elizabeth Lowe
31. Surrender the Faculties of the Body-Mind to Me (12/20/93, ISHTA)
32. The Way That I Offer to You and to All (GITA).
33. The Essence of Devotion (Bhagavata Purana)

Section 2. 
Service and Self-Discipline:

34. To Serve Me you Must Actively Transcend all ego-serving work
35. Money, Food, and Sex (Ch. 3, METH).
36. Diet and Fasting (Ch. 13, KNEE).
37. The Secret of How to Change (TWO-).

Section 3. 
The Practice of Love and Sexuality:

38. Ecstatic Living (6/3/92).
39. The Wound of Love (Ch. 21, DHT).
40. Sex Is a Heart-Matter: Found Your Intimacies on Love Alone (5/30/92). Sexuality Is the Physical Dramatization of Emotion (TWO-).
41. Right Celibacy Is Yogic, self-Transcending, and Happy (BoT)
42. Remember the Mystery in Which You Live (10/28/78).

Section 4. 
The Call to Community:

43. The Religious Necessity of Community (12/78, PROOF).
44. Cooperative, Human-Scale Community and the Integrity (Religious, and Altogether) of Civilization (BoT)
45. A New Human Order (Ch. 20, KNEE).

Section 5. 
Death and The Meaning of Life:

46. The Heart of Understanding (KNEE).
47. There Is No Individual self That Dies (12/28/80, EASY).
48. This Liberating Impulse" (2/1/85, EASY).
49. The Only Way Out: The Great Giver by Frans Bakker, M.D. and Remembrance of my Sat-Guru was my anchor by Tom Closser.
50. The Understanding That Overcomes Suffering (1/21/93): He Has My Blessing. What Are You Choosing?

Section 6. 
Divine Enlightenment:

51. The Great Event in the Vedanta Temple (Ch. 16, KNEE).
52. What Is to Be Realized? (7/9/80, PROOF)
53. "Crazy Wisdom" (3/2/81)
54. There Is Simply The "Bright" Itself (Ch. 44, DHT)
55. The Man of Understanding (KNEE)

EPILOGUE: The Avatar Since Eternity

An Invitation to Adidam
Regional Centers of Adidam
The Sacred Literature of Adi Da (The Da Avatar)
Glossary
An Invitation to Support Adidam, the Way of the Heart.
Further Notes to the Reader.
Index.
388 pp.
 
 

First edition 6/93.

The Liberating Wisdom of Da Avabhasa.

Essential Talks and Essays

By The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The "Bright".)

©1993 Sri Love-Anandashram (Naitauba) Pty Ltd, as a trustee for the Sri Love-Anandashram (Naitauba) Trust.
ISBN: 0-918801-76-1.
LOCCCN: 93-025864.

Introduction: The Heart Stands Out Aloud and "Bright" by the Free Daist Writers Guild.

I. The Pillars of Da Avabhasa's Wisdom-Teaching:

1. 'Understanding' (12/4/81):

"Your Suffering Is Your Own Activity" (6/20/72, Ch. 2, METH).
"The Dreaded Gom-Boo, or the Impossible Three-Day Thumb-and-Finger Problem" (9/9/82, GOM).
'The Columbia Experience' (Ch. 3, KNEE).
'A Heart-Awakened Insight' ( Ch. 3, DHT).

2. Satsang: 'The Company of Truth' (METH & 12/22/82):

"The Elevator" (6/20/72; Ch. 2, METH).
"The Divine Way" (73).
"Satsang Is a 'Radical' Condition" (12/23/73, Ch. 13, METH).
"On Spiritual Transmission" (8/5/87, 7/82).
"The Divine Physics of Evolution" (10/78, HYMN).

II. Beyond Conventional Religion:

1. "The Truth About God" (12/20/73):

"The Parental Deity and the One to Be Realized" (2/7/83).
"There Is Only God" (7/28/75).
"God and Doubt" (3/23/78).
'God Is The Deep of the world' (ch. 7, DHT).

2. The Seven Stages of Life:
The Seven Stages of Life by the Free Daist Writers Guild 
based on the Wisdom-Teaching of Da Avabhasa.
The Seven Stages of Life, chart.

3. 'Understanding the Great Tradition of Religious and Spiritual Wisdom' (NIRV):

'The Great Tradition' (Ch. 14, NIRV).
"My Work with the Great Tradition" (12/17/80).
'Exoteric Christianity and the Universal Spiritual Message of Jesus' (5/8/82).
'A Commentary on Kenneth Clark's Civilisation' (BOT).
"The Religious Ambivalence of the West" (11/3/77, TEACH).
"Moving Beyond the Techniques of East and West" (2/12/78, EotWB).
'A Commentary on Geoffrey Parrinder's Avatar and Incarnation' (BOT).

4. True Human and Religious Culture:

'Idols' (12/14/79, PROOF).
'Cultism Is the Beginner's Level of Human Existence' (12/18/78, PROOF).
'Beware of Those Who Criticize but Do Not Practice Religion' (PROOF).
'A Commentary on the Alcoholics Anonymous Movement' (BOT).
'The Religious Necessity of Community' (12/78, Proof).
'"Radical" Politics for Ordinary Men and Women' (PROOF).
'I Would Found a New Order of Men and Women' (Ch. 20, KNEE).

III. Beyond Scientific Materialism :

1. "Science and Scientific Materialism" (8/6/91):

"The Asana of Science" (10/25/80, DOUBT).
"Even Science Is a Magical Activity" (10/27/80, DOUBT).
"Free Inquiry and Scientific Materialism" (12/19/92).
'The False Religion of Scientific Knowledge' (PROOF).

2. Divine Ignorance:
"You Do Not Know What a Single Thing Is" (12/23/77).

IV. Death and the Purpose of Life:

'The Truth About Death' (5/21/80, EASY).
"There Is No Individual self That Dies" (12/28/80, EASY).
"The Paradox of Reincarnation" (12/8/80, EASY).
"The Cosmic Mandala" (7/11/82).
The Understanding That Overcomes Suffering: "For Barry" & "What Are You Choosing?" (1/21/93) "This Liberating Impulse" (2/1/85, EASY).

V The Secrets of Love and Sex:

1. Sexuality and Ecstasy:
'The True and Greater Human Function of Sexual Embrace' (3/24/78, TWO-).
"Ecstatic Living" (6/3/92).

2. Self-Understanding and the Knowledge of Love:
"The Need Connection" (10/6/78, TWO-).
'The Wound of Love' (Ch. 21, DHT).

3. Beyond Conventional Sexuality:
'Sex and Enlightenment' (4/3/78, TWO-).
Sexuality Is the Physical Dramatization of Emotion (TWO-).
From a Commentary on C.J. van Vliet's Conquest of the Serpent: A Way to Solve the Sex Problem (BOT).

4. The Call to Be Love:
"Remember the Mystery in Which You Live" (10/28/78).
"The Only Cure of the Loveless Heart" (10/79).

VI. "Live with Me": The Foundation of Practice in the Way of the Heart:

1. Self-Understanding: "The 'Radical' Wisdom as the Basis of Practice" (4/8/93):
"Self-Understanding" (4/8/93).

2. Devotion: The Ecstatic Relationship at the Heart of all Transformation:
"Divine Distraction" (12/16/75).
'The Testament and the Means of Freedom Itself' (HYMN).

3. Feeling-Contemplation of Da Avabhasa: the Means of Heart-Awakening:
"The Heaven-Born Gospel of Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")" (3/11/78, METH).
'The Way That I Offer to You and to All' (GITA).
"Use your Advantage" (10/11/85, HYMN).
"This Body Is the Teaching" (GITA).

4. Self-Discipline: the Form of Life:
"Money, Food, and Sex" (72 & 73, METH).
The Secret of How to Change (TWO-).

5. Transmission of the Heart:
"The Supreme Gift" (7/82):
"Baptism of Immortal Happiness" (12/17/82).
The Essence of the Way of the Heart:
"Simplest and Most Direct Way" (1/29/76, HYMN).

VII. Realization:
'What Is to Be Realized?' (7/9/80)
'The Great Event in the Vedanta Temple' (Ch. 16. KNEE).
"As If I Had Walked Through Myself" (4/25/72, METH).
"'Crazy Wisdom'" (3/2/81).
'The Deep of Consciousness Itself' (UPAN).
'The Perfect Witness' (LION).
'I Am Here to Complete the Great Tradition of Mankind' (BOT).

"I Reveal the Divine Person, Who Is The Heart Itself": A Brief Biography of the Divine World-Teacher, Da Avabhasa (The "Bright").
An Invitation to a Direct Relationship with Da Avabhasa.
An Invitation to Support the Way of the Heart.
The Sacred Literature of Da Avabhasa (The "Bright").
Further Notes to the Reader.
Glossary.
Index.
(420 pp.)

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