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The Radical Truth

Discourses by His Divine Presence the Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, on The Ultimate Nature of Reality, Truth, and Real God.

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Helping the Dying from 2023-12-14T11:14:05.860768

In this discourse given May 29, 1980, a student of Avatar Adi Da asks for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da responds both with compassion, and also with very practical and useful advice.

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Adi Da's Reading of His Love-Ananda Gita from 2023-12-14T11:14:05.844623

In this historical recording of April of 1986, we hear Adi Da Samraj reciting the final section of his Love-Ananda Gita. In it Adi Da communicates his most 'radical' transcendental teaching regardi...

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Truth is Prior to the Body/Mind from 2012-01-15T04:22:03

In this discourse Adi Da Samraj adresses the fact that Truth or God Realization is not dependent on, nor does it have anything to do with, the functions and activities of the body mind.

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Be Purposed to Realization - Beyond Race, Gender, or Any Form of 'self'-Identity. from 2011-07-31T21:44:56

In this discourse, a devotee asks Adi Da Samraj about her practice of Adidam as an African-American woman in a predominantly white community.

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Money, Food, and Sex from 2010-11-26T03:14:22

In an historic discourse from 1972, Adi Da addresses the dilemma those taking up 'spiritual life' encounter when bringing discipline to the areas of money, food, and sex.

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The Responsibility for Love from 2010-07-24T03:23:57

An excerpt from a 1977 discourse of Adi Da Samraj, in which he responds to a devotee's question about the difficulty - and apparent inability - to love.

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'My Work Is Urgent' from 2010-05-22T19:23:57

Adi Da speaks to the crisis mankind is in and the urgency for true spiritual practice - the disposition that undermines mankind's assumption of separation.

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'When you Live you Make Mind...' from 2009-12-28T16:32:18

In this discourse, given in 1985, Adi Da communciates that while we survive death, that fact is of no consulation. At death there is the falling off of the physical body, but the mind, psych and pe...

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Adi Da's Poetry: Confessional Poems of Liberation and Love from 2009-10-25T10:11:23

Adi Da Samraj communicates his 'Bright' realization and the purpose of his liberating work through poems He wrote between 1971 and 1976. The poems included in this podcast were selected from the fu...

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The Death of Adi Da Samraj from 2009-07-12T18:12:44

On November 27, 2008 Adi Da Samraj passed from His body in His hermitage sanctuary in Fiji. This extended podcast includes a chronicle of this time of His passing, an audio excerpt from 1999 of Adi...

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The Commercialization of Religion from 2008-12-28T18:12:44

The consumer mentality has infiltrated the area of religion. We hear from the media and the popular psyche that you can buy religion and become 'spiritual' without real change - and this presumptio...

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All Religious History is One Great Tradition from 2008-09-22T03:16:13

The history of human spirituality is actually One Great Tradition. In this discourse Avatar Adi Da calls upon us to study and understand the searches, doctrines and spiritual attainments of mankin...

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The Romanticism of Science from 2008-04-29T01:07:03

Does religion have the answer to truth.. or does science explain it all? In this discourse Adi Da Samraj speaks to what science can serve and what are the limits in its endeavor to discover the tru...

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Transcending the Mood of Doubt from 2008-01-25T05:07:12

Doubt is not a sign that we may be betrayed. Adi Da describes the "solution" to doubt - identifying with the Divine, beyond temporary cycles of body and mind.

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The Only Way Beyond Fear from 2007-12-10T18:02:32

Avatar Adi Da Samraj addresses the root cause of fear which is at the core of all suffering. He speaks about the "self-contraction" or the activity of presumed identification exclusively with the s...

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What is Adidam? from 2007-06-22T18:02:32

Adi Da clarifies that the Way of Adidam is based solely on the inherent heart-response to his spiritual state. That heart-response in feeling relationship to Adi Da leads to the self-understanding ...

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"God" Is not the Cause from 2007-05-07T18:02:32

A devotee askes Adi Da a question about the nature of the "ego", and how the sense of self-separation is caused. In response, Adi Da gives a Radical and profound description of the true nature of t...

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Cults and Cultism from 2007-04-17T18:02:32

In this talk Avatar Adi Da notes that cultism is rooted in the childish need to believe and to depend on a person, group, myth, or symbol - without assuming responsibility for oneself. He then poin...

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Death and The Purpose of Existence from 2007-03-15T00:22:12

In this episode, Avatar Adi Da describes how the habits of attention, or the patterning of mind while alive determine what happens in and after death. He dispels the myth of "when you die you go to...

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Beyond Death, Sorrow, and Loss: A Discourse by Adi Da Samraj from 2007-02-24T00:22:12

In this episode, Avatar Adi Da Samraj responds to a question from a devotee who had lost a grandchild and was asking for some understanding that might ease his sorrow. Avatar Adi Da describes how t...

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The Need for The Spiritual Master from 2007-02-04T00:22:12

You will hear two excerpts from Talks by Avatar Adi Da: In the first excerpt, Avatar Adi Da Samraj speaks of the ancient and time-honored understanding of the indispensable need for a true and fu...

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The Bright from 2007-01-19T00:22:12

Avatar Adi Da reads His own description of the unique State of Spiritual Freedom He has enjoyed since His birth. From His earliest childhood, He has used the term "The 'Bright'" to convey His exper...

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