Book Excerpts
Index of Book Excerpts
The Way of Perfect Knowledge
The "Radical" Practice of Transcendental
Spirituality in the Way of Adidam
February 2008
In The Way of Perfect Knowledge, Avatar Adi Da describes the process of Grace, devotion, and self-understanding required to transcend the presumption of separateness and Realize "Perfect Knowledge" of Reality.
The World As Light
An Introduction to the Art of Adi Da Samraj
December 2007
This generously illustrated book by Mei-Ling Israel provides an overview of the massive body of highly distinctive artwork that Adi Da Samraj has created over the past forty years.
Transcendental Realism
The Image-Art of egoless Coincidence with Reality Itself
November 2007
In Transcendental Realism, Adi Da Samraj speaks of the purpose of true art, as well as the profound purposes and means of His own art. This publication appears in conjunction with the exhibition of Adi Da Samraj's art at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
June 2007
Adi Da Samraj offers His own "expository translation" of several significant Spiritual texts. He illuminates the full meaning intended by the original author — not from a scholarly "point of view", but as a Realizer of Truth.
May 2007
The introduction to, and an excerpt from, Avatar Adi Da's new text Religion and Reality, in which He distinguishes between popular, or exoteric, and esoteric religion.
April 2007
Carolyn Lee's introduction to The Perfect Tradition describes the miracle of the Way of Adidam — that the Transmission and intuition of the seventh stage of life are given from the beginning.
Eleutherios
(The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free)
July 2006
The introduction to Eleutherios (The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free), a newly revised and published Source-Text of the Way of Adidam, by the Great Avataric Sage, Adi Da Samraj.
February 2006
The introduction from the newly published literary edition of The Mummery Book, Avatar Adi Da's "prose opera", including His commentary on the supernormal process that produced the book.
October 2005
"The Truth About Death" — an excerpt from a new edition of the book by Avatar Adi Da Samraj hailed by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author of On Death and Dying, as a "masterpiece".
My "Bright" Word
The Divine Siddha-Method Of The Ruchira Avatar
July 2005
An excerpt from a new book that includes over a dozen of the original Discourses Given by Avatar Adi Da in 1972 and 1973.
Hridaya Rosary
(Four Thorns Of Heart-Instruction)
June 2005
Hridaya Rosary is Avatar Adi Da's beautifully precise and exquisitely poetic description of the Spiritual process that is spontaneously entered into when one is Spiritually Awakened by Him.
Ruchira Avatara Gita
(The Avataric Way Of The Divine Heart-Master)
May 2005
Excerpts from the introduction and Text of Avatar Adi Da's book that, He says, offers the "Great Secret" of the Way that "Most Perfectly Realizes" the "True and Spiritual Divine Person"
"Send Him My Love and Blessings"
The Death Transition of Bernie Kelly – written by Angelo Druda
March 2005
Avatar Adi Da's Blessing of Bernie Kelly — a man who felt he could never become a formal devotee — as he made his death transition. From the forthcoming new third edition of the book, Easy Death
September 2004
In the midst of her terminal disease, Adi Da guides Tamara to "become profoundly involved in the Divine Life and in what is beyond the body." From the forthcoming new third edition of the book, Easy Death
Adi Da, The Promised God-Man Is Here
by Carolyn Lee, PhD
January 2004
Chapter 9 covers Avatar Da's move to the island of Naitauba, in Fiji, in 1983; His historic talk Mark My Words; and the writing in 1984 of His summary scripture, The Dawn Horse Testament.
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