Eleutherios (The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free) [Paperback]

Adi Da Samraj (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2006

In Eleutherios, Adi Da speaks the ultimate Truth that liberates the being, that frees the heart. This Truth cannot be found by seeking. It is a revelation and a gift that transcends not only the worldly aims that Westerners regard as 'freedom', but also the inward states of 'liberation' that are the goal of the traditional oriental search. The Truth is the Truth about Reality.

What troubles human beings most, Adi Da has found, is their lack of knowledge of what Reality is truly about, what It ultimately is. His revelation in Eleutherios, and in all His wisdom-teaching, is that Reality is Divine, absolute Consciousness and absolute Light, inherently full of bliss, joy, and love. There is no 'God' ever conceived by the human mind that truly represents this ultimate Reality and Truth. Rather, all the myths of humankind tend to be diversions from it, and not ultimately liberating. But how does this Divine Reality, or Real God, become the living, conscious form of one's existence, rather than merely an idea in mind? What is the nature and process of true Liberation?

In Eleutherios, Adi Da unveils this great koan.

Editorial Reviews

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"I regard Adi Da Samraj as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today." --IRINA TWEEDIE, Sufi teacher; author, Chasm of Fire

"This book is a must for spiritual aspirants . . . an unfailing guide to all true devotees." --K. D. Tangod writing in "Pathway to God" magazine

"This book is a must for spiritual aspirants . . . an unfailing guide to all true devotees." --K. D. Tangod writing in "Pathway to God" magazine

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"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 Bank) "I 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." (Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., host, THINKING ALLOWED public television series; author, THE ROOTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 684 pages
• Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press (May 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570971870
• ISBN-13: 978-1570971877
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,811,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Adi Da was born in New York at the outbreak of World War II. From 1983 he lived principally in Fiji and became a Fijian citizen. The author of over sixty books on spirituality and a prolific artist, he also had profound attention for world affairs, particularly during the last decade of his life, as summarized in Not-Two Is Peace.
Adi Da was born in a unique spiritual state. As a young man, he immersed himself in the traditions of human wisdom and spirituality. His Western studies included university degrees--in philosophy from Columbia and in literature from Stanford. Following his university years, he intensively engaged both Western and Eastern forms of spiritual practice.
In 1970, at the age of thirty, Adi Da was re-established in the illumined condition he had known in his earliest life. He began to offer formal instruction in spiritual practice to those who came to him, creating (out of a free interactive participation with his devotees) what is now an unprecedented body of spiritual, philosophical, and practical writings (find the most current offerings at the Dawn Horse Press website), as well as an immense body of visual art (the website dedicated to Adi Da's art is called Daplastique). In 2007, his artwork was exhibited at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and subsequently in several other exhibitions, including in Florence, New York, and Los Angeles.
As spiritual teacher, artist, and "World Friend", Adi Da is not a conventional figure. He is not political in any ordinary sense of the word. Rather, his address to humanity comes from his lifelong communication of the truth of human existence. He is making clear the species-endangering forces of limitation in our world, the means to go beyond them, and the great urgency of this "going beyond".

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The transformation of human culture., July 28, 1999

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This review is from: Eleutherios: The Only Truth That Sets the Heart Free (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation) (Paperback)

In Eleutherios, Adi Da discusses the spiritual practice necessary for God-Realization. In a mixture of poetry and prose, Adi Da reveals what Truth, Reality and God really are, and how they differ from the usual activities, assumptions, and perceptions we make as everyday human beings. He also discusses the ways in which human culture must be transformed if we are to have the reality of Divine Love as part of our everyday experience. I highly recommend Eleutherios along with all of Adi Da's books. Added note: Adi Da writes in an intellectual style as well as a more colloquial, accessible style. Eleutherios is of the more intellectual genre.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eleutherios will truly bring benign change to the world., June 29, 1999

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This review is from: Eleutherios: The Only Truth That Sets the Heart Free (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation) (Paperback)

I have now read all five of the Heart of Adidam titles (the epitome of Adi Da's 23 source texts, which are to be published over the next year), of which Eleutherios is the last. Each one gave me a slightly different understanding of who Adi Da Samraj is and the gifts of realization he offers. But I must admit that Eleutherios really grabbed my attention. The title essay is a kind of prose poem. It's a difficult read but I found it very rewarding when I really gave myself to it. In it Adi Da Samraj very precisely defines what and who God is and what and who God is not. For me, reading it felt like he was stripping away a lifetime of religious and spiritual mythology and replacing it with an intuition of the God-Realization which is his moment to moment condition. In the following essays he makes an argument that true world peace will only occur when a sufficient number of people are God-Realized. Until that time, he says no amount of social and technological tinkering will ease the world condition. Only a change of attitude summarized in his prescription, "Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace" will truly bring benign change. He then paints a wonderful picture of what a society of truly mature spiritual beings would be like and the contribution they would make to the world. I've read the book twice and will certainly read it again.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Transcending the root-cause of collective suffering., July 28, 1999

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This review is from: Eleutherios: The Only Truth That Sets the Heart Free (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation) (Paperback)

In Eleutherios, Adi Da Samraj reveals that the feeling of being a separate self is the root-cause of suffering individually and collectively. He reveals that this feeling is an activity we are generating at the core of our being. He also says that this activity can be gone beyond by communing with the egoless personal presence of truth and perfect happiness, which he freely states is his constant, conscious condition, moment to moment. He claims that this condition is who he is. I am struck not only by the penetrating clarity of Adi Da's teaching in Eleutherios, but by the fact that reading it gracefully reflected to me the ways in which I generate my own feelings of separateness and the ways I dramatize them. In one of the last essays in the book he calls the leaders of the world to examine themselves in the light of his teachings in the areas of social, political, and economic activities so that we might begin to grow beyond our terrible separative, egoic and collectively destructive tendencies.