Hridaya Rosary (Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction): The "Late-Time" Avataric Revelation of the Universally Tangible Divine Spiritual Body, Which Is the ... the Heart of the Adidam Revelation, Book 4) [Paperback]

Adi Da Samraj (Author)

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Series: The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation, Book 4 | Publication Date: December 1, 2000

Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj has created a series of twenty-three books that He has designated as His "Source-Texts". Of these twenty-three books, the first five form a sub-series called The Five Books Of The Heart Of The Adidam Revelation. These five books communicate the core of Avatar Adi Da's Message to all.

Hridaya Rosary, the fourth of these books, is Avatar Adi Da's exquisitely poetic description of how the egoic being "melts" when His Spiritual Blessing is fully received.

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"No message of Liberation has ever been so direct." -- J.C. Troncale, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Univ. of Richmond

"You are holding something unique and remarkable. Consider it. Test it. Feel it..." -- Jonathan Lynch, Professor and Research Scientist, Penn. State University

From the Author

"Light must be brought into this darkness underground. Do not merely climb up into the Tree. Rather, receive the Light and Love of the Sun--down to the toes, down into the world, down into the underground. . . . The True Sun-Beyond I Am--and Only Am.

Therefore, open to My Light--and Be Melted by Me."

RUCHIRA AVATAR ADI SAMRAJ

Quotations from Avatar Adi Da Samraj are © 2002 The Da Love-Ananda Samrajya Pty Ltd, as trustee for the Da Love-Ananda Samrajya. All rights reserved. Perpetual copyright claimed.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press; 2nd edition (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570971102
• ISBN-13: 978-1570971105
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,262,474 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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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book cannot be read in a conventional way., June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Hridaya Rosary: Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation , No 4) (Paperback)

The Hridaya Rosary is profoud, sublime and utterly brilliant. No scripture or esoteric spiritual text can equal the magnificence or the overwhelmingly direct transmission of tangibly felt Love-Bliss this book and the essays and talks which accompany it convey. Adi Da Samraj does not spout poetry in the conventional sense. His words inherently go beyond language. I couldn't (and I don't think anyone can) read this book in a conventional way, for it took me on a deep feeling odyssey into the ultimate spiritual process. I found its mysteries are fundamentally unspeakable, but spoken with perfect eloquence and discrimination. Every cell of the body was screaming YES! to this outrageously sensual, delightful infusion of Divine-Bliss. Adi Da Samraj writes, "I Am not elsewhere, and yet I Am Infinitely Beyond... evey thing and every one Is in Me." This book convinces me that this is completely true.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hridaya Rosary is attractive at the deepest level., June 22, 1999

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This review is from: Hridaya Rosary: Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation , No 4) (Paperback)

In one essay in this book, Adi Da says, "You cannot merely read my Wisdom-Teaching and 'get it'". He is right. I found that these writings were addressing some part of me far deeper than the thinking mind or even the emotional being. Throughout the book, he describes and recommends a process of "melting down" which I found overewhelmingly attractive at the deepest level. Carrying out the instructions in the book has re-arranged my orientation to life and my place in it. I feel more real, more balanced, more sane than ever before.

The essays and talks in Hridaya Rosary are sophisticated. When I tried to grapple with them mentally I just became frustrated. When I was able to relax the mind, then the words somehow enforced themselves at a primal point in me, at the heart. In these moments the wisdom of the book became intuitively clear and I felt a profound relief. At these times, it was obvious that the way things really are, Reality (with a capital R), is much different from what I ordinarily assume.

I believe this is the most efficacious instruction I have ever read.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adi Da writes poetry of profound wisdom and intense passion., June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Hridaya Rosary: Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation , No 4) (Paperback)

Many books, perhaps too many, are on today's bookstore shelves trying to explain what God is. But if you want to actually feel the Divine in what you are reading, I recommend the Hridaya Rosary, the Four Thorns of Heart Instruction. There I found crystal clarity side-by-side with the language of ecstatic love. Adi Da writes poetry of deep wisdom and incredible passion. He writes in such a profound way that the Truth slid around my chattering mind and touched my heart and soul. Rarely can written words move me into a state of deeply relaxed being and heightened awareness, but the Four Thorns has this power.