Da Love-Ananda Gita: The "Late-Time" Avataric Revelation of the Great Means to Worship and to Realize the True and Spiritual Divine Person (The ... Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation) [Paperback]

Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000 | Series: The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation

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.

The Da Love-Ananda Gita, the third of these books, is Avatar Adi Da's Instruction in the fundamental practice of the Way of Adidam--feeling-Contemplation of Him.

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"Receive this feast of blessings. It is a love song from the very Heart of God." -- Gary Coates, Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University; editor, Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and Community.

"This is the birth of fundamental and radical Scripture." -- Richard Grossinger, author, Planet Medicine; The Night Sky.

From the Author

"Those whose hearts are given, in love, to Me, Fall into My Heart. . . . I Am Love-Ananda, the Divine Love-Bliss, in Person."

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: 384 pages
• Publisher: Dawn Horse Pr; 2 Rev Exp edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570971110
• ISBN-13: 978-1570971112
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,426,392 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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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Gita (song) will be sung forever., June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Da Love-Ananda Gita: The Free Gift of the Divine Love-Bliss (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation , No 3) (Paperback)

The Da Love-Ananda Gita is like an outline of the true means to worship the Divine. It's also an argument for what and who god really is. I found this argument so convincing that it relieved me of my search for any other form of god.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Da Love-Ananda Gita is a gift of perfect wisdom., June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Da Love-Ananda Gita: The Free Gift of the Divine Love-Bliss (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation , No 3) (Paperback)

In my search for spiritual life I happened upon the teaching of Avatar Adi Da Samraj. I can see now that it was not an accidental happening, but an inevitable one. The first book by Avatar Adi Da that I ever studied was the Da Love-Ananda Gita.

Da Love-Ananda Gita is a gift of perfect wisdom. Its expression is direct and complete, and if you allow yourself to be immersed in it, a simplicity is revealed that will break your heart. How to live a life of Grace. That is what I always wanted, and I hardly dared to believe I was being given this secret so freely.

The book is really a love affair. It is the love between my heart and the Divine, exquisitely described and evoked. As Avatar Adi Da concludes the final essay, "What is a Greater Message than this?"

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book drew me into the mystery of who Adi Da IS., June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Da Love-Ananda Gita: The Free Gift of the Divine Love-Bliss (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation , No 3) (Paperback)

"Gita" means song and the Da Love-Ananda Gita strikes me as the song of all songs. Adi Da Samraj writes that his state of consciousness is "Happiness Itself," a state of happiness that is completely free of anything less than itself. The Da Love-Ananda Gita drew me toward this feeling of happiness itself, this unfathomable mystery and miracle, which I think is easily reason enough to read this book.