Reality Is All The God There Is: The Single Transcendental Truth Taught by the Great Sages and the Revelation of Reality Itself [Paperback]

Adi Da Samraj (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 13, 2008

Contemporary renderings of the dharma of the great sages of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism from the Realized Spiritual Master Avatar Adi Da Samraj

• Includes transmissions of wisdom teachings of the great sages Gotama Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna, Shankara, and Ribhu

• Presents classic texts of spiritual realization from the perspective of a Realized Teacher

• Provides insight into the ultimate realization possible when dualistic consciousness has been transcended

In this book Avatar Adi Da Samraj offers his unique renderings of the dharma of the great sages of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, including Gotama Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna, Shankara, and Ribhu. Rather than simply translate their teachings from available source texts, Avatar Adi Da, himself a Realized Master, respeaks them as one who has personally realized their truth, revealing that the Buddhist “Nirvana” and the Advaitic “Brahman” point to the same transcendental condition. Avatar Adi Da’s transmissions restore to these texts the profound communication intended by the spiritual masters who created them.

The ego nurtures the illusion of separation, an illusion that cannot be removed by the ego’s own efforts. It is only the spiritual master who makes possible the realization of egoless consciousness. The great sages proclaimed a state of spiritual realization that exceeded both worldly dualism and mystical seeking. They had awakened to a reality that spoke of abiding in a state of consciousness only. Avatar Adi Da brings these remarkable declarations back to life and then concludes with his own unique description of a realization that transcends even these extraordinary utterances--the realization of Reality As It Is, free of all forms of the ego’s search.

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“Adi Da uses his deeply insightful reading of a number of traditional texts, drawn from both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, as a means to clarify and specify the practice that leads to the ultimate stages of attainment. A revelation of profound originality and force, this book brings forward a new perspective on reality and consciousness.”
(Paul E. Muller-Ortega, author of The Triadic Heart of Shiva )

“The writings of Adi Da Samraj--including the important essays and talks in this book--are the most doctrinally thorough, the most philosophically sophisticated, the most culturally challenging, and the most creatively original literature on nonduality currently available in the English language.”
(Jeffrey Kripal, director and chair of Religious Studies at Rice University and author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion )

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“Adi Da uses his deeply insightful reading of a number of traditional texts, drawn from both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, as a means to clarify and specify the practice that leads to the ultimate stages of attainment. A revelation of profound originality and force, this book brings forward a new perspective on reality and consciousness.”
--Paul E. Muller-Ortega, author of The Triadic Heart of Shiva

“The writings of Adi Da Samraj--including the important essays and talks in this book--are the most doctrinally thorough, the most philosophically sophisticated, the most culturally challenging, and the most creatively original literature on nonduality currently available in the English language.”
--Jeffrey Kripal, director and chair of Religious Studies at Rice University and author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion

In this book Avatar Adi Da Samraj offers his unique renderings of the dharma of the great sages of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, including Gotama Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna, Shankara, and Ribhu. Rather than simply translate their teachings from available source texts, Da, himself a Realized Master, respeaks them as one who has personally realized their truth, revealing that the Buddhist “Nirvana” and the Advaitic “Brahman” point to the same transcendental condition. Avatar Adi Da’s transmissions restore to these texts the profound communication intended by the spiritual masters who created them.

The ego nurtures the illusion of separation, an illusion that cannot be removed by the ego’s own efforts. It is only the spiritual master who makes possible the realization of egoless consciousness. The great sages proclaimed a state of spiritual realization that exceeded both worldly dualism and mystical seeking. They had awakened to a reality that spoke of abiding in a state of consciousness only. Avatar Adi Da brings these remarkable declarations back to life and then concludes with his own unique description of a realization that transcends even these extraordinary utterances--the realization of Reality As It Is, free of all forms of the ego’s search.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ was born on Long Island, New York, in 1939. In 1970, after a period of intense spiritual endeavor, he spontaneously became reestablished in the continuous state of illumination that was his unique condition at birth. After his reawakening, Avatar Adi Da Samraj began to teach. To date, his philosophical, practical, and literary writings consist of more than 70 published books. His students have established Adidam centers around the world.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Inner Traditions (September 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594772576
• ISBN-13: 978-1594772573
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,195,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars a profound spiritual text, May 27, 2010

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An amazing book that brings together spiritual teacher Adi Da Samraj's teachings with ancient Buddhist sutras to pull out their deeper meaning, with an array of related essays and talks. It sounds intellectual and it is. But, that's only one perspective. The other is the heart-breaking wisdom of devotion and God-Realization that is the point of the re-renderings. A highly recommended addition to your spiritual library.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Profound treatise on non-duality, October 31, 2011

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This review is from: Reality Is All The God There Is: The Single Transcendental Truth Taught by the Great Sages and the Revelation of Reality Itself (Paperback)

Like Osho and Gurdieff Adi Da Samraj (aka Da Free John aka Franklin Jones) was a 'crazy wisdom Master' apparently doing whatever he could to shatter the normal image of an Enlightened sage. But don't let that fool you, like the other two mentioned he was a true fountain of wisdom and eternal Truth.

This book might be one of the finest introductions and expositions of non-duality. Based on classic texts from the Buddhist as wel as the Advaitic traditions. Amongst them texts traditionaly attributed to Nagarjuna and Adi Shankara. And commented and interpreted in Adi Da's unique way.

He has his own writing style - using lots of Capital Letters (and parantheses)- which might annoy some but which feels organic and actually helpful to me. Not an easy read for sure but something you savour in small parts over a longer period of time.

And rather typical he places him self in a category of his own - the only(?)one who has reached the seventh stage of human development - but that's ofc the kind of stuff you has to put up with and smile at. Don't let that distract from the depth of the wisdom presented here.

Far beyond what is presented at the 'satsang circuit' by people like Tony Parsons, Premananda, Nathan Gill this is true Insights into the eternal Wisdom of non-duality.

This book is also released as The Ancient Reality-Teachings ("Perfect Knowledge" Series Perfect Knowledge Series)