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

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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.

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)