Santosha Adidam (The Essential Summary Of The Divine Way Of Adidam) (The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse) [Paperback]

Adi Da Samraj (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse | Publication Date: October 1, 2001

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, there is a sub-series of seventeen volumes (called The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse), each of which offers His Wisdom relative to a fundamental aspect of true Spiritual life.

Santosha Adidam (Book Fourteen of the "Seventeen Companions") contains Avatar Adi Da's Summary Instruction relative to the entire course of the Way of Adidam--approached from the point of view of the inherent esoteric anatomy of the human being.

Editorial Reviews

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Santosha Adidam reflects the degree of profound love and concern that Adi Da Samraj has for beings and their Enlightenment. -- J.C. Troncale, Professor, University of Richmond, Director of Russian and East European Studies

Santosha Adidam will be the Dharma-seed for the flowering of a radical and heart-centered new medicine. --Scott Virden Anderson, M.D., Medical Director, Center for Conservative Therapy

About the Author

About Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj

From the moment of His Avataric birth (in New York, on November 3, 1939), Adi Da Samraj was consciously aware of His native Divine Condition: the Condition of everyone and everything. As soon as He became able to use language, He gave this Condition a simple but very descriptive Name- "the Bright". At two years of age, Adi Da Samraj spontaneously decided to relinquish His constant enjoyment of the "Bright" out of what He describes as a "painful loving", a sympathy for the suffering and ignorance of human beings. Avatar Adi Da confesses that He chose to "Learn Man"- to pass through all of the "ordinary" human limitations and presumptions that people suffer, and also to pass through the entire spectrum of "extraordinary" spiritual phenomena that people can seek and attain- in order to discover how to draw human beings into the "Bright" Divine Condition that He knew as His own True State and the True State of everyone.

In His spiritual autobiography, The Knee Of Listening, Avatar Adi Da recounts this amazing and heroic ordeal of submitting utterly to every aspect and stage of human experience: both high and low in the spectrum of human possibility. In 1970, at 30 years of age, Avatar Adi Da finally Re-Awakened permanently to the "Bright", and embarked upon the second great purpose of His Incarnation- the process of "Teaching Man".

In the 30 years since He began teaching Avatar Adi Da Samraj has communicated a vast store of Wisdom. He has published well over 60 books and given thousands of discourses on every subject that impinges on human and spiritual understanding: from the most ordinary and mundane to the most sacred and esoteric. Adi Da's unique Wisdom-Teaching has inspired the formation of schools, clinics, artisans guilds, and retreat sanctuaries, as well as an international network of communities devoted to the spiritual practice that He has outlined.

Product Details

• Paperback: 783 pages
• Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press; Standard Ed edition (October 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570971234
• ISBN-13: 978-1570971235
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,400,512 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".