The Radiant Being (Adi Da)

Adi Da Samraj, speaking in 1980
http://www.adidam.org

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[meriprem]

I have never anyone who could so brilliantly and precisely use the English language to convey ideas so that there is no room for speculation or guess-work. And leaves no room for the mind to wander while listening.....

[tweek1133]

A simple, self-evident message.

It's a shame that so few realise it and those that do must often undergo so much suffering before it becomes clear.

[2eidolons]

@meriprem The only way to understand what he's speaking about when he refers to god is to wake up, in the classic zen sense of the concept. Existence is what you wake up to. Everything. You can substitute the word "god" if you like.

[Ed534]

A very illuminating talk.

[CodingCow]

Yes, it does seem at first contradictory to criticize the anthropomorphic view of God and then to include God as person, a few paragraphs later.But Adi Da's view is an All-inclusive Divine, therefore how could the Divine not exist as person? If there is only God, then the Divine exists as all possible appearances, including that of person, but not exclusively so. The distinction is being made between the 'made in the image of'' separate self and the potentially God-realizing Self.

[meriprem]

I can understand God as a Divine Energy, but I cannot grasp the idea of

God as a PERSON - that Master Adi Da has said so just blew me away!

Srila Prabupad of the Hari Krishna movement (ISCKON) also said this,

and I found that so peculiar. (Krishna as being God) Can anyone please explain so at least I

can better understand, if not fully. Thank you.

[randananda]

If God is the very being of all, and within that all there exist persons, how could God possibly not be a person? It is important to revisit this idea of the egoic need to 'encompass' a god idea, which is a simply pointless exercise from any 'point of view' less than God. The God that exists is transcendent of all possible anthropomorphic or limited points of view and, paradoxically, subjective to and available to all.

[rooruffneck]

I think he makes sure to say God Is A Person because he doesn't want his students to take the "easy" way out in a sense. While we can respect Einstein and all those who allow God an existence that is beyond the mundane and that IS the totality of reality, when we do this we tend to then cut out the core of what could be termed "person". I think Da his challenging his listeners to find a way to include The Person in that kind of Spinozistic rendering...

[AvionDream]

Why dont you just sift around those sites with the people that want to focus on that sort of crap?

If you are leaving comments on these pages in an attempt to antagonize Adi Da devotees you are trying to push water uphill with a rake.

[jazzsnare]

Anyone clear on what He meant by "God is a Person?" at the end? Until then, it seemed that he agreed with the Spinozistic account that God is the universe, but is emphatically not personal. Einstein believed in that God, which made him an atheist in many eyes. But, Da sounds like He is saying that until the end, when Da defies the OT and NT sense of God as father, as mega-human.

[sweeetly]

...what he's saying is true...God isn't in the sky, isn't just an energy...God has a persona...When I was alittle kid I used to feel this loving thing in my room and I used to tell it what I did that day and it would laugh and chat and it understood everything I needed. That is my first experince of what we call God...it was beautiful