Avatar Adi Da Samraj masterfully explores the relationship between experience, understanding, and Truth: Experience cannot ever lead to Truth—but, in the context of the devotional relationship to Avatar Adi Da, experience can serve the crisis of understanding that makes the heart available to His Transmission of Truth.
Such a crisis of understanding leads to a conversion—which is not another experience of the body or the mind, but a Graceful transformation at heart. This transformation that Avatar Adi Da Offers is His Gift to all of the Perfect Happiness of Divine Communion which is freedom from the stressful seeking for experiences.
The next moment’s “experience” is not necessary for your transformation.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj
This Discourse includes Avatar Adi Da’s lively recountings of two genuine conversion stories—one is about a modern Christian minister, and the other is an amusing free-rendering of the story of Ribhu and his disciple Nidhaga (from the Ribhu Gita, an epitome of traditional Non-dualist teachings).
This Discourse appears in written form in the book My “Bright” Sight. This audio recording (originally published in cassette form under the title “I Only Move Where There Is Fire) includes significant additional material that does not appear in the written form. The audio publication was developed from an archival recording with some quality variations, digitally remastered for this CD publication.
Track Listing
1. Truth Is Not A State - 13:52
2. The Crisis of Understanding - 12:48
3. The Conversion To Spiritual Life - 13:42
4. The Guru Is The Center of Practice - 17:11
5. I Only Move Where There Is Fire - 17:36
