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Religion and Reality

Religion and Reality

True Religion Is Not Belief in Any “God”-Idea but the Direct Experiential Realization of Reality Itself

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In the seven remarkable essays comprising Religion and Reality, Avatar Adi Da describes the mature religious orientation and distinguishes between popular or exoteric religion (based on the concerns of physical and social existence) and esoteric religion (characterized by inward seeking for Realization).

As the editors note, “…to most deeply receive Avatar Adi Da’s Communication in this book is to be loosed from centuries of misunderstanding and to find the freedom to ‘consider’ the real purpose of the world and the Nature of Real God as Reality Itself.”

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The God Who truly and Really Exists is not present as a separate (or exclusively “Other”) Personality anywhere in cosmic Nature. Nor is That One to be identified with any subtle object in Nature, or with any of the lights observable via mystical consciousness. That One Is Real (Acausal) God. You Realize That One only by entering most profoundly into the Inherently egoless Self-Domain (or Self-Position), the Domain of Prior Existence (or Is-ness), the Tacit Self-Apprehension of Being (Itself).

—AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ

“Adi Da’s critique of conventional religion, and even of forms of esoteric religion—articulated here so precisely and with such piercing clarity—is deeply important. It deserves very wide—in fact, universal—dissemination and study. He expresses, with the most compelling sense of authority, conviction, originality, and revelatory ‘force’, the highest perspective and truth.”

—PAUL E. MULLER-ORTEGA author, The Triadic Heart of Shiva

“The writings of Adi Da Samraj 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 J. KRIPAL J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University;
Author, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion and Comparing Religions

Length: 100 pages

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 1-57097-212-5

Format: 6 x 9 inches, softcover