This DVD is from the first occasion in many years in which Avatar Adi Da spoke directly to a gathering of His devotees in California. Questions from devotees about intimate, familial, and social issues are met with Avatar Adi Da's Compassion and Humor, as well as His Liberating Wisdom.
From considering the “seed theme” of His Mummery Book, to describing His mindless and Indivisible State, Avatar Adi Da weaves a masterful tapestry of Instruction and Blessing. He Calls for and Transmits the most profound understanding possible of human life and sacred practice.
In part 1, when a devotee asks about “true Yogic intimacy”, Avatar Adi Da points to the true issue at hand: that she had to presume the position of the ego in order to ask Him a question. In part 2, a devotee from the sacred theatre guild of Adidam asks about how to discover the “seed” of Avatar Adi Da’s literary and theatrical Masterwork, The Mummery Book. Avatar Adi Da humorously expounds on this effort—and returns to this “theme” throughout the evening of Discourse.
In part 3, an Indian devotee asks about what his apparently conflicting obligations to family and sacred practice. Avatar Adi Da “Considers” what is at the root of this perceived problem, admonishing that people must answer for their own choices, in the context of understanding their intention and purpose in life. The world is a chaos of perceived purposes, He says—and He Offers the opportunity of coming to rest in the Freedom of relationship to Him.
In part 4, Avatar Adi Da addresses a question from an African-American devotee about how she can practice with issues that are unique to her racial and cultural background. He again emphasizes the importance of becoming clear about the purpose of one’s life, in order to consciously choose how they want to live and what actions they are moved to engage. And He invites her and everyone to the Freedom of Divine Realization, which is without “identity” of any kind.
In part 5, Avatar Adi Da speaks about the core practice of turning to Him, in the midst of the living of “right life”. And in part 6, Avatar Adi Da Expresses the Freedom of His mindless State, which is the True Nature of everyone. He Calls all to the practice in relationship to Him for the sake of Realizing the “Bright” egoless Reality, and thereby Outshining the world in Perfect Enlightenment.
