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There Are No Historical Selves

There Are No Historical Selves

A Discourse given by Avatar Adi Da Samraj on November 6, 2004

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In this DVD, Avatar Adi Da elaborates His assertion that although we refer to others as “you” and ourselves as “I”, we have never really experienced any such separate entities. Furthermore, the self-reference is a reference to a fiction, a convention from the society of egos.

During the span of this full-evening Discourse, Avatar Adi Da also addresses other topics in response to questioners, including: how to tacitly recognize His Spiritual Presence; “where” Avatar Adi Da’s Eternal Divine Work occurs in this, and other, realms; the beliefs, or myths, that both religion and science share; and the distinction between being psychic and Avatar Adi Da’s Prior Divine State.

Chapter List

Part One (2 hours)
1. My Actual, Direct, and Specific Presence
2. When I Am Found, It Is A Distinct Recognition
3. Nothing Is Absolutely Provable
4. The Separate Self You Claim to Be
5. Familiarity Is a Presumption
6. The Fiction of Self-Reference
7. The Demonstration of the Divine Conscious Light
8. True Sanity Transcends Illusions

Part Two (31 minutes)
1. The Spontaneous Exercise of the Body-Mind
2. This Body Serves as an Extension of My Person

Part Three (40 minutes)
1. I Am Everywhere
2. The Circumstance of Infinity
3. Ego-Based Methods of Knowing

Part Four (44 minutes)
1. Myths Are Meaningful, But Not Historically True
2. The Means of Truth
3. How Serious I Am

Approximate running time: 3 hours 55 minutes

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When you say “I”, you are indulging in a fiction of “self”-reference. You are not actually experiencing a separate “self”, and you are not letting anybody know this. Nobody lets on. Everybody is a naked emperor. You do not tell anybody that you are naked, or, in other words, that when you say “I”, you are not referring to anything that is real and that you are experiencing. And you hope nobody will notice!

—AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Publication year: 2015

Original recording year: 2004

ISBN: 978-1-57097-350-5