Synopsis
This slim volume speaks directly to everyone's innate heart-intuition of truth and reality: offering a penetrating analysis of human suffering and the liberating expression of the process of utter freedom and happiness. Drawn from Avatar Adi Da's final masterwork, The Aletheon, the selections in this book are a wonderful introduction to Adi Da's revelation-word.
· Brief contextual remarks by the editors introduce each selection
· Pocketbook format enhances portability and readability
· Affordable way to begin Aletheon study
By organizing over three dozen selections into three parts, The Gift of Truth Itself guides readers, step-by-step, through those Aletheon considerations that serve as a key to understanding core concepts from Avatar Adi Da's supreme scripture:
Part 1) What Is Real and What Is True?
Part 2) How Truth and Reality Are Revealed
Part 3) The Reality-Way I Offer To Everyone
Following are comments on each of the three parts, drawn from the introductory sections:
Part 1) What Is Real and What Is True?
“A concise consideration of the cultural, religious, and social forces that have shaped Western humanity's presumptions about truth and reality. These influences have now become globally extended, in both East and West, thereby tending more and more to underlie all common religious and secular ideas about the nature of Reality.
Avatar Adi Da reveals how these pervasive thought-patterns not only hide the nature of reality but even actively work against its realization. He gives a penetrating description of how the typical human developmental process from childhood to adulthood produces false notions of reality, truth, and God. And he shows how it is only by understanding and transcending the limitations of this cultural and social inheritance, and of human egoity itself, that truth can be realized. Through his radical examination of these presumptions and limitations, Avatar Adi Da enables us to inspect the paradigms that rule our lives—and to understand how they can be gone beyond.”
Part 2) How Truth and Reality Are Revealed
“After considering what obstructs and limits humankind, Avatar Adi Da goes on to describe what has traditionally served the process of realization. He discusses the esoteric tradition of real spiritual practice and the essential function of the spiritual master—also called guru, or adept-realizer—at the source of every true spiritual way.”
Part 3) The Reality-Way I Offer To Everyone
“The ecstatic communications of Part Three of this text, which stand utterly ‘outside the box’ of any presumption of separate self or world, were all spoken or written in the context of profound service to those committed to the awakening of reality and truth in [Avatar Adi Da's] company. Part Three is therefore a kind of unique ‘window’ into the living relationship with Avatar Adi Da that he is offering to you and everyone. It is a living demonstration of ‘outshining’, spoken directly to your heart.”
About the Author
On November 27, 2008, Adi Da Samraj, departed from the body. He passed on to humankind a legacy of inexhaustible profundity and limitless Blessing-Power. Adi Da's primary gift is his own Eternal Transcendental Spiritual Being. The primary purpose of his human lifetime was to establish the means by which any and all beings could be truly connected to him and in devotional communion with him. Thus, he worked with utmost intensity, throughout his entire life, to develop and establish his Transcendental Spiritual Way.
Adi Da's literary, philosophical, and practical writings consist of over sixty published books including The Knee of Listening, his Spiritual Autobiography, The Dawn Horse Testament, his magisterial revelation of the entire Spiritual Process from beginning to end, and The Aletheon, his final (and first and foremost) book. In addition to his writings, Adi Da gave thousands of hours of recorded discourse. Many discourses have been published by The Dawn Horse Press on CD and DVD.
Adi Da was a prolific artist, producing a remarkable body of work in different media. He was invited to show his work in a solo exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and also as part of the 2008 Winter in Florence and his work will be shown in New York. Among the publications of Adi Da's art are The World As Light, Transcendental Realism, and The Spectra Suites.
Another dimension to Adi Da's far-reaching legacy is the social wisdom embodied in his book Not-Two Is Peace. In it he calls for the establishment of a Global Cooperative Forum that mobilizes “everybody-all-at-once” on the basis of recognizing the prior (or inherent) unity of the entire human family. He proposes that such a forum is the necessary and effective means for addressing the world's most pressing issues.
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