This volume contains priceless instruction from Adi Da Samraj illuminating the way of right and true surrender to him, the essentially non-verbal process of turning to him on sight which he has described as 'the Ancient Walk-About Way'.
Not only is the way he offers part of an ancient tradition of response to the human Realizer, it is also the way that can be given to any being, human or non-human, because it is so simple in its essence. He also describes why 'surrender' and 'obedience' to the 'governance' of the Spiritual Master is not to be understood in social and political terms, but rather in terms of the Divine process of Reality-Realization.
Adi Da writes:
The 'world' is mummery. Only Is Is the Happening. Most Perfect Divine Self-Realization Perfectly Outshines the 'world'. You do not return. You do not continue to participate. You do not continue to be bound by the illusions of the world -mummery, the illusions of 'point of view'.
The only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam is about the Perfect Outshining of egoic and conditional existence the Utter, Absolute Outshining of 'it'.
What is a Greater Message Than This?
From his birth (on Long Island, New York, in 1939), Adi Da Samraj has always manifested unique signs of spiritual illumination and of artistic and literary inspiration. Nevertheless, from his birth, and until his spiritual restoration at thirty years of age, Adi Da Samraj submitted himself to an ordeal of 'self-identification' with all the limitations and sufferings of the human condition.
Adi Da Samraj describes his early years as being focused in two fundamental activities: investigating how (in the scale of human 'ordinariness') to perfectly realize the Truth of 'Reality Itself', and achieving the ability to communicate the Truth of 'Reality Itself' through artistic means (both visual and literary).
Adi Da Samraj graduated from Columbia University in 1961, with a BA in philosophy, and from Stanford University in 1966, with an MA in English literature. In 1964, Adi Da Samraj began a period of intensive practice under a succession of spiritual masters in the United States and India. Eventually, in 1970, after a final period of intense spiritual endeavor, Adi Da Samraj spontaneously became re-established in the continuous state of illumination that was his unique condition at birth--and that re-awakening signaled the end of his thirty years of spiritual quest.
In 1972, Adi Da Samraj began to teach, creating a vast repository of wisdom, in living dialogue with those who approached him. To date, his literary, philosophical, and practical writings consist of over sixty published books. 'The Knee of Listening' and 'Easy Death' and 'The World as Light' are some of the most popular books. Many of his discourses are also available on DVD and CD from The Dawn Horse Press.
Since 1998, Adi Da Samraj has created a massive body of artwork using the media of photography, videography, and digital technology. He states that his intention as an artist is to offer a visual communication of the Truth of 'Reality Itself'--by 'allowing Reality to manifest Itself in and as the 'space' of his image-art.
Adi Da Samraj's collateral exhibition at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia (2007), 'Transcendental Realism', which was a great success, marks the first time his work was shown to the public at large.
