2020 has dragged John and Josh out of podcast retirement (after only 6 episodes!) for a fresh new conversation! Listen in as they update you on life since 2018, and how 2020 is going (masks, social-distancing, family, etc.).Hosts: - John "Adidam" Littlejohn (twitter.com/adidammusic, facebook.com/adidammusic, instagram.com/adidammusic) - Josh Buys (…

According to a recent Fox News statistic, 25% of millennials are unaffiliated with any religion, which is more than double the percentage of 10 years ago. Millennials of color are leaving Christianity at an even higher percentage.Co-hosts John "Adidam" Littlejohn and Josh Buys discuss the exodus of millennials of color, using the movie "Dear White …

Get to know our co-host John "Adidam" Littlejohn in this revealing episode of The Sojourners Podcast. How does a boy from the inner city become a professional violinist? John talks about growing up in poverty, and how God used the joy and pain of his life to form him into the man he is today. Hosts: - John "Adidam" Littlejohn (twitter.com/adidammus…

In this discourse Adi Da Samraj adresses the fact that Truth or God Realization is not dependent on, nor does it have anything to do with, the functions and activities of the body mind.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

In this discourse, a devotee asks Adi Da Samraj about her practice of Adidam as an African-American woman in a predominantly white community.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

In this discourses Adi Da addresses the fact that the assumption of a separate self or being, is not really the case. It is in fact an illusion and a 'lie' that rules our entire life.Av Adi Da Samraj

In an historic discourse from 1972, Adi Da addresses the dilemma those taking up 'spiritual life' encounter when bringing discipline to the areas of money, food, and sex.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

In this discourse given May 29, 1980, a student of Avatar Adi Da asks for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da responds both with compassion, and also with very practical and useful advice.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

An excerpt from a 1977 discourse of Adi Da Samraj, in which he responds to a devotee's question about the difficulty - and apparent inability - to love.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

Adi Da speaks to the crisis mankind is in and the urgency for true spiritual practice - the disposition that undermines mankind's assumption of separation.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

In this historical recording of April of 1986, we hear Adi Da Samraj reciting the final section of his Love-Ananda Gita. In it Adi Da communicates his most 'radical' transcendental teaching regarding true renunciation of the egoic motive of seperation and Realization of the Divine Self-Condition.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

In this discourse, given in 1985, Adi Da communciates that while we survive death, that fact is of no consulation. At death there is the falling off of the physical body, but the mind, psych and personality created during one's life continue without the anchor of the body. Without this anchor we drift aimlessly into the disturbances of mind and psy…

Adi Da Samraj communicates his 'Bright' realization and the purpose of his liberating work through poems He wrote between 1971 and 1976. The poems included in this podcast were selected from the full collection of Adi Da's poetry. The recitations are placed in an order that relates to Avatar Adi Da's Lifetime and Realization, and his relationship t…

On November 27, 2008 Adi Da Samraj passed from His body in His hermitage sanctuary in Fiji. This extended podcast includes a chronicle of this time of His passing, an audio excerpt from 1999 of Adi Da speaking about His physical death and continuation of His spiritual and world work, and finally interviews with devotees who made the pilgrimage to F…

Enlightenment or God is not realized by any technique, or method. It is also not realized by or through the body or mind. The point of view of the body-mind is always from the place of separation from others and the Divine. The Way of Adidam is the ancient and acknowledged way or tacit recognition and response the Realized Adept, who has transcende…

The consumer mentality has infiltrated the area of religion. We hear from the media and the popular psyche that you can buy religion and become 'spiritual' without real change - and this presumption is false. In this episode, which includes two segments from discourses and a recitation from His Teaching, Avatar Adi Da brings His unique clarity and …

The history of human spirituality is actually One Great Tradition. In this discourse Avatar Adi Da calls upon us to study and understand the searches, doctrines and spiritual attainments of mankind as a whole, not as seperate traditions or paths. He also urges mankind to transcend merely belief-based religious myths, dogma and "religious provincial…

History has recorded a few uncommon individuals who live in a spiritually awakened or enlightened state. These masters can literally transmit their enlightenment to people who are in relationship with them, and this process offers a great advantage to humankind. In this Discourse, Adi Da Samraj tells us why it is important NOT to assume a conventio…

Does religion have the answer to truth.. or does science explain it all? In this discourse Adi Da Samraj speaks to what science can serve and what are the limits in its endeavor to discover the truth about Reality.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

Human beings are in a paradoxical quandary in trying to liberate themselves from the suffering of life. We assume the position and point-of the body-minds which are fixed in its point of view in time and place in our search for Liberation. To try to "get there" from the point of view of the body mind (which is based on the assumption of a separate …

Doubt is not a sign that we may be betrayed. Adi Da describes the "solution" to doubt - identifying with the Divine, beyond temporary cycles of body and mind.Av Avatar Adi Da Samraj

To experience conditions, there must be an assumed and separate point-of-view. Adi Da explains that in Seventh Stage Realization, this egoic presumption of a separate point-of-view is transcended. In that case, all conditions and the separate 'world' are completely vanished in Divine Brightness.Av Adi Da Samraj

Avatar Adi Da Samraj addresses the root cause of fear which is at the core of all suffering. He speaks about the "self-contraction" or the activity of presumed identification exclusively with the separate and mortal body as the place where fear arises. Rather than avoiding the fear inherent in being a body, or try to come up with techniques to "cur…

Adi Da clarifies that the Way of Adidam is based solely on the inherent heart-response to his spiritual state. That heart-response in feeling relationship to Adi Da leads to the self-understanding and willingness to take up the real ego-transcending practice and ultimately to the outshining of conditional appearances and separation.…

A devotee askes Adi Da a question about the nature of the "ego", and how the sense of self-separation is caused. In response, Adi Da gives a Radical and profound description of the true nature of the Divine Reality, Stating that the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of anything, Avatar Adi Da goes on to describe how it is …

Adi Da gives a Radical and profound description of the true nature of the Divine Reality, Stating that the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of anything, Adi Da goes on to describe how it is our own separation from that which is the very Divine, that causes the assumption of separation.…

In this talk Avatar Adi Da notes that cultism is rooted in the childish need to believe and to depend on a person, group, myth, or symbol - without assuming responsibility for oneself. He then points out that the tendency to create a cult of whatever kind is present in everyone - at every level of human society and culture. Avatar Adi Da criticizes…

In this episode, Avatar Adi Da describes how the habits of attention, or the patterning of mind while alive determine what happens in and after death. He dispels the myth of "when you die you go to heaven", and elucidates the process of life, death and reincarnation. Adi Da also gives a clear picture of how the death process works and why Spiritual…

In this episode, Avatar Adi Da Samraj responds to a question from a devotee who had lost a grandchild and was asking for some understanding that might ease his sorrow. Avatar Adi Da describes how there is no answer to the pain of loss except for Divine Realization. He Calls His devotee to use the experience of loss to move one to Realize that which…

You will hear two excerpts from Talks by Avatar Adi Da: In the first excerpt, Avatar Adi Da Samraj speaks of the ancient and time-honored understanding of the indispensable need for a true and fully accomplished spiritual Realizer if anyone hopes to discover the ultimate nature of Reality and Truth. In the second excerpt Avatar Adi Da Samraj consid…

Avatar Adi Da reads His own description of the unique State of Spiritual Freedom He has enjoyed since His birth. From His earliest childhood, He has used the term "The 'Bright'" to convey His experience of the overwhelming Spiritual Radiance of Reality. Adi Da is alive now in our time and the entire purpose of His Life and Work is to freely transmi…