True Religion is the practice of consistently (and, Ultimately, Permanently) moving out of the disposition, and the presumption, and the very activity of separate and separative self, into the Love-Bliss-Full Condition of Oneness with That Which Is One, Whole, Absolute, All-Inclusive, and Beyond.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Adidam: The Transformative Spiritual Way
Given by Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Adidam is an effortless practice founded in heart-recognition of Avatar Adi Da Samraj as the incarnation of the Divine Reality that stands always Prior to any identification with separate existence. Through communing with Him, Avatar Adi Da's devotees are drawn into the Divine Condition of freedom in which they (and everything else) inheres. In such Divine Communion with Avatar Adi Da, the heart opens in love beyond the egoic presumption of "self" and "other" and there is no longer any felt need to seek happiness "somewhere else."
Avatar Adi Da teaches us that happiness, freedom, or Real God, is prior to the activity of ego, and that it is our very efforts at seeking happiness and freedom that prevent our present communion with true happiness. People are always seeking this happiness in some way or other through everything that they do, whether they are fully conscious of it or not.
For this reason, while devotees of Avatar Adi Da practice a wide range of necessary disciplines such as meditation, study, sacred art, exercise, and healthy diet, these are considered as secondary and supportive to the core devotional practice of the Way of Adidam, rather than as a method of attaining anything.
Sanctuaries and Centers
Adidam devotees participate in a systematic, open esoteric school and global community of spiritual practice. There are cooperative Adidam cultures in a great many countries, with principal centers in California, Hawaii and Fiji. The sanctuary pictured at right is in Kauai, Hawaii.
Cooperative Culture
In Northern California, our largest communities are in Lake County, Marin County, and Humboldt County. Adidam has hermitage sanctuaries in Humboldt County and Lake County, where there are also cooperative households.
There are smaller communities located throughout the Greater Bay Area, including Sonoma County, Marin County, Solano County, San Francisco County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, and Santa Cruz County.
Find a contact person for your region and write to us to find out more about Adidam in the Greater Bay Area, or arrange a visit to the Marin Center.
Learn more about the Adidam community in the Greater Bay Area.
