Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light (Enlarged) ( Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse #4 ) - Softcover

Adi Da Samraj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570971676 ISBN 13: 9781570971679

Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press, 2004

Synopsis

First published in 1972, The Knee of Listening is the spiritual autobiography of the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj. Containing simple narrative, ecstatic poetry, complex argument, and discourse, Adi Da’s autobiography reveals the miraculous story of his unique incarnation and revelation in the west for “the sake of liberating all beings.” The revised edition includes an expanded description of Adi Da’s early life leading up to his divine reawakening in 1970, as well as revelations about the spiritual work of the great realizers in his lineage.

"From time to time, there is a book that challenges, and eventually changes, the entire perspective of a civilization. In modern times, Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was such a book–and, centuries before Darwin, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres of Copernicus (the first publication of the theory that the earth orbits the sun). The Knee Of Listening is such an epoch-making book–in an entirely different way. Appearing at the beginning of the third millennium of the Common Era, it carries a Revelation that has the potential to transform all future time. This book is not about how life on earth physically evolved, nor the design of the solar system (of which this planet is a part). The Knee Of Listening is about Reality Itself, the Reality within which this earth and its cosmic locale arise―the Blissful, Effulgent, Conscious Force of Being which is always so, and which can be located and enjoyed under every possible condition, and in every dimension of space-time."
―from the Introduction by Carolyn Lee, PhD

About this title

About the Author:

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. Today, he is seen by a number of people worldwide as an avatar–as the Divine Heart-Master, the Very Incarnation of Truth Itself.

After having earned a BA from Columbia University and an MA from Stanford University, Adi Da 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 spontaneously became reestablished 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, he began to teach in living dialogue, creating a vast repository of wisdom.

To date, his literary, philosophical, and practical writings consist of over sixty published books (The Knee of Listening, Easy Death, and My “Bright” Word among his most popular). Many of his discourses are also available on DVD and CD from The Dawn Horse Press.

Since 1998, he 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.” His collateral exhibition at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia (2007), “Transcendental Realism,” marks the first time his work is being shown to the public at large.

Synopsis:

This is Avatar Adi Da's autobiographical account of the years from his brith to his divine re-awakening in 1970. Now this classic spiritual autobiography has been updated to include material up to the present day. As philosopher and author Alan Watts said: "It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what IT's all about...A rare being." It has been described as a book like no other. It is the true story of how the Divine Being has appeared on earth in human form. Here Adi Da describes his first thirty-one years in vivid detail: his illumined birth; his embrace of an ordinary human life; his unrelenting quest for God; his complete investigation of human experience - from money, food and sex to the most esoteric mystical phenomena; his divine reawakening; and his unprecedented Revelation of the Way of Divine Enlightenment for all beings. The Knee Of Listening is unparalleled, utterly compelling and essential reading.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1570971676
• ISBN 13: 9781570971679
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 820