Hridaya Rosary (Adi Da Samraj)
A Great Guide to God-Realization
[My five-star Amazon review (August 3, 2014) of “Hridaya Rosary: Four Thorns of heart-Instruction” by Adi Da Samraj]
If you’re serious about spiritual practice – real practice, not New Age, neo-Advaita, and pop-Zen bromides – then you’ll want to get “Hridaya Rosary,” superb instructional guide to the practice of Divine (or Holy) Communion.
Very few spiritual texts provide explicit, detailed instructions on how to merge (or melt) your entire bodily being in the Supreme Source, but this book does. Moreover, if you can grok Adi Da’s message, you’ll understand the limitations of Advaita Vedanta Self-enquiry and Self-realization. Da differentiates between transcendental Self-realization and Divine Self-realization, and if you’re a fan of the former, this book may have you reconsidering your allegiance to the exclusive-reductive Way of the Jnanis.
What separates Adi Da from all other spiritual masters since Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo is his depth and detail. If you’re interested in ultra-profound, ultra-esoteric spiritual teachings, he is must reading. And this particular text is an ideal summary of his essential Method of Divine Communion, or Divine Yoga.
My suggestion to serious spiritual practitioners is to first read Da’s “The Knee of Listening,” and “The Method the Siddhas,” and then this book.
Like many, I am critical of Da’s less-than-exemplary personal behavior, and I do not accept his outrageous claim that he is the first, last, and only 7th (or ultimate)-stage spiritual master. But in accordance with Ken Wilber, I consider Da to be essential reading for all spiritual Truth-seekers. I think so highly of this guide to God Communion, I include it in the “Highly Recommended” category of my Spiritual Reading List.
[My five-star Amazon review (August 3, 2014) of “Hridaya Rosary: Four Thorns of heart-Instruction” by Adi Da Samraj]
If you’re serious about spiritual practice – real practice, not New Age, neo-Advaita, and pop-Zen bromides – then you’ll want to get “Hridaya Rosary,” superb instructional guide to the practice of Divine (or Holy) Communion.
Very few spiritual texts provide explicit, detailed instructions on how to merge (or melt) your entire bodily being in the Supreme Source, but this book does. Moreover, if you can grok Adi Da’s message, you’ll understand the limitations of Advaita Vedanta Self-enquiry and Self-realization. Da differentiates between transcendental Self-realization and Divine Self-realization, and if you’re a fan of the former, this book may have you reconsidering your allegiance to the exclusive-reductive Way of the Jnanis.
What separates Adi Da from all other spiritual masters since Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo is his depth and detail. If you’re interested in ultra-profound, ultra-esoteric spiritual teachings, he is must reading. And this particular text is an ideal summary of his essential Method of Divine Communion, or Divine Yoga.
My suggestion to serious spiritual practitioners is to first read Da’s “The Knee of Listening,” and “The Method the Siddhas,” and then this book.
Like many, I am critical of Da’s less-than-exemplary personal behavior, and I do not accept his outrageous claim that he is the first, last, and only 7th (or ultimate)-stage spiritual master. But in accordance with Ken Wilber, I consider Da to be essential reading for all spiritual Truth-seekers. I think so highly of this guide to God Communion, I include it in the “Highly Recommended” category of my Spiritual Reading List.
