Study Groups and Courses

We offer a variety of opportunities to learn more about Avatar Adi Da Samraj and the Way of Adidam throughout the Bay Area.

You are warmly invited to participate in the following on-going educational programs.

ADIDAM STUDY GROUPS

Each monthly meeting focuses on a different aspect of Avatar Adi Da Samraj’s Revelation Teaching. These evenings include inspirational videos of Avatar Adi Da, presentations and discussions, guided meditation and video Darshan of Avatar Adi Da.
You can come as often as you like.
Cost: $10

Adidam Study Groups are offered in the following areas:

Santa Rosa
Petaluma
Sacramento
Santa Cruz

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ADIDAM COURSES

The Da Avatar Course
An introduction to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj.

Course Description
This four-session course is recommended as an introduction to Adi Da from his birth to the present. It includes his early life, the work with his teachers, his Re-Awakening to the "Bright", the years of teaching devotees, his writings and creative work, and the great yogic events that have marked his life. Students will also come to understand the uniqueness of Adi Da within the context of the Great Tradition of human wisdom and spirituality.

Required Course Text
The Avatar of What Is: The Divine Life and Work of Adi Da,
by Carolyn Lee, Ph.D.

Course Details
Location: San Francisco Zen Center, The Sun Room
308 Page St., San Francisco, CA

Time: 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Dates: Thursdays, November 1st, 8th, 15th, 29th
Tuition: $95
Registration: (415) 703-0330 or reply by email

The Ancient Walk-About Way
We invite you to participate in our NEW ongoing weekly educational program. Discover, recognize and respond to the unique spiritual relationship offered to all beings by Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Learn true spiritual life at the Feet of the living Realizer: Adi Da Samraj's recent Instruction about the core esoteric Process of Real Spirituality and its Perfect Fulfillment through devotion to the living God-Man.

Devotion to the Realizer is the ancient Way of true Spiritual life. Devotion to the Realizer is the "pre-civilization Way", which existed before any recorded history, during a time when human beings were, essentially, merely wandering all over the Earth. Devotion to the Realizer has always been the fundamental Means of human Spirituality.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj

The intent of the program is to allow you an opportunity to learn and study the most recent bright spiritual Instruction communicated by the Avataric Great Sage Adi Da Samraj, including "The Ancient Walk-About Way", "Radical Devotion", "The Perfect Tradition", "The Way Of Perfect Knowledge", "The Ancient Reality Teachings", "The Liberator", "Religion and Reality". Courses will be hosted by long-time devotees and will present video footage of Sacred sighting of Adi Da in Darshan and while Speaking.

Dates: Thursday evenings, starting February 15th, 2007
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: Adidam Center & Bookstore, 68 Paul Drive, San Rafael, CA
Cost: $54 per month -- First class is free!
Registration: (415) 703-0330 or reply by email

The Only Truth That Sets the Heart Free
A comprehensive study of the heart of the Adidam Revelation, and a consideration of the practices of a devotee. This intensive is a prerequisite for formal practice as a devotee of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Duration: 1 night each week for 12 weeks
Homework: 1 hour each weekday
Cost: $495 - includes study guide materials;
books are additional if you do not already own them
Registration: (415) 703-0330