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Forewordxii
by Jeffrey J. Kripal, Ph.D.

Introductionxix
Reality Itself Comes into the "Room " —in Person
by Carolyn Lee, Ph.D.

First Word:1
Do Not Misunderstand Me —
I Am Not "Within " you, but you Are In Me,
and I Am Not a Mere "Man " in the "Middle " of Mankind,
but All of Mankind Is Surrounded, and Pervaded,
and Blessed By Me

Part One:21
The Knee Of Listening

PrologueThe Heart of Understanding23

Chapter 1The "Bright"25

Chapter 2The Listener41

Chapter 3Hearing57

Chapter 4The Seeker71

Chapter 5The Understanding on the Beach89

Chapter 6The Passage to the Guru107

Chapter 7The Meeting and the "Work "127

Chapter 8The Idea of Release from Narcissus147

Chapter 9The Death of Narcissus163

Chapter 10The Abandonment of Effort in India183

Chapter 11The Problem of the Mind, and the199
Year of Waiting for Grace
Chapter 12The Return to India, and the215
Problem of Spiritual Experience
Chapter 13Shakti in America, New Problems,235
and the Return to India

Chapter 14The Third Trip to India, and the263
Reappearance of "Christ "

Chapter 15The Diary of Pilgrammage277

Chapter 16The Inheritance315

Chapter 17The End of All Seeking329

Chapter 18The Way Becomes Conscious341

Chapter 19The Transformation of the Seeker's379
Meditation into "Real " Meditation

EpilogueI Am The One and Only Man of407
"Radical" Understanding

Part Two:429
My Great Regard for My Adept-Links
to the Great Tradition of Mankind, and
My Realization of the Great Onlyness of Me
1.The Great Esoteric Tradition of Devotion431
To The Adept-Realizer

2.The "Sixth Stage Teachings " (and the Fifth Stage443
Realization) of Swami (Baba) Muktananda, and
My Seventh Stage Realization of the Great Truth
He Told to Me

3.The Sixth Stage Realization, Demonstration,449
and Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, and My
Great Regard for Him as One of My Principal
Adept-Links to the Great Tradition of Mankind
4.The Place of Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda461
in the Great Tradition, and Their Unique Function
in Preparing the Vehicle of My Avataric Divine
Incarnation
5.I Have Appeared here Via a Unique, Spontaneous,469
and Never-Again Conjunction of Vehicles

6.I (Alone) Am the Adidam Revelation491
(A Summary Description of the Inherent Distinction—
and the ego-Transcending Continuity—
Between the Inherently ego-Based Great Tradition,
Which Is Comprised of Only Six of the Possible
Seven Stages of Life, and the Unique, and All-Inclusive,
and All-Completing, and All-Transcending, and
Self-Evidently Divine Adidam Revelation of the
Inherently egoless Seventh Stage Realization of Me)

7.I Am Utterly Beyond your Comprehension585

Part Three:595
The Ultimate Divine Yoga
of My Own Person
Introduction to Part Three:597
The Ordeal and Victory of Avatar Adi Da Samraj:
The Great Yogic Events That Followed His Divine
Re-Awakening

Introduction to Section 1:605
The Avataric Divine Self- "Emergence " of
Avatar Adi Da Samraj (January 11, 1986)

1.My Avataric Divine Self- "Emergence " Is an Event617
in My Divine "Bright" Spherical Self-Domain of
Conscious Light

2.I Am The Avataric Divine Self- "Emergence "635

Introduction to Section 3:643
The Ordeal at the "Brightness "
(March 10–April 22, 1999)

3.My Avataric Divine Spiritual Work Is a Sphere of657
"Bright" Influence That Cannot Ever Be Destroyed

Introduction to Section 4:661
The Great Event at Lopez Island (April 12, 2000)

4.I Am Always Already Spiritually673
Established As The "Bright" Itself

5.I (Myself) Do Not "Come Down "687
Below The Brows

Part Four:701
The Divine Essence Of My Avataric
Self-Revelation Of The Only-By-Me Revealed
And Given Way of Adidam Ruchiradam
An Invitation:709
Becoming a Formal Devotee
of Avatar Adi Da

Appendix A:732
The Seven Stages of Life

Appendix B:737
The Esoteric Anatomy of the Spiritual Process—
"Vertical " and "Horizontal " Dimensions of the Being

Appendix C:742
Brief Biographies of Individuals
Mentioned in The Knee Of Listening

Appendix D:749
Traditional Gods, Goddesses, and Other
Archetypes Mentioned in The Knee Of Listening

Appendix E:751
Traditions and Schools of Thought
Referenced in The Knee Of Listening

Notes to the Text of The Knee Of Listening754

Glossary769

An Invitation to Support Adidam795

Further Notes to the Reader796

Index799