Table of Contents - The Knee Of Listening

C O N T E N T S

Foreword by Jeffrey J. Kripal, Ph.D.			xii
Introduction Reality Itself Comes into the "Room" —in Person by Carolyn Lee, Ph.D.			xix
First Word: 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			1
Part One: The Knee Of Listening			21
	Prologue	The Heart of Understanding	23
	Chapter 1	The "Bright"	25
	Chapter 2	The Listener	41
	Chapter 3	Hearing	57
	Chapter 4	The Seeker	71
	Chapter 5	The Understanding on the Beach	89
	Chapter 6	The Passage to the Guru	107
	Chapter 7	The Meeting and the "Work"	127
	Chapter 8	The Idea of Release from Narcissus	147
	Chapter 9	The Death of Narcissus	163
	Chapter 10	The Abandonment of Effort in India	183
	Chapter 11	The Problem of the Mind, and the Year of Waiting for Grace	199
	Chapter 12	The Return to India, and the Problem of Spiritual Experience	215
	Chapter 13	Shakti in America, New Problems, and the Return to India	235
	Chapter 14	The Third Trip to India, and the Reappearance of "Christ"	263
	Chapter 15	The Diary of Pilgrimage	277
	Chapter 16	The Inheritance	315
	Chapter 17	The End of All Seeking	326
	Chapter 18	The Way Becomes Conscious	341
	Chapter 19	Transformation of the Seeker's Meditation into "Real" Meditation	379
	Epilogue	I Am The One and Only Man of "Radical" Understanding	407

Part Two: My Great Regard for My Adept-Links to the Great Tradition of Mankind, and My Realization of the Great Onlyness of Me			429
	1.	The Great Esoteric Tradition of Devotion To The Adept-Realizer	441
	2.	The "Sixth Stage Teachings" (and the Fifth Stage Realization) of Swami (Baba) Muktananda, and My Seventh Stage Realization of the Great Truth He Told to Me	443
	3.	The Sixth Stage Realization, Demonstration, and Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, and My Great Regard for Him as One of My Principal Adept-Links to the Great Tradition of Mankind	449
	4.	The Place of Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda in the Great Tradition, and Their Unique Function in Preparing the Vehicle of My Avataric Divine Incarnation	461
	5.	The Place of Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda in the Great Tradition, and Their Unique Function in Preparing the Vehicle of My Avataric Divine Incarnation	461
	6.	I (Alone) Am the Adidam Revelation (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)	491
	7.	I Am Utterly Beyond your Comprehension	585
Part Three: The Ultimate Divine Yoga of My Own Person			595
		Introduction to Part Three: The Ordeal and Victory of Avatar Adi Da Samraj: The Great Yogic Events That Followed His Divine Re-Awakening	597
		Introduction to Section 1: The Avataric Divine Self- "Emergence" of Avatar Adi Da Samraj (January 11, 1986)	605
	1.	My Avataric Divine Self- "Emergence" Is an Event in My Divine "Bright" Spherical Self-Domain of Conscious Light	617
	2.	I Am The Avataric Divine Self- "Emergence"	635
		Introduction to Section 3: The Ordeal at the "Brightness" (March 10-April 22, 1999)	643
	3.	My Avataric Divine Spiritual Work Is a Sphere of "Bright" Influence That Cannot Ever Be Destroyed	657
		Introduction to Section 4: The Great Event at Lopez Island (April 12, 2000)	661
	4.	I Am Always Already Spiritually Established As The "Bright" Itself	673
	5.	I (Myself) Do Not "Come Down" Below The Brows	687

Part Four: The Divine Essence Of My Avataric Self-Revelation Of The Only-By-Me Revealed And Given Way of Adidam Ruchiradam		701
	An Invitation: Becoming a Formal Devotee of Avatar Adi Da	709
	Appendix A: The Seven Stages of Life	732
	Appendix B: The Esoteric Anatomy of the Spiritual Process— "Vertical" and "Horizontal" Dimensions of the Being	732
	Appendix C: Brief Biographies of Individuals Mentioned in The Knee Of Listening	742
	Appendix D: Traditional Gods, Goddesses, and Other Archetypes Mentioned in The Knee Of Listening	749
	Appendix E: Traditions and Schools of Thought Referenced in The Knee Of Listening	751
	Notes to the Text of The Knee Of Listening	754
	Glossary	769
	An Invitation to Support Adidam	795
	Further Notes to the Reader	796
	Index	799

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