Hridaya Rosary: Four Thorns of Heart Instruction

By Adi Da Samraj

Hridaya Rosary is Adi Da Samraj's beautifully precise and exquisitely poetic description of the Spiritual process in his company'the process that is spontaneously entered into when one is spiritually... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570970521
• ISBN13: 9781570970528
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Dawn Horse Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Hridaya Rosary is attractive at the deepest level.

In one essay in this book, Adi Da says, "You cannot merely read my Wisdom-Teaching and 'get it'". He is right. I found that these writings were addressing some part of me far deeper than the thinking mind or even the emotional being. Throughout the book, he describes and recommends a process of "melting down" which I found overewhelmingly attractive at the deepest level. Carrying out the instructions in the book has re-arranged my orientation to life and my place in it. I feel more real, more balanced, more sane than ever before.The essays and talks in Hridaya Rosary are sophisticated. When I tried to grapple with them mentally I just became frustrated. When I was able to relax the mind, then the words somehow enforced themselves at a primal point in me, at the heart. In these moments the wisdom of the book became intuitively clear and I felt a profound relief. At these times, it was obvious that the way things really are, Reality (with a capital R), is much different from what I ordinarily assume.I believe this is the most efficacious instruction I have ever read.

Sublime Heart-Instruction

Hridaya Rosary is, without question, the greatest poetry ever spoken.What purpose could art and poetry ever serve, but the awakening of the heart to love beyond darkness, beyond any further clenching need? Hridaya Rosary, or the Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction, pierced me in just that way. There is no preparation I could have had for the sublimity that awaited me. I couldn't spoil the surprise for you even if I tell you the ending.

Adi Da is perfectly unique in his writing.

This book amazed me. It opened my heart to feeling such love and bliss that it seemed I was standing in the Rose Garden of Love Adi Da was depicting. As I read further he revealed that I am fully capable of entering into this sensual, blissful domain of perfect love he offers, that I am already in and only have to become aware that this is so. It blew my mind that I and everyone can feel this love at all times if we follow his instructions about how to relate to him and everything.

Adi Da writes poetry of profound wisdom and intense passion.

Many books, perhaps too many, are on today's bookstore shelves trying to explain what God is. But if you want to actually feel the Divine in what you are reading, I recommend the Hridaya Rosary, the Four Thorns of Heart Instruction. There I found crystal clarity side-by-side with the language of ecstatic love. Adi Da writes poetry of deep wisdom and incredible passion. He writes in such a profound way that the Truth slid around my chattering mind and touched my heart and soul. Rarely can written words move me into a state of deeply relaxed being and heightened awareness, but the Four Thorns has this power.

This book cannot be read in a conventional way.

The Hridaya Rosary is profoud, sublime and utterly brilliant. No scripture or esoteric spiritual text can equal the magnificence or the overwhelmingly direct transmission of tangibly felt Love-Bliss this book and the essays and talks which accompany it convey. Adi Da Samraj does not spout poetry in the conventional sense. His words inherently go beyond language. I couldn't (and I don't think anyone can) read this book in a conventional way, for it took me on a deep feeling odyssey into the ultimate spiritual process. I found its mysteries are fundamentally unspeakable, but spoken with perfect eloquence and discrimination. Every cell of the body was screaming YES! to this outrageously sensual, delightful infusion of Divine-Bliss. Adi Da Samraj writes, "I Am not elsewhere, and yet I Am Infinitely Beyond... evey thing and every one Is in Me." This book convinces me that this is completely true.