The Adidam Emporium continues its tradition of making available a selection of sacred music recordings listed on Avatar Adi Da Samraj’s The Basket Of Tolerance, which includes music from many traditions of the world and music composed and performed by devotees of Avatar Adi Da Samraj that communicates and expresses the Way of Adidam. As with the books and videotapes from the Great Tradition, our intention in offering this selection of compact discs and audiotapes from The Basket Of Tolerance is to serve your understanding, your tolerance, and your appreciation of the great opportunity of the Way of Adidam.
The selections listed below are a small but representative sample of the many recordings Avatar Adi Da has placed on The Basket Of Tolerance. All of these selections have been chosen by Avatar Adi Da because, in one way or another, they draw feeling and attention directly to the spiritual, or otherwise, sacred dimension of life. Some sacred music, like in the tradition of Gregorian chant, communicates the sacred in more contemplative modes. Other sacred music, like in the tradition of African-American gospel, communicates the sacred in more ecstatic, or "God-intoxicated" modes.
The sacred traditions of the world use the arts and music to help create sacred spaces (physical places like temples) and sacred occasions (in which participants are drawn beyond themselves into contemplation and ecstasy). Musicians in these traditions understand the psychic and spiritual significance of sound itself, and they make music to heal and to create moods of contemplation or intoxication.
Avatar Adi Da has encouraged His devotees to study the sacred musical traditions of all the cultures of the world, to link up with world traditions which continue to function with a sacred orientation to their arts, and to themselves create sacred music and sacred occasions of contemplation and ecstasy. By listening to and studying these sacred music recordings, you can consider the Wisdom of Avatar Adi Da Samraj about the need for sacred space, and how sacred music evokes the moods of cooperation, tolerance, and peace.
We also include a selection of other recordings in the genres of jazz, opera, contemporary classical, and spoken word, each of which has been a part of sacred and celebratory occasions in the Way of Adidam.