Transcendental Realism: The Art of Adi Da Samraj

Fundamental to all communication is the point of view of the person who is communicating. Speech, literature, poetry and art all communicate the point of view of the speaker, author, poet or artist.

Is art possible where the self who is the source of the art is absent? Where there is no ‘point of view’? Where, instead of an artist proclaiming ‘I know I know I know’, there is the direct presentation of reality itself?

The Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition opened this week.

Visitors to Venice can enjoy the work of over 100 artists from around the world. 76 national pavilions and 34 collateral artists are exhibiting in an event termed the Olympics of the art world.

One collateral artist stands apart. He is not a known entity in the art world. He is not communicating an egoic point of view. He is not, in fact, present at the event. He is a Western-born spiritual master offering a unique form of visual communication free of subjectivity. His exhibit is called Transcendental Realism: The Art of Adi Da Samraj.

Adi Da writes that his art communicates the “structure of perception” from beyond the confines of an ego:

The illusion of egoity is that, somehow, the world is being generated from your own position, or being shown to your position. That suggests the idea that the human being must make the measure of reality and control it—whereas reality is actually self-generated, beyond “point of view�?, beyond control, prior to “point of view�?, prior to control, prior to separateness. You could say the work I am doing is “Reality-Art�?, or (as I call it) “Transcendental Realism�?.

The question is, how can a person create art beyond the confines of an ego? This is possible only if that person has transcended the ego. Has Adi Da done this? Judge for yourself.

Transcendental Realism: The Art of Adi Da Samraj

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