[2] The book went through numerous editions throughout the life of its author, the latest being published in 2004 with the full title, The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of The Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light.

The 2004 republication featured a foreword, by South Asian religion scholar Jeffrey J. Kripal,[2] describing Adi Da's total corpus as being "the most doctrinally thorough, the most philosophically sophisticated, the most culturally challenging, and the most creatively original literature currently available in the English language".

[5][14] Indologist Georg Feuerstein wrote that "the original published version has the ring of authenticity and can be appreciated as a remarkable mystical document", but found that "[l]ater [editions], regrettably, tend toward mythologization".

Elizabeth Targ, M.D., Director of the Complimentary Medicine Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, wrote: "Adi Da and his unique body of teaching work offer a rare and extraordinary opportunity for those courageous students who are ready to move beyond ego and take the plunge into deepest communion with the Absolute.

Author and host of the national public television series, Thinking Allowed, Jeffrey Mishlove wrote: "I regard the work of Adi Da and his devotees as one of the most penetrating spiritual and social experiments happening on the planet in our era".