ARE YOU THE SCREEN,
… OR THE IMAGES ON THE SCREEN ?

“All of life experiences, are images on the screen of Eternity.

The screen is Real.
The images change.

‘Consciousness’ is the screen.

When you identify with Consciousness, you become Consciousness.

When you identify with the image, you enhance the image, and you worry, and fret, and fear, and you have all sorts of experiences.

As soon as you begin to identify with Reality – with Consciousness;
all fear leaves you – all doubt leaves you, all false thinking leaves you, and you become Free.

But that’s the only Free Choice you get. Everything else has been preordained.

The Free Choice – again is:
with what are you going to identify; with the image, or the screen?”

~Robert Adams ~

THE SELF & CONSCIOUSNESS

What is the Self?

The Self is your real nature, that’s what you are. The Self is consciousness.

What is consciousness?

Consciousness is the power that is conscious of itself. It is self-contained, it is omnipresent. When you speak of love, of peace, of God, of joy, of happiness, of bliss, you’re speaking of consciousness. These words are just other words for consciousness. Consciousness is you. The Self, consciousness, they’re all synonymous. They all pertain to you.

Now what have you been seeing? What have you been reacting to?

The mind goes out and causes problems and you try to resolve them. You cannot.

For when you resolve one problem another one pops up somewhere else and there’s no end to it. It’s like trying to figure out, what came first the seed or the tree? You never get anywhere, there’s no solution. People have been trying to resolve problems, since the beginning of time and the world is getting worse. There’s no adequate solution in trying to resolve anything in the outside. The great secret of course is to;

Leave the world alone, go within your Self and there you will find happiness, joy and peace.

But how do you go within yourself? How do you dive deep within yourself?

By asking the question, “Who am I?”

I have found this to be the fastest method there is, to awakening. There are other methods, but personally I found this the fastest. All you have to do is question, “Who am I?” You do not have to answer, you do not have to analyze anything, you do not have to come up with any solution. You simply ask the question,

“From whence did I come? Where did the I come from? What is the source of I?”

Many people have been practicing Jnana Marga have made the mistake of concentrating on the I and this is why you do not get anywhere. You concentrate on the source, not on the I. The I is only an illusion. It is only something that appears to be like your body. It has no momentum, it has no substance. But yet you have to watch the I. You have to abide in the I. For it leads you to the source of existence. The source of everything.

ROBERT ADAMS
Transcript 29, p. 416
More On Satsang
9th December, 1990
Robert Adams Satsangs
The Collected Works

When your mind starts thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking about good and bad, yousimply ask the question,
“To whom do these thoughts come?”
You do not answer you simply pose the question to yourself.
Everything happens within yourself.

“To whom do these thoughts come?”
The answer will eventually come to you. “These thoughts come to me. I think them. I think them? I do?
Who is this I.
Well what is the source of the I?”
You hold on to the I, but you do not concentrate on the I, you concentrate on the source.

“Well what is the source of the I.” For it seems that all of my problems are attached to I.
For I say, “I feel bad. I feel upset. I feel angry. I feel cheated. I feel emotional,” or even “I feel good. I feel
happy,” that’s human happiness.
You feel happy because somebody gave you something you like or somebody did something for you.
That’s just as bad as feeling depressed.
I feel this and I feel that, I feel that I am a Jnani, I feel that I am not a Jnani, I feel all kinds of things.
But there’s always I, I, I.

If you investigate you will find that everything is attached to the I. And if you get rid of the I, all of your problems, the whole world, the whole universe, God and everything related to it, will disappear.
And the source will be your true Self which is pure consciousness, ultimate oneness, nirvana, emptiness.
This is your true Self.
And you will look at the world as your Self.

You will still see the world but you will see it differently. Nothing will ever upset
you again. For you will realize that the world is your Self.
How can you be upset at your Self?
You have become an embodiment of divine love, bliss, pure intelligence, ultimate
awareness, sat-chit-ananda, parabrahman, that is omnipresence.
So how can you be angry or upset over anything if you are pure consciousness, you just cannot.
Do you see what I’m saying?

If you learn to identify yourself with consciousness, you will always be happy. If you keep identifying with world conditions or with your body or your mind, you will be miserable and you’ll have short spurts of happiness, when things go your way. But then you will not trust people.
You will be suspicious of everybody’s motives and you will feel that there’s something wrong.

If you want to know whether you’re a Jnani or not, ask yourself,
“When was the last time I saw something wrong?
When was the last time something wasn’t right when I had a bad thought when I believed somebody was doing some-
thing to me, or when I became angry,” and that will give you a good inclination where
you’re coming from.
What you see in yourself, you see in everyone else. If you’re self-realized, then you know your Self as omnipresence and you can only see love, peace, harmony and happiness in everybody.
The choice is yours.

The only freedom you’ve got on this planet, in this universe, is to make the choice to go within and not to react to any condition.
Everything else about you is preordained. Everything else about you is prarabdhic
karma. Even when I lift my hand like this, it’s karmic. But what have I got to do with my hand? I am not my hand, I am not my body, I am not my mind, I-am that I-am. Absolute awareness, pure intelligence, absolute reality, parabrahman, nirvana.
I am spaceless, I am birthless, I am deathless. Water cannot drown me and fire cannot burn me. That is my true nature.

Find your true nature my friends and you’ll always be happy. Om shanti.

~ Robert Adams Satsangs

Transcript 27

Eternal Happiness
25′ November, 1990

“The person is not God, the body is not God, but you are God. The reason you will not accept the fact that you are God is because of your orthodox upbringing. You still believe God to be an anthropomorphic deity up in the sky, and if I tell you you’re God, you think it’s blasphemy. That only shows me that you are identifying with your body. You believe you are a body, and there is a God somewhere up in the sky that you’ve got to pray to, and if he is in a good mood, he’ll give you a boon. If he’s not feeling too good that day, he will throw a lightning bolt at you. People still believe that.
The question is, what do you believe? It’s your life. What you believe, what you accept, becomes your lifestyle. You create it, you cause it. Why not experiment? Why not begin to believe that you are God?
What is God? God is consciousness.
What is consciousness? Something that is conscious of itself as pure awareness. And all of that is not some place outside of yourself. It is you. You are that. The whole universe is yourself. The whole universe is happiness, joy, love, peace. But you will never see that in the world until you see it within yourself. You must consequently practice seeing yourself as a loving person, as a kind person, as a joyous person. And then you will drop the person, and you will see yourself as omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence.
You are the power. There is no other power but you. Many of you, most of your lives, have been dwelling on occult powers, trying to find the golden fleece, so-to-speak, outside of yourself. It has never been outside of yourself.
Everything you’re looking for is within you. Stop searching outside of yourself.
Everything you want is within you. The potential, the possibility for everything you can imagine is within you. The omnipresent Self is your real nature.”
~ Robert Adams

Every negative condition you see in the world is a lie. Every positive condition you see in the world is a lie. Reality is beyond positive and negative. Why do you see these things? Why do you worry and fret about your life or about the life of someone else?

What can possibly happen to you? Where can you go? Who suffers? Only the body-ego-mind suffers. To the extent that you can realize that you are not the body-ego-mind, to that extent do you become totally, absolutely free.

Robert Adams
20th century
American Advaita mystic