The good thing about all this, is that anybody can become liberated, at any moment. But this is because you are already liberated. If you were not liberated, you would never be able to become liberated. But because you’re already liberated, all you’re really doing is taking off the stuff that makes you think you’re not liberated, dark clouds, the layers, and layers of nonsense, garbage, that you covered yourself with all of these years. The thought “I am important, I am somebody”. This is what keeps you in bondage. ~Robert Adams

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“Advaita means non-duality and there is only one power, and there is no power, in effect. There is only one. That one is you. It is not your body or your mind or your affairs or the world or the universe. It is one reality, one consciousness, one truth. That one is divine grace. The ultimate reality. The bliss consciousness, the love. It is all in oneness and you are that.

If you can only accept this you would be the happiest person in this universe. For you will realize that you have no responsibilities to mold your life in any direction, to shape your life or do anything with your life. For you have no life.Only the ultimate truth has a life, has its own life. It has nothing to do with you whatsoever.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“You are Brahman, nothing but Brahman. Brahman is consciousness, pure awareness. Consequently does Brahman have to become something or think about something or do something or worry about something? Your life is Brahman’s life.

And when you let go and stop worrying about something, stop thinking about something, then Brahman starts to express itself, as harmony, as bliss, as peace and you will find yourself in your right place going through those experiences and those situations that you have to go through, and all is well. You have absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s none of your business what happens to you.

If you can only do this and try it and practice it, you will see what I am talking about is real and true. Give it a chance, practice it for one day only and watch what happens. Instead of watching television, reading a newspaper, being concerned about the world and man’s inhumanity to man, for one day practice self-inquiry or just being still and watch what happens to you.

Watch the direction that you take. You will be moved by the unmovable. You will be carried along by the stream of blessedness to your highest good, by the current that knows the way. What I’m trying to say is that everything will take care of itself. Everything will always take care of itself. And Brahman is the Self!”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

GROUNDHOG DAY – FOR WHOM IS THIS GAME ?
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Does anyone else get the feeling that everyday is groundhog day (if you saw the movie). Nothing really changes. The same repetition over and over again and again. Actually Robert Adams wrote about this he wrote:

“The joke is you keep coming back again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, having all sorts of experiences, until one century from now, or one billion years from now, you get tired of playing the game. And you say, “Wait a minute. I seem to be going around in a circle. Does it ever end?” And then you finally ask the question, “For whom is the game? Who believes in their humanity? Who believes in their experiences? Who is it that seems to suffer or who is it that seems to be happy?”

Remember human happiness and human suffering are two sides of the same coin. There is no difference. You get tired of the whole thing. So you pose the question to yourself, “For whom is this karma? For whom is this world? For whom is this game? Who has to go through these things?” But instead of doing this most people go to psychiatrists, to psychologists, to preachers, to ministers and so forth.

They never get the right answer, because those aforementioned people tell you how to deal with effects. You go to a doctor and you say, “My arm hurts when I hold it like this.” So he says, “Don’t hold it like that.” And that’s what we all do. We’re looking for answers from external means, and you can never get an answer to your problems or to anything from the world, because the world changes continuously.

One time the answer may be this way and another time the answer may be that way, depending on circumstances, depending on the time. As an example, fifty years ago if you had a cold and you went to a doctor they would draw blood. They would give you all kinds of antibiotics and they would give you everything that was in style in those days. Today if you have a cold they do something else. Everything changes and people who are going to do what’s in vogue at the time, but the real answer is within yourself.

The solution is within you. Yet you go about it in the wrong way when you’re looking to solve a problem with another problem, which is your mind. You cannot use your mind to solve a problem, because your mind is the cause of the problem to begin with. And you cannot ask anybody else for the solution, because they are using their mind to give you the solution what they think is right. The answer of course is to know your Self.”

Robert Adams

HOW CAN YOU THINK CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT YOU EVERY MOMENT ?
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“It’s … funny to me that so many of us are looking for enlightenment, looking for realization, looking for liberation, looking for peace, when we’re already immersed in that. Consciousness is our very nature. We are that. And the interesting thing is, you cannot put down consciousness in any way. There’s nothing you can do to it.

You cannot taint it. You cannot dishevel it. You cannot burn it. You cannot kill it. It is all-pervading. If it is all-pervading, and you are that, how can you think there’s something that’s keeping you back from realization? How can you believe there’s something somewhere else that’s got hold of you, that’s keeping you back from seeing yourself, knowing yourself and being yourself?”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

THAT NASTY LITTLE MIND AGAIN !
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With total attention there is only what is, suchness or the Self without concepts ~ all the same. The mind (thoughts) pulls attention away from ‘what is’ in a million ways.

Robert Adams