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
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