“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

WORLD CANNOT PROVE ANYTHING TO YOU
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“The secret is to investigate yourself within yourself. The external world can never prove anything to you. The external world is a world of effects, a world of illusion, a dream, maya, leela, a play. Do not stake your claim in the world. And let’s say that you even have good karma so-to-speak, like they say, and things are relatively fine in your life. You think you’ve got what you want.

You’ve got a great job, you’re making a lot of money, you’re living with someone you love, you’ve got a great house, you live in a place where the temperature is always 78 degrees, and you’re relatively happy. But, according to the so-called laws of the universe, that has to change, simply because the universe is in a state of flux. Everything must change.

If you have not found yourself in this life, and you simply die like the average person, you are going to have continue and experience the opposite of what you have been experiencing. This is the reason you should not just become apathetic to spiritual life because things are going your way, and say like some people say, ‘Oh, spiritual life is just for people who have problems.’ Be careful.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

QUICKEST WAY TO PERMANENT HAPPINESS
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“You’re always doing something but why are you doing these things? Why does a thief become a thief? Why does a person rob a bank? … The answer of course is everyone is looking for happiness. Everyone wants happiness and this is their way of showing they want happiness. A thief believes if he steals something from you this will make him happy because he’ll have something he never had before. Everything you do in life is to achieve happiness. Ponder this. In retrospect go over your life and see if I’m not saying the truth.

Whatever you’re doing in life you’re doing it because you want some happiness. Even though you think you’re helping somebody else or you’re helping somebody, deep down inside of yourself you really want to be happy. So whatever you’re doing you’re doing it for your own happiness. But what if I told you that real happiness is within yourself? Unalloyed happiness is within you. Pure happiness, eternal happiness, forever happiness, is within you. It is your true nature, it is your real nature. If you can just touch this happiness you will never depend on the world again for anything.

For this happiness I’m referring to is sat-chit-nanda [existence-consciousness-bliss], the absolute reality, the pure awareness. This happiness is so beautiful, so blissful that you will never react to person place or thing again for any reason whatsoever. For you will be fulfilled. Filled with joy, harmony, love. When a person discovers this, this person is very fortunate. To discover they have within themselves the storehouse of happiness. To discover there is eternal happiness within. Even if you discover it intellectually at first by reading about it, listening to me talk about it. For when you know [this], you have a mission—a search—to unfold this happiness within you and become free.

Now how do you do this? The truth about this is you just discover that you are happiness. You may hear my words or read a book or read it somewhere else and you’ll awaken to it. You’ll awaken to it by making the mind still and quiet. By not having any conflict with your mental thoughts. You then discover a great peace, a fountain of joy inside of you that you never really knew existed before. This is the beginning of wisdom. When you begin to feel and think [that] person, place and thing in this world can never bring me true happiness.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

HAPPINESS = EXISTENCE-CONSCIOUSNESS-BLISS
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“You’re always doing something but why are you doing these things? Why does a thief become a thief? Why does a person rob a bank? … The answer of course is everyone is looking for happiness. Everyone wants happiness and this is their way of showing they want happiness. A thief believes if he steals something from you this will make him happy because he’ll have something he never had before. Everything you do in life is to achieve happiness. Ponder this. In retrospect go over your life and see if I’m not saying the truth.

Whatever you’re doing in life you’re doing it because you want some happiness. Even though you think you’re helping somebody else or you’re helping somebody, deep down inside of yourself you really want to be happy. So whatever you’re doing you’re doing it for your own happiness. But what if I told you that real happiness is within yourself? Unalloyed happiness is within you. Pure happiness, eternal happiness, forever happiness, is within you. It is your true nature, it is your real nature. If you can just touch this happiness you will never depend on the world again for anything.

For this happiness I’m referring to is sat-chit-nanda [existence-consciousness-bliss], the absolute reality, the pure awareness. This happiness is so beautiful, so blissful that you will never react to person place or thing again for any reason whatsoever. For you will be fulfilled. Filled with joy, harmony, love. When a person discovers this, this person is very fortunate. To discover they have within themselves the storehouse of happiness. To discover there is eternal happiness within. Even if you discover it intellectually at first by reading about it, listening to me talk about it. For when you know [this], you have a mission—a search—to unfold this happiness within you and become free.

Now how do you do this? The truth about this is you just discover that you are happiness. You may hear my words or read a book or read it somewhere else and you’ll awaken to it. You’ll awaken to it by making the mind still and quiet. By not having any conflict with your mental thoughts. You then discover a great peace, a fountain of joy inside of you that you never really knew existed before. This is the beginning of wisdom. When you begin to feel and think [that] person, place and thing in this world can never bring me true happiness.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

GIVE UP ! THEN THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT – WONDERFULLY !
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“You believe you’re a human being. You believe you have to solve problems, take action of some kind [because] unless you do it nobody else will do it. But I tell you nobody has to do anything. What has to be done will be done without you. You’re not needed. Nobody wants you. Nobody needs you. Give up. This is a very important to understand. It is only when you feel this way, when you give up, that the truth comes out.

As long as you feel you’re somebody—you’re filled with good thoughts, bad thoughts, preconceived ideas, dogmas—you can never surrender, you can never give up. But … you begin to see [that] things that are happening in your life do not really matter because things will always work themselves out, for you live in a universe that loves you.

You live in a universe of pure joy. You can only see this when you stop identifying with things. When you no longer take concern over what you should eat, what you should wear, where you should go, then something strange happens. The power that knows the way. That grows the mangoes on the mango trees, the papayas, apples, pears, grows wheat. The power that gives you sunshine. Enough sunshine to maintain and sustain this whole universe in order to be life here.

When you surrender to this power, it will take care of you. This is something you all have to understand. There is a power that loves us. You may call this God, divine intelligence, makes no difference what you call it but it’s a power that loves you and will take care of you and will enlighten you and delight you.

Your job is to surrender to it totally, absolutely. To let go of your personal ambitions, to let go of trying to become something, to let go of all the earthly things so-to-speak. It is only then will this power that knows the way will come to your aid and lift you up in the stream of blessedness that you won’t know what hit you. You’ll be blissed out.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

WORLD ISN’T TURNING YOUR WAY ?
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“I know there are some of you who believe, ‘Well I must have committed some great sins in the past, perhaps in previous lives, because I’m sure suffering now.’ Are you really suffering? Is there such a thing? Think about that. The only reason you think you are suffering is because the world is not turning the way that you want it to. Isn’t that true?

You think you should be this instead of that, you should live here instead of there, you should have this instead of that, and that’s what causes you to suffer. But when you become one-pointed, and focus your attention on your Self—with a capital S—it is virtually impossible to suffer because suffering doesn’t exist.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)