“It is your self, with a small ‘s’ that sees a problem. But if you try to resolve the problem outside of you, it will never be resolved. It’s resolving yourself, knowing the truth, understanding who you are, that brings you peace and realization.

What you see, what you think, what you smell, what you taste, what you hear, this is all false imagination! It appears real. It appears very real, as the world appears real, as your body appears real. But if you investigate you will find there’s no reality to it.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

I welcome you with all my heart. I love every one of you. Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination, that’s all. But we live in a universe of Brahman, of absolute reality, self-contained consciousness, where there is perfection, perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being.

This perfection knows nothing about wrong and right, good and bad, happy and sad, it only knows itself as perfection and you are that. You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only the one Self and you are that. Rejoice!

Robert Adams

“You think the world is personal to you, but the world is going through its own karma, so-to-speak. And people react when new changes come along. How foolish. In other words, they’re not working on themselves, trying to become free and liberated. They’re concerned with the world and what’s happening and trying to change things.

It will appear that things are changing but they will never change, it will always be the same. It will keep changing so that it becomes the same again and again and again—different situations, different people, different conditions— but the same world doing the same things. …

When it’s time to give up this body, to drop it, you can’t take anybody with you—nobody, no possessions, nothing. All the things you’ve been fighting for will have to be left behind. All your beliefs, your politics, everything will all have to be left behind. … Do not spend your life discussing politics or the world or people or places. Save yourself! Save yourself!”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Think how many civilizations we’ve had on this planet. Many civilizations and they’ve also passed us where we are today. But where are they now? They’re gone. Dissolved into the nothingness from whence they came. So it is folly to try to improve yourself, or to try to achieve anything. It is folly to try to change something or to become something. Just be. You may ask, ‘How do I just be?’

By asking, you’re not being. To just be is to just be. Not to be this or to be that, or to try to discover how to just be. Just be, without trying to understand what that means, without analyzing, without pondering. Just be. Just be. Just be. Just be.

Robert Adams

Remember all the human goodness is also an illusion. So if you have a good life, it is only temporary. If you do not find yourself you will have to come back to this earth again and again and again and have other experiences. You may come back again when the earth is in the dark ages once more and they’re having the Spanish inquisition and you’re hanging by your thumbs while your eyes are being gorged out. And then you may come back in a different life when you are a multimillionaire and you live in a castle and you’re in control of thousands of people.

They are two sides of the same coin. Therefore wake up. Do not try to exchange bad for good. Do not believe that if I become a multimillionaire I’ll be happy or if I get rid of my disease I’ll be happier or if I live in a better home I’ll be happier or if I have a new mate I’ll be happier or if I have no mate I’ll be happier, or if I have this I’ll be happier. It’s all illusion.

Robert Adams

T74: That Divine Moment Is Now!

When you get on a real spiritual path, everything comes up, at a fast rate of speed.

Things may seem very bad, terrible, to some people.
It doesn’t happen to everybody.

It is because you are accelerating your karma. It’s all coming out of you. It’s all being totally dissolved.

And then if you hold on, become still and quiet and do not react to these things, all of a sudden you will start feeling a profound peace, a profound happiness, a profound joy. You will finally feel freedom.

Robert Adams

“If you’re dying of a disease this is no problem. Why is this a problem? It doesn’t mean anything. For when you die what happens to you? Nothing. But yet you don’t understand this, some of you. You feel death to be a threat. You feel death to be something horrible. Some horrendous enemy that sneaks up on you, like a vampire and grabs you and pulls you in some dark hole. Of course most of us here know this is not death at all.

Death is simply a change from where you are now, that’s all. There is nothing bad about it, there is nothing good about it. Just like your life right now. It isn’t good, it isn’t bad. But it is your thinking that makes it good or bad”

Robert Adams

You were not born to have bad experiences in your life. You were not born to have negative conditions in your life, so-to-speak. You were born to be happy. Yet you allow the conditionings of the world to affect you. You allow your bodily condition to affect you. What the newspapers tell you, what the TV tells you, you respond to these things.

This is the only reason that you’re not enlightened, so-to-speak. For you have allowed exterior conditions, external conditions to make up your mind how things are. Things are things and that’s it. They’re not good, they’re not bad.

Robert Adams

Why not make up your mind to drop the past totally and completely, to forget about the future and live in the eternal now, in the eternal moment, fresh, with spontaneity, peace and love? Why not make up your mind to do this? When you make up your mind to do this something happens to you. Your mind begins to fade away.

The past impressions that have been with you for so long begin to fade away. All of your fears, emotions, anger, sorrows begin to fade away into the nothingness from whence they came. You have only to be aware. To be aware of what? That you are a God. As you think of yourself as a God that notion begins to expand within you.

So you begin to laugh at yourself because you’re able to see and perceive that all of the Gods that ever existed are you, your Self. They are not within you, they are you, you are those Gods. You are Krishna, you are Vishnu, you are Shiva, you are the Christ, you are everybody that has ever lived. It is you. … You are the one that has given life and substance to every condition in this universe.

Robert Adams