ROBERT ADAMS
Excerpt from: Satsang
‘Wake Up’
No-Thing शून्यता
Do not put yourself down but be honest with yourself. You can tell by the way you react to life. Where your interest is. If you’re still fiddling in the world and the world is important to you then you know you’re keeping yourself back from experiencing the five steps. You look at your life, you see what interests you. The things in this world that are meaningful to you.
The things that seem to make you happy. The things that make you worry, make you miserable. Those are all handicaps. Whenever you give your mind to a problem, to anything in this world you are keeping yourself back from going forward. That’s why it is written, “Where your mind is that is where your heart is.”
We have learnt, those of us who are here that the world is not what it appears to be. There is no so-called permanent happiness in this world. You may achieve forms of happiness, they do not last. You learn as soon as your mind begins to think, you immediately grab hold of it and change it’s course.
You slow down your mind by any method you can. You see your mind as your enemy. Your mind is not your friend. You do not train your mind, you untrain your mind. You untrain your mind by just observing your own thoughts, by watching yourself think, by not reacting to your thoughts, not reacting to what happens in your world.
As you do this you begin to dissolve. You find peace. You find peace. You become free. You become love. You no longer talk too much. You no longer try to evaluate the world or your position. You no longer find fault anywhere. You become your own experience. You have expanded. You used to be concerned with yourself as a body, with your health, concerned with your affairs.
But now even though you are involved in the world, you are not of the world. The world has no pull on you. The world cannot show you anything. It cannot do anything to you. The world is the same as your body. You are not the body, you are not the world, you are not your mind. You are something completely different. That something different is ineffable.
An example of this is simply when you look out the window. Most of you observe the trees, the hills. When the Jnani looks out the window he sees the space which is the substance of the trees. When the average person looks at the world they see forms, they see things. The Jnani always sees the space. The world itself is resting in space.
That space is what is called consciousness. The forms come and go but the space remains. When you think of your body, think of it as space. The form keeps changing from a baby to a young lady or a young man, to a middle aged lady or a middle aged man, to an old man, to an old lady and soon it’s gone but it’s space remains. The space never changes. A new body come to play, the old body is gone. The new body takes birth in the space.
The so-called secret is to identify with the space. Your real nature has always been space. When you identify with space rather than with the body you have put an end to yourself as a body, as an ego, as a personal self. Space is all- pervading omnipresent. Awaken to yourself. Wake up
