As you rest in the silence when you inquire, “Who am I?” one day something will happen. One day you will all of a sudden feel a sort of explosion within yourself. You will feel your body melting. You will feel yourself becoming nothing. And the Self […] which is the heart centre will become everything, you will be free, you will be liberated.
— Robert Adams, T121: You Have To Desire Freedom
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“It’s virtually impossible for you to be hurt. What you see cannot hurt you. For what you see is an illusion. What you feel cannot hurt you for the feelings are illusory. So what can hurt you? Nothing. When did you first believe that you’re hurtable? That some-thing can hurt you, make you upset? Where do these feelings come from? They’re not the truth. They’re not the ultimate reality. But yet they appear so strong in most people.
When these things happen to you and you feel upset, when you feel something is wrong think about the snake in the rope. When a rope looks like a snake and you become frightened but you see that it’s a rope not a snake at all. Or the water in the mirage. When you see water in a desert and try to grab it, it’s sand. It never was water. So it is with everything that happens in your life, everything. You want to grab onto this, you want to hold onto that.
You’re afraid somebody is hurting you, somebody is doing something to you, somebody wants something from you. What can possibly happen to you? What? Nothing. Stop being afraid. Stand up tall, be counted, know who you are. When you know who you are the whole universe comes before you and bows to you. When you understand your true reality all the Gods and Goddesses will bow to you, pay homage to you. Awaken! Awaken! Awaken!”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
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)
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Papaji
“Go on rejecting everything objective from the mind. Freedom is nothing that the mind can conceive or perceive or understand. Finally you will arrive at that which cannot be rejected. Go on rejecting everything that can be rejected, all objects. Get rid of all objectification. Finally, when you see nothing more to be rejected, the mind will be quiet. Mind will be no-mind:
That cannot be described. All description belongs to the objective world only and consciousness cannot be objectified. In the beginning when there was nothing there was consciousness—total consciousness—where no objects and no subjects existed. You are this consciousness.”
~ H.W.L. Poonja, “Papaji” (20th century Indian 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)