“[Your becoming enlightened] may be gradual at first. You notice that things that used to annoy you, no longer annoy you. You notice that people that you live with, the conflicts you’ve had, they stop because you’ve stopped. There’s no more trying to get even. There’s no more trying to win your point. There’s no more trying to find the right book, or the right teacher, or the right anything. You remain centered. You remain free.

When something comes along, whether it’s good or bad, you simply sit where you are and you ask, ‘To whom has this come?’ and you laugh, for you have separated yourself from your body-mind and you begin to realize that your body-mind is going through the experience, but not you.

So there is nothing to worry about. There’s nothing to fear. There’s nothing that can upset you. There’s nothing that can harm you. You realize whatever someone does to your body, physically, or with words, or otherwise, can never, ever hurt you because you are not your body. No matter what anyone tells you, no matter what you see with your eyes, [nothing can ever] affect you, for you are not your mind. You have actually separated your Self from your body and your mind.

That’s only the beginning.

As you go further your body and your mind drop off. I don’t mean that you die. I mean that they become less and less important to you, and you no longer identify with them at all. You actually know, and you feel, and you experience, that your body and mind do not exist, yet you exist. You do not exist as your body or your mind. You exist as absolute reality, as consciousness, and you no longer believe that your body and your mind are a modification of consciousness. You just know that there is no body and there is no mind. You are egoless. There is no reason for your body, mind or the world to exist.

You may first feel this slightly, but you will notice the greater the feeling, the greater the happiness. You are beginning to merge in consciousness. You are beginning to feel reality. The world goes on, people do what they always do, yet you see it quite differently. You no longer see the same world you used to see. It’s like reading a magazine. The images in a magazine are in front of you but you are not the magazine and you are not the images.

Who you are may still be a mystery. Remember, as long as you can express it, it’s not that. Therefore you do not walk around telling everybody, ‘I am pure reality,’ or ‘I am consciousness.’ You remain silent. By their fruits ye shall know them. You become a light in the world of darkness. Automatically people come around you and they just feel good by being around you. You have found peace. It has always been you. You have really not found anything. You have just become your Self.”

~ Robert Adams

HOW COULD THIS MAN’S INSIGHTS NOT MAKE YOU HAPPY ? I love the mere thought of “getting there”!
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“When you begin to feel happy, when you have unalloyed happiness, total happiness and peace, you know you’re getting there. You know you have become something else, when happiness arises by itself, when there is nothing in this external world to make you happy any longer, and you have become total happiness. Then you have become.

Let go of everything else, right now. Let go of the fears, the frustrations, the searching, the dogmas, the preconceived ideas, the concepts, everything you came in here with. Drop it. Just drop it. Let go of everything, and feel your freedom.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“People are always trying to change the world. They don’t realize the world is what it is, and nature takes care of it. We live in a world of duality, maya [illusion]. It will always be like this. Some people are dreaming about an Aquarian age. Some people are dreaming about the age of enlightenment, where everybody is at peace with one another. It will never happen. This is not the kind of world we live in. Perhaps there are planets where there is peace, but this is not one of them.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

I OFTEN MAKE THIS MUCH-NEEDED CORRECTION IN MY THINKING (WOULD THAT IT WERE 100% OF THE ‘TIME’ !!!)
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When you see a homeless person on the street most of you think, “Poor guy I’m glad I’m not like that. I’m glad I have this nice car to drive and a home to live in and food to eat. I feel sorry for that person but I’m glad I’m not that person.”

In truth, you are that person. That person is you, all this is going on within you and your beliefs, your thoughts simply are about yourself. Everything that you think about others is about yourself. For there is only the one Self and we are all that Self. So the beginning of wisdom is when you stop seeing the world as separate from yourself. For you begin seeing yourself as all, as everything.

Then you will inquire, “Then to whom do these things come?” In other words then who is seeing these things, who is feeling these things? And one day you will realize it is the I. “I feel these things. I see these things. I feel hurt. I feel confused. I feel upset. But what is this I? And where did it come from?” You will begin to understand that by only getting rid of this I you will become free. It is the I that is giving you all of this trouble over these years. Not the condition that you behold. Not other people. Not other places and persons and things. It is the I that has caused you all of the problems in your life.

~ Robert Adams
Transcript 176
Forget About Self-Realization
6th August, 1992