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)

ROBERT ADAMS !!!
To whom do these thoughts/ feelings come? They will dissipate!

COULDN’T COPY URL BUT EXCELLENT VIDEO: Robert Adam’s and Ramana Maharshi . Robert speaks of his experiences with Ramana during video of Ramana walking with his devotees.

LEAVE THE WORLD ALONE !
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Begin to see the truth. Begin to stand up tall. Become fearless. Become strong. Leave the world alone. It will take care of itself. There is a mysterious power that guides the world to its right destiny. It doesn’t need any help from you. If you’re meant to do certain work in the world, it will be done, but you have nothing to do with that. It doesn’t mean that you have to leave your job or go sit in a cave or give up your life. Wherever you are right now is where you’re supposed to be. Just feel, “I am not the doer,” and your work will go on. Do not be attached to your work. Do not react to any situation or any condition. Be your Self. Focus your attention on consciousness and your body will go on doing whatever it came here to do.

Everything is preordained. Even when I raise my finger like this it is preordained. Do not be egotistical to believe that you have any power over everybody or anybody or that you are the doer. It’s a privilege to have been born on this earth and the reason you have been born is to find your real Self. Go for it, do it, and become free.

Robert Adams

credit MT Mind

STOP LOOKING ! YOU FOUND IT !
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“What is spirituality? True spirituality is realizing you are not the body nor the mind phenomena. That you are consciousness, you are the absolute reality. When one realizes this, what is there left to do? Is there anything one has to do in this world when one understands their true nature? There’s total happiness and bliss at all times, always, unending. I believe this is what we are all looking for, happiness, harmony, peace, bliss.

Stop looking, you found it! If only you would learn to keep still mentally, it’s been there all the time. All the joy you’re looking for—the happiness, the peace of mind, the harmony—is you. This is your real nature. This is what you are. You do not have to go search for it. You do not have to practice sadhanas, spiritual practices, meditation, deep breathing, yoga. What has this got to do with reality? These are practices that you do for better health, to improve your body.

But as the years pass, the body gets older anyway. It doesn’t care how long you have been meditating or what you have been doing. The body becomes older and older and older and you get disappointed and discouraged because nothing has happened..It is not more practices that you need, it is an awakening that you need. To totally, completely wake up! Wake up to the Self! That’s all you have to do. When you awaken to your Self, there is nothing else to do forever.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)