Self-inquiry videos -RSpira
No humanhood, concentrate on what is -RAdams
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG
There are no accidents. Everything is right just the way it Is. There are no mistakes. You are in your right place going through those experiences that are necessary for you. There is nothing wrong.
When you begin to appreciate this you will realize that the universe does not punish you, there is no God that punishes you, there is no world that is against you.
Things appear to happen in your lives because it’s necessary for your spiritual unfoldment at this time. What appears to be bad is really a blessing in disguise. What appears to be good may be a hindrance to you. This is why you should never judge yourself. You have to have faith in the powers that be. As you have faith enough you will become happy, just by being yourself.
To the extent that you see everything wrong in your life, to that extent do you perpetuate the condition, and it becomes difficult for you not to react. It becomes most difficult for you to practice self-inquiry, for you are letting the world show you how things are, and you are responding to the world. This is a great mistake.
The secret is to allow the world to show you what it will, and for you not to react to anything. Have no opinion for or against. Just by doing this alone, you come to the state where you can see and feel that the whole world, the whole universe, is simply an emanation of your own mind.
Forget what you read in the papers, what you watch on TV. Do not take the world too seriously. And above all do not take your life too seriously. There is nothing that wants to hurt you. You can never know your self as the self if you keep reacting to your world. Absolute reality is only revealed to you when you begin to see that the world is an image. Thoughts become things. They have no reality of their own, but through your thinking process you have
given them life, and then you begin to feel the pressure of the life form that you have created.
Compare yourself to no one. You are unique in your own right. Everyone appears on this earth because of karmic conditions, and you can never know that karma does not exist until you stop reacting to it. What’s the use of my telling you that nothing exists, that karma does not exist, that the world does not exist, that the universe does not exist, if you continue to react to conditions. You never know how much time you’ve got left in your body, so to speak. You may drop your body tomorrow, next week, next year. And if you do not realize the truth about yourself, you will continue to come back again and again, you will appear to come back again and again. You will be stuck on the wheel, until the time comes when you give up your reaction.
Think how many times today you were disappointed over something, or despondent, or angry, or upset, and you
believe that you have the right to be that way. It was because of this or because of that, or because of someone, because of something. Yet you are forgetting that everything is your friend. The mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, everything is your friend. Especially your so-called enemies, for that’s the motivation for you to see yourself in action. Your so-called enemy is really your best friend. The person you don’t get along with is doing you a favor, for he or she is teaching you not to react.
There are many lessons to learn, but for whom? For you? Who are you? As long as you believe you are a human being and you are part of the earth, then you do have many lessons to learn. But as soon as you give up the idea of your humanhood and start investigating the truth, that you are never born and you never die, until that time you will appear to suffer. You will appear to go through predicaments, through situations, through rebirth, through different experiences.
But I say to you tonight that you do not have to do this. You merely have to recognize that your personal I is the
culprit. It is not you. It is your idea of I. It is the I-thought that causes every problem in your life. It is the I-thought that causes you misery, unhappiness, misunderstanding and whatever. You merely have to destroy, annihilate, the I-thought.
This is the reason you came back to this planet, so it appears, to find the I and destroy it. This is what you should have been concentrating on all the time. This is your purpose. There is no other purpose.
~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams.
There is nothing wrong.
“The substratum of all existence is bliss. You come from bliss and you go to bliss. It is your real nature.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
HEALING VIDEOS -JSG
Free from birth, going, coming and returning -RM
Once born you reach something. If you
reach it you return also. Therefore leave
off all this verbiage. Be as you are. See
who you are and remain as the Self,
free from birth, going, coming
and returning.
Shri Ramana Maharshi
Just don’t believe the dream -NM
Just as the dream is not apart from the dreamer,
so is knowing not apart from being.
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You cannot know the knower, for you are the knower.
The fact of knowing proves the knower. You need no other proof.
The knower of the known is not knowable. The knower is known in Knowledge.
~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj
In this body is the subtle principle “I Am”; that principle witnesses all this. You are not the words. Words are the expression of space, they are not yours. Still further, you are not that “I Am”.
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Happiness is your true nature -RAdams
“Happiness is your swarrupa [true nature], your reality. … When you go through the day, you go through various situations and you go through the vicissitudes of the day, catch yourself and see how you react to things. See how many times a day you become angry, mad, upset over something. It’s all going to change in any event, no matter what you do.
Everything must change, yet you are going along with the way things are in this world. As if the world were real. You keep forgetting it’s a dream. You keep forgetting it’s all maya [illusion]. You keep forgetting it’s God’s leela. It’s all cosmic joke. Yet you take it seriously. And I tell you, you can never awaken when you take this world seriously, it’s impossible.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
What is our Self? -RSpira
I Am That -NM
Q: On my old business of making myself safe and happy. I confess I have not been too successful. I am neither safe nor
happy. Therefore, you find me here. This place is new to me, but my reason for coming here is old: the search for safe happiness, happy safety. So far I did not find it. Can you help me?
M: What was never lost can never be found. Your very search for safety and joy keeps you away from them.
Stop searching, cease losing.
The disease is simple and the remedy equally simple. It is your mind only that makes you insecure and unhappy. Anticipation makes you insecure, memory — unhappy.
Stop misusing your mind and all will be well with you. You need not set it right — it will set itself right, as soon as you give up all concern with the past and the future and live entirely in the now.
Q: But the now has no dimension. I shall become a nobody, a nothing!
M: Exactly. As nothing and nobody you are safe and happy.
You can have the experience for the asking. Just try.
But let us go back to what is accidental and what is spontaneous, or natural. You said nature is orderly while accident is a sign of chaos. I denied the difference and said that we call an event accidental when its causes are untraceable. There is no place for chaos in nature. Only in the mind of man there is chaos. The mind does not grasp the whole — its focus is very narrow. It sees fragments only and fails to perceive the picture.
Just as a man who hears sounds, but does not understand the language, may accuse the speaker of meaningless jabbering,
and be altogether wrong.
What to one is a chaotic stream of sounds is a beautiful poem to another.
King Janaka once dreamt that he was a beggar. On waking up he asked his Guru — Vasishta: Am I a king dreaming of being a beggar, or a beggar dreaming of being a king? The Guru answered: You are neither, you are both. You are, and yet you are not what you think yourself to be. You are because you behave accordingly; you are not because it does not last. Can you be a king or a beggar for ever? All must change. You are what does not change. What are you?
Janaka said: Yes, I am neither king nor beggar, I am the dispassionate witness. The Guru said.
This is your last illusion that you are a gnani, that you are different from, and superior to, the common man. Again you identify yourself with your mind, in this case a well-behaved and in every way an exemplary mind. As long as you see the least difference, you are a stranger to reality. You are on the level of the mind.
When the ‘I am myself’ goes, the ‘I am all’ comes.
When the ‘I am all’ goes, ‘I am’ comes. When even ‘I am’ goes, reality alone is and in it every ‘I am’ is preserved and glorified.
Diversity without separateness is the Ultimate that the mind can touch. Beyond that all activity ceases, because in it all goals are reached and all purposes fulfilled.
Q: Once the Supreme State is reached, can it be shared with others?
M: The Supreme State is universal, here and now; everybody already shares in it. It is the state of being — knowing and liking.
Who does not like to be, or does not know his own existence?
But we take no advantage of this joy of being conscious, we do not go into it and purify it of all that is foreign to it. This work of mental self-purification, the cleansing of the psyche, is essential.
Just as a speck in the eye, by causing inflammation, may wipe out the world, so the mistaken idea: ‘I am the body-mind’
causes the self-concern, which obscures the universe. It is useless to fight the sense of being a limited and separate person unless the roots of it are laid bare.
Selfishness is rooted in the mistaken ideas of oneself. Clarification of the mind is Yoga.
~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj
✅ I AM THAT
Chapter: MIND CAUSES INSECURITY
Have to be aware all the time -RAdams
“You have to be aware of these points all of the time:
Point number one: This world is a dream, just like the dream I dream at night. Everything in this world is karmic. Nothing is real. So I will never again allow this world to dictate to me what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is bad.
Point number two: My nature is divine. I am not the body nor this world nor have I got anything to do with this world or this body. The body goes through its own karma, it takes care of itself, does whatever it’s supposed to do. It has absolutely nothing to do with me.
Point number three: Everything I observe in this world is myself, nothing else. I only see myself wherever I look. Whatever I’m involved in. I see myself and nothing else.
Point number four: In order to transcend this world and become totally free, I have to somehow awaken from this mortal dream. And I can only do this by becoming non-judgmental, peaceful within myself, looking at this world like a moving picture, in all kinds of scenes in a movie. I know I’m not affected by these things, by the things of this world or any other world.
Point number five: I-am the substratum of all existence. I-am the screen in which the movie is being shown. I-am the director and producer of the movie. I-am also the actor. I play all of the parts. Therefore I will never again become confused by the picture or the screen.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)