Robert Adams

[Still_Waters]

Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker

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“ Your mind has been conditioned for thousands of years to be what you are today. Instead of realizing that you are the ultimate reality, that you are pure awareness you believe your self to be limited to a body. Limited to an environment. Limited to a world. Limited to a universe. In other words you have created your own jail, your own cell. Yet what are we to do? How do we free ourselves?

We free ourselves by not freeing ourselves. When you try to do something to be free you're merely adding on to what you know already. To be free you have to become silent, quiet, peaceful. You have to have compassion, loving kindness. To be free one must give up all of their doubts, their fears, their dogmas, everything. One has to surrender totally and completely, total surrender if you would be free.

Surrender to whom?

If you are a bhakta you would surrender to your guru, to a deity of your choice. If you were a christian you would surrender to jesus. If you were a buddhist you would surrender to Buddha. If you were of the jewish persuasion you would surrender to abraham or moses. If you were a hindu you would surrender to Krishna or Shiva or anyone of a thousand deities. Surrender purifies the mind, removes the impurities and ultimately sets you free.”

Robert Adams (from ‘just the satsangs’)

This is an excellent post and I agree with it completely. Many people do not understand the real value of bhakti