Robert Adams - Page 53

Unseeking Seeker · #**521** 18-10-2019, 02:32 AM

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“ As I mentioned before happiness is your swarrupa, your reality. And you have a taste of it in a deep sleep stage, when you are in deep sleep and you wake up you feel happy. But then 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. You keep forgetting it's God's leela. It's all a cosmic joke. Yet you take it seriously. And I tell you, you can never awaken when you take this world seriously, it's impossible. All you're doing is accruing more karma. Ponder this, this is very important”

Robert Adams (from ‘just the satsangs’)

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Unseeking Seeker · #**522** 18-10-2019, 02:36 AM

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“ Thoughts are things. Whatever you ponder, whatever you identify with becomes your reality sooner or later.

Why not ponder I-am continuously. Why not ponder pure awareness, nirvana, sat- chit-ananda. There is an old saying that says, "Think of God and God will think of you." Which simply means, think of your higher Self and you will become what you think about, your higher Self.”

Robert Adams

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Unseeking Seeker · #**523** 18-10-2019, 02:41 AM

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“Sit in the silence by yourself as much as you can. When you sit in the silence do not think about the world and conditionings, just sit. Observe your thoughts in your mind. Observe your feelings.”

Robert Adams

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Unseeking Seeker · #**524** 18-10-2019, 02:42 AM

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“ Most of us believe we've got our own thoughts, we can think. We can make decisions, but that is not true. You're totally programmed, mesmerized, hypnotized. You have many false beliefs inside of you”

Robert Adams

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Unseeking Seeker · #**525** 18-10-2019, 02:47 AM

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“ You have self-inquiry to work with. You can become the witness to your thoughts and emotions. You can realize the world is maya and not identify with its conditionings. You can know that your body is also maya and not react to it. You have all those wonderful tools in which to work. You are free, totally and absolutely free. You are boundless, pure awareness right now. The old you is melting away. All your fears and frustrations of the past are gone. You have lifted yourself to a higher vibration. The things that used to bother you, annoy you, are now gone totally and completely. You're awake and all is well.”

Robert Adams (from ‘just the satsangs’)

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Joe Mc · #**526** 18-10-2019, 06:22 AM

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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

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BigJohn · #**527** 18-10-2019, 07:03 AM

"Surrender to The Power That Knows the Way. The Power that knows how to make a seed grow into an orange tree, that makes the sun rise again everyday no matter what is happening on the earth. That brings the seasons every year. This Power Guides your life to your highest good. You will sail through life. However, you must be very honest with yourself. humble, pure of heart. When you feel worry, fear, anger, surrender to The Power That Knows the Way."

Robert Adams

Unseeking Seeker · #**528** 18-10-2019, 10:09 AM

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“ Try to be still most of the time. Try not to get into heated discussions, heated debates about anything. The mind always wants accomplish something, wants to do something, wants to be the doer. Discourage the mind by becoming the witness to its actions. Learn to be by yourself more, leave the world alone. Do not have any opinions for or against and everything will take care of itself.”

Robert Adams

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Still_Waters · #**529** 18-10-2019, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker

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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.”

Robert Adams (from ‘just the satsangs’)

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Interestingly enough, Neils Bohr (the Nobel-Prize winning quantum physicist) came to exactly the same conclusion --- an "indivisible whole" in his terminology.

Still_Waters · #**530** 18-10-2019, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker

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“ Thoughts are things. Whatever you ponder, whatever you identify with becomes your reality sooner or later.

Why not ponder I-am continuously. Why not ponder pure awareness, nirvana, sat- chit-ananda. There is an old saying that says, "Think of God and God will think of you." Which simply means, think of your higher Self and you will become what you think about, your higher Self.”

Robert Adams

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Pondering "I AM" with no other thoughts is indeed an awesome practice.

However, as Ramana Maharshi pointed out, "that which is does not even say I AM".

P.S. These quotes are AWESOME!