"But things are right and wrong in this world. I have to take a stand.

Some people ask,
"But things are right and wrong in this world.
I have to take a stand." 

My question to those people are always the same.
"To whom is there right and wrong? 

Who feels right and who feels wrong?"
 Only the ego.
In reality there's no right and there's no wrong. 

There are just experiences of a dream unfolding.
Yet the dream doesn't exist. It never did. 

The world, as it appears right now, does not exist.
 It never did.
The way you believe you are, does not exist.
 It never did.

There is only one and you are that.
 There never were others.
There's only the one.

Yet most of you cannot feel this.
You're so identified with maya that the world of appearances
cause you to feel emotional. 

You therefore have to work on yourself.
You have to do something to yourself,
to help you become free. 

If you leave yourself alone, and you do nothing,
you'll go through life, after life, after life, on various planets.
You'll have various bodies, female, male, maybe other bodies.
It will never end for you.

Therefore you begin to question your existence.
That is the first step.
You question your existence.
You question your existence by inquiring, "Who am I? 

Where did I come from?
What is my real nature?"
You start this early in the morning,
as soon as you open your eyes.
Instead of being cognizant of the world,
you leave the world alone for a few minutes. 
 
You question yourself, you ask yourself, "Who is awake?"
and the answer comes, "I am. I am awake."
Then you realize, "I also slept, I slept well, I had a good dream,"
and you start to wonder about this.
This same I that is now awake,
is the same I that had a good dream,
and the same I that slept well. 

"Who is this I?
What is it's source?"

There is a spiritual center on the right side of your chest.
You may call this the God center or consciousness.
It is on the right side of your chest. 

You begin to trace the I-thought back to that center
from whence it came. 

Once the I goes back into the center, you become liberated.

Therefore the whole idea of spiritual practice,
in Advaita Vedanta, is to follow the I-thought back
to the source and become free. 


When the I appears to leave the spiritual
center it goes into the brain,
and you become cognizant of I am, I am the body, I think.
Then you create a world and a universe out of your mind,
and the world appears to you as reality.
This all happens in a split second.
That's why you're not aware of it.

In other words, while you were sleeping
the I rested in the spiritual center. 

As soon as you awaken, in a split second,
the I goes into the brain, you become cognizant of a body,
and then a world, and then a universe,
and the mortal dream begins. 

So, you have to vehemently make up your mind that
you really want to awaken. 

That's the first prerequisite.

-Robert Adams - T.93 -Silence, the Spiritual Center -
12th September, 1991