Saturday, April 15, 2017

►Nothing in the universe happens by chance or accident


►Nothing in the universe happens by chance or accident. 

The universe is a coherent concurrence and interaction of innumerable conditions attendant on the infinite number of energy patterns.

 In the state of awareness, all this is obvious and can be clearly seen and known.

 Outside that level of awareness, it could be likened to innumerable, invisible magnetic fields that automatically coalesce or repel one's position, and which interact according to the positions and relative strengths and polarities.

 Everything influences everything else and is in perfect balance.◄




From: “The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden” (2002), Chapter 11: Along the Pathway, p. 170


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All religions teach that there will be a nonphysical life that supersedes the physical one. The confusion here arises from the misidentification of this life as physical and other lives as nonphysical, or recurrently physical. To begin with, this life is an inner, subjective experiencing that includes, but is independent of, the physical body. Thus, this current existence is not actually physical, either.




This life is the subjective adventure of that mysterious entity called ‘I’. 

This current experience of the ‘I’ may consider itself physical, but that in itself is an illusion. 

Whether successive life experiences include the illusion of physicality or not is really irrelevant to the inference and significance of the sequential progress of conditions. 

All ‘lifetimes’ are subjective, nonphysical, interrelated, and actually continuous. 

Each is conditioned and determined by choices, positionalities, and their consequences. 

All possibilities are included in the evolution of consciousness. 

Once consciousness stops identifying with form, it is then beyond karma.




It is of considerable interest that newborns already have a calibratable level of consciousness at the time of their birth, and that this level in most people tends to persist throughout their lifetime. 

The progression of consciousness in the average human being during one lifetime is an advance of about five points. 

Paradoxically, however, the level of consciousness of mankind as a whole remained at 190 for many centuries, and only recently crossed the critical line of 200 to the current level of 207. 

The rate of increase of the general level of consciousness is held back by the immense number of people who continue to make negative decisions and choices.




Q: Is karma therefore related to form?




If  at birth, one's energy field calibrates at 150. This person's main confront will certainly be anger. They may spend a lifetime, or many lifetimes, with anger as the central theme. Persons who are in the energy field that calibrates in the 50s will face a life of poverty and deprivation and may be born in a starving population, ravaged by disease and war.
Preexisting conditions of consciousness consist of patterns expressed as prevailing energy fields of relative power. Each level contains within it the unresolved issues and limitations which characterize that level and thereby confront the individual. Let us say that,



Q: Aren't conditions at birth pure chance, depending on genes, chromosomes, and the accident of geography and time?




A: ►Nothing in the universe happens by chance or accident. The universe is a coherent concurrence and interaction of innumerable conditions attendant on the infinite number of energy patterns. In the state of Awareness, all this is obvious and can be clearly seen and known. Outside that level of awareness, it could be likened to innumerable, invisible magnetic fields which automatically coalesce or repel one's position and which interact according to the positions and relative strengths and polarities. Everything influences everything else and is in perfect balance.◄




From: “The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden” (2002), Chapter 11: Along the Pathway, pp. 169–170




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From "I: Reality and Subjectivity" (2003), Chapter 15: Karma, pp. 251–252:




The entire universe and all that it contains operates as a unitary karmic unfoldment of God Manifest in that each and every element in it becomes the fulfillment and expression of its own essence. Thus, the experience of life is the interactive dance of all these fields, which is the consequence of the divinely ordained capacity for existence.




That which has existence may also be created with the capacity for life and thus become a ‘being’. ‘To be’ is to exist with the consciousness of life itself as the light that illuminates the capacity for awareness.




Inasmuch as the entire universe and everything in it is a karmic unity, the Allness of Reality is the realization of enlightenment. If all is a karmic unity that originates from the same source, then to see any separation is an artifact of perception. In Reality, the one and the many are the same.




Anyone who is familiar with muscle testing can easily answer all questions about karma. In essence, individual karma is an information package (analogous to a computer chip) that exists within the nonphysical domain of consciousness. It contains the code of stored information that is intrinsic to and a portion of the spiritual body or soul. The code represents a condensation of all past experiences, together with associated nuances of thought and feeling. The spirit body retains freedom of choice, but the range of choices has already been patterned.




It is obvious that propensities would tend to recur but, at the same time, afford opportunity for change; for example, to transcend the paradox of opposites. The soul may choose physical reincarnation, become a discarnate, or explore the astral realms and thus struggle in hells and purgatories or, more hopefully, follow into the heavens because of the support of and surrender to Love, Truth, God, and/or a Savior.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

I am this,

To move from the belief, I am something,
to the understanding that I am nothing is a path of exclusion
– I am not this, not this, not this. 


To move from the understanding that I am nothing
to the all-embracing feeling-understanding that I am everything
is a path of inclusion
- 
 am this, I am this, I aIm this. 

The first is a path of understanding,
the second a path of love.”


Rupert Spira

Understand who you really are.

"The problem is you think.
You think: how can I function if I stop thinking?

Very well, thank you.

As a matter of fact, you would function much better than you do now, for you will always be taken care of. 

The universe loves you and will always supply you with your needs.
Forget about other people, what they do and what they don't do. Do not listen to malicious gossip.

Obey your Self. 
Understand who you really are. 
You are the Absolute reality, unconditioned consciousness.

Work from that standpoint.
 Do not work from your problems.
Do not get lost in aimless gossip.


 Understand your true reality. 

Be your Self.

Hold on to the "Who am I?" "What am I?"

 An easier way to stick with the sense of your sense is simply to say "I-I"... "I-I"...

And as you notice, you will find the "I-I" goes deeper and deeper within you into your heart Source.

Do not look at time.
 Do not ask yourself when something is going to happen.

A devotee went to Ramana and asked him: "I have been with you for 25 years asking: "Who am I?" and nothing has happened."

Ramana said: "Try it another 25 years and see what happens!"

Forget about time. 


Forget about when something is going to happen."
~ Robert Adams

Monday, April 10, 2017

Three pointers to Moksha - Liberation: Pointer 1 of 3

Three pointers to Moksha - Liberation: Pointer 1 of 3
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Always remember all is well.
 All is well. All is perfectly well. 

Never forget that. Do not think about it. Do not try to analyze it. 
Just accept it in your heart. All is well, period, end.

There are three points that you should always remember.
If you remember these three points you will be already awakened. 

You have to remember these three points in your heart.
By assimilating these three points, by digesting them,
by becoming a living embodiment of these three points
you will become consciousness, pure awareness.
What you already are.
THE FIRST POINT:
Whatever appears to happen to your body or your mind.
Whatever sickness you have.
Whether you're the strongest or the weakest person on earth.
Whatever befalls your body or your mind remember
this is not happening to you. 

You have absolutely nothing to do with that.

You are Brahman. You are nirvana. You are the absolute reality.
~Robert Adams - T174: THREE POINTERS TO MOKSHA - LIBERATION.

Three pointers to Moksha - Liberation: Pointer 2 of 3



Three pointers to Moksha - Liberation: Pointer 2 of 3
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THE SECOND POINT:
That you must always remember that 
all of your karmas, your samskaras,
your sins of omission and commission,
the sinful acts that you're responsible for,
none of these things can touch you
if you center yourself in the here and now.

In other words:
The here and now is omnipresence.
The here and now is all-pervading, omniscience.
The here and now is consciousness.
The here and now is boundless space,
effortless choice-less pure awareness. 

When you hold onto the here and now,
when you identify with the here and now the past is no longer valid. 

There is no past and there is no future in the here and now. 

There is I am.
There is the ultimate reality, ultimate oneness and you are that.
When you are living in the here and now
your karma's do not exist any longer.
Samskaras stop dead in their tracks.
Sins are abated.
You are born again so-to-speak.
You become a new man, a new woman.
You are free.
~Robert Adams - T174: THREE POINTERS TO MOKSHA - LIBERATION.

Three pointers to Moksha


Three pointers to Moksha - Liberation: Pointer 3 of 3
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THE THIRD POINT:

You must always remember that you have absolutely 
nothing to give up. 
Nothing to surrender. 
Nothing to let go of. 

You are already liberated. 

How can you believe that you have to let go of something
that never existed? 

You believe you have to let go of your attachments. 
How can the Self have attachments?
You think you have to surrender all of your fears,
all of your depressions,
all of the things that have been bothering you. 

Surrender to whom? 
Those things are not yours.They do not belong to you. 

You are pure reality. 
You are the imperishable Self.
Never were you born, never did you prevail
and never will you leave. 

You are the one. The all-pervading one.
Consequently you have nothing to give up.
For you never had anything to begin with. 
It's really egotistical to believe that you've got something to give up.
There is nothing you have to surrender. 
It is only the ego that believes that
something has to be surrendered,
something has to be given up. 

You have to let go of something.
Who is the one that had something to begin with?
There is no one. 
There is only the one reality and you are that.
If only you can remember these three points by assimilating them,
by digesting them, by becoming a living embodiment of them,
that is all you have to do.
If you remember these three points
you do not have to practice any sadhana.
You do not have to do mantras or meditations of any kind
for you will already be awakened.
~Robert Adams - T174: THREE POINTERS TO MOKSHA - LIBERATION.

you will become free

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To be calm is the greatest asset in the world.

Ramana Maharshi ended the story by telling me that:

To be calm is the greatest asset in the world. 

It's the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have. 


If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every problem. 


This is something you must remember. 


When you are perfectly calm, time stops. 


There is no time, karma stops, samskaras stop. 


Everything becomes null and void. 


For when you are calm you are one with the entire energy
of the universe and everything will go well with you. 


To be calm means you are in control.


You're not worried about the situation, the outcome. 


What is going to happen tomorrow.


~Robert Adams -T177: The Only Spiritual Life You Need
Is Not To React!

Whenever you're unhappy do not look for escape from it

"Whenever you're unhappy do not look for escape from it
via distraction, doing something else, or seeking
entertainment.


 This is the worst thing you can do. 
You will never be able to let go of or eliminate unhappiness.

Either discover your mastership of the event or see the
ego motivation behind the misery and there by undo that
particular unhappiness. 


Almost everyone, when
unhappy, looks for escape and calls the escape or relief
from the misery, happiness. 


This allows the
unhappiness pattern to continue in the future. 

It
postpones the time indefinitely as to when one will have
to eliminate the unhappiness. 

Escape is the worst
palliative in the world, worse than drugs. 

Every escape
is a complete waste of time and a further continuing and
holding onto misery. The more you feel misery, the
deeper it becomes ingrained. Therefore one should not
escape from nor remain in misery, but should use one of
the above two methods to get out of it permanently"


~ Lester Levenson

Sunday, April 09, 2017

“I AM that I AM” sums up the whole truth.

M.: ...Your duty is to be: and not to be this or that. 

“I AM that I AM” sums up the whole truth.

 The method is summed up in “BE STILL”. 
What does “stillness” mean? 
It means “destroy yourself”.
 Because any form or shape is the cause of trouble. 

Give up the notion that “I am so and so”. 

Our sastras say: ahamiti sphurati (it shines as ‘I’).

D.: What is sphurana (shining)?

M.: (Aham, aham) ‘I-I’ is the Self; 

(Aham idam) “I am this” or “I and that” is the ego. 

Shining is there always. The ego is transitory;

 When the ‘I’ is kept up as ‘I’ alone it is the Self; when it flies at a tangent and says “this” it is the ego.

(From 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi', Talk 363)

What does it matter how many thoughts arise?

From ~~~ Gems from Bhagavan, Ch.IV.


For all thoughts the source is the ‘I-thought’.


The mind will merge only by Self-enquiry ‘Who am I?’


The thought ‘Who am l?’will destroy all other thoughts and finally kill itself also.

If other thoughts arise, without trying to complete them, one must enquire to whom did this thought arise.

What does it matter how many thoughts arise?


As each thought arises one must be watchful
and ask to whom is this thought occurring.


The answer will be ‘to me’.

If you enquire ‘Who am I?’
the mind will return to its source
(or where it issued from).


The thought which arose will also submerge.

As you practise like this more and more,
the power of the mind
to remain at its source
is increased
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You have become the Self and you can laugh.




The Five Steps To Self Realization - (PART 5 of 5 )
As you continue in this state you fall into the total bliss state.
Bliss is a word again that cannot be described.
It makes happiness feel like nothing.
It is not of this world.
You do not even experience it. You simply enjoy it.
When you are in bliss it is then that you lose yourself completely.
The personal I, the personal self at that time no longer exists.
It has been dissolved forever.
It is a state that you cannot return from.
It is not something that you feel when you are meditating
then you get back to the personal self. 

There is no personal self.
You are finished with your ego, with your personal self
and with the I-thought.
You have become nothing.
You have melted.
You have been destroyed.
Yet you are alive. 

You feel that you are alive and you do not know how you live.
For so called life that you have been experiencing previously
no longer exists for you.
You have become the Self and you can laugh.
For you realize that you have always been the Self.
There never was a time that you were not the Self.
You are free, totally free.
The world is no longer the world that you once knew.
You continue to see the images
but the images are like chalk writings on the blackboard.
And you are the chalkboard.
You're free, totally absolutely free.
~Robert Adams - T98: The Five Steps To Self Realization

The freedom you have is to realize that nothing is preordained



The freedom you have is to realize that
nothing is preordained and
you do not react to anything.
When there is no longer reaction from you
Then preordination does not work any longer.
As long as you walk around as a human being
everything appears to be preordained, everything!
But when you ask yourself,
"To whom does this come?
For whom is preordination?"
You will become totally free
and the world would not exist for your at all.
Therefore think who you are.
~Robert Adams.

The Five Steps To Self Realization -



The Five Steps To Self Realization - ( PART 1 of 5 )
You are realization itself. It is your real nature. 

The reason I'm sharing these five steps with you
is because the five steps are part of the personal self. 

The ego, the I-thought, the five steps are involved in them.
When we work on the five steps in the relative world
we become ourselves, awakened and free.
The first step is: Prayer and devotion.
The second step is: Effortless No-Thought State.
The third step is: Division of Light and Sound.
The fourth step is: The Void, and,
The fifth step is: Bliss.
We'll begin with the first step.
In the beginning when one first starts out on the path and
even when one is on the path for quite a while,
prayer and meditation or prayer and devotion are very important.

You become devoted to God who is within you
and you pray to God within yourself. 

You must therefore begin to totally surrender,
give up everything to God, forget about your troubles,
forget about the world, just give it up.
~Robert Adams - T98: The Five Steps To Self Realization







The Five Steps To Self Realization - ( PART 2 of 5)
As you begin to do this you gently slip into the number two state.
The effortless no thought state. 

As you surrender everything your mind becomes completely calm. 
And you effortlessly drop your thinking mechanism. 

You sort of stop thinking.
Your mind becomes sort of a blank. 

Do not confuse this with the void.
It is a beautiful state of no thoughts. 

Let me also remind you that
you usually do not slip into that state so fast. 

It may take many years, many incarnations
just to get through the prayer and devotional state.

You have to become really devotional,
very prayerful to totally surrender your life
so that your mind becomes still, calm, peaceful.

You begin to feel profound peace.
A happiness you never felt before. 

The world no longer has any value.
You feel good most of the time.
~Robert Adams - T98: The Five Steps To Self Realization

( PART 3 of 5 )
As you continue along this path you gradually slip into the third step.
You begin to see lights and the light increases.
Whenever you close your eyes 
and even when you don't close your eyes.
The light is like the light of a thousand suns.
It appears as if the world is on fire.
Many of you have seen this.
Also you begin to hear beautiful music of the spheres.
You listen and the most beautiful music begins to play.
Sometimes you get them both.
Those are gifts of grace.
The whole universe is filled with light,
it is pure light and beautiful music sounds.
Blissful sounds come into your life.
If people do not understand this they believe this is it,
this is as far as they can go.
But it is only the beginning.
~Robert Adams - T98: The Five Steps To Self Realization


( PART 4 of 5)
As you sit in the silence and become absorbed in the light and
the sounds, you enter the void which is the fourth step. 

The void unlike the effortless no thought state is a deep joy. 

A deep love. 

You are totally free in that state. 

You look at the world, at the universe,
at your fellow man and it becomes void.
There is no thing there but a deep love, a deep peace.
Deeper then you've ever felt before.
You are still aware that you are still experiencing these states.
The void is not dark and is not light.
It has nothing to do with lightness and darkness.
It is something that you have become.
Something so wonderful, so grand,
there is no description of that feeling.
~Robert Adams - T98: The Five Steps To Self Realization

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Begin to realize your divine nature.



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There's only one I actually, and that I is consciousness.
When you follow the personal I to the source,
it turns into the universal I, which is consciousness.
Begin to catch yourself. Begin to realize your divine nature.
And you do this by keeping quiet.
The fastest way to realization is to keep silent.
Yet you have to know why you are keeping silent.
This is why you can't tell this to the average person.
If a person has no inkling of Advaita Vedanta,
you cannot say keep silent.
For to them it means just to be quiet.
They don't realize it means to go deep, deep, deep, deep within,
to that place where absolute reality lives, and that's the silence.

Actually the human body cannot keep silent.
There's something else that enters the silence.
It has nothing to do with your humanity.
It's only after years perhaps of meditation in previous lives,
that you can be mature enough to really know
what this path is all about.
When I give you these practices, it's not for you as a human being.
You appear to be able to go through it as a human being,
but I can assure you your humanity has nothing to do with it.
When you enter the silence you enter a profound peace,
bliss consciousness, pure awareness.
That's what the silence is. It's not being quiet. It's beyond that.
It's not just quieting your mind, like I say all the time.
It's understanding that there's no mind to quiet.
When you realize there's no mind, you automatically become silent.
When you still think you've got a mind,
you make every effort to quiet the mind, and you can't.
How many of you believe you can quiet the mind through effort?
You can't do that. It's not the effort that makes you quiet your mind.
It's the intelligent understanding that
you have no mind to begin with.
Then you just keep still and everything takes care of itself.
If you have to meditate, by all means meditate.
This path is never against any other method,
due to the fact they all eventually lead to awakening.
You have to do whatever you have to do.
But for those who can understand what I'm talking about,
and realize you're dealing with no mind, no body, no world,
no universe, no God, an awakening comes immediately,
because there's no one who is sleeping.
Do you follow this?
-Robert Adams - T52: Jnana Marg












-Robert Adams - T52: Jnana Marga

Tuesday, April 04, 2017

There's only eternal life.

There never was a time when you were not,
and there will never be a time when you disappear.
There is no birth for you,
there's no prevailing of the body,
there's no disappearance.
There's only eternal life.
- Ponder this.
~Robert Adams - T178: The Imponderables

Your job is to find total realization, to become absolutely free,



You do not know how much time you have left in this body.
You may be called home tomorrow. 

You may leave your body tonight, this very hour.
What have you been doing with your life? 

For it is this which determines where you go from here. 
This life is a continuum. It doesn't end.
It merely continues from where you left off. 

This is why people who commit suicide make a grave mistake,
for they think they are going to become totally free and liberated. 

On the contrary, you will take a short rest, on one of the astral planes, and then you will continue where you left off. 

Your job is to find total realization, to become absolutely free,
and not come around the circle again and again. 

Rebirth, problems, trying to get off the wheel, this is for children.
Become free by inquiring, "Who is it that's bound?" 

- Ponder this.
~Robert Adams - T178: The Imponderables
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To gain liberation what is the relationship between grace and effort.

Student: To gain liberation what is the relationship between grace and effort.

R: Grace and effort? A little of both. (SK: Both?) 
In the beginning you use effort. 
As you practice self-inquiry, practice surrendering when you've gone far enough, grace takes over.

 Grace is another term for the Self. 
The Self is grace and grace pulls you in. 

But grace comes when you make effort. It's sort of a contradiction. 

The whole of spirituality is contradictions. You have to make the effort and then you have to give up the effort.

This is why in Advaita it is really for people who have had spiritual experiences from practicing sadhanas for many years in former lives. 

 They're in the last stage then grace comes. 

But if you're still quarreling with the world, still quarreling with yourself, still have personal problems, you still think your body is important, your affairs are important or this is important or that's important, it's virtually impossible to have grace, because you're too engrossed in the ego.

 If you are still worrying what is going to happen to me tomorrow or I'm not happy once I do this or do that, then grace cannot come.
 It only comes when you give up everything. 

When you have sort of a care free attitude. 
 Not my will but thine. 

You give up your personal will, personal power.
But that's not a weakness, there's a strength in this. 

Do not think that you'll become weak or passive, no you don't. You become very strong. For the world can no longer hurt you. 

There is no fear any longer. You realize who you are and what you are. And you're at peace with yourself and everybody else. So grace and the Self are one.
Robert Adams - 4/12/93

Monday, April 03, 2017

There's only eternal life. - Ponder this



There never was a time when you were not,
and there will never be a time when you disappear.
There is no birth for you,
there's no prevailing of the body,
there's no disappearance.
There's only eternal life.
- Ponder this.
~Robert Adams - T. 178 The Imponderables - August 13, 1992

Everything is unfolding as it should.



There are no problems .
There is nothing wrong.

Everything is unfolding as it should.
Space and time are illusions.

They really do not exist.
They are stationary.

Causation does not exist either.

Nothing has a cause,
therefore, nothing has an effect.

Cause and effects are again products of your mind.

When the mind is quiet, KARMA CEASES.

Samskaras are non-existent.

There never was a cause for anything.

But if you feel that in a previous life
you did something wrong and now you are paying the price,
or if you think you did something wrong in this life and you are paying the price,
then you will pay the price,
because that is what you think.
~Robert Adams

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Sunday, April 02, 2017

There is nothing you have to overcome.



There are no real problems in the world.
There are no challenges in the world.
Some people like to use the word challenge for some problem. 

Who wants to challenge you? there is nobody who challenges you. 

There is nothing you have to overcome.
There is nothing you have to fight.
There is nothing you have to attain and
there is nothing you have to become. 

All you have to do is see this clearly for it to happen.
Just see it clearly. Not cloudy but clearly. 

When you SEE IT CLEARLY
YOU BECOME THAT WHICH YOU SEE.

What have you been seeing all of these years?
What have you been seeing?
What have you been looking at? 

Have you been seeing problems, lack, limitation, feeling unloved,
feeling as if there is something wrong someplace? 

This is the reason why you see things outside of yourself to.
THE WORLD BECOMES WHAT YOU SEE and
YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU SEE.

That is the only freedom you have.
Everything else is preordained. 

This doesn't mean you're stuck in karma or it doesn't matter
what you do because whatever you do is preordained. 

It means that : 

AS YOU SEE THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR LIFE,
YOU BECOME FREE.

In other words to the extent you can see the truth about your self
that you are really Brahman, God,
that you are that which will never change,
that which is permanent and totally free of anything,
to the extent that you can see yourself this way,
to that extent are you free.
If you see yourself 20% this way you're free 20%,
50%, you're free 50%,
100% you're free 100%.

How can you tell what you're doing?
BY THE WAY YOU REACT TO CONDITIONS.

What frightens you.
What makes you mad.
What makes you angry.
What makes you think something is wrong. 

This will tell you where you're coming from.
When you are filled with peace and harmony
nothing can ever hurt you. 

You become unhurtable. 

But when you believe what you see,
when you believe what you hear,
when you believe what the world tells you is true,
then you have to experience all the things
that you see and believe and hear.

It's so simple.
Lift your head to heaven and you'll be in heaven.
Lift your head down to hell and you'll be in hell.

~Robert Adams - T217: How To Get Rid Of Problems