'ROBERT ADAMS' ON SADHANA
Just do the work and you'll be surprised. The more you want it, the more it eludes you. And that's natural, because you're chasing after yourself. You're trying to catch yourself, when you're already caught. So the more you chase yourself, the
faster you are going to run away from yourself. Stop doing that. It's simplicity itself.
There is really nothing intellectual about it. You don't have to know certain words or certain phraseologies. You don't have to memorize certain text. You simply have to remember the I.
Abide in the I’’. THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO. ABIDE IN THE ‘I’. HOLD ON TO THE ‘I’.
Everything is attached to the ‘I’. Your body, the world, the universe. When you discover the source of ‘I’, everything else will go with it into the ocean of Bliss. Bliss is a natural outcome of your search. When you stop searching and you calm down and put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring faster than anything else than you can ever imagine or ever do. It's not in chanting mantras. It's not in being a good guy or a bad guy. It's not by doing penance. It's simply by observing your ‘I’.
Abiding in the I.
"Where did 'I' come from?" When you say that, you're not saying where did my body come from. You're saying where did ‘I’ come from ’I’.
I’’ is separate from your body; Your body is attached to ‘I’. The I’’ is not your body. I is separate from the world, but the world is attached to I’’. God is separate from the world, but God is attached to I’’. Therefore, when you ask, " Where did ‘I’ come from," something happens to your mind.
Your mind becomes weaker and weaker. And when your mind becomes weaker and weaker, the ‘I’ begins to expand and becomes all pervading.
Then the ‘I’ becomes another word for the Self, and you begin to realize I’’ is none other than the Self. 'I' Am 'That'. You become free.
It isn't hard and it isn't easy. It just is. Think about yourself for a moment. Watch what thoughts come to you when you think about yourself. Some of you are saying, "I'm hungry." Some of you are thinking of your needs. As soon as you think about yourself, you think about your body. But your Self is not your body. Your body is only a heap of rotten flesh, but that's not you. You are I’’. I AM. I am not this and not that.
I AM.
THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING ELSE EXISTS BUT ‘I’ AM.
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There's nothing to say about it. There are no speeches to make about ‘I AM’. There is only ‘I AM’.
When you say ‘I’AM to yourself, what happens? Isn't there a quietness that comes over you, a stillness, because another name for ‘I AM’ is Silence.
Now you see what I mean when I've told you all these times, you follow the ‘I’ to the heart. As you follow the ‘I’ to the heart you're going through the molecules, and the atoms, and the sub-atomic particles, going deeper and deeper, back to your Source. Back, back, to the Source, to the energy waves, to the void, and finally your entire body is totally dissolved and Consciousness stands alone. When I say Consciousness stands alone, I do not mean that Consciousness is something else from you. You have not died; you are just the way you were always. You're the same person, except something wonderful has happened to you. You realize with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your being, that you never were the body or the mind.
You were never an ego. You have always been Consciousness. You are filled with Bliss. You now understand what the word 'Sat-Chit-Ananda' means. 'I AM THAT I AM', Ultimate Oneness, Absolute Reality, Nirvana, they're all synonymous with Consciousness. You have overcome. You are free!
Nothing in this world will ever disturb you again. You laugh at death, for you have realized that you were never born. You have never prevailed as a body, and never die. You're always the same, Pure Consciousness. It makes no difference whether you possess a body or have no body. It's all the same to you. Others may look at you and they see your old self. Your
family, your friends see you as they did before, but you are not what you were before. You are Total Happiness. You are the Universe. You understand that all of this is the 'SELF'
and ‘I AM THAT’.
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