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your thoughts

Your thoughts have to understand one thing: that you are not interested in them. The moment you have made this point you have attained a tremendous victory. Just watch. Don't say anything to the thoughts. Don't judge. Don't condemn. Don't tell them to move. Let them do whatsoever they are doing, any gymnastics let them do; you simply watch, enjoy. It is just a beautiful film. And you will be surprised: just watching, a moment comes when thoughts are not there, there is nothing to watch.

This is the door I have been calling nothingness, emptiness. From this door enters your real being, the master. And that master is absolutely positive; in its hands everything turns into gold. Without meditation the mind is negative, it is bound to be in the service of death. With meditation the master is there, and the master is absolute positiveness. In its hands the same mind, the same energy, becomes creative, constructive, life affirmative.

So you cannot do anything directly with the mind. You will have to take a little roundabout way; first you have to bring the master in. The master is missing, and for centuries the servant has been thinking he is the master. Just let the master come in, and the servant immediately understands. Just the presence of the master and the servant falls at the feet of the master and waits for any order, for anything the master wants to be done ― he is ready.

The mind is a tremendously powerful instrument. No computer is as powerful as man's mind ― cannot be, because it is made by man's mind. Nothing can be, because they are all made by man's mind. A single man's mind has such immense capacity: in a small skull, such a small brain can contain all the information contained in all the libraries of the earth, and that information is not a small amount.

Just one library, the British library, has so many books that if we put those books in a line side by side they will go three times around the earth. And a bigger library exists in Moscow, a similar library exists in Harvard; and there are similar libraries in all the big universities of the world. But a single human mind can contain all the information contained in all these libraries. Scientists are agreed that we may not be able to make a computer comparable to the human mind which can be put in such a small space.

But the result of this immense gift to man has not been beneficial ― because the master is absent and the servant is running the show. The result is wars, violence, murders, rape. Man is living in a nightmare, and the only way out is to bring the master in. It is there, you just have to get hold of it. And watchfulness is the key: just watch the mind. The moment there are no thoughts, immediately you will be able to see yourself ― not as mind, but as something beyond, something transcendental to mind.

And once you are attuned with the transcendental then the mind is in your hands. It can be immensely creative. It can make this very earth paradise. There is no need for any paradise to be searched for above in the clouds, just as there is no need to search for any hell ― because hell we have created already. We are living in it.

replace me with you! mooji

The very significance of Christmas is this Christ Consciousness, the Christ-light, which is the real light of the world.
The light of consciousness, the light of the Self in its purest dynamic expression, is what we call the Christ that manifested in the human form called Jesus so many years ago,
but the source and origin of this light is timelessly unchangeable. Just in this moment now, I invite you to consciously, willingly embody the spirit of Christ. You can do this, in fact, because it is here already; it is essentially what we are.
When you fully wake up to the reality of the Self through complete and final understanding, you will see that it is nothing new. It is always timelessly present, complete, and perfect.
The recognition might feel new, but that which is recognised is timeless and is ever-present. I am inviting you to embody this Christ Consciousness, which means to fully acknowledge, welcome, and be your source Self. You can recognise this for it is your real nature, this Christ-light or Krishna Consciousness which is the same thing.
Christmas Blessing

I remind you of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s statement: He says that ‘The “I” removes the “I”, yet remains the “I”.’ Another way of putting that, in the form of a prayer, is ‘Replace me with you.’ It is the same thing. We are very accustomed to relating to ourself from the status of a person, so now this sense of the person is saying: ‘Replace me with You who are my source.’ This Source is not outside of or apart from yourself. ‘Remove that which appears to be what I am, but in reality I am not. Replace this ego-identity with my true Self. Let there be only You who are pure and complete Truth.’ —This prayer is generated by the pure consciousness which has blessed this human form with the timing of its own Self-revelation. The ‘You’ in that prayer also means ‘my true Self’, because in reality there is no ‘you’ in the universe; there is only ‘I’. All beings know themselves as ‘I’. When you feel that ‘I am this body’, then another body is given the label ‘you’. But when you pray to God and say ‘Replace me with You,’ it means replace the ego identity with pure consciousness, because God means pure consciousness. When the focus of the attention in the body is not in service to the ego-self but only to the state of presence-consciousness-self, and even onward from presence, then at a certain stage we will be able to see that even the state of presence itself is perceived to be phenomenal. But if this is not yet clear for you, then first abide in the state of presence. By transcending the ego-self in this way, you will find that the usual troubles of the world, such as those related to work, money, and relationships— all the things that seem to become burdensome at times for the personal identity —will be lightened up and gradually thin away as one awakens to the true Self. Many things which we discover anew in life have already been there all along. They have been there since time immemorial, yet have merely gone unrecognised. Therefore I say again: When you wake up to full understanding, to the full realisation of the Self, you see that it is nothing new. The recognition may feel new, but That which is recognised is timelessly present.
Your being is always complete, full, and whole. It is not the size of your body. It is also not the size of your thoughts, but it will seem to become the size of your body and your thoughts and be experienced that way until the Self is ‘awakened’ to its true nature. I am now inviting you to consciously embody, fully acknowledge, welcome, and be your source Self, which is the Christ-light, the Krishna Consciousness. Simply leave aside all that arises in the mind and remain as the intelligent space in which they arise. BE THAT SPACE. Don’t waste time focusing on small things, on trying to ‘over-clean your house’. There are spots on the moon, but they do not affect its light. Don’t put too much energy into trying to get rid of small things. Focus that energy instead on the source from which even the mind and consciousness are observed to arise. That is most powerful. That is what I call ‘the one medicine for everything’, because when your mind is focused on the Self, the power of that has the capacity to bless every aspect of your expression automatically. These things become self-evident and very clear inside. As wisdom dawns and blossoms in your Heart, it is like there is an angel within you that gives you right guidance— the right approach without any sense of separation.
A Merry Christmas, a beautiful evening, and a beautiful day to you wherever you are. Not just a human day, but a day of God. Not a day made of hours, but a day full of grace. ~Mooji 25 dec 2015

Get rid of arrogance-Adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
“Get rid of your arrogance.”

I appreciate you. I appreciate those of you who support me financially, who put funds in the collection box. Most of you realize this is my only source of income at this time. I appreciate that. Always remember whatever you give of yourself, you’re giving to yourself, because there's only one self. When you give away your love, you give your joy, you give your truth, you give your happiness, you give your finances, you give whatever you give, it's like your right hand giving to the left hand.

If you took away all space and all time there would only be one person. The reason we appear as many is because of time and space, maya, the illusion. It appears as if there is time and space. Therefore there are many. But as you go within yourself, as you begin to identify with pure consciousness, time and space seem to disappear, and wherever you look, you see yourself, for there's no room for anyone else. There is only one self. This is why you should never be angry at anyone, never judge anyone, never become upset with anyone or react to any one, for you are really doing it to yourself.

Whatever is going to happen will happen. Your job is not to react. Your job is to understand that everything is predestined. You are in your right place where you are supposed to be. If there is anything that appears in your life that you don't like, it's wrong to try to change it. It's right to go within yourself and see the truth within yourself. And then the appropriate changes will come by itself. Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well.

So I acknowledge you. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. I love you all, for I love the self. Love and the self are synonymous. And since the self is omnipresent, how can I not love you. Love is consciousness, absolute reality. We are all that. Why do you see others? Why do you see perverse situations? Why do you see all these dastardly things that seem to be apparent. Your eyes are meant for you to see, but to see the truth, whereas with most people the eyes see an object and send the message to the brain, according to your programming, and you react accordingly. When you begin to realize it's all a game, no one is born, no one dies, and in between no one prevails. There is only God, pure awareness, and you are that.

There are many methods to use to recognize this truth. This is why I share these with you. Not everyone can practice atma-vichara, self-inquiry. Therefore I share these other methods with you. There are many things that you should do. How many more years do you think you've got in your body? Why go after the fleeting things that change and disappear. Forget about trying to win the lottery. Forget about who's hurt you. Forget about your sins of omission and commission. Let go of everything. Be yourself. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

I know sometimes you get up in the morning and you feel out of sorts. You may feel depression, you may feel the collective unconscious of the world, which is a negative vibration. You should immediately snap out of this by realizing this is not the truth about me. The truth about me is I am love, I am consciousness, I am absolute reality. Identify with the truth about yourself. Do not allow your mind to tell you one iota of negative thinking. Catch yourself. It makes no difference what position you're in. Do not believe and think, “Well, when things get better I'll have time to do this.” There's no such thing. You've got to start where you are. You've got to be yourself now and forever. Things will never change.

Get rid of your arrogance. Develop humility. Become humble. By that I don't mean become a door mat for people to step on. In humility there is strength. You understand the truth. Therefore you do not get involved in pettiness, in nonsense. The truth shall always prevail, regardless of appearances.

Keep Quiet

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
Jnana Marga

Let me ask you a question. What do you think is the difference between this teaching, Jnana marga, and the rest of the yogas, prayer, religions or whatever? What is the basic difference? Who can tell me?

Student: Jnana marga is not concerned with anything of a relative nature, not even becoming enlightened.

Robert: Well, in a way that’s true.

Student: No objects?

Robert: In a way that’s true too, but there’s a more rational explanation.

Student: There is nothing to be obtained. Just recognized.

Robert: Well that’s true too. Actually, the answer I'm looking for is this -- in every teaching besides Advaita Vedanta, there’s a personal I. Think about that. Let's take Hatha yoga. The I learns postures and the ego becomes expanded. Because you can say, "I can stand on my head and twist my feet," and you give it a Sanskrit name. But you still say, "I can do this," so the I has become inflated.

Take raja yoga, the eight limbed path. Now these things are good. There’s nothing wrong with these things. I'm not putting them down. But there has to be someone to learn the jamas, nejamas, the virtues. There’s someone who is learning all these things. The I has learned to become virtuous.

Take Kundalini yoga. I am focusing on the chakras, on each chakra. There’s always I and I and I.

Take prayer. I am praying to God. Again there’s nothing wrong with these things, but the reason we call this the direct path is because this is the only teaching that investigates the I. We're not interested in the effects. Whatever the effect may be, we realize that the I is behind it. We realize that if we find the I, and follow it to its source, everything else will be wiped out and we'll become free. This is why it is called the direct path.

Also what is the difference between meditation and Jnana marga, because most of you realize that on this path it is not really necessary to meditate? So what's the main difference between meditation and this path?

Student: There has to be someone to meditate.

Robert: True, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for. In meditation there's always an object of your meditation. And again the I is concentrating on certain words, mantra, or whatever. Therefore you're not getting rid of the I. You're concentrating on something else, where you exclude everything except the mantra or the words of your meditation, whether it's God, or whatever.

In this teaching you simply inquire for the source of the I. "Who am I? Where did I come from?" Even when I say to you, "Where did I come from?" some of you are relating to your body, aren't you? You're thinking where did I come from, as a body? But that's not what we mean. You want to know where the I came from, not where you came from. If you find out where the I came from you will realize that you do not exist. You never did and you never will. That's the point. Where did I come from? And as you get used to this kind of thinking, whenever you use the word I, you will never refer to your body again.

For instance, if you have a cold you usually say, "I have a cold." Only now you will catch yourself and you will laugh, because you will say, "I has the cold." Sounds like bad English. I has the cold. It has nothing to do with me. So where did the I come from that has the cold? And as you follow the I it will lead you to the source, where there’s no I, there’s no cold.

You can use this method for everything. "I am hungry." Well catch yourself, and realize that I is hungry. I is not my real self. I is hungry, yet my real self can never be hungry. I'm tired, I'm depressed, I'm happy, I feel beautiful, I feel wonderful. It's all the same thing. As long as you are referring to your body you’re making a big mistake. Separate yourself from I.

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 can't 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. Then suddenly after years perhaps of meditation and 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 it 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?

If you think you've got something to overcome, if you’re going to believe you've got to work on yourself, you've got to make some kind of effort, it will be hard. After all, who makes the effort? The ego. Who's telling you all these things you've got to overcome? The mind. You think you've got to overcome your bad habits, you've got to overcome past karma, you have to overcome samskaras. That's all a lie.

may you all experience bliss and your true self - adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang 
May you all experience bliss and your true Self

Do not think you're so important that you have to overcome a problem. That is all you're doing when you think you have a problem to overcome. It makes you feel important. I've got to solve this problem, I've got to overcome this situation. As if 'I' is somebody important. 'I' doesn't exist. If 'I' doesn't exist neither does your problem. You know by now that your problem exists because you believe in your 'I'. When you realize 'I' does not exist everything disappears.

This is what I mean when I tell you sometimes, there are no problems, there never were any problems and there never will be any problems. But as soon as you begin to think there are problems. Even while you're sitting here listening to me, if you allow your mind to think doesn't a problem come up in your life that you're thinking about, that you think is so important at the present time? But if you were spontaneous and live in the eternal present, the eternal now, forget about the past, don't worry about the future but live in this particular second, in this second there are no problems. If you can only stay in this split second, no-one is hungry, no one is ill, no-one is in need, no-one is suffering.

As you begin to stay in that split second, this split second expands into a minute, into two minutes, into ten minutes and as you abide in it, it turns into eternity. You are always in that split second where nothing is happening. Where no thing is taking place. That split second is bliss, pure intelligence, absolute reality and you are that.

So again, it begins when you get up in the morning. You observe the 'I'. You watch yourself thinking I got up, I just woke up. But now here's the catch, do not allow the 'I' to go any further. As soon as you watch yourself saying, "I just woke up". Try to catch yourself and ask yourself the question, "Who is the 'I' that just woke up?" For in that split second prior to awakening you were in bliss, no thoughts. But as soon as you begin to think of the 'I', the world comes into play. In that split second before I came along you were awake.

Yet there was no world, there were no people, there was no universe, there were no problems. In that split second. But as soon as you began to think of 'I' your troubles began. Because you're thinking about the day, I'm hungry, I have to take a shower. I have to get dressed and I begins to do its mischief. That is why it's very important to observe the 'I' coming out. If you can really observe it you will see that the 'I' is coming out of your spiritual heart on the right side of your chest. But a funny thing will happen. As you observe it, it will go back, isn't that interesting? As you observe the 'I' or as you question it, "Where did the 'I' come from?" It will stop. It will stop its procedure, it will stop its journey to the brain where you become body conscious.

All these things happen in a split second. So you have to be aware, you have to be alert, you have to watch for it. I admit it takes some effort in the beginning but it's well worth it.

Think about this again. Just before you awaken to the 'I', you are already awake in that split second. In that split second there is no world but you are awake, you are conscious, you're totally happy, you're totally self-realized in that split second. But then the 'I' begins its journey from the heart to the brain.

Now if you can observe the 'I' and question its authority, it will lose its momentum and slow down. And begin to return to the heart. If you can get it to return to the heart, you will be conscious but you will be liberated. You will go about your business like you always do. You will take your shower, you will eat your breakfast, it will all happen spontaneously.

There will be no thoughts. The only experience you will have is total bliss. Total happiness, total joy and yet your body will go about it's business. It can happen all at once or it can take time. But it's worth the effort isn't it? Even if it takes you a lifetime, at least you will be free at that time.

What is more important than this? Can anything be more important than this? This guarantees that you do not return to this earth. It guarantees that while you are alive in your body, so-to-speak, you will be a jivan-mukta, self-realized in the body. This is your only salvation. But you've got to do it.

These teachings used to be handed out by the Rishis from mouth to mouth to explain it. It is most difficult to comprehend the books. Even though some of them are very clear...

...something within that knows what to do to make it happen. But if you try to understand with your brain, with your head, you will forget. And when tomorrow morning comes you will get up and your 'I' will take over immediately. You will say I'm late for work, I'm in a hurry, I'm this and I'm that and you will forget everything we're talking about this evening.

But if you are listening with your heart, when tomorrow morning comes you will spontaneously be able to catch yourself. I will repeat again how to do this. When you first open your eyes, in that split second you are conscious. The 'I' has not risen yet, but remember it's all happening in a second. So you've got to be aware, you've got to be awake, intelligent. Watch and you will notice that the 'I' begins very faintly and becomes stronger. You can shout out, "Who are you?"

That's the same as saying, "Who am I?" Who gave you permission to awaken? Observe, watch. The 'I' will begin to lose momentum. The 'I' will become weaker and weaker. The way it usually happens with people, with most people, is they're able to catch it for maybe a few seconds and then the 'I' will take over completely. Do not be disappointed, that is the worst thing you can do. It has taken most people years, centuries perhaps to go all the way.

Be happy with what you've got. But as you begin to do this practice diligently, everyday, that split second where you observe the 'I', will expand into a full second, into two-seconds, into three-seconds. In other words for those three-seconds you will be self-realized to an extent. You will be conscious, period. You will not be conscious of this or that, you will be conscious.

And you will feel something you never felt before, a joy. You will know you're on the right track. Then when the 'I' takes over completely you can get up and go about your business and ask yourself, "Who am I? What is the source of the 'I'?" During the day as the thoughts come to you, be receptive, be alert, question, "To whom do these thoughts come?" They come to me, "Who's me? Who am I? What is the source of the 'I'?" Practice that all day. The next morning you do the same thing. If you do this my friends I can assure you, things will begin to happen to you that you never dreamed possible. May you all experience bliss and your true Self.

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