Satsang Recording

You Think You Know, But You Don’t

Advaita Satsang with Robert Adams
Advaita Satsang with Robert Adams
You Think You Know, But You Don't
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Good afternoon. Welcome. I welcome you with all my heart in this wonderful being with you once again. I love every one of you unconditionally, unequivocally. Remember what I love about you is what you really are, the self that I see. I don’t see the mistakes you make, the errors you make, the negativity you might be engrossed in. I see God, Brahman, the absolute reality. This is what I love about you. When I say I love you just the way you are,

That’s all there is, is God. Just the way you are is God. Brahman, I can’t love anything else about you except God, because that’s what you really are.

Try to remember this about yourself. But you are not the body of the Zua, you are not the mind with all its fabrications. You are that which has always been and will always be.

Boundless space, effortless, choiceless, pure awareness. this is what you are, you never were anything else but that, why do you persist in believing in something else? Why do you persist in believing that you are a mortal body, trying to make it someplace in this world, trying to become something or be something great, when in truth you have no circumference, no dimension, no whatsoever? You are bound to the space, you You are the sun, the moon, the planets, the galaxies, the trees, all of that is you, you are that. There is no separation. It is you, you separate yourself by thinking you are separate. You have created a mind for yourself that lives in duality and makes you believe that you are separate. You think you know something, but you do not know anything. When you realize that you do not know anything, then you become free and liberated. But as long as you believe you’re something, you can never be free and liberated because the something is limited. Something is always limited, therefore you cannot be something. You have to admit to yourself that you don’t know what anything is. You have no idea what anything is in this world or anywhere else. You think you know, but you don’t. I have an example. What is a cat? You have no idea. You just call it cat. You heard it now when you were a little person. It sounds like you just say cat. But what is a cat? Where did it come from? What’s the source? Who made it? Why is it like that? Where’s the tree? We have no idea. We only know it’s always existed when we call it a tree. We call the tree a cat. A cat a tree. What can everything around you in this earth? We give it a name. Everything has a name given by us. But we have no idea where came from where it is, why it’s here. This is called Divine Ignorance. And unless we have Divine Ignorance, we can never become free. Again, I say to you, as long as you believe you know something, then you know nothing. But when you think you know nothing, then you are something. Something undefinable, something exquisite, something wonderful.

Consciousness. This is why I always say to you, you have to develop humility. Complete humility. This is why we do chants. This is why we sit in the silence. It involves humility. If you don’t have humility then you have a long way to go. You have to have humbleness about you. This is the first time of high spirituality when you have humbleness and humility. If you think you know something, how can you be humble? How can you have humility? And if you believe you have material knowledge, you know what this is, you know what that is. You are argumentative about things. You are ready to fight. You have a chip on your shoulder to argue with people how can you be a god how can you be the ultimate reality you cannot you have to let go of everything stop holding on to anything including my words you don’t hold on to the words as I speak hear me and let them go for the words we hear the last minute and there’s a new minute coming up fresh and new every moment should be fresh and new in your life with no remembrance of the past or worried about the future.

You don’t have to be spontaneous, full of love and peace. This comes automatically when you stop fighting life. And how do you fight life? By thinking you know something. If you know something, you’re going to stick up for it, aren’t you? You’ll fight for your rights.

Or if you think you know something important and you don’t want anybody to take it away from you. What can you possibly know in this world? We know nothing.

So we sit still in silence drive deep with sin become peaceful and the world will take care of itself some of us believe it’s our job to change this world to make people believe what we believe to make this a better world in which to live this is a completely false assumption the world will take care of itself your job is to discover your reality and get the hell out of this planet and then you come back again this is what you’re here to do to get off this planet but as long as you’re attached to a personal place and saying how can you get off this planet you can’t You’ll be pulled back all the time. Think from them, the thing that you’re attached to. The thing that holds you here on this planet. People, places, things. Remember, you came into this world by yourself, you’re going out by yourself. You don’t take anybody with you. You don’t take anything with you. You know, I’m not saying you should act sarcastically, and blizzardingly, and not care about people. That’s not what I’m saying at all. As you develop yourself spiritually, a great love develops inside of you.

You get to hear music. There’s music from the heart. It happens when you first get out of bed in the morning, when you first wake.

Immediately you have to realize the truth about yourself. You should do this, all of you. You should understand and realize when you first wake up that you are absorbed in the power and presence of reality and feel it,

That you are that reality yourself it’s not limited to your body it’s boundless space boundless freedom think of this during the day and you go about your duties whatever you do make your life simple as simple as possible drop all complications and most of all never worry about the future of yourself this universe is a universe of bliss and joy and it loves you very much but you have to return that love by becoming simple, pure, happy. When you’re able to do this, you will see results.

There’s no need to keep adding on new knowledge to yourself, new experiences. You’ll never realize yourself, the truth about yourself. There’s nothing new that you need.

There’s no new knowledge that you need. Within you is everything that you need to be enlightened, to be self-realized. It’s what’s in you. It’s outside someplace. What’s in you? all the answers you’re looking for are within you everything you want is within you those of you who have been running around the world seeking spirituality, spiritual teachers looking for sacred books you’re wasting your time you have everything you need right within yourself the answer’s been there all the time you are the answer there’s no other answer, nobody can really help you look for yourself for everything you are pure consciousness is. Accept this for yourself right now. Feel what this means. To be pure consciousness.

To be conscious of yourself and absolute reality. Just thinking about this makes you very happy. Listen to the words between the words. There’s nothing happening. The true message I have for you is silence. This is a real message. A real teaching. This is why I leave space between each sentence so you can feel the presence feel the power feel it deeply if thoughts come to you inquire to whom do they come who’s thinking of these thoughts you have all the power you need to take care of yourself to become free try to feel very powerful never feel weakness feel the divine presence feel it this divine presence that has always been with you and will always be with you it’s simply awaiting your recognition and you recognize it by dropping everything else which you put first in your life, you become.

If there’s anything in this world that’s more important to you than your spiritual unfoldment, then you will experience that. Whatever you think is important, you will experience it sooner or later. But it will keep you back from being free.

Feel the silence. The silence is already a teacher. When there’s no one in your words, no questions that you think about, you’re in the silence. And the silence will reveal itself to you as absolute reality.

How loud is this to happen to yourself? allow the eternal peace to take you over the infinite love prevails your so-called problems, trials, tribulations are all resolved you are free nothing is disturbing you, nothing is bothering you you are awakening from the mortal dream right now the only way to remove calmness and scars from your consciousness is by refusing to play anymore you’re no longer desirous of being part of the Leela you don’t need to play any longer you’re free from the game free from the game of cause and effect good and bad up and down you’re totally free from this feel the freedom you feel wonderful you have risen you experience everything feel this you understand the whole universe emanates out of your mind all of a sudden you’ve been the creator of all of your experiences the only experiences of this world all comes out of you you are the one you have awakened to the truth and you’re absolutely free be at peace.

Anybody like to ask questions? I think of myself as a seeker. And if I use the word seeker, then it causes something to be found. The truth of the matter is there’s nothing to be found because if something’s found, there’s nothing to keep it from being lost. So the real question is that there’s something to be lost. And the thing to be lost is the idea that there’s something to be found, right? There’s really nothing to be lost, nothing to find. There’s never worth anything lost. There’s never anything to find. It’s all imagination. It’s false imagination. Of course. You’re just free of where you are right now. There’s nothing you have to do. Just be yourself. Good thoughts, bad thoughts. some useful thoughts, which are very rare, and some, most of them, I’m aware that they’re a waste of time. And I used to get sore of myself for having these thoughts, but I finally realized that I don’t control those thoughts. The very nature of the mind is to bring up And so I figured the thing to do would be to ask, who is it who is entertaining uninvited thoughts? And of course the answer to that is I am. I’m entertaining thoughts that are rarely a waste of time. I’m conscious of that, for the most part, all the time, really. And so if I say, I am, and the answer to that is something other than this psychosomatic apparatus who feels bad about having told us, and that something other can’t be put in words that’s the reality that is like the bible says seeking first the kingdom of god which is just another term for brahman so that goes back to thinking seeking or losing anyway

I think that’s pretty if i maybe if i can realize that this all of this This is really a waste of time. Maybe it’ll start. Sitting in the silence, the silence is what we’re aiming at. I’m aiming at. Is that right? That’s right. You tell us not to talk. Maybe I should do. I am the boundless ocean. This way and that, the wind blowing where it will, drives the ship of the world. But I am not shaken. I am the unbounded deep in whom the waves of the world naturally fall and rise. But I do not fall or rise. I am the infinite deep in whom all the worlds appear to rise beyond all form forever still even so am i i am not in the world the world is not in me i am pure i am unbounded free from attachment free from desire still what are we doing? that’s me you’re good

The bandara is going to be a week from next Saturday on June 5th, and out of the kindness kindness of Bart’s heart to let a piece exploit for it. And if everyone could please bring something, a warm dish or a cold dish, anything that will feed quite a few people. A lot of us, I’m sure. Oh, and it’s vegetarian, please. No turkeys allowed. Oh, also, if anyone wants to perform, there’s going to be entertainment, and if you could just let me know so I can know about how many people are entertaining so we can space the time.

Maybe I have something you’re saying. Good, very much. Yes, I’m saying. I would like to mention in the book, this is the 1990s talk to Robert. and there are new people who don’t know about it you can contact Andy very very nice you should all have a copy of it that would drive you crazy that’s good is anyone here going to remember to love yourself to worship yourself to pray to yourself to bow to yourself for God’s wealth as you, peace, I love you, all as well, goodbye.