Satsang Recording

Take Off Your Mask!

Advaita Satsang with Robert Adams
Advaita Satsang with Robert Adams
Take Off Your Mask!
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I welcome you with all my heart. I love you all unconditionally, unequivocally. It’s the most wonderful to be with you again. Happy Halloween. Halloween is a time when you put on a mask and go around trick-or-treat. But we’re all wearing masks all the time, aren’t we?

I ask you to take off your mask right now. Take off your face and who are you? Right now you think that you’re an Ed or a Mary or a John or somebody else. And wear that kind of mask.

But that’s not really you. You are free of all masks, all those kinds of things. Your real nature is Brahman. It’s up to the Nanda.

And you’ve been wearing a mask all of your life. Many lives. Leaving you with somebody else. And as long as you feel like someone else, you’re going to suffer. Accordingly, as long as you’re a human being of any kind, you have to suffer. That’s the nature of life. Every human being suffers. Show me one human being that doesn’t suffer. I don’t care who you are, how much money you have, what position you have in life. Everyone suffers because they think they’re human. That’s the catch. You suffer because you think you’re human. You think you’ve got a problem. You think something’s wrong sometimes. So you saw it accordingly. But once something happened to you where you didn’t think you were human again, or for the first time you saw something else, you saw it beyond the body, beyond the mind. You saw your body and your mind as a superimposition of consciousness, on yourself, like ink on paper. But usually you stop and read the paper, the ink, the words, you forget about the paper, you forget about the paper. You know, for some reason you awaken and you realize you’re paper. In the paper there would be no words, you’re in the paper, and all life’s things are superimposed on the paper, on the kind of self and consciousness, upon it is. In other words, you are beyond all phenomenality, you are beyond all existence, beyond everything, everything, the universe, trees, the earth, planets, satellites, Everything is a superposition and a consciousness in itself, and you are that, you are that self, just upon this makes you feel good, you feel wonderful and free, that you need to experience it, you need to know what’s going on in this world, you don’t have something to do with this world at all, you’re totally free of it, feel this, and it’s all freedom right now, you’re totally free, of everything, you feel wonderful, you feel good, you feel great, it’s wonderful to be free.

Why are you free? This is a fact that previously you thought you were a body, and you thought the world was real, things were real, and were bothered with this world that made you sad, made you happy, made you all kinds of things. But now you realize that you’re the witness to all these things. You are the witness of everything. The witness of life’s expression. But you’re not the last expression, you’re the witness. So being the witness, what is there to fear? What is there to be afraid of? You are the light and the salvation. I wish you’d be afraid of, if anything happened to you. It’s impossible. My identification with the mind caused the world to repair. It has, of course, caused the suffering. If you stop identifying with the mind, there’s no way to suffer. It doesn’t have any problems. It doesn’t believe what the mind tells you or shows you in this world. The mind fools you and makes you believe that things should be a certain way. And in another way, you feel terrible. You feel like suffering. You feel bad. There is another truth, of course. You should be totally free right now. You should be a reality right now, this moment. You’re totally free right now, this moment. I know that none of you are coming here and you want me to stop talking right away. You’re both sitting and looking at me. Your speech isn’t the answer for you.

Sitting in the silence is the answer. You’re listening to words. Remember this always. Sitting with me is the answer. Words come and go. Always be grateful to sit in silence. Feel the happiness inside of you. When you sit in silence, feel the bliss in your head and your brain. Feel the bliss throughout your body. You sit quietly. It’s that thing. This is what this thing is all about. Be still. Be quiet. Feel the bliss in your brain. This causes changes to come. Fast changes. Your life becomes better. All fears leave you. And it’s so slow down. I also learned to be still.

Be still, know that I am God. I learned to be still alive. Stillness will remove all the burdens from you. Which was in karma. Give you total freedom.

To be still. It reminded me of the story of the holy man in the marketplace. I used to walk up and down in the marketplace proclaiming God. And the witness of God. Telling people that are sinners.

And suffer for the rest of their life. To repent. To get badly all they want. And she would lament and cry, look out the window, and look at the so-called holy man and say to herself, O God, have mercy upon me, have mercy upon me, that’s what she would say. And the son passed the bucket over, and the father looked at the bodies. And the father appeared in front of St. Peter, and it was the kingdom of heaven. the holy man looked at the prostitute and he said to God hey look at this lady she seems to be able to get into heaven what a surprise she has she’s going on to go where she belongs St. Peter opened the gate and pulled her in and left her mouth he said hey what’s this why are you doing this I’ve been your servant all these years I’ve preached about you spoken about you to everyone she’s been a prostitute I can’t let her in and let me out St. Peter looked at him and he said you’ve been doing a lot of talking haven’t you you’ve been talking for 35 years saying nothing but talking but in your heart you have lust and greed all those negative emotions honestly she was a person on the outside when she said she was pure she goes in you go out I work with you in business like us look at your own life what do you do for your spiritual work you talk a lot you show your friends how much you know you read books on his radio and say now you’re enlightened you know everything you need to know it’s just like a man in the marketplace, there’s no difference since he has to know nothing he doesn’t know something he even knows nothing becomes saved so to speak he just thinks he knows something he has to go through life again and again he wants to keep quiet and be still humility, humbleness loving kindness nonjudgmental those are the things you have to practice You never want to be a source before you start.

Change them. This is what you have to do while you’re alive. You never allow the source to get the best of you. You never want the source to rule you. Become matchable over your thoughts, over your feelings and your emotions. Take control of your mind, your emotions. The world. In other words, you never allow the world to show you anything that makes you sad or upset. Become free by not reacting to things. You’ll discover your real nature soon enough. You’re going to be perfectly free now. Now, anyone can become free and they’ll stop reacting to things. The things that practice so many sadness and so many spiritual practices. It’s in the middle of the world looking for freedom, looking for the person who can help them become free. There’s been many years in the Incarnation that we’ve finally learned no one can free but yourself. First, you have to understand that you’re already free. You’ve always been free, you’ve always been free. Secondly, you have to remove all the things of this world that make you think you’re not free. In other words, you have to negate the world. You don’t try to work on things to make you free, because you’re very free. You’re working so you can live this thing and so that you’re not free. The thoughts, the emotions, the feelings. When you feel you’re in a bad mood, change it. Then when I talk to you, you’re in a bad mood.

You and I both know people like this. Don’t breathe. You see, when I do all that saying, how bad I feel, I feel lousy, I feel this, I feel that. You don’t have to feel this way, change it. You’re the power to change it. Change the way you feel by changing your mind. I’m not sure you have bad feelings with people using yourself, using yourself now, or tomorrow, next week, or now. Life is in between the words. I give you a space to feel it. And the space between my words is a power. Feel it between the words. You’ve heard the words, and I feel the power between the words. I’ve been programmed to think certain ways. Most of us never change. I was saying you have to change, you’re going to get anywhere. It begins by developing a tremendous humility.

I keep saying this over and over again to you. You have to develop your humility, that comes first. What does your humility mean? It means to leave everything alone, leave everybody alone. You don’t have to fail anyone’s life unless they ask so. And if they ask themselves to go on their own path, showing which way to go. You have no right to fail anyone’s life. This is the first thing you have to learn in spiritual life. You never want to become free, liberate. Leave people alone, leave things alone, leave the world alone. There’s a current which knows the way. And know that they gave everything in this world. Now they help from you. What you should do is go, we send you, look for the current. Throw the current. We send you. Instead of your heart. That’s the current. The whole voice inside of you. You’re a melting kind of love. You want to love you, I thought you’re a melting. Catch yourself when you came to continue this thinking. When you’re sitting in the sun, some of you were thinking. Most of you. Some of us come to you, this or that. That’s what you have to work on. You’re just holding it back, you’re not working on it. Stop thinking, you have to stop yourself from thinking. Only say, too many thoughts come. You have a message to do, that’s what you work with. Too many thoughts come, to me, or am I.

That’s it, to train the thoughts. You have to accept the thoughts. You have a mantra, use a mantra. You have some kind of method that you’re using, use it. The importance of accept the thoughts and know what’s going on. You have a message to use yourself when it’s good. Recept the thoughts, so you have to accept the thoughts. As the thoughts slow down everything will take care of itself. From this moment on, vehemently, make up your mind that you’ll never begin to know the thoughts are over you. You’ll catch the thoughts before they get started, before they expand and accept them. This is all you have to do. Any questions you’d like to ask? No questions, huh? Makes this work for me. I need to be the best for Dr. Gita. Happiness. It sounds confusing to some people. Even in the Upanishad it says, I am Brahman. But the average person who believes the body is Brahman, or God. The average person who believes what you are is God, it’s not true. What you are can never be God, what you are is a mistake. But I am is God, you are not I am. We don’t believe you are I am. You really am if you are God, that’s what we are talking about. I am is Brahman, not the body. If someone says that I am God, be careful of them.

It refers to the body. If you’re really God, you have nothing to say. If you don’t understand what that means, I am Brahman, be sound, be silly, be quiet. There’s nothing to say. If someone walks around and says, I am Brahman, be careful of that person. If someone says, I am God, and you are not, be careful of that person.

I am is Brahman. And I am is all there is, is nothing else. There’s nobody that exists, nothing that exists. Only Brahman exists. and you are that right now.

We’re going to open Dara at the end of this month. Thanksgiving is on Thursday. I’m sending we’ll open Dara just when you get to come here and enjoy yourself. Bring a friend, relative, enemy,

Somebody I hate. Love music, food, dancing. In November, after Thanksgiving on Sunday. Hold your peace. For God’s wills in you as you. Om Shanti, peace. And this concludes our session.