The seer, though remaining amidst limitations, should yet be unaffected by their qualities,
like space. Knowing all, he should be like one that knows not, and should wander about, unattached, like the wind. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara
11/28/2025
vairagya Robert Adams
"A mysterious power will take care of
everything for you. This only happens when you
understand, I am not the doer. As long as you
believe you are the doer, you have to struggle,
you have to fight, you have to compete and you
have to straighten things out. But as soon as
you realize, I am not the doer. I didn't ask to be
born, I didn't have to go through this position,
to have the parents I had, to grow up where I
grew up, this is all karmic. The same power that
took care of this will take care of you now. Will
put you in your right place. Will take care of
your finances, your health and everything else.
Your job is to focus your attention on the Self."
~ Robert Adams
everything for you. This only happens when you
understand, I am not the doer. As long as you
believe you are the doer, you have to struggle,
you have to fight, you have to compete and you
have to straighten things out. But as soon as
you realize, I am not the doer. I didn't ask to be
born, I didn't have to go through this position,
to have the parents I had, to grow up where I
grew up, this is all karmic. The same power that
took care of this will take care of you now. Will
put you in your right place. Will take care of
your finances, your health and everything else.
Your job is to focus your attention on the Self."
~ Robert Adams
focus attention on self
"A mysterious power will take care of
everything for you. This only happens when you
understand, I am not the doer. As long as you
believe you are the doer, you have to struggle,
you have to fight, you have to compete and you
have to straighten things out. But as soon as
you realize, I am not the doer. I didn't ask to be
born, I didn't have to go through this position,
to have the parents I had, to grow up where I
grew up, this is all karmic. The same power that
took care of this will take care of you now. Will
put you in your right place. Will take care of
your finances, your health and everything else.
Your job is to focus your attention on the Self."
~ Robert Adams
everything for you. This only happens when you
understand, I am not the doer. As long as you
believe you are the doer, you have to struggle,
you have to fight, you have to compete and you
have to straighten things out. But as soon as
you realize, I am not the doer. I didn't ask to be
born, I didn't have to go through this position,
to have the parents I had, to grow up where I
grew up, this is all karmic. The same power that
took care of this will take care of you now. Will
put you in your right place. Will take care of
your finances, your health and everything else.
Your job is to focus your attention on the Self."
~ Robert Adams
self ramana presence
This morning, a European who was sitting in front of Bhagavan said through an interpreter:
“It is stated in the Mandukyopanishad that, unless samadhi, i.e., the 8th and last stage of yoga, is also experienced, there can be no liberation (moksha) however much meditation (dhyana) or austerities (tapas) are performed. Is that so?”
Bhagavan: “Rightly understood, they are the same. It makes no difference whether you call it meditation or.austerities or absorption, or anything else.
That which is steady, continuous like the flow of oil, is austerity, meditation and absorption.
To be one’s own Self is samadhi.”
Questioner: “But it is said in the Mandukyopanishad that samadhi must necessarily be experienced before attaining
liberation.”
Bhagavan: “And who says that it is not so? It is stated not only in the Mandukyopanishad but in all the ancient books.
But it is true samadhi only if you know your Self. What is the use of sitting still for some time like a lifeless object?
Suppose you get a boil on your hand and have it operated under chloroform; you don’t feel any pain at the time, but does that mean that you were in samadhi?
It is the same with this too.
One has to know what samadhi is. And how can you know it without knowing your Self?
If the Self is known,
samadhi will be known automatically.”
- Letters from Ramanasramam.
Chapter 138. Samadhi.
“It is stated in the Mandukyopanishad that, unless samadhi, i.e., the 8th and last stage of yoga, is also experienced, there can be no liberation (moksha) however much meditation (dhyana) or austerities (tapas) are performed. Is that so?”
Bhagavan: “Rightly understood, they are the same. It makes no difference whether you call it meditation or.austerities or absorption, or anything else.
That which is steady, continuous like the flow of oil, is austerity, meditation and absorption.
To be one’s own Self is samadhi.”
Questioner: “But it is said in the Mandukyopanishad that samadhi must necessarily be experienced before attaining
liberation.”
Bhagavan: “And who says that it is not so? It is stated not only in the Mandukyopanishad but in all the ancient books.
But it is true samadhi only if you know your Self. What is the use of sitting still for some time like a lifeless object?
Suppose you get a boil on your hand and have it operated under chloroform; you don’t feel any pain at the time, but does that mean that you were in samadhi?
It is the same with this too.
One has to know what samadhi is. And how can you know it without knowing your Self?
If the Self is known,
samadhi will be known automatically.”
- Letters from Ramanasramam.
Chapter 138. Samadhi.
Spiritual life i am ness is not me be content
Questioner: What kind of rule should a man choose for conducting himself in life?
Maharaj: This question emanates from your concepts. Throw out your concepts.
In the course of your study of spirituality, you have acquired many concepts which you call that knowledge. Do you want
me to be embroiled in your concepts?
That thought-flow is always there, except in deep sleep. Even for a jnani, the thought-flow is present but the thought has changed.
Most people are carried away by the thought-flow, but a rare person turns around, goes to the source and departs from the track of that original thought-flow, saying,
"It is not mine, not my affair.
This 'I Amness' is the product of objective material, it is not me. I am out of it."
The statements which come out of here will stick to you, and with that sticking, your spiritual job will be done. When you do anything it is for "me", but there is a limit to which that can go, isn't there?
Questioner: The needs are limitless.
Maharaj: I meet many people who, in the pursuit of happiness, are always miserable. Rarely do I encounter someone who says "I am content."
- The Final Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Excerpt from: The Consciousness and the Absolute.
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