silence i am no image

You must remind yourself as soon as you open your eyes in the morning. 

You simply remember every day that, 

"I am.not the body/mind phenomena. 

I am nothing to do with the world. 

I, is really Consciousness, Emptiness, Nirvana, Sat-Chit-Ananda. 

I is really Parabrahman. 

I am That." 

Just to remember, not to forget to remember, is the important point.

Do not think about world affairs. 

The world will take care of itself. 

The world is unfolding as it should. 

Do not think about your affairs. 

As far as you know, you are under the law of karma. And the Lord of Karma, Ishvara, will take care of  everything. 

So don't even think about those things. 

Do not think, in other words, of the world as manifestations, and do  not think about the body and its problems, but rather inquire, "To whom does this body come? 

To whom does the mind  come that keeps thinking and thinking and thinking? 

Who possesses it? 

I do. 

But my real I is Absolute Reality. 

Therefore, 

the 'I' that appears to have a body and its problems, 

the 'I' that appears to perceive the world and the universe, 

must be a  false I. 

Yet where did it originate? 

What gave it birth?"

Then you can think of the power source, 

the spiritual Heart on the right side of your chest. 

If you desire, you may see a  picture of your deity that you respect in the center of the ball of light on the right side of your chest. Whether it's the  Buddha or Moses or Jesus or whomever. And you watch the 'I' as it comes out of that center and goes up to your brain. 

And then all of a sudden, you identify with your body and the world comes into being. And the mind appears to sustain it all. 

That's when you catch yourself. 

You reverse the process. 

You watch the 'I' returning from the brain. You abide in the 'I'. 

You hold onto the 'I'. 

You follow the I-thread. 

You trace the 'I' as it returns to the spiritual Heart center and  disappears. 

Then you keep silent. 

You just keep totally silent. 

If thoughts do appear, you inquire,

To whom do they come?" 

and you keep silent again. 

As you practice this every day, day after day, week after week, month after month, 

year after year, something will give. Something has to give, and you will become free. 

Free in the Silence.

✅ T. 070 @ Jnana, Siddhis and Spiritual Healings - June 16, 1991

~ Robert Adams.  Silence of the Heart.

bhakti surrender

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silence

Learn to love the silence. Treat the silence as a beautiful entity. As the divine mother, shakti. The silence is all-power. Never take the silence for granted.

You should start feeling the silence as God. Feel good when you are in the silence. Up to you...up to now many of you have believed that the silence is nothing. It is a divine nothingness. Remember it's out of the silence that everything comes. When you return to the silence this is actually a self surrender. You are surrendering your ego, your lifestyle, your karma, everything is surrendered to the silence.

Remember never believe that the silence is a waste of time. Just as we realize now

that space is really consciousness. There is no such thing as space. It appears to be space but it's really consciousness. The same way the silence is consciousness. It's a living entity. It's alive, it's reality. Therefore sit in the silence and rejoice.

Robert Adams

I am that truth

I am that I am not messy consciousness . I am silence . 

Don't waste your energy in discussion .jiddu Krishnamurti 

I am that witness

Questioner: On what side is the witness? Is it real or unreal?

Maharaj: Nobody can say: ‘I am the witness’. The ‘I am’ is always witnessed. 

The state of detached awareness is the witness consciousness, the ‘mirror-mind’. It rises and sets with its object and thus it is not quite the real. Whatever its object, it remains the same, hence it is also real. It partakes of both the real and the unreal and is therefore a bridge between the two.

Questioner: If all happens only to the ‘I am’, if the ‘I am’ is the known and the knower and the knowledge itself, what does the witness do?

Of what use is it?

Maharaj: It does nothing and is of no use whatsoever.

Questioner: Then why do we talk of it?

Maharaj: Because it is there. 

The bridge serves one purpose only —

to cross over. You don’t build houses on a bridge. The ‘I am’ looks at things, the witness sees through them. It sees them as they are — unreal and transient. 

To say ‘not me, not mine’ is the task of the witness.

Questioner: Is it the manifested (saguna) by which the unmanifested (nirguna) is represented?

Maharaj: The unmanifested is not represented. Nothing manifested can represent the unmanifested.

Questioner: Then why do you talk of it? 

Maharaj: Because it is my birthplace.

- Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Excerpt from the book: I am That. Ch. 78.

Lord shiv power

Q: How does one go beyond the need of help? And can one help another to do so?

M: When you have understood that all existence, in separation and limitation, is painful, and when you are willing and able to live integrally, in oneness with all life, as pure being, you have gone beyond all need of help. You can help another by precept 

and example and, above all, by your being. You cannot give what you do not have and you don’t have what you are not. You 

can only give what you are — and of that you can give limitlessly.

Q: But, is it true that all existence is painful?

M: What else can be the cause of this universal search for pleasure? 

Does a happy man seek happiness? 

How restless people are, how constantly on the move! It is because they are in pain that they seek relief in pleasure. All the happiness they can imagine is in the assurance of repeated pleasure.

Q: If what I am, as I am, the person I take myself to be, cannot be happy, then what am I to do?

M: You can only cease to be — as you seem to be now. There is nothing cruel in what I say. To wake up a man from a nightmare is compassion. You came here because you are in pain, and all I say is: wake up, know yourself, be yourself. The end of pain lies not in pleasure. When you realize that you are beyond both pain and pleasure, aloof and unassailable, then the pursuit of happiness ceases and the resultant sorrow too. For pain aims at pleasure and pleasure ends in pain, relentlessly.

Q: In the ultimate state there can be no happiness?

M: Nor sorrow. Only freedom. Happiness depends on something or other and can be lost; freedom from everything depends on nothing and cannot be lost. Freedom from sorrow has no cause and, therefore, cannot be destroyed. Realize that freedom.

Q: Am I not born to suffer as a result of my past? Is freedom possible at all? Was I born of my own will? Am I not just a creature?

M: What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness? Because of the idea of 

separation and limitation they are painful. Momentary relief from pain we call pleasure — and we build castles in the air hoping 

for endless pleasure which we call happiness. It is all misunderstanding and misuse. Wake up, go beyond, live really.

Q: My knowledge is, limited, my power negligible.

M: Being the source of both, the self is beyond both knowledge and power. The observable is in the mind. The nature of the self is pure awareness, pure witnessing, unaffected by the presence or absence of knowledge or liking.

Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe 

yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.

- Excerpt from: I AM THAT. 

Chapter: MIND IS RESTLESSNESS ITSELF

Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.