Robert Adams - Everything is Satsang

You see you don’t have to practice self-inquiry by asking, “Who am I?” all the time

But the question I’m still getting is,
“Sometimes I’m not in the mood to practice. Sometimes I don’t feel right when I practice. Is there anything I can do before to get me in the mood to practice?”
And the answer is yes. If you like, before you practice self-inquiry, you can pray to your favorite God. Whoever he or she may be. Then when you become devotional you will want to practice self-inquiry also.

So what is something you can do before self-inquiry?
Well, let’s see.
You can take a statement such as:
“There is one life. That life is consciousness and that life is all there is and that life is my life now”.

Think about that.
There is one life.
That life is consciousness.
That life is all there is and that life is my life now.

And you ask yourself, “What does this mean?”
You see you don’t have to practice self-inquiry by asking, “Who am I?” all the time.
You do not have to start that way at all.
You can take something like we just said and inquire to yourself of its meaning.
You understand that there is one life and that life is consciousness.
And you talk to yourself this way, you say, “Well this means there is nothing else that exists but consciousness.
If only consciousness exists where does love come from or harmony or peace or joy or bliss?”
You think about that.
And then the answer comes, “Why these verities must be synonymous with consciousness.
In other words, consciousness is another term for bliss or love or joy or peace.
So if you have consciousness you have the rest.
And if that is all there is that must be me now.
Not tomorrow, or the next day or next week but right now!
I must be that consciousness and consciousness must be omnipresence.
Everywhere present at the same time.
There is nothing else.

This means that I’ve got no problems.
There is nothing wrong anywhere.
All is well.
Because there is no other place for it to come from, can’t you see? There is no place for troubles to come from.
There is no place for disharmony.
There is no place for evil.
But then something inside of you says, “Well it exists.
Look at man’s inhumanity to man.
Look at what is going on in the world, the homeless, the starving children of Ethiopia and so forth”.

Disharmony does exist.
But if you are inquiring in the right way in your Self, something will ask you and come to you and say, “Yes, but to whom does it exist?”
This means that it is not like you’re trying to ignore these things but you are coming from a different space.
You see the world differently.
You begin to realize that you are the Self of all.
The word Self with a capital ‘S’ does not mean you as yourself as an individual.
When you experience the Self you are the Self of all.
You are the universe.
You become all things.

In other words, everything is taking place within you.
Once you realize that you are the cause of everything in this world, something within you stops reacting.
You stop reacting.
You see what’s going on but you stop reacting because you’ve become the Self of all.

Robert Adams
Everything is Satsang - December 16, 1990

Robert Adams