Robert Adams - The Collected Works - Advaita

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How To Use This eBook
• This is The Collected Works of Robert Adams. This volume consists of transcripts of
recorded talks between August 1990 to June 1993.
• The transcribed recorded satsangs were completed as accurate as possible - word for
word. Roberts speech being more clearer and accurate than students especially in the
question and answer section.
• The Table Of Contents has information about the transcripts and the audio files. The
ticks in the same column show that there is an audio file available for the transcript.
• If you click on the page number in the right hand column for each of the satsangs in
the Table Of Contents and you will go to that chapter. At the end of each satsang a
“[TOC]” button will take you to the Table of Contents of that satsang when clicked.
• Some transcripts did not have an audio file associated with it, therefore the tran-
scribed satsang was taken from Ed Muzikas Collected Works book. The talks that do
not have a corresponding audio file have been marked with a cross in the Table Of
Contents.
• There were also transcripts that did not have a date associated with them. They were
placed at the end of the Table Of Contents.
• In some of the transcripts the symbols “???” , “unclear” are used to signify that the
audio was unclear and the dialogue could not be heard well enough to be tran-
scribed.
• The question and answer section of the satsangs - in this latest edition - the symbol
used for a students dialogue is symbolized as SA:, SN:, SJ: etc. This was only used to
distinguish between students dialogues and to group the dialogue with Robert into
manageable blocks. All students questions are in italic and thus are easily followed
when grouped with Roberts dialogues which are represented with an R: and are
non-italicized.

How To Read The Transcripts
by Robert Adams
“The way you should read these transcripts is preferably before you go to sleep at
night. If you have time during the day, you should read them during the day also. Yet you
should not read them as you read a book. You read a book, you finish, you go on to the
next book. You should really stick to one transcript for at least a week, if not more.
!You read it through, and then you begin all over again. You go from paragraph to
paragraph. You do not read it fast or speed read it. You take each paragraph and you pon-
der on the paragraph. You put the transcript down and you cogitate, ponder the para-
graph, assimilate it, digest it, make it a part of your being and then go to the next para-
graph.
!If you're doing this correctly, you will not have the time to read thousands of
books. I'm not saying you shouldn't read other books, but if you really want to make
headway fast, follow one direction. Go one way. You may find many contradictions when
you read so many books, and you'll become confused and even disgusted...”
Taken From Transcript 99: 3rd October 1991
The Confession of a Jnani
Written by Robert Adams
During Robert’s satsangs, he would ask students to read this writing. Many of the
transcripts refer to this writing. It has been placed here for your reference. There are two
versions one that is read at satsang and the one below. This version was published in the
“Silence Of The Heart” book.
“For a Jnani who has realized the identity of his inner being with the infinite Brahman
there is no rebirth, no migration, and no liberation. He is beyond all this. He is firmly estab-
lished in his own Absolute Existence-Knowledge-Bliss true nature.
The further existence of his body and the world appears to the Jnani as an illusion,
which he cannot remove, but which no longer deceives him. After the death of this body, as
in life, he remains where and what he eternally is, the first principle of all beings and things:
formless, nameless, unsoiled, timeless, dimensionless and utterly free. Death cannot touch
him, cravings cannot torture him, sins do not stain him; he is free from all desire and suffer-
ing. He sees the infinite Self in all, and all in the infinite Self, which is his being.
The Jnani confesses his experience thus:
I am infinite, imperishable, Self-luminous, Self-existent, I am without beginning or end,
I am birthless, deathless, without change or decay. I permeate and interpenetrate all things.
In the myriad universes of thought and creation, I Alone Am.”
1990 Table Of Contents 1
Date Audio 11999900 TTrraannssccrriippttss -- AAuugguusstt ttoo DDeecceemmbbeerr Page
FFoorreewwoorrdd bbyy EEddwwaarrdd MMuuzziikkaa 18
900803 ✔ 1 You Must Have Your Own Experience 20
900812 ✔ 2 There Is No Birth! 32
900816 ✔ 3 My Confession 46
900819 ✔ 4 The Four Principles of Self Realization 62
900823 ✔ 5 The Four Principles Revisited 81
900826 ✖ 6 The Three Vehicles of Self Realization 97
Working With the Four Principles of Self
900830 ✔ 7 107
Realization
900902 ✔ 8 The Three Vehicles (incl: Self-Inquiry Mantra) 124
900906 ✔ 9 Satsang vs Practice 138
900909 ✔ 10 Spiritual Healing (incl: “I-Am” Meditation) 154
900916 ✔ 11 Two Ways to Self Realization 167
900928 ✔ 12 I Am Not The Body! 185
900930 ✔ 13 There Is No Self! 201
901011 ✔ 14 There Are No Problems 213
901014 ✔ 15 The Mind Is Not Your Friend 226
901018 ✖ 16 It’s All A Dream 238
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1990 Table of Contents 2
901021 ✔ 17 Divine Ignorance 248
901025 ✔ 18 Satguru vs Pseudo-guru 263
901028 ✔ 19 Slow Down The Mind And Let Reality Rush In 273
901101 ✔ 20 Before I Am 289
901104 ✔ 21 Robert’s Experience 301
901108 ✔ 22 Beliefs And Predetermination 312
901111 ✔ 23 The Law Of Cause And Effect 326
901115 ✔ 24 Three Essential Questions 342
901118 ✔ 25 Three Essential Questions Revisited 357
901122 ✔ 26 Dealing With Problems 373
901125 ✔ 27 Eternal Happiness 391
901202 ✔ 28 Satsang 399
901209 ✔ 29 More On Satsang 414
901213 ✔ 30 The Ultimate Happiness 426
901216 ✔ 31 Everything Is Satsang 443
901223 ✔ 32 Remember The Reasons Why You Came Here 457
901230 ✔ 33 Robert And Ramana 469
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1991 Table of Contents 1
Date Audio 11999911 TTrraannssccrriippttss -- JJaannuuaarryy ttoo JJuunnee Page
910103 ✔ 34 One Self, One Consciousness 479
910106 ✔ 35 Does A Sage Get Angry? 493
910110 ✔ 36 It’s A Mystery 508
910120 ✖ 37 Everything Can Be Met With “Who Am I?” 522
910124 ✔ 38 The Leela 530
910127 ✔ 39 Sitting In The Silence 541
910131 ✔ 40 Only Consciousness Exists 549
910203 ✔ 41 The Good For Nothing Man 564
910207 ✔ 42 The Fourth State Of Consciousness 578
910210 ✔ 43 I Am 591
910214 ✔ 44 Signs Of Progress 601
910217 ✔ 45 Following The “I” 610
910221 ✔ 46 It’s A Blessing In Disguise 619
910224 ✔ 47 How Shall I Act In The World? 626
910228 ✔ 48 I Am Is Brahman! 640
910303 ✔ 49 I Acknowledge You 652
910307 ✔ 50 Put First Things First 665
910310 ✔ 51 Everything Leads To Silence 676
910314 ✔ 52 Jnana Marga, The Path Of Knowledge 686
910324 ✔ 53 Will Sadhana Improve My Humanhood? 698
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1991 Table of Contents 2
910328 ✖ 54 Abiding In The I 710
910331 ✔ 55 Freedom 719
910425 ✖ 56 Pure Intelligence Is Silence 725
910428 ✖ 57 You Have To Have Bhakti 732
910502 ✔ 58 Bhakta And Jnana 741
910505 ✔ 59 How To Develop Compassion And Humility 751
910512 ✔ 60 Attachments 763
910516 ✔ 61 You Are Inhuman 772
910519 ✔ 62 The Land Of The Jnanis 777
910523 ✔ 63 How Bad Do You Want To Awaken? 788
910526 ✔ 64 Everyone Is Searching For Happiness 801
910530 ✔ 65 What Is, Is God 809
910602 ✔ 66 Freewill And Predetermination 821
910606 ✔ 67 Beyond The World Of Maya 834
910609 ✔ 68 Happiness 842
If We Are Consciousness What Happens
910613 ✔ 69 852
To The Body?
910616 ✔ 70 Jnana, Siddhis And Spiritual Healings 858
910620 ✔ 71 Helping 867
910623 ✖ 72 Suffering 874
910627 ✔ 73 Renounce Everything Mentally 882
910630 ✔ 74 That Divine Moment Is Now! 891
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1991 Table of Contents 3
Date Audio 11999911 TTrraannssccrriippttss -- JJuullyy ttoo DDeecceemmbbeerr Page
910704 ✔ 75 Everything Is What You Believe It Is! 901
910707 ✔ 76 There Are Not Two Bodies! 909
910711 ✔ 77 There Is Nothing Wrong 918
910714 ✔ 78 What Is Brahman? 928
910718 ✔ 79 Stop Identifying With Your Body And Mind! 936
910721 ✔ 80 The Self Is Total Silence 945
910725 ✔ 81 Absolute Nothingness 955
910728 ✔ 82 Using The “I-am” Meditation With Self Inquiry 962
910801 ✔ 83 You Are Not I 970
910804 ✔ 84 Just Being (Using “I-am” with Self Inquiry) 980
910808 ✔ 85 Nothing Is Your Real Nature 991
910811 ✔ 86 On The Path(How To Get Rid of Negative Habits) 1001
910818 ✖ 87 Advaita Vedanta 1014
910825 ✔ 88 Do Not Meditate On The I-Thought 1019
910829 ✖ 89 The Practice Of Self-Inquiry 1027
910901 ✔ 90 The World Is Your Movie 1037
910905 ✔ 91 The Three Gunas 1049
910908 ✔ 92 Invoking The Name Of God 1057
910912 ✔ 93 Silence, The Spiritual Centre 1071
910915 ✔ 94 The Cosmic Joke 1084
910919 ✔ 95 Get The Personal Self Out Of The Way! 1093
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