Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

(Darren Dugan) #1

Continual Seeking.........................................................................


This is what Robert Adams said on the subject of
running from one teacher to another, endless reading
of spiritual books, discussion in forums such as
Facebook and emails, travel to exotic places seeking
perfect meditation venues, etc.
β€œIn Advaita Vedanta, the knower is the last to go.
What comes after the knower? Silence! There is
nothing else.
Just think how much knowledge you have gathered
all these years; reading so many books, seeing so many
teachers, having so many discussions, debates and
arguments. Can you not see now this is what has been
holding you back? You have believed that you are the
knower and that you have to become a knower to
become free.
Yet no one has to know anything for there is
absolutely nothing to know. Why is there nothing to
know? Because there is only omnipresence, infinity,
absolute reality and there is no name for this. (Here
Robert is talking about what comes after Self-
Realzation, knowing Turya, Brahman. He is talking
about the final condition.)
In other words, you cannot know absolute reality.
You cannot know pure awareness. As long as there is

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