Awakening.

ROBERT ADAMS
Excerpt from: Satsang
‘The end only comes when you awaken.’

Another factor to remember is whatever is happening to you in your life disappears when you go to sleep, doesn’t it?

When you’re in deep sleep none of these things matter any longer.

When you’re in deep sleep nothing is happening.

The person who is sick forgets about their sickness. The person who is angry forgets about their anger. The person who is depressed forgets about their depression.

The person who feels hurt forgets about the hurt.

That’s why when you wake up in the morning you say, “I had a good sleep, I feel refreshed.”

The reason you say you feel refreshed is because in the state of deep sleep all of your physical problems, all of your mental problems that you have when you’re so-called awake have gone into abeyance.

They’re not here any longer.

It is explained in Advaita Vedanta that the mind is now resting in the heart centre.

When the mind rests in the heart centre no thing ever exists again.

Nothing is there, but that which always is.

When you awaken to this world, the mind rushes to the heart centre back into the brain and you become cognizant of the body, of the world, of your problems, of everything.

Therefore when you think about this intelligently you’ll see how can these things be real if they disappear when I go to sleep.

The word real means something that is present all the time.

Therefore when you feel depressed and you fall asleep the depression is not there.

So it’s not present all the time.

Therefore it’s not real.

And this is true of all the aspects of your life, everything.

Everything that you can think about is not present when you are in deep sleep.

So it cannot be real.

Even the so-called good things of your life.

Your beautiful home, your beautiful boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or husband, your beautiful children, your car, your great bank account, all of your investments.

All of these things disappear when you’re in deep sleep.

As if they never existed.

When you wake up they exist once more.

It’s like having a recurring dream.

We’ll go back to the inquisition.

You’re being tortured a little more everyday.

Now they cut off your fingers and your nose and your toes.

You wake up during the day you go about your business.

You go to sleep at night and you start dreaming again.

The inquisition continues, your eyeballs are popped out.

All these things are happening to you.

Morning comes you wake up you go about your business.

You go to sleep again and the inquisition continues until there is nothing left of you.

All the parts are gone.

And you wake up again and you’re in this world.

This is exactly the same thing I’m talking about.

This is exactly what is happening to us.

We believe this world is so real.

It appears so real.

It’s like new people always tell me when I talk about these things, “Well Robert I can walk over to you and pinch you and you’ll feel the pinch.”

You can also do that in the dream can’t you? If you see me in the dream and if you tell me, “Robert this is not a dream because I can pinch you.”

So you pinch me in the dream but it’s a dream pinch.

It appears that I felt it in the dream, doesn’t it? So you see the same thing happens in this wake up world as in the dream world.

If you can only get what I’m talking about, you will become forever free.

This world is not real.

You’re wasting your time thinking about this world.

Getting involved in this world and doing all the things you’re doing.

What you should try to do is to awaken.

And the last thing I have to share with you.

If you believe that this world is real you will also believe that the other worlds are also real. You will believe that when you die you will be free.

That is like the born again Christians who can’t wait to go to heaven.

They say how rotten this world is but when they die they will be in glory, hallelujah.

Praise the Lord. (SH: Yeah, Amen.)

But I say to you if you have not found yourself in this life, you will not find yourself in the after life.

All you do in the after-life is take a break for a while, you take a rest, it’s like going to sleep.

But then you have to awaken once more whether you’re on an astral plane or causal plane or wherever your delusion takes you.

And you become aware of the same problems, the same stuff you had before. There is no end to it.

The end only comes when you awaken.

Therefore do not think of death as heaven sent.

It is only a continuum.

You have to awaken now.

When you awaken now you will realize there is absolutely no place to go, there is nothing to become.

You will just be as you’ve always been, effortless choiceless pure awareness, your true nature.

All is well.