Robert Adams
American advaita teacher and direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi. Born in New York City with the spontaneous capacity for samadhi, he traveled to India at seventeen and spent the last three years of Ramana's life with him. After decades of wandering, he settled in Los Angeles in the 1980s and held quiet satsangs with a small circle until his death from Parkinson's in 1997. His teachings — gathered in Silence of the Heart — point relentlessly to the Self as the only reality, and to self-inquiry as the most direct path home.
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Quotes by Robert Adams
97 quotes“Don't add concepts to silence.”
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“Surrender is the dropping of the doer.”
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“Bondage is forgetting. Liberation is remembering.”
liberationSatsang Transcripts
“Be vigilant. Don't slip into thought.”
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“In every moment, the Self is asking: Who am I?”
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“Sit alone. Be quiet. The Self is here.”
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“Thoughts are visitors. Don't invite them to stay.”
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“You are not on a path. You are the path.”
pathSatsang Transcripts
“Stop trying. Just be.”
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“The world is a projection of mind. The mind is empty.”
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“Where there is no mind, there is no world. Where there is no world, there is the Self.”
mindSatsang Transcripts
“Silence is the highest mantra.”
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“There is no future for the seeker, because the seeker has no future.”
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“In the heart, all is one. In the mind, all is many.”
unitySatsang Transcripts
“You are the awareness in which all worlds rise and fall.”
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“The Self is the only fact.”
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“Drop the labels. The Self has no name.”
selfSatsang Transcripts
“What is permanent? Only the Self.”
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“Stay close to silence. Silence reveals.”
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