tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post4036988335182670239..comments2024-03-20T13:24:11.422+05:30Comments on Arunachala and Ramana Maharshi: A Robert Adams ScreenplayDavid Godmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10354181925332694222noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-67503218897771772492013-10-10T03:32:25.549+05:302013-10-10T03:32:25.549+05:30There is a video of Robert teaching listed on http...There is a video of Robert teaching listed on http://robert-adams.info/ It looks like it was done in VHS and copied many times. Still, it is nice to see him in action, and the words are powerful and clear.David Godmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10354181925332694222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-16341434094581037652013-10-09T18:15:07.993+05:302013-10-09T18:15:07.993+05:30Dear Friends is there Any possiblity for knowledge...Dear Friends is there Any possiblity for knowledge of Robert to get ? Could not download collectted work from mr.Ed page and also can not get any video showing mrAdams himself. How is that possible there must be some video of him! If there is videos of Bhagavan there must be also of mr Adams. Could anyone help?<br />my mail : zoran_kamen@yahoo.com Thanks :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-90322393544441539642012-07-28T07:20:46.455+05:302012-07-28T07:20:46.455+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.A. H. https://www.blogger.com/profile/15575931333538621870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-75787660678856071292010-11-07T21:47:12.159+05:302010-11-07T21:47:12.159+05:30Dear Bandhus
Kindly visit the following link for h...Dear Bandhus<br />Kindly visit the following link for hearing on the stages in self-inquiry as given by Sri Rajiv Kapur.<br /><br />http://www.wearesentience.org/rajiv-mp3-files.php<br /><br />Thanks and Regards<br />SaradhaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-68908205604708176652010-10-21T17:13:37.591+05:302010-10-21T17:13:37.591+05:30Prasanth
I will be here in November, and I will b...Prasanth<br /><br />I will be here in November, and I will be happy to meet with youDavid Godmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10354181925332694222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-76035952711571738322010-10-21T13:53:38.424+05:302010-10-21T13:53:38.424+05:30Dear Mr.Godman,
I currently live in UK and would ...Dear Mr.Godman,<br /><br />I currently live in UK and would like to get in touch with you.I was very fortunate to visit Ramanashramam last year when I went to India and planning to visit again this november.I am leaving to India on the 2nd of November and hopefully HE will call me again.I would like to share couple of experiences with you and also would like to keep in touch with you.I have just recently started a small blog. www.prashanthkesara.blogspot.com and would like to read write and think more and more about Bhagawan.Please advice me if you will be in India in November.<br /><br /><br />Jai Sri Ramanaprashanth kesarahttp://www.prashanthkesara.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-37867186414998464352010-10-14T19:12:04.911+05:302010-10-14T19:12:04.911+05:30Hi,
You could find a copy of the film Ahimsa here...Hi,<br /><br />You could find a copy of the film Ahimsa here, http://www.bharatmovies.com/hindi/watch/Ahimsa-movie-online.htm<br /><br />Raamraamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18304777758397405143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-86427831214685591562010-10-11T21:42:46.294+05:302010-10-11T21:42:46.294+05:30Dear David,
I had asked you a query on 25th Sept ...Dear David,<br /><br />I had asked you a query on 25th Sept 2010 on efforts needed to destroy mind. I was revisiting your old posts infact the 1st post " God the scriptwriter" on 26th April 2008. This posting definitely answers my questions. Clearly seems, the question and answer was part of the script!!.<br /><br />Your reference to Shri Robert Adams and to Shri Annamalai Swamy clarifies very well.<br />" <br />Question: What is the relationship between effort and realisation, since only the ego is doing this effort. How can the ego doing this effort... ?<br /><br />Robert: What you call ‘effort’ has been preordained."<br /><br />Shri Annamalai Swamy " It's true. The ego cannot choose to make more and more effort to hasten its final end. The desire to make the effort, and the intensity of that effort are also in the script."<br /><br />You have answered in 2008 that is very concise " For now I am content to serve him by following his teachings and to enjoy him by opening myself up to his silent presence. "<br /><br />Thanks David and Thanks to Ishwara for guiding me to ask this question and for directing me to your 2008 post for answers.<br /><br />Regards<br />Rama<br />BangaloreRamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791420390845156418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-50783952537805360262010-10-01T06:02:01.994+05:302010-10-01T06:02:01.994+05:30if u look for the book :
http://maichopgohok.blog...if u look for the book :<br /><br />http://maichopgohok.blogspot.com/2010/09/silence.htmlkingkonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023807911838954701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-19488823858232578952010-09-28T22:21:51.305+05:302010-09-28T22:21:51.305+05:30I have question - why is the spiritual path said t...I have question - why is the spiritual path said to be as difficult as walking on sharp razor's edge? Is it similar to saying that any other other than that of the Self is death to the seekr?Maneeshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15693008674509444946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-52180062335549163712010-09-25T21:57:45.397+05:302010-09-25T21:57:45.397+05:30Dear David,
Can we have a post from you on "...Dear David,<br /><br />Can we have a post from you on " efforts" needed and what we should avoid.<br /><br />As you wrote to me once in reply to a query; " One can think too much of things but one should question the existence of the thinker". Through Bhagavan's grace and through your writings, we are now aware of self-enquiry and also practice it. However i slip on efforts. Truly intensity of practice matters to question the observer/thinker. <br /><br />If you can write on " efforts" and its nature, it will be of great help. I am sure everyone participating in this blog will be glad to hear from you on this.<br /><br />Regards<br />Rama<br />BangaloreRamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791420390845156418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-24929204566026905032010-09-07T09:38:39.083+05:302010-09-07T09:38:39.083+05:30David,
I have trawled the net back and forth for ...David,<br /><br />I have trawled the net back and forth for the film 'Ahimsa'. Nothing came up.<br /><br />Am getting in touch with a few friends of mine from Mumbai to see if they can help. Would be wonderful if we are able to get a copy of this film.<br /><br />Nandu NarasimhanNandu Narasimhannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-56852048688650649292010-08-31T07:35:33.062+05:302010-08-31T07:35:33.062+05:30Matthew,
To contemplate the life and teachings of ...Matthew,<br />To contemplate the life and teachings of the Guru is always a fruitful exercise.To respect the guru's kith and kin is devotion to the Guru.<br />For the devotee everything matters and yet nothing matters!All is well.<br />Wishing you the very best.<br />Namaskar.Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14875076137584328729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-32625116087969453142010-08-30T21:49:56.401+05:302010-08-30T21:49:56.401+05:30Looking at the noise this and other blogs/forums g...Looking at the noise this and other blogs/forums generate, its a wonder why Silence - the primary teaching of Robert Adams, Bhagavan, Maharaj and scores of other saints - which is a good virtue even in transactional world is not practiced by devotees/seekers including this one.அவனடிமைhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08935368072820587336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-27265285292680641682010-08-30T19:07:15.296+05:302010-08-30T19:07:15.296+05:30NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL
I have just had a phone call ...NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL<br />I have just had a phone call from Nicole Adams, wife of Robert Adams. She was very unhappy with the portrayal of Robert's life and her own involvement in the movie script, "SILENCE - THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF ROBERT ADAMS." In deference to the feelings of Robert's wife, I am removing the movie script from its posting on Scribd, and would like to ask that no-one make it into a movie, or make any movie about Robert Adams, without Nicole's consent.<br />In addition, Nicole told me her own autobiography about her life with Robert is in process, so her own account will soon be published, which I look forward to reading.<br />Thanks for all your comments and support, <br />Sincerely, Matthew Brown (author of "SILENCE - THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF ROBERT ADAMS")Matthew Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412672739869399178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-22767379990544334732010-08-30T08:25:27.035+05:302010-08-30T08:25:27.035+05:30One day a six-year-old friend said to me, "Pr...One day a six-year-old friend said to me, "Pretend you are<br />surrounded by a thousand hungry tigers. What would you do?" I<br />visualized the situation as he had suggested and, coming up with no viable plan of action, said, "Wow, I don't<br />know. What would you do?" And he replied, "I'd stop pretending."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-3801160504825361932010-08-29T17:50:12.296+05:302010-08-29T17:50:12.296+05:30Friends,
Just happen to discover this beautiful ar...Friends,<br />Just happen to discover this beautiful article on Robert Adams'And a Child shall lead them'.<br />http://www.robertadamsinfinityinstitute.org/robertz.htm<br />I guess it is an excerpt from 'Silence of the Heart'.<br />"Again, I speak from the Ultimate Truth. Yet, until you are abiding in the Ultimate Truth, <br />it behooves you to engage in that which awakens Truth." <br />Here Robert seems to be stressing what all the Great ones have emphasized-The way of Dharma.<br />Truly a Great soul.<br />Namaskar.Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14875076137584328729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-51268956042726706422010-08-29T09:18:33.931+05:302010-08-29T09:18:33.931+05:30Hi Ravi,
Thanks for the conclusion of Bhagavan'...Hi Ravi,<br />Thanks for the conclusion of Bhagavan's daily routine, and your thoughts on the "mundane" aspects of Robert's life and those of his students. To tell you the truth, most of those aspects are veiled in mystery to me, too. I have tried to hint at them, without stepping on the toes of those who were close to Robert, both students and family, since as Ed writes, Robert lived almost invisibly and left almost no trace, even when he was in the room! I don't want to step past the "line of privacy" of Robert, his students and family members. But I agree that the topic is fascinating. <br />Dear Losing M. Mind / Scott, again, thanks for sending the letter to David Lynch. He doesn't seem to have an email address that I could find searching (for quite a while) online. I agree that the whole thing is in Bhagavan's hands now. Nowhere better for it to be.<br />Take care,<br />Sincerely,<br />Matthew BrownMatthew Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412672739869399178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-73874176185511772802010-08-29T00:31:45.331+05:302010-08-29T00:31:45.331+05:30I just thought I'd mention, that the letter to...I just thought I'd mention, that the letter to David Lynch has been sent. It is now in Sri Ramana's hands. I'm not expecting a reply. But if ever I (or Matthew Brown) was to get one from the likes of David Lynch, and the grace of the Self was behind an action of mine, this was it! I haven't quite figured out what my address at SAT temple is, and I thought it would be more auspicious to use the temple as the return address, i.e. Nome & Sasvati's office, then someone else's. They had said the big packages I was mailing to move could be sent to their address. Until I figure out which mailbox is mine, I had it sent to their office. Perhaps that is also a good sign. Walking around in a profound state of happiness, propped up by grace. Maybe that should be my new 'sincerely'. <br />Walking around in a profound state of happiness, propped up by grace,<br />Scott Fraundorf.<br />p.s I should add, I mentioned in my latter that Matthew's contact info. was contained in the screenplay link. If D. Lynch is intrigued, I hope that's clear.Losing M. Mindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08593870441560584967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-81403273662050172722010-08-28T22:10:58.354+05:302010-08-28T22:10:58.354+05:30Matthew,
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It is this asp...Matthew,<br />......continued...........<br />It is this aspect that I felt is not adequately covered in the script. It seems to cover the extraordinary leaving out the ordinary. <br />I would prefer to see Robert not through the prism of his Mystic experiences; would like to see him mirrored in the lives of the devotees he inspired. Were they inspired to give up meat? Were they inspired to treat others as their own self? These to me mean more than whether someone froze in Bliss with the spoon in her mouth.Yes, I appreciate that scene but whatever happened to her later! <br />I would like have these devotees featured more prominently than just making some sort of a guest appearance. <br />I also found this poignant bit of story about Robert (by Ed):<br />"Robert wandered across India and around the world off and on during the next 35 years, having married in 1954, and raised, often in absentia, two daughters. He said when he married Nicole, she looked like Rita Hayworth. After he developed Parkinson’s during the 1980's, he settled down in Los Angeles with his family, where he began teaching, first to small groups at student’s homes, then to larger and larger crowds. He always felt he owed something to his youngest daughter for spending so little time with her as she was growing up.<br /><br />He also told me that the Parkinson’s was a gift, because it grounded him, ending his world travels. When he first knew he had the disease, he moved back to Los Angeles where his wife and daughter lived. He worked as handyman in a large apartment complex. His wife made clothes, which she sold, at swap meets and to various retail outlets. Eventually, because of the disease, he was no longer capable of the physical work involved and started teaching in earnest and gathering students. I do not think he ever wanted to teach again, but, as he told me, he had no other choice."<br />I tend to feel that Robert, the man is more interesting than Robert, the Mystic. He is indeed a Great soul.<br />Friend, I should add that I enjoyed reading the script-particularly where Robert gives up eating meat, how he comes to realize that he has Parkinson’s, how he tells Ed that he is moving to a warmer place, etc.<br />The details that I had wanted you to check out are more for the sake of authenticity (quite important if one wants to produce a Film).I have offered my thoughts for what they are worth and I understand that there are other ways of looking at the story.<br />I managed to download the complete works of Robert Adams. Thanks very much.<br />Wishing you the very Best.<br />Namaskar.Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14875076137584328729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-996866095368248412010-08-28T18:04:38.908+05:302010-08-28T18:04:38.908+05:30Matthew,
....sri bhagavan's Daily routine ctd....Matthew,<br />....sri bhagavan's Daily routine ctd...<br />"At about 4.30 p.m. Bhagavan would go out for a walk on Arunachala.<br /><br /> By 5.30 p.m. meditation would commence. It was a moment eagerly looked forward to by disciples. Peace would reign all around. As darkness fell and enveloped Arunachala it would appear as if life itself was being enveloped by ignorance. A little later students of the Vedic school would arrive and recite Rudram, Purusha-sooktam, Srisooktam and Upadesa-saram. Those sonorous notes would touch the foot of the hill. After a silent half an hour, recitation of various writings of Bhagavan would commence. By then the pooja at Matrubhuteswara shrine would be over. Thereafter women would have supper and go out of the Ashram into the town for the night.<br /><br /> After the night meal by about 8.30 p.m., disciples would gather round Bhagavan. It was a time when everyone was relaxed in Bhagavan's presence. After some time, everyone would depart after pranams to Bhagavan. The doors of the hall would then be closed. This was the usual daily routine."<br />-----------------------------------<br />What happens before 05:30 Hrs?This is perhaps the the most instructive and inspiring part:<br />"In the early days, when the Ashram was small, there was no activity in the Ashram in which Bhagavan did not<br />participate. During those days, Bhagavan would wake up around 2.30 or 3 in the early hours of the day and after ablutions would go to the kitchen to cut the vegetables as did his disciples. He would also prepare the breakfast and the side-dish to go with iddlis. Bhagavan always emphasized the dignity of labour and would also teach the art of cooking to disciples. He held that one not well-versed in cooking could not claim to be educated either!"<br /><br />The mark of a Great soul is in how he carries out the seemingly mundane of activities.As Swami Vivekananda said:<br />" As I grow older I find that I look more and more for greatness in little things. I want to know what a great man eats and wears; and how he speaks to his servants. Anyone will be great in a great position. Even the coward will grow brave in the glare of the footlights. The world looks on! More and more the true greatness seems to me that of the worm doing its duty silently, steadily, from moment to moment and hour to hour."<br />...........continued.........Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14875076137584328729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-25501525191793384022010-08-28T10:49:08.661+05:302010-08-28T10:49:08.661+05:30Dear Ravi,
Thanks for posting that account of Bha...Dear Ravi, <br />Thanks for posting that account of Bhagavan's daily routine, fascinating.<br />By the way, on another note to everyone, I noticed that my citation in the previous post of the link from Ed Muzika's "itisnoreal" website to ROBERT ADAMS - COMPLETE WORKS VOL.I got cut off... I am trying to cut and paste the link again, it is - http://www.itisnotreal.com/Collected_Works_of_Robert_Adams_Vol_1.pdf<br /><br />Sincerely, <br />Matthew BrownMatthew Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412672739869399178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-75103588543042592722010-08-28T07:47:56.845+05:302010-08-28T07:47:56.845+05:30It's funny that electric feeling that Robert d...It's funny that electric feeling that Robert described to Ed described to us, is a feeling I can very much relate to, in the presence of my spiritual teacher Nome. I can relate to it, but I can also relate that it is very clear the tendencies that hold me back from what happened to Robert. These things are not really describable, though intense, and very real. I happened to show up when a retreat was happening, I live here now. And I was approaching the window to take pictures, I saw Nome through it, and got self-conscious and walked away. But the feeling of all the mental confusion dropping into this beautiful clarity, and there is something almost visual, like I can't tell if I'm in a dream or awake. Many people have probably been in the presence of true sages and experienced exactly that electrical feeling, followed by that precious sea of clarity. Obviously few, have had the ego drop away completely into it. But there is definitely a true glimpse of the ease of egolessness. Which is causing me to I think enter the next stage of spiritual practice. Staying around the sage, and being in satsang as much as possible.Losing M. Mindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08593870441560584967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-3317619386915387012010-08-28T07:41:48.330+05:302010-08-28T07:41:48.330+05:30I have bought in a spiritual book store in Portlan...I have bought in a spiritual book store in Portland the complete hour long archival footage of Ramana Maharshi. It I think comes with dates for all the footage included, and I believe it is all the footage. It's also nice because there is no background sound or music added. Grace is very strong from that film. It is very beautiful. My friend, who I got interested in Ramana Maharshi, said the archival footage DVD is the most beautiful film he has ever watched.Losing M. Mindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08593870441560584967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-63992736109410937422010-08-27T19:15:08.558+05:302010-08-27T19:15:08.558+05:30Matthew,
Thanks very much for your response.My com...Matthew,<br />Thanks very much for your response.My comments are on the 'Script' and how it portrays Robert and not on Robert per se.<br /><br />I just looked up the 'Ramana Leela' and found that Robert was not off the mark.Here is an excerpt on the daily routine of Sri Ramana(Chapter 39):<br /><br />"....Around 5 A.M. the doors of the hall would be opened<br />and several devotees, about to leave for the various teerthas<br />for bath or for giri pradakshina would walk in and prostrate<br />before Bhagavan. Vedic scholars would recite from the<br />Upanishads.<br />Some others would sit for meditation. Yet others<br />would recite Muruganar’s hymns. During Dhanurmasa<br />(December-January) Andal’s ‘Tiruppavai’ would be sung.<br />At about 5.30, students of the Vedic school would come<br />and recite Sri Ramana Chatvarimsat and Taittiriya<br />Upanishad. By that time, lady devotees who had spent the<br />preceding night in the town (as their stay at the Ashram<br />during night was forbidden) would arrive.<br />By 6.30, Bhagavan would go for his bath and later go<br />to the dining hall, where he would be served breakfast.<br />Thereafter, Bhagavan would go towards the hill and<br />ashramites would go about attending to their duties. These<br />duties were varied, like collecting flowers from the garden<br />and stringing them into garlands or bringing various items<br />from the storeroom and getting them ready for cooking,<br />or getting down to cooking or attending to the cattle in<br />the goshala. Some went to work in the Ashram office or<br />the library. For those in the Vedic schools the duty was to<br />offer worship three times a day at the Matrubhuteswara<br />shrine, and at the images of Skanda, Ganesa or at<br />Bhagavan’s picture. On special occasions, special poojas<br />were also offered.<br />By about 8 o’ clock, Bhagavan would return to the<br />sofa. Thereafter, devotees, visitors and disciples would<br />assemble there. Usually silent meditation would be carried<br />on. But those who looked upon Bhagavan as God would<br />not keep silent and they would either recite the stotras<br />written by them, or just show him their poems. They would<br />also sing songs. Yet others would narrate their domestic<br />problems to him!...........<br />People were forbidden from touching Bhagavan. No<br />such restriction applied to squirrels or doves which sat on<br />his lap. Cows and dogs would be patted by Bhagavan. He<br />would show greater interest in receiving the books, toys<br />or peppermints brought by children than in receiving<br />scholarly works by erudite scholars.<br />By nine o’clock, Mouni would bring the day’s post.<br />Bhagavan would have a look at the letters for about one<br />hour and thereafter till eleven o’clock it was the same<br />routine. By eleven Bhagavan would rise for lunch and till<br />about two o’clock in the afternoon visitors did not disturb<br />him. During this interval Bhagavan would glance through<br />the newspapers or take some rest.<br />Thereafter, the hall would get filled up as usual. This<br />was the time when philanthropists and poets would talk,<br />bhaktas would sing and scholars would begin philosophic<br />discussions. This was also the time when Bhagavan would<br />be absolutely silent. When asked how this was possible he<br />would say, “If you pay attention only to the base note and<br />not to the other notes can the mind become engrossed in<br />the raga?” He also would say, “If you pay attention to the<br />Self other objects will not attract you.”<br />Thereafter, he would attend to correspondence.<br />Mouni would keep the replies for letters received ready<br />and show them to him. Bhagavan would go through them<br />and make corrections wherever deemed necessary.<br /><br />......continued...................Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14875076137584328729noreply@blogger.com