Conversation with Robert Adams*

*Conversation with Robert Adams*

Q : Could you say something about the difference between understanding something and being that understanding? 

Nisargadatta would keep saying if you say you've understood, you haven't understood.

Robert Adams: 

True.

*Understanding something is when I am talking or you read a book and intellectually it makes a lot of sense to you. But even if it makes sense intellectually to you, you have not experienced that.*

*If you have not experienced that, it makes no difference how long you've been reading books or how long you've been discussing truth, or how many classes you've gone to or how many teachers you've had.*

You have to be able to do something yourself to have an experience of the reality. Therefore there comes a time in our lives when we stop reading books.

*We stop running around to teacher to teacher to teacher. We stop going and identifying with certain places in the world and running all over the world.*

*We become still, we go within ourselves a lot. We have a lot of time to ourselves.*

*We question ourselves, we observe ourselves, we look at ourselves and then the Guru within you will tell you what to do, how to do it and where to go and everything will go well with you*