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v. t. e. Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 – March 2, 1997) was an American Advaita teacher. In later life Adams held satsang with a small group of devotees in California, US. [1] He mainly advocated the path of jñāna yoga [note 1] with an emphasis on the practice of self-enquiry. [2]
Robert Adams [1928-1997] is probably the best-known modern-day Advaita Vedanta [non-duality] teacher of American origin. Born in New York, USA, and later becoming a devotee of the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi , Robert became an independent teacher of non-duality after the death of Ramana Maharshi and having met many other well-known Indian gurus.
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Early life
Robert Adams was born on January 21, 1928 in ●●Manhattan and grew up in New York City, USA. Adams claimed that from as far back as he could remember, he had had visions of a white haired, bearded man seated at the foot of his bed, who was about two feet tall, and who used to talk to him in a language which he did not understand. He told his parents but they thought he was playing games. He would later find out that this man was a vision of his future guruSri Ramana Maharshi. At the age of sev...
Awakening
Adams claimed to have had a profound ●● spiritual awakeningat the age of fourteen. It was the end of term finals maths test and Adams had not studied for it at all. As was his custom he said ‘God’ three times, but with a phenomenal and unintended outcome: Adams stayed at Sri Ramanasramam for the final three years of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s life. Over the course of this time he had many conversations with Sri Ramana Maharshi, and through abiding in his presence was able to confirm and further un...
Later years
In the 1960s Adams returned to the United States and lived in Hawaii and Los Angeles before finally moving to Sedona, Arizona in the mid 1990s. He was married to Nicole Adams and fathered two daughters. In the 1980s Adams developed Parkinson’s disease, which forced him to settle in one location and receive the appropriate care. A small group of devotees soon grew up around him and in the early 1990s he gave weekly satsangs in the San Fernando Valley, along with other surrounding areas of Los...
Confessions of a Jnani
Adams did not consider himself to be a teacher, a philosopher or a preacher. What he imparted he said was simply the confession of a jnani. He said he confessed his and everyone else’s own reality, and encouraged students not to listen to him with their heads but with their hearts. Adams’ way of communicating to his devotees was often funny, and with interludes of silence or music between questions and answers. He stated that there was no such thing as a new teaching. This knowledge could be...
Silence of the Heart
Adams did not write any books himself nor publish his teachings as he did not wish to gain a large following. He instead preferred to teach a small number of dedicated seekers. However, in 1992, a book of his dialogues was transcribed, compiled and distributed by and for the sole use of his devotees. In 1999, a later edition of this book, Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams, was posthumously published by Acropolis Books Inc. As conveyed by the title of these dialogues, Adams con...
Advaita Vedanta
Robert Adams – I Seem That. Robert Adams talking to students at satsang (4 November 1990) Although Adams was never initiated into a religious order or spiritual practice, nor became a renunciate, his teachings were described by Dennis Waite as being firmly based in the Vedic philosophy and Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta. Advaita (non-dual in sanskrit) refers to the ultimate and supreme reality, Brahman, which according to Ramana Maharshi, as interpreted by some of his devotees, is the sub...
Adams, Robert (1999). Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams, Acropolis Books Inc. ISBN 978-1889051536
Oct 2, 2022 · For 50 years, Robert Adams (b. 1937) has made compelling, provocative, and highly influential photographs that show us the wonder and fragility of the American landscape, its inherent beauty, and the inadequacy of our response to it.
Mar 14, 2012 · But now, it seems, he gets it. In 2004, Yale inherited a huge trove of Adams' work, and Chuang has been processing it since then. "There was not a single bad image in the group," Chuang says with...
Jul 13, 2022 · His powerful ally is Western light. With the prowess of an Indigenous tracker, he scopes out his quarry — a subdivision of tract homes, a clear-cut forest — to determine the time of day when a...
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Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. [1][2] His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s [1] through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975. [1]
