ROBERT ADAMS ON BHAGAVAN Question: Robert, have you always had this realization? Robert: I guess. There is no telling. People have asked me about this so I will tell you a little bit about it: When I was a small child in a crib, a little man used to be on the other side. For a long period l would lie there and he would be talking to me from the edge of the crib. And of course being a baby, I didn’t know what he was talking about. As far as I know he was talking to me ever since I was born. I couldn’t understand what he was saying. I used to believe everybody had that experience. When I was about five or six years old, I told my parents about it, and they thought I was playing games. I told my friends, and they laughed at me. So I stopped saying anything about it. The visitations stopped when I was about seven. My father died. And all of a sudden, the little man stopped coming to me. Then I asked my mother, ‘What am I doing here? I don’t belong here.’ I didn’t understand what I was saying but I felt that I was out of place. My mother thought I was crazy, and so did a lot of other people. She took me to the doctor, and the doctor told her it would go away. When I was going to school I never really fit in because I was always daydreaming. I had strange experiences. I used to sit in the class and become swallowed up in consciousness. I became omnipresent. I had out-of-body experiences. I just merged with consciousness. I couldn’t understand what was happening. Then when I was about fourteen years old, I went to the library to do a book report. I passed the philosophy section and saw a book on yoga masters. I didn’t even know what that meant at the time. I opened the book to a page, and there was a picture of Ramana Maharshi. My hair stood on end, because it was the same person who appeared to me when I was a baby in my crib! Since then I have never been the same. Question: That is what led you to Ramana Maharshi? Robert: Later on, yes. I actually went to the Self Realisation Fellowship in Encinitas. I went to see [Paramahamsa] Yogananda. I was initiated and was going to become a monk, but after Yogananda talked to me, he said ‘Robert you don’t belong here, you’ve got your own path. Go to India.’ So I did. I went to the Ramana Ashram. That was 1947 or 1948. I confirmed my feelings. Ever since I was born I had never believed I was a body. I went back to school and made believe I was normal, whatever that is. Question: When you first saw Ramana Maharshi, did he remind you of the person you had communication with as a baby? Robert: Definitely, yes. Question: Did you speak of this later with him? Robert: No, I never did. We just smiled at each other. I had some personal conversation with him, but even at the end of 1947 he was sick. He couldn’t walk very well and had to be assisted by his devotees. He had a cane. He could hardly walk.
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