Robert Adams, "T94: The Cosmic Joke"

 

The world is a cosmic joke. Why is it a cosmic joke ? Because our Real nature is moksha, nirvana, liberation, freedom, unalloyed hapiness, bliss, yet we imagine that we are bound. We imagine we are the personal self, bound by our environment, by karma, and limited. So what do we do ? We frantically look for ways to become self-realized. We practice various yoga techniques, we look for teachers, we read books, we play with our kundalinis. We do all sorts of weird things to become free. But we are already free, and there's nothing we have to do but be still. That's the cosmic joke. We are liberated beings and we're running around trying to free ourselves...