Robert Adam's On Consciousness

Robert Adams, disciple of Ramana Maharshi, says that the mind is not what gets or is enlightened. Nothing is liberated as such except Consciousness as Absolute Awareness. But this needs to be understood and experienced as a Living Awareness. That is Adams' "Consciousness" is Life itself always aware of itself, i.e., when it abides in pure transcendence of being. Such consciousness is interpreted as Love or Knowledge. Possibly it is Joy that transcends both of these modalities. To be Free would mean being able to rejoice in the face of our Love and our Hate, our Knowledge and our Ignorance or errors. Of course this would be acceptable in that such joy would permit seeing through the identification with one-sided feelings even if it is Love. Joy is not mere pleasure nor the absence of pain. It is living fully in Life's capacity to transcend all one-sided manifestations of apparent Freedom and rejoice in its victory over Death. That is, if Death is conquered, then one is not "embalmed" in modes of experience that short-circuit our Eternality.