Do not fool yourself. If you are still involved in harming others, hostility, gossip, unkindness, secret motives, meanness, you are not growing spiritually. Your body and actions are under the Law of Karma. You must examine your character. I meet so many people who say, “I am Free, I am Pure Consciousness.” And they think that they can do whatever they want, go after whatever they want, harm others, be disrespectful. They are out of control. They wonder why they do not feel joy, bliss, Love, the truth of their being, a love for humanity, all these things. Observe your actions. Many do not understand this. They think they can skip over the basic foundation and become “Realized”. I meet so many people who know so many spiritual terms, who have been on the path for so many years, been to India so many times. They pride themselves on this. They know every spiritual terminology that exists. But, they have no awareness, no realization, no joy, no happiness, no kindness. They are fooling themselves.
Robert Adams