How to cultivate the sharpness of mind to hold onto oneself?
In this episode recorded on 23rd May 2023 Michael answers the following question asked by Geetha:
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“Bhagavan talks about holding on incessantly to the self in several places in Who am I. In verse 130 of Guru Vacaka Kovai he provides the lizard analogy to illustrate how tightly one should hold on to the self. Elsewhere in Who am I he says that as soon as a thought appears, one should enquire to whom it has appeared. To enquire or shift attention back to self even before the thought takes shape requires a great deal of vigilance and sharpness of mind. How does one cultivate such vigilance or sharpness of mind and sustain it?”
This episode can also be watched as a video, 2023-05-23a Geetha and Michael: How to cultivate the sharpness of mind to hold onto oneself?, and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.
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