mind and self

[Guest guest]

Greetings,

 

As Harsha pointed out at the beginning

of this debate, there is only one way to

settle this question of whether the mind

can see the self, namely by experience.

I'll be away on a business trip next

week so let me stick my neck out and say

that anybody can train his mind to see

the self in all beings and all beings in

the self by taking the Gita at face

value and doing just what it says.

(Admittedly you won't be able to see the

Self when you're angry, frustrated,

resentful etc.

but you can bring it about that this way

of seeing is the rule rather than the

excpetion.) All that's required is that

you be willing to set your mind to it to

the extent of reading the Gita over and

over again, say 2 or 3 dozen times in

the course of a year.

 

Regards

 

Patrick