a strong conviction is necessary

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M.:

A strong conviction is necessary that I am the Self,

transcending the mind and the phenomena.

 

D.:

Nevertheless, the mind proves to be a cord agains attempts

to sink in.

 

M.:

What does it matter if the mind is active? It is so only on the

substratum of the Self. Hold the Self even during mental activities.

 

D.:

I cannot go within sufficiently deep.

 

M.:

It is wrong to say so. Where are you now if not in the Self?

Where should you go? All that is necessry is the stern belief

that you are the Self. Say rather that the other activities throw

a veil on you.

 

D.:

Yes, it is so.

 

M.: That means that the conviction is weak.

 

D.:

I understand that the 'I' is only artificial (krtrima), my attempts

at realising the real 'I' are unavailing because the artificial 'I'

is brought into action for realising the other.

 

M.:

Viveka Chudamani makes it clear that the artificial 'I' of the

vjinana kosa is a projection and through it one must look

to the siginificance (vachya) of 'I', the true principle.

 

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from Talk 406

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