Me, my guru – on knowing self and mind training!

 

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Me, my guru – on knowing self and mind training!

Once a drunkard went to his Doctor and complained that his stomach pain is not decreasing in spite of taking medicines. Then Doctor asked, “Are you sure you are taking the medication regularly?”

Drunkard replied “Absolutely!”

Then Doctor asked, “How sure can you be!”

Drunkard replied, “Because I take them before drinking alcohol in the morning, afternoon and night. So, I can’t miss them”.

Your argument “I am healing and that should be enough and that I don’t want to know myself is like that drunkard’s answer.

Healing is like medicine. But negative thoughts and wrong attitudes are like taking alcohol regularly. How can medicine be effective if taken with alcohol?” asked our Guru.

Some of us laughed. But our intelligent leader Vaishnav replied “That means healing is as wasted as that medicine. I knew it! No point healing, right?”

We all came with so-called logic and were even proud and arrogant enough to assume that our ‘logic’ was fool-proof. But our such arguments only reflected our levels of ignorance and stupidity. And that and therein lay the cause of our suffering in our lives!

But she never said with a taunt “Is that what you inferred from my explanation?”

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# clarity of thought, knowing self, being aware of self, emotions, causes and conditions of our feelings, disturbing emotions, mind and its games, 

also read suggested: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2009/04/know-thyself.html