Your worst enemy is inside you and so is your best friend

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Your enemyis inside you –
& so is your friend

2. The mysterious mind
John Milton: “The mind is a universe and
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of
heaven.”
A J Iyer refused to study the mind because
“it has no locus”

3. Three-level model of the self
 The body: our visible material covering
that we feed and dress.
 The mind: the subtle material mechanism
that interfaces between the soul and the
gross material body.
 The soul: the essence of who we are

4. The soul is the root of
consciousness, whereas
The mind is the route of
consciousness

5. The mind makes us its show.
Stop it before it shifts from
the second person voice to
the first person voice.

6. Contemplation (dhyana)
Attraction (sanga)
Obsession (kama)
Irritation (krodha)

7. Delusion (sammoha)
Oblivion (smriti-vibhrama)
Stupefaction (buddhi-nasha)
Self-destruction (pranashyati)

8. Krishna’s purpose is not to
catch us when we do wrong;
it is to catch us when we fall

9. Observation – distance yourself
from the mind
Meditation – connect yourself
with higher spiritual reality