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

1. 1
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 Gita’s three-level model of
the self:
 Body – Hardware
 Mind – Software
 Soul – user

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

7. The extraordinary, elusive
source
Eg Kekule – benzene ring
Gauss – theorems

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

9. From posture to purpose
Connect with source of
everything
Disconnect with source of illusion

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