Sri Annamalai Swami
If you remain as the Self, no vasanas and no karmas will touch or affect you. If you remain in the mind, thoughts of one sort or another will bother you all the time.
Q: If I understand you correctly, my karma is all the activities that my body has to undertake in this life. I can be a witness to it but I cannot change it. If I pick up this glass that is in front of me, it happened because it was my karma to pick it up in this moment. I don't have a choice. Either I am destined to pick it up, or I am not. Bhagavan said the same thing. When someone picked up a fan and asked if that act was destined from the moment he was born, Bhagavan said, 'Yes, it was destined'.
AS: If the thoughts 'I should meditate' or 'I should realize' arise, ask yourself, 'To whom are these thoughts arising?' Why do you need to think about your body and your mind so much? If you are the light, there is no darkness. If you are the Self, there is no thought, no body, and no mind to give you any trouble. Any number of thoughts may come. Let them. But remember all the time, 'I am the Self'. You are not the vasanas, you are not the thoughts, you are the Self. Keep that awareness and don't worry too much about what is going on in your mind, and what it means.
Don't allow any identification to settle on you. Don't think, 'I am sitting in Bhagavan's shrine'. Don't think, 'I am doing, I am acting, I am sitting.'
You are the Self, not the body. Even your vasanas are the Self. All is your Self. There are no distinctions, no differences in the Self. Nothing is separate from the Self. You cannot find a single atom, a single thought that is apart from the Self. All is the Self.
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