The Importance of Focusing on the I Am

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Nissar Gajatam said, I heard what my guru said, and it's very important. He told him, the simple direct instruction. Your practice is to focus on the I am. Just stay with the sense of your own existence. And so for months and years afterwards, he says, my main practice could be to stay with thesense of my own existence,. Sometimes for hours together, I would just sit with that. Now, it will make sense.

Adhyasa Bhashya is Adi Shankara’s introduction to the Brahma Sutras. Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a brief overview of this commentary, over three sessions. Reference material for this series: - Adhyasa Bhashya in Sanskrit: https://arshavidyacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Swamini-Svatmavidya/collateral/Adhyasa-Bhashya.pdf - Swami Gambhirananda's translation: preamble in chapter 1, section 1 of https://a.co/d/hEj8iQr - Translation of the lectures of Dr. Mani Dravid Sastri: https://sanskritdocuments.org/sites/snsastri/adhyasabhashya.pdf ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: www.vedantany.org/donate