The Nature of Ego Is to Have Strong Intendations to Hold on to Things Up of an Ourself

In a Zoom meeting with ‘Yo Soy Tu Mismo’ (a group of Spanish devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana) on 19th June 2022, Michael James first replies to the request:

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I would be grateful if you could tell us about the different challenges and trials you have experienced along your own path, the most important doubts, fears, attachments and what have been the Keys from the Teachings to go beyond them as well as the main recommendations you would give to those who are landing for the first time on Bhagavan’s Teachings

explaining that the cause of whatever challenges we may face while following Bhagavan’s path of self-investigation and self-surrender is ego and its viṣaya-vāsanās (inclinations to seek happiness in and therefore attend to things other than itself), and that the solution to all challenges is therefore to persevere patiently in trying to be constantly self-attentive, and then he answers more questions about this and other aspects of Bhagavan’s teachings, particularly the practice of self-investigation and self-surrender.

This episode can also be watched as a video, 2022-06-19 Yo Soy Tu Mismo: Michael James discusses the solution to all challenges on the path, and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.