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Interview with Annamalai Swami by Jim Lemkin
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<span class="date">[2020-11-10]</span>
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One of my friends whose name is Hari Krishnan had shared me this video
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today morning. Like me, he was interested in searching for the truth,
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or maybe we could say as a spiritual wellness. I told him that I had
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his final talks edited by David Godman as a book. He had come to
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notice this video interview on YouTube and he shared it with me. No
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doubts, I was delighted and thanked him.
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So, I just watched the whole video. What Annamalai Swami talks in this
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video is very simple. But maybe I could say, my mother tongue being
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Tamil could be a reason for this.
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What the interviewer and the interpreter could try to ask makes much
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more sense to me, they were trying to see and perceive what made a
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Jnani like Annamalai Swami could delve into the self and how did they
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continue to stay there in that state their whole life.
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Interviewer seems to be an American trying to perceive that how could
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we live such a life say for example living in New York or Los Angeles.
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Where people constantly looking for the other way which is an
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illusion. By which I mean, the materialistic life in this samsara.
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I was taught in an English medium school. And I came to be in touch
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with many people from western countries for the last 10 years by being
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in ashrams and traveling around. I particularly or firmly established
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myself in their way of thinking to achieve something which was - I
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need recognition from this world. That said, I don't want to say this
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is the fault of the westerners. This is of myself. Maybe I could say I
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was thinking I'm the mind and I'm the body as Annamalai Swami puts
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constantly in this video.
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Annamalai Swami asks, when you are in a deep sleep, do you know who
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you are? Then the conversation goes like this, we don’t - So, we are
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not the mind and we are not the body. Who else then? The Self which is
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known as Atman is a revered word in this philosophy. I cannot say it
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clearly because the irony is that – I'm like that interviewer who
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sometimes can feel that but it fades away because of this society that
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we are living in.
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One more important question regarding the point I’ve mentioned above
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which is fading away, Swami says that constant inquiry is Jnana which
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resonates with me deeply.
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It seems like reading, watching and understanding is all few
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percentages but the thing is we need to stay there and inquire
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ourselves the question that Swami says.
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