

The Friend Within: Refining Your Inner Instrument
We live in these little bodies, and from the inside they feel pretty much the same throughout our whole lives. It's the outside that changes. Something inside stays constant. This is one of the central teachings of Swami Rama's Sacred Journey: our true Self — the Atman, the Purusha, by many names — never changes. Our task is to find it. Swami Rama tells us to begin with the inner instrument, the antakarana. In the West we call it simply "the mind," but the tradition describes

Randall Krause
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