Body Identification

Siddhananda: (pause). Okay, i see my reflection, which is odd. There it is.

G: (smiling).

Siddhananda: Okay, what's next? (pause). They're saying "I mistakenly called the body myself."

G: They what?

Siddhananda: They "mistakenly called the body myself." (pets barking in the background). So, they felt the body is their self.

G: (still unable to hear) The body, what?

Siddhananda: (speaking closer to the microphone) They mistakenly called the body the Self.

G: Oh, the Self! Okay, they mistakenly called the body the Self.

Siddhananda: Yeah.

G: Well, if they know that's a mistake, then what is the problem? (laughing).

Siddhananda: (laughing). Ah, Lord. Exactly! If you know that's a mistake then you're ahead of the ballgame.

G: Yeah, that's a step forward. 

Siddhananda: You're ahead of the game.

G: Yeah, if you know that's not the self, that's a step forward. 

Siddhananda: Let's see if there is indeed a problem. (pause). They see it but they haven't been able to really cut that identification fully.

G: Oh okay, they haven't been able to cut through. 

Siddhananda: Yeah, fully. They see it, they're watching the body, they see it moving here and there, they're not [able to cut that identification fully].

G: Right. He can do the questioning "what is this I". 

Siddhananda: (pause). Okay, he's absorbing that now.

G: Ah?

Siddhananda: He's absorbing that. He's taking that in right now.

G: Okay. 

Siddhananda: (pause). So, maybe we'll just let him resonate with that (hand on heart). That feels okay. Thank you.