Cultivating uninterrupted self-attentiveness
In a comment on one of my recent articles, Self-enquiry, personal experiences and daily routine , an anonymous friend wrote: “...uninterrupted self-attentiveness...” This is not quite possible in my daily work life. I work as a software developer where I have to constantly think to write programs. I try to do be self-attentive while using elevators, walking the corridors... sometimes even while smoking, and also try to be self-attentive while driving. So please tell me how to hold on to the “I” while working. Here the words “... uninterrupted self-attentiveness ...” refer to a sentence that Sri Ramana wrote in the eleventh paragraph of Nan Yar? (Who am I?) , which I quoted in that article , namely: … If one clings fast to uninterrupted svarupa-smarana [self-remembrance] until one attains svarupa [one’s own essential self], that alone [will be] sufficient. … As I explained in a subsequent article, Where to find and how to reach the real presence of our guru ? , the adjective that S...