What will your final thought be?
In Chapter 8 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna gives a surprising answer: your last thought isn’t something you can control in the moment — it’s the result of what you’ve practiced thinking about your entire life.
So this chapter isn’t really about death — It’s about attention.
In this episode, I explore:
🔹 Why your final thought reflects your lifelong mental patterns
🔹 The powerful teaching: “Remember me and fight” — spiritual awareness inside real life
🔹 How attention shapes your consciousness and future trajectory
🔹 The meaning of Om as a tool to reorient your awareness
🔹 The difference between rebirth, higher realms, and liberation (moksha)
🔹 A practical question: where is your attention actually going each day?
If you’ve been feeling scattered, overwhelmed, or pulled in a million directions, this episode brings you back to one core truth:
You become what you consistently pay attention to.
💗 Want to shift what you’re practicing paying attention to?
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📖 Different translations explored:
Barbara Stoler Miller: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Krishnas-Counsel-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553213652
Godsong by Amit Majmudar: https://www.amazon.com/Godsong-Verse-Translation-Bhagavad-Gita-Commentary/dp/1524733474
Eknath Easwaran: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-2nd-Eknath-Easwaran/dp/1586380192
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by Swami Prabhupada: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-As-Bhaktivedanta-Swami-Prabhupada/dp/0892131233
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🎧 Also Listen to:
#401 – Who Has Your Attention? Attention Economy vs the Ancient Path
#415 – From Self-Improvement to Reverence (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7)
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Transcript:
Brett Larkin:
Welcome to the Uplifted Yoga Podcast, where ancient yogic wisdom meets modern business strategy. I’m Brett Larkin, creator of Uplifted Yoga, where I’ve certified thousands of yoga teachers, built a multi-seven figure business, and guided over half a million students on YouTube. Here’s the truth, you don’t have to choose between embodying deep yogic wisdom and building a thriving, freedom-based business.
This podcast is your space to integrate both, because yoga isn’t just what you do on the mat, it’s how you show up in every part of your life. Whether you’re here to deepen your yoga practice, grow your teaching career, or align your energy with your purpose, you’re in the right place. Let’s dive in.
What do you think your final thought will be at the end of your life? Not the one you wish you would have, not the thought you hope you would remember, but the thought your mind would naturally return to when everything else falls away. Because according to the Bhagavad Gita, that final moment matters. Not because there’s some last-minute spiritual trick you can perform, but because your final thoughts reveal the direction your consciousness has been moving your entire life.
Chapter 8 of the Bhagavad Gita begins with Arjuna asking a question that feels very human. He says, Krishna, how do we know the divine at the time of death? And that question makes perfect sense in the context of the story, because Arjuna’s standing on a battlefield, war is about to begin, and death is not a distant, philosophical idea for him, it’s a very real possibility in the next few minutes. So Arjuna asks the question many of us quietly carry but rarely speak out loud, which is what actually happens when we die? And Krishna’s answer is fascinating.
Because instead of focusing on the moment of death itself, he redirects the conversation toward something much more immediate, your attention. Because what you pay attention to during your life becomes the atmosphere of your mind, and that atmosphere shapes your consciousness. And so Chapter 8 isn’t really about dying, it’s about how we live and how we practice paying attention each and every day.
So I’m so excited that we’re diving into Chapter 8 of the Bhagavad Gita. We’re going to explore how consciousness, attention, and devotion all shape the direction of your life and ultimately your death. And if you’ve been loving this deeper dive into yogic texts, I want to invite you to join my book club.
Right now we are reading the Yoga Sutras, which many of you are familiar with. It’s time to come together in community and study it together with other yogis. And even if you’re not sure you want to participate, I would still love to ship you my Yoga Sutras journal.
You can get this as a beautiful book you can write in, ship to your house. This is a spiritual self-reflection journal, or you can work with a digital copy. And of course, if you do want to join us for our monthly book club calls, you’ll find your discussion questions that you’ll do with your friends right at the back.
This spiritual self-reflection guide that I’ve put together for you is designed to write in. It has tons of interesting factoids and breaking down the Sanskrit and all sorts of teachings. Interdisciplinary, we’re also looking at poetry and art, all to help you move these teachings from your head into your life.
You can get all the information at brettlarkin.com/uplifted. Now let’s dive in to chapter eight of the Gita. Hello my friends.
Welcome back to the show where we are diving into the Bhagavad Gita chapter eight. If you have not been joining on this journey, the quick recap is that we are on a battlefield, a huge battlefield. And Arjuna is the stand-in for us.
He’s the warrior having a crisis right now. Do I run into battle and kill my family because he’s in the middle of a civil war? It’s actually an inter-familial war. He doesn’t want to kill his family.
The problem is if he doesn’t kill his family, darkness will reign forever and it will ultimately result in catastrophe. So he’s kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place in this civil war. He doesn’t want to kill his friends and family, but he kind of has to because if he doesn’t, the results will be way worse.
While this may seem kind of really irrelevant or unapproachable, it’s not because this battlefield is a metaphor for the human mind, the struggles we all deal with in daily life. I’m sure you’ve been in a situation where you’ve had two bad choices. You felt like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.
But Arjuna, this warrior, is not on the battle by himself. He has his chariot driver, Krishna, with him. Krishna is his cousin.
And I don’t know how close you are with your cousins, but Arjuna and Krishna are really close. Arjuna and Krishna are extremely, not just cousins, but close friends. They grew up together.
Krishna’s also his advisor and his charioteer in the battle. So Krishna is actually secretly—surprise!—God is manifest as Arjuna’s cousin in this story. And Krishna intentionally takes the humble role of Arjuna’s chariot driver in the war.
So this dialogue between the two that we’re listening to as we read the book is literally you can visualize like Arjuna sitting in the chariot or we saw him kind of have this breakdown standing in the battlefield. Krishna’s holding the reins. He’s coaching him.
It’s intimate. It’s human. It’s a conversation between a wise prince and a very trusted friend who’s soon going to reveal himself to be the supreme being, the underlying fabric that’s holding all of reality together.
That’s a big theological reveal that’s going to come up. That’s going to happen in Chapter 11. But for now, this is a conversation between two people who share family, who share friendship, who share trust.
And I think this is worth emphasizing because this book is showing us that the divine appears within an existing relationship. The divine appears within an existing relationship. God actually reveals himself to Arjuna within an existing intimate relationship that he has.
So I’ll think about that for a moment. So when it was time to run into battle and the conch shell sounded saying like, okay, the battle starting, Arjuna essentially had a nervous breakdown where he was like, I can’t do this. I can’t fight.
And definitely go back and listen to those first episodes. There’s an overview episode I did on the Gita to just kind of set the scene. And then of course, we went through chapter by chapter starting at the very beginning.
And those first six chapters are very much about Arjuna’s breakdown and the subsequent advice that Krishna gives him about how to purify his ego, how to meditate, how to essentially do a lot of yogic practices and effort to kind of get through this moment. But now we’ve pivoted. So if you listen to Chapter 7, what we saw is that after giving Arjuna a lot of knowledge, Krishna pivoted and started to introduce this idea that Arjuna and we all are actually in a relationship with the divine and that there’s a big difference between knowing something intellectually as opposed to actually feeling it.
And I think we talked about as an example, like you can read about love all day long. Intellectually, you can understand what it is in a book. Maybe you read stories about other people being in love.
Maybe you read about chemically what happens in the body when you’re in love and you’re feeling those butterflies. Like what’s actually happening on a hormonal level. You have this intellectual understanding of it, but that’s different from embodied knowing.
Like then you actually fall in love and experience it all yourself. And it’s totally different, right? It’s a totally different kind of knowing and kind of experience when it’s happening to when you’re having this visceral experience of being in love as opposed to reading about love intellectually. And so in Chapter 7, Krishna talked about this difference and that in order to have this embodied knowledge of the divine, you need to understand that the universe, God, cosmic intelligence, however you want to define it, is not neutral.
It’s conscious, it’s relational, it wants a relationship with you. And Krishna had these very poetic lines where he started revealing himself as the taste in the water, the seed of all beings, the intelligence of the intelligent. It’s a big episode, but I encourage you to listen to it if you haven’t.
And now in Chapter 8, this idea that we can’t just effort into awakening, that we’re actually awakening within the context of something greater, that we can be in devotion to, that we can be in relationship with. The focus of Chapter 7, this is called bhakti yoga, the idea that the absolute is not just an impersonal energy, but yoga can be a form of being in relationship with a relational energy that we believe underpins reality and is greater than us. And honestly, without this belief, without this bhakti, yoga just becomes like continual effort and self-optimization.
So now that Krishna has said all of that, Arjuna, remember, who’s the stand-in for us, the warrior, has like rapid-fire questions. And that’s how Chapter 8 starts. The title of this chapter is often called the Infinite Spirit or Brahman the Imperishable is another translation, or the Yoga of the Imperishable, Akshara Brahma Yoga is the name of this Chapter 8. And it starts with Arjuna being like, yo, dude, what did you just say? And he just like rapid-fires questions.
So this is verse one. He goes, wait, what is the Infinite Spirit, Krishna? What is its inner self, its action? What is its inner being called? What is its inner divinity? Who is within sacrifice, Krishna? How is he here in the body? And how are men of self-control to know you at the time of death? And I love that line, how are men of self-control to know you at the time of death? Because that’s kind of saying, like, how are us people who are doing all of these yogic practices that you taught and described, the meditation, the service, all of that stuff, how are they to know you when they’re dying? And when I first read this, I was like, that’s interesting that he’s asking about that. But then when you pull back to the context, which is why I did the little recap, these people are on a battlefield.
Arjuna literally is curious about death because he could die in the next like 20 to 30 minutes, depending how long this conversation goes. And if he decides to fight, like death is probably very top of his mind since he’s a warrior about to go into battle. So then I was like, of course, duh.
Yes, he’s curious about like what happens when you die. And that would be top of mind for him. So Arjuna is essentially asking, how does this ultimate reality, this fabric of the universe, this god that you just talked to me about in chapter seven, monologuing to me about it, like how does it show up in human life? And especially, how does it show up when life is about to end? Because I could die at any moment, assuming I move forward with this battle.
I’m working with primarily Barbara Stola Miller’s translation today, since we really favored the God song translation last episode. So skipping ahead to verse four, Krishna says, I am the inner sacrifice here in your body, O best of mortals. Verse five, a man who dies remembering me at the time of death enters my being when he is freed from his body.
Of this, there is no doubt. So we’re going to pause here because this verse 8.5 is one of the most quoted verses in the chapter. Krishna’s saying, whoever remembers me at the time of death comes to me.
So if you’re Arjuna, you’re like, OK, cool, I’ll just make sure to meditate or think about you when I die or when I’m like bleeding out on the battlefield in a few minutes and I’ll be set. Not so easy. Actually, not so quick because verse 8.6, Krishna clarifies the deeper principle of what he’s saying here.
So 8.6, he says, whatever being he remembers when he abandons the body at death, he enters Arjuna, always existing in that being. And the psychological principle that Krishna is hinting at here is that you can’t actually cheat in the way I just described. It’s like, OK, I’m going to focus on God or consciousness or Krishna or universal intelligence at the time of death.
You can’t do like a last second prayer. What he’s saying at a deeper level is that this is about lifelong conditioning of consciousness and that actually whatever fills your mind throughout your life will naturally fill your mind at the final moment. You’re not going to have control of it like you think you are.
You’re not going to be able to like fake your last thought. Instead, what you think about in those last moments of life are actually going to reveal the deepest orientation of your life. Your final thought on your deathbed isn’t going to be random.
It’s going to be the culmination of thousands of smaller thoughts. So if you spend your life scrolling, chasing validation, constantly worrying, obsessing about productivity like me, right, that mental atmosphere becomes your default state. And the Gita is saying like you’re going to become what you continually contemplate.
So even though he’s talking about death, he’s actually pointing to the fact that we need to shape our consciousness or choose our consciousness carefully during our lifetime because it’s shaping our trajectory that’s leading up to those final moments. And then the next verse, 8.7, is so practical. Krishna says, therefore, at all times, remember me and fight.
And it’s just so funny because he’s asking Arjuna and us to do two things simultaneously. To remember him, aka remember the divine, right? Be the witness who’s not just the witness, but also connected to something greater. Have that stillness in your heart, that bird’s eye perspective, right? Remember the divine and simultaneously continue acting in the world, right? Therefore, at all times, remember me and fight.
Note that he doesn’t say, therefore, at all times, remember me and stay in meditation all the time and just do whatever you have to do to make your circumstances easy so you can be focused on me all the time. No, no, no. That’s not what he’s saying.
He’s saying, therefore, at all times, he’s like, he’s like, no, you have to rub your belly and pat your head simultaneously. Like, no, you have to bicycle while juggling. Like, no, remember me while you fight and go in to this battle.
And for you, that might look like, yep, you got to be calm and remember the divine while you fight. And maybe your fight is like getting your kids out the door for school or juggling a very chaotic yoga teaching schedule while also fulfilling your duties at a full time job. Maybe it’s caring for elderly parents while you also do all the other things that are required of you to make a living.
So I love this line. Therefore, at all times, remember me and fight. You do not get a pass.
You are supposed to be participating in the world. You are supposed to be performing your duties. This is classic Gita integration.
You’re not supposed to withdraw to a monastery. You’re not supposed to opt out. You’re supposed to have spiritual awareness inside of ordinary life.
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And then we get a little recap of some meditation instructions in the next verses. He says, mind and understanding fixed on me, free from doubt, you will come to me, disciplined through practice, his reason never straying, meditating, one reaches the supreme divine spirit of man. One should remember man’s spirit as the guide, the primordial poet, smaller than an atom, grantor of all things, in form, inconceivable, the color of the sun beyond the horizon, the light beyond darkness.
This is verse 10 now, at the time of death, with the mind immovable, armed with devotion and strength of discipline. I love that because we have devotion and discipline. You see that? Focusing vital breath between the brows, one attains the supreme divine spirit of man.
And let’s hear those verses eight to 10 in the God song version, just because he uses more of the Sanskrit words and it’s a little more poetic. Let’s go back to verse seven. Therefore, at all times, remember me and fight, devote your mind and intellect to me.
You’ll come with to me without a doubt. With his thinking yoked to yogic practice, never straying, contemplation takes him to the highest human godhood. Remembering the ancient poet, the ruler smaller than an atom, the supporter of all, the image unimaginable, sun colored beyond the dark.
At the time of his passing, mind motionless, yoked to devotion with the strength of yoga. Oh, that line’s so good. So good.
Yoked to devotion with the strength of yoga, life’s breath entering right between the eyebrows, he approaches this highest human godhood. So Krishna’s describing one who or a man who would come to him at the time of death. And this person is steadying the mind, bringing awareness between the eyebrows, remembering the divine, departing from their body with awareness at the time of death.
And symbolically, this section is essentially talking about stabilizing your consciousness in awareness in God rather than identification with the body. And again, while we’re talking about death, it’s not like you need to do this the moment you die. What he’s really alluding to is that this is a lifetime of training your attention that all of us should be doing.
OK, so the next couple of verses, Krishna goes on to describe Akshara Brahma, which is also the title of the chapter, which is translated as imperishable reality. So this is the underlying consciousness that was alluded to also in Chapter 7. This is the consciousness that does not die, that does not change, that persists beyond physical form. And the famous line here is about Aum, Aum.
Krishna describes Aum, the sound of Aum, as a doorway to this kind of consciousness. So Aum represents the vibrational signature of this reality. So if this underlying imperishable reality, this binding fabric beneath the nature of all things, beneath the gunas, that silent stillness that we can tap into, that witness consciousness that’s also tethered in devotion to the divine, if it had a vibrational signature that was a sound, if it could manifest this sound, it would be the sound of Aum.
So this isn’t just about chanting it or saying it, it’s really about how Aum represents the vibration of ultimate reality. So in this Upanishadic philosophy, Aum is the sonic symbol, OK, like that sonic symbol of Brahman, OK, which is the underlying consciousness of existence. And we want to orient towards that rather than orienting towards our ego and all our problems and all our worries and all our anxiety.
So if you can remember Aum, it’s like a way to orient your awareness towards what’s eternal and true rather than what’s temporary and maya, essentially an illusion. So verse 13, invoking the infinite spirit as the one eternal syllable Aum, remembering me as he abandons his body, he reaches the absolute way. Verse 14, when he constantly remembers me, focusing his reason on me, I am easy to reach for the man of enduring discipline.
Then he goes on to say in verse 15, reaching me, men of great spirit do not undergo rebirth, the ephemeral realm of suffering. They attain instead absolute perfection. Verse 16, even Brahma’s cosmic realm, worlds evolve in incessant cycles.
But a man who reaches me suffers no rebirth, Arjuna. So as a reminder, in this Vedic context, how people thought about death is that death was not the end of one’s existence. There were basically three possibilities.
When you died, you could go through samsara rebirth, and that’s most people that continue through cycles of birth and death. That means their karma and their mental patterns from this life go on and shape the next. And that’s kind of the default assumption.
Then option number two is that some souls would basically go to heavenly worlds after death because they had good karma or because they worked through a lot of their karma that they needed to work through on this plane of consciousness. But that heavenly realm is still temporary. And then they still end up being reborn.
So it’s kind of like you get a vacation before you get reborn. And then lastly, path number three would be moksha, a word a lot of you, I bet, recognize. Moksha, liberation.
And that means freedom from rebirth and realization with this ultimate reality, this brahman, this union with the divine. And that’s the goal that Krishna is pointing to. So Krishna is basically saying we’re talking about death, but really it’s the orientation of your consciousness that’s going to determine which of these three paths you go down.
If you’re always absorbed in your ego and your desire and your fear and you’re attached to all your worldly stuff, then your consciousness is going to continue in samsara, right, that first path. But if your awareness is anchored to the divine, even as you’re fighting, even as you’re living, your consciousness is going to move towards liberation. So you’ve got a practical tool here.
Well, you’ve got a couple of practical tools. One is this, you know, really practical verse 8.7, therefore, remember me at all times and perform your duties or therefore remember me at all times and fight. Then we’ve been told that when we’re struggling, Aum is the sonic sound that we want to focus on to reorient our attention.
Now we’re going to get a really cool metaphor that basically, I think it’s a great technique when you’re struggling, that basically just makes you feel really small. So let’s look at verse 17. When they know, and again, they is referring to men who achieve this state at their deathbed.
So when they know that a day of Brahma stretches over a thousand eons and his night ends in a thousand eons, men understand day and night. At break of Brahma’s day, all things emerge from unmanifest nature. When night falls, all sink into unmanifest darkness.
Let’s look at 17 and 18 in the God Song translation. Brahma’s one day stretches for a thousand eons. After a thousand eons, night ends.
People who know this know the day and the night. From the unmanifest, manifestations all proceed. Come day, come night.
They dissolve, known from then on as unmanifest. So what’s happening in these verses 17, 18, and 19 as well, is it’s kind of like if you were looking at something under a microscope and then you zoom out, you know, it’s like you go like up high as a drone, higher than a drone, zoom out. And Krishna’s describing these cosmic cycles of days and nights of Brahma, universes like whole worlds appearing and then dissolving and how manifestation happens and things become manifest and then dissolve in these huge cycles.
And he’s trying to make kind of the point of scale, like he’s trying to say like, yeah, your problems and this little war that you’re about to have to go fight against your family or whatever problems you have, like, yeah, you’re human and it feels enormous to you. But from the cosmic perspective, it is a brief moment in the immense unfolding of universes upon universes. And so this perspective can also kind of dissolve the panic or the anxiety that a lot of us might feel.
This is one of the best techniques that I like stumbled onto very early in my yoga seeking path was that when I was feeling heartbreak or when I was feeling something really intense, instead of letting it feel so personal, I’d zoom out and try to think of like everyone around the world who is experiencing heartache probably right now at the exact same time as me. And then after that, like people throughout all of history who’ve experienced heartache and all around the world and since the beginning of time get this elevated perspective and all of a sudden you’re not so panicked or not so in the emotion, you’re realizing that there’s this bigger perspective. And that’s exactly what these verses are about.
Then jumping ahead a little bit, the two paths that can happen after we die are what Krishna describes next. And these are symbolic. So verse 23, Arjuna, I shall tell you precisely the time when men of discipline who have died suffer rebirth or escape it.
Verse 24, men who know the infinite spirit reach its infinity if they die in fire, light day, bright lunar night, the sun’s six month northward course, in smoke, night, dark lunar night, the sun’s six month southward course, a man of discipline reaches the moon’s light and returns. These bright and dark pathways are deemed constant for the universe. By one, a man escapes rebirth.
By the other, he is born again. So Krishna is basically describing neon path number one, which is the path of light that leads to liberation. And then this other path, this path of return, that kind of like leads back into rebirth.
And again, we could take this literally at the time of death, but that’s not what most scholars do. Most scholars interpret this metaphorically. They’re saying that these are states of consciousness rather than like literal neon cosmic highways, although I think that’s actually really fun to think about.
But the deeper message is right. Like if your consciousness is oriented towards God, towards the eternal, towards what’s still and not changing in a devotional way, well, then your consciousness moves towards freedom. But if your consciousness is oriented towards all the temporary stuff, all the stuff governed by the gunas, it’s going to return to the cycle of becoming or go back into rebirth.
So while it seems like chapter eight is about death and what happens when you die, it’s actually not. It’s actually about attention. Where does your attention rest? Because your attention is the hands on the steering wheel of consciousness and your consciousness is what’s going to determine your trajectory.
It’s not something that you can just like quickly fix at the last minute when you’re dying. Verse 27, Krishna says, no man of discipline is deluded when he knows these two paths. Basically, like I told you about these two things, right? You can anchor your attention towards all the impermanent crap or you can orient it towards what’s real, what’s true, what’s still in a devotional relationship with me.
No man is deluded when he knows like basically those are your two options. No man of discipline is deluded when he knows these two paths. Therefore, Arjuna, be armed in all times with discipline.
The God song translation of this same verse 27 says, knowing these two paths, no yogi is deluded. So be at all times yoked in yoga, Arjuna. Vedic study, sacrifice, austerity and charity met are fruits of merit.
The yogi knowing all this goes beyond them to the highest state, his original one. Boom. Mic drop.
Verse 28 closes the chapter. So chapter 7, which we looked at previously, said the divine is everywhere. It introduced this idea of bhakti yoga.
And now chapter 8 is saying basically, so train your awareness to recognize this divine that’s everywhere, not just once, not just in meditation, but actually while you’re fighting, while you’re fighting, while you’re going through life. And I think the death thing is interesting because he’s kind of like you can’t manufacture this at your final moment. Like I think a lot of us are like, OK, cool, I’ll do that later.
Right. And he’s saying, no, you can’t procrastinate this. You have to train your attention now because what filled your life is what is orienting your consciousness.
So this chapter is not so much about dying. Well, it’s more about like you need to live attentively. What are you paying attention to? I feel like this is the main theme that I’ve been talking about on the podcast this year.
If you haven’t listened to my attention economy podcast that I kind of opened this year with, like we’ll link it up in the show notes. I’d encourage you to go back and listen to that because Krishna’s saying like death isn’t a distant moment. It’s a mirror.
It’s going to show you, you know, like what did you actually pay attention to during your lifetime? Like was it TikTok or was it the divine? Was it cultivating a relationship with something that’s true, permanent, still, loving? So what are you devoting your attention to right now? That’s like a great place for us to end and for you to, if you want to, to think about. And don’t forget the tools we learned about in this chapter, you know, the tool of Aum or redirecting your attention to that sound or in a different mantra or sound that works for you. But to use something to reorient your attention, the tool of zooming out, thinking about like the cosmic scale of the stuff that you are so worried or obsessed about instead of it feeling so personal, that zooming out technique.
And then like if all your thoughts were marbles going into one of these three different jars that he describes, you know, like how much of your thoughts, how many marbles are in the jar that’s like worry, stuff about the gunas, impermanent Maya stuff that like I have no control of and is impermanent and is essentially an illusion and doesn’t really matter. Like, is that marble jar full and your marble jar that’s like your your your prayer jar, your devotion jar, your stillness connection to the divine jar? Like, how many marbles does that have in it? Like, I’ll just be honest. There’s a lot more marbles in my my jar that’s worried about all my egoic stuff than my prayer jar.
Like, how can how can we even that out? Right. That’s what all of these practices are about. It’s like, how can I be less my ego, less attached to all this impermanent stuff? And how can I let the divine fill me? How can I be more connected to that part of my identity? My eternal identity.
You become what you practice. So let’s all think about that, myself included. This was heavy, but hopefully also a little bit fun.
I hope fun. Thank you so much for listening all the way to the very, very end. Until next time, take care of you.
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