Tar Baby: On ‘Dying To Myself’

For you and me this ‘Dying to Myself’ can be a very tricky business. Unless we stay alert to the final turn of Yājñavalkya’s Algorithm, the negating of the Act and Agent of Negation, a fatal loop awaits those of us who want end it all.

Trying to negate myself is like taking on Uncle Remus’ ‘Tar-Baby’. The harder I try to negate myself the firmer I reinforce myself as Me.

Any attempt to nullify the ‘I’ using the ‘I’, befuddles, stupefies and ultimately immobilizes the ‘I’.

A state taken by the devout as further confirmation of divine oversight. I am happy to die as long as I can be alive to watch myself doing it.