WALKING ON THE RAZOR’S EDGE The ‘Sphinx’ within-03 In Egyptian mythology, the Sphinx has a lion’s body and a man’s head. The Roman Sphinx of a later period sometimes has a man’s and sometimes a woman’s head. Well, the Sphinx represents us all – men and women. Indeed, we men and women are all strange creatures. We combine both animal and human elements in our character, the these elements hide the Spirit. When the Sphinx asks, ‘What are you?’, are we able to answer? If we can answer ‘I am the Spirit’, the Sphinx in us would die. Then we would experience the awakening of Self-knowledge, the coming of knowledge of the true man – the Self – the Spirit in us, and this strange personality, the combination of opposites, would disappear. SWAMI YATISWARANANDA – Meditation and Spiritual Life – Ramakrishna Math, Bangalore India. Fourth Edition. 1998 p: 111-112.
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