#self vigilance

[awarenessisnondual]

Sri Annamalai Swami 💙

[karamsdaughter]

One must call the soul to account for every day and hour, through an entire lifetime and with respect to every organ, both exterior and interior—as narrated about Tawba b. Ṣumma, who lived in Riqqah.A

He used to take his soul to account. One day he counted his age.17 When he found he was sixty years old, he counted the days. When [he found] them to be one thousand five hundred and twenty-one days, he shouted, ‘Woe to me, I shall meet the angel with a thousand five hundred and twenty-one days’ misdeeds.18 And every day ten thousand misdeeds there are!’ Then he dropped on the spot and died. A voice was heard saying, ‘With what speed to the highest paradise.