The Annihilation Of The Self Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

All the spiritual masters write about
the annihilation of the self.


All outward works were established
and ordained to direct the outer man
to God and to train him to spiritual
living and good deeds, that he might not
stray away from the right path;
to act as a curb on his inclination to
escape from Self to things outside.

For the greater the delight
in outward things
the harder it is to leave them.