Why are some roles very difficult to drop even though you keep telling yourself it is a role and it has to be dropped? For example, for a male it is perhaps his job/work and for a woman the role of a mother –– Mohan S

When I say `Drop the role’, I mean drop it predominantly in your understanding. Drop it when you play another role e.g., drop the role of a father when you have to play the role of a husband. If you cannot, it means you have defined yourself only by that role, your whole identity is based on that role. So the first step is to see yourself as a person playing many roles and, therefore, playing more than any given role. The second step is to see (with the help of the teaching and meditation) that you are the one on whom all the roles are dependent. Therefore, you are independent of all the roles. The third step is to see that you are the aware-ful being, the sakshi, the witness of all roles, and, finally, to recognize the `I’ as limitless awareness/consciousness. That gives you the whole picture from the role to the Real.