“The key to quality is mindfulness” and the effects of lack of mindful attention can be seen in the way we speak.

Rameez Raja was on television during the recently concluded India Pakistan one day series. In his expert comments during a lunch break he said in all seriousness to a comment by his co-commentator. “Yes, India should go for the juggernaut” pointing to his throat! The co-commentator tried to point out the error in a graceful way and said “you mean they should go for the kill”.“Yes”, Rameez reiterated “They must go for the juggernaut” and pointed more clearly to his own jugular vein again!

The most astonishing gaffe I have come across is in a book written by an own eminent scholar of the shastras and of traditional sculpture, “I am penning down all that I have learnt for posterior reference”!!

I wonder if these qualify to be “Freudian slips”.

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