YOU ARE THAT WHICH CANNOT BE ELIMINATED

AT TIMES IT HAPPENS that you do not know an answer to a question which you are asked. However, if you are given choices then you can try reaching an answer by following the elimination process. This could be true about anything but I will take a simple example to explain what I am trying to say. Imagine, for a moment, that a popular song from a Hindi film is playing. You are asked to name the singer but you cannot. Assuming further, that you are given four choices. So, what you do is that, by following the elimination process you reach the answer. So, you eliminate, say for example, Kishore Kumar - because you are too sure about his voice. Similarly you eliminate other two names as well say, Mohammed Rafi and Mukesh, because you know for sure that they are not one of the singers of that song. Having eliminated the three choices, the answer is the fourth one or the last one which cannot be eliminated for the obvious reasons. 

‘Atmavichara’ or Self-enquiry as ‘Who Am I’ is also a similar exercise. By following the elimination process you can finally reach to that ‘I’, which cannot be eliminated or negated. So let us apply this to ourselves and by following the elimination process try finding an answer to the question as ‘Who Am I’. So, starting with my name, which, I am not because name is my identity which society gives. Name is not integral to me. Next is my physical body, which, I am not. The five senses too I am not. The ‘prana’ and vital force and its five variants too I am not. I am not even the mind and its functions (thoughts and feelings). All these aspects of myself viz; body; senses; ‘prana’ and mind are physical in nature. Even the mind and ‘prana’ too are physical, though a bit subtle. Physical means temporary because physical appears and disappears. These aspects of mine are, thus, not inherent or integral to me but acquired from outside and hence cannot be the ‘I’.     

Though I have eliminated or negated all the obvious choices and yet I know that I exist. I may not know about the god and world – whether they exist or not- but I know, for sure, that I exist. Then how do I know that I exist? What is the basis of my saying that I exist? Not from the body; senses; ‘prana’ or mind because they all are inert (‘jada’). They do not subsist on their own. For example, my body does not say I am this body. It’s me who says this is my body or I am this body. The same is true about the mind and other physical aspects of mine. Then what is that because of which I know that I exist. The answer is AWARENESS. It is awareness which makes me realize or know that I exist. Awareness is that dimension of myself which cannot be eliminated or negated. Awareness is a kind of feeling. It’s some kind of intuition. Awareness is knowing without thinking. 

Awareness is all. The whole existence is just awareness. Awareness is the Self, the ‘I’ or the ultimate reality which is the underlying substratum of everything in this existence. Everything comes out of awareness; survives and thrives in it and finally sinks back into the same awareness. Awareness is perfect and is here and now. Those who are in touch with awareness can access all which for us is past or future. 

Self- enquiry or ‘Atmavichara’ is to realize that awareness and abide in that. An enlightened being is one who has realized and is always established in awareness. Awareness is our nature. Awareness is the truth. It’s functioning all the time. You just need to be in touch with it. 

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