WANT TO KNOW ‘WHO AM I’ – TRY THIS SIMPLE METHOD

To find an answer to this fundamental question – “Who Am I” – try this simple method. Just follow this one fundamental rule, that all that you can see or feel is not ‘you’.’ Please know that, with these physical eyes, you can only see that which is physical and all that which is physical, is temporary because physical appears and disappears; comes and goes; makes and unmakes itself; rises and falls; and physical is born and is dead. Thus, that which is physical cannot be the real ‘you’. Now, by following this simple rule, please try to eliminate or negate all that you can see or feel and hence not ‘you’. Let us, first, take the physical world or simply ‘others’. Because you can see the physical world or the others and hence the world (others) is not ‘you’. Next, let us take, your physical possessions (all that you know as mine) which are also not ‘you’ because you can see them all. Next, comes your body which, though, you know as me and yet you can see that and hence even your body is not ‘you’. Similar to the body, you can see or feel your senses too and thus, your senses are also not ‘you’. You can even see your mind (though subtle compared to the gross body), which is that you can feel your mental activity, I mean, thoughts, which keep coming and going, and hence your mind or mental activity, too, is not you. Similarly, you can also see or feel your ‘prana’ or vital force and hence even your ‘prana’ too is not you.   

You, thus, eliminated all viz the physical world; the body; mind etc saying that they are not ‘you’ because you can see them. The question, which, then, naturally arises is that if you are not all these physical things then that ‘you’ must be something which probably is not physical but is beyond this physical. That ‘you’ must be ‘something’ which is more than this physical and is that ‘something’ is not yet in your experience? This is for the reason that, if you are not all these things such as body, mind etc but you know that ‘you’ are. You know that ‘you’ exist. Then who is that ‘you’ which really exists or IS? Who is that ‘seer’ who really sees all that is physical? After all there must be a ‘seer’ who first saw or became aware of all those things which you later denied or negated, one by one. Your conclusion, whether you are that or not, is simply based on and is subsequent to such ‘seeing’ only which also confirms that there must be a ‘seer’ or ‘knower’ – the one who knows all. If you are not the seen (that which you can see) then obviously the real ‘you’ is the one who ‘sees’ or’ knows’. That ‘you’ is the witness or sakshi to all that which happens; to all that which comes and goes; which appears and disappears; which makes and unmakes itself; which rises and falls etc.

 

Now, don’t be impatient and come up with a readymade answer - mai aatama hun -I’m the soul. No, because readymade answers or acquired knowledge is of no use. Acquired knowledge can never release you. This is practically evident also in the sense that despite we all saying; hearing and repeating, thousands of times, that mai aatama hun and yet all our relationships; our social dealings with each other, are just based on and limited to this body only. Because, we know or have experienced the body or physical only. The other dimension which we know as soul, or whatever the name, is not yet in our experience. That’s why we exist here as a body and for the body only. Personally experiencing that dimension which we know as divine can only release you – release from physicality. Gyan vahi jo mukt kare. Hence, become a seeker and go in search of that dimension. Experientially knowing that Knower or Seer is knowing the real “I” or knowing the real “YOU” which in yogic tradition is known as ‘Self-realization’ or ‘Atmasakshatkar. I can give you the method which, for sure, will help you, find the real ‘I’ and that method is meditation.