I am confused. I am so many things! I am a living being, a human. I cannot deny being a son, a husband or a father either. Neither I can deny being a Software Consultant. Looking more closely, I think I am so many things and i change with time as well. When i travel, I become a driver or a passenger, when I dont I become a Netflix movies fan. When its a weekday, I become a frustrated busy person and in weekend a lazy couch man. Why do I change so often? Or is it that I assume to be so many things, but dont actually know who I am?
Some of the things that I believe I am, are roles, and some are the forms. I have not yet answered it. Who am I?
Is my name who I am? I think not. Name is a tool needed by other beings to remember my physical being. So, do i have any other existence apart from the physical body?
I have memory. I have knowledge. I have experience. I have intellect. I have emotions. There may be yet several non-existing 'things' in me that I might not have even defined and given a name to it. These don't even exist as a part of my body, yet they are there and hold so much importance for my being. This brings us to a new question - is physical existence the only requirement of being or being present?
Are there only living and non-living beings? What is the difference? Can we say with certainty that only the beings with brains have emotions and other non-physical experience? Doesn't a tree have memory? Doesn't it have intellect? How does it know how to germinate and grow and yield and release 'life' giving gases? Surely, it does have the intellect that we do not know about. The lack of our knowledge doesn't make the trees senseless. What about stones? Do they have life?
Our planet is made up of minerals in different forms - solid, liquid, gas and other. The minerals have made it possible for existence of a system - the eco-system, on which all the 'living' beings are dependent on. For the eco-system, minerals are lesser form of intellect than its mobile and 'living' counterparts. But it does have some intellect, because it knows how to provide warmth to the planet, or how to provide food.
The planets are moving, the sun is vibrant and provides energy. Are they non-living, just because they don't breathe? We seem to be obsessed with associating a phenomenon (breathing) with life. The sun, the moon, the planets, the sky, the starts, I think, very much have intellect and living.
Back to our original question - Who am I.
Just like the earth supports living beings, I think my body supports me. I am very much different from my body. I may very much be different from the roles I play. I may not have a name. I may not even have a form. But I think, I have an existence - in my body somewhere or may be beyond it. I don't know how big or small I am. I am not sure if I am so small as to fit in any of my body organ or am mighty enough to be contain the whole body in me? Is it possible that the body I have is a part of me, and not the vice-versa? If so, do I have a boundary? What does constraint my empire? Can I diffuse into others, just like light rays diffuse between and into each other? Do I have an existence or am I a ray of a source? Is ray not a light? Can light be without rays?
I want to believe that I am a part of the system of universe. Which part? How significant? Do i have a size? I have size that is not constrained by anything. I have a size as big as I want. I don't have a boundary. I can diffuse throughout the universe. Universe seems to be smaller than me. May be universe is in me.
I am a state. I don't have any form or size, but yet am every where. I am in everything, and everything is in me. Am I the One?
Some of the things that I believe I am, are roles, and some are the forms. I have not yet answered it. Who am I?
Is my name who I am? I think not. Name is a tool needed by other beings to remember my physical being. So, do i have any other existence apart from the physical body?
I have memory. I have knowledge. I have experience. I have intellect. I have emotions. There may be yet several non-existing 'things' in me that I might not have even defined and given a name to it. These don't even exist as a part of my body, yet they are there and hold so much importance for my being. This brings us to a new question - is physical existence the only requirement of being or being present?
Are there only living and non-living beings? What is the difference? Can we say with certainty that only the beings with brains have emotions and other non-physical experience? Doesn't a tree have memory? Doesn't it have intellect? How does it know how to germinate and grow and yield and release 'life' giving gases? Surely, it does have the intellect that we do not know about. The lack of our knowledge doesn't make the trees senseless. What about stones? Do they have life?
Our planet is made up of minerals in different forms - solid, liquid, gas and other. The minerals have made it possible for existence of a system - the eco-system, on which all the 'living' beings are dependent on. For the eco-system, minerals are lesser form of intellect than its mobile and 'living' counterparts. But it does have some intellect, because it knows how to provide warmth to the planet, or how to provide food.
The planets are moving, the sun is vibrant and provides energy. Are they non-living, just because they don't breathe? We seem to be obsessed with associating a phenomenon (breathing) with life. The sun, the moon, the planets, the sky, the starts, I think, very much have intellect and living.
Back to our original question - Who am I.
Just like the earth supports living beings, I think my body supports me. I am very much different from my body. I may very much be different from the roles I play. I may not have a name. I may not even have a form. But I think, I have an existence - in my body somewhere or may be beyond it. I don't know how big or small I am. I am not sure if I am so small as to fit in any of my body organ or am mighty enough to be contain the whole body in me? Is it possible that the body I have is a part of me, and not the vice-versa? If so, do I have a boundary? What does constraint my empire? Can I diffuse into others, just like light rays diffuse between and into each other? Do I have an existence or am I a ray of a source? Is ray not a light? Can light be without rays?
I want to believe that I am a part of the system of universe. Which part? How significant? Do i have a size? I have size that is not constrained by anything. I have a size as big as I want. I don't have a boundary. I can diffuse throughout the universe. Universe seems to be smaller than me. May be universe is in me.
I am a state. I don't have any form or size, but yet am every where. I am in everything, and everything is in me. Am I the One?
