Who Am I?

 As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep where there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.   

 

 

1 . Who am I ?

The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five cognitive sense-organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, excretion, and procreation, which have as their respective functions speaking, moving, grasping, excreting, and enjoying, I am not; the five vital airs, prana, etc., which perform respectively the five functions of in-breathing, etc., I am not; even the mind which thinks, I am not; the nescience too, which is endowed only with the residual impressions of objects, and in which there are no objects and no functioning's, I am not.  

2. If I am none of these, then who am I?

After negating all of the above-mentioned as 'not this', 'not this', that Awareness which alone remains - that I am.

3. What is the nature of Awareness? The nature of Awareness is existence-consciousness-bliss   

 

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

Athugasemdir

[Bragi Þór Thoroddsen, 5.9.2007 kl. 14:48]

Man eftir þessari mynd í hafi úti þegar við vorum miklu yngri... Jackie Chan...

vcd

[OM , 5.9.2007 kl. 18:11]

Sæll Erlingur

Ég veit ekkert um yoga-flug og hef enga reynslu af því nema það sem talað er um í TM-hugleiðslu en þá eiga lengra komnir að geta lyft sér frá jörðu. Ert þú að meina það? Mitt mat er að maður eigi að halda sér sem mest á jörðinni þegar maður stundar yoga.  

Kv.LL77

[OM , 5.9.2007 kl. 18:14]

I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

... en samt var ég mikið, mikið yngri