Who I am Really

(Excerpted from Vedant)









We have no business to be unhappy,when our essentials nature is infinite bliss.Sorrow,incompleteness,insecurity and tension are due to our false identification.The solution is not the company of people acquiring more wealth,visiting analyst or getting sympathy from others,but to know one's tre nature and abide by it.

So who I am truly ?

The things outside my body are not me.I am not my House nor Money,however much I love them.They are acquired and can be given up either willingly or unwillingly.I can live without them even if I miss them.Is the body me? I shall give it up at Death.Every night I give up identification with it and go to sleep and each morning wake up to identify with it again.I have identified with it in various states and conditions-Childhood,Youth,Adulthood,Healthy and Unhealthy.So which is me ? Body cells are constantly dying and new ones replacing them.Am i the dying ones or the new ones?

I can donate my blood to someone else who uses them as his own,whose is this blood after transfusion,his or mine? This body,too,becomes a burden to us sometimes.So can this body be my essential nature ?surely not.
The mind is a continous flow of thoughts,good,bad or indifferent,that flash from morning to night.Can we ever count the total number of thoughts we have in one life?.Which of these thoughts is me? Thoughts are a burden too-Fear ,Anger,Worry and such.Some unburden their sorrows on others,some try to drown-it in drink.
This whimsical mind is surely not me.What then,is my real nature? Only the state of meditation and awakeness will help me find my true nature,which is infinite Bliss or finding that nature and abiding in it true Liberation.