all along, i introduced myself as 'son of my father', 'brother of my brothers', 'friend of a friend', some called me tall, some called me short, by all sorts of names, dark, fair, handsome, ugly, and zillion other things.
other times when people asked me who i was, i often gave my name, my nationality, my native place, my qualifications, and such. but who am i, really? how does one go about defining oneself?
spiritually, i am an infinitely small, subatomic element called 'soul' as defined by lord Krishna in bhagavad-gita. according to this definition, i am neither born nor am i ever gonna die, i am eternal. but still sometimes i fear of death. if i truly am a soul with no beginning and no end, what does my name refer to? my soul? or my body? if it is my body, what does it refer to when my body dies? my soul then? if so, why do people ignore the soul gracefully when the body is alive, but refer to it only when the body is gone?
confusing? haan? :)
my friends, i am talking about one of those billion things we all take for granted, many things that seem confusing and hence we gracefully ignore, pretend that we know, or even pretend as if these are unimportant questions.
once in a while, i find myself in a state of 'awakening', a realization of 'who i actually am' that i seem to have long forgotten, as if regaining sudden consciousness from an unconscious state, but forget in a giffy.
can someone truly answer the simplest question of all... who am i?
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To me this whole concept of soul is built up on natural human query of what will happen after death? I don't care what's gonna happen after I die so I don't care for this concept either. It may or may not be there, but will have to die to understand that. Until then, enjoi...
(This is the shortest explanation of my theory of soul and life... ). By the way I do believe in God, if my thinking confused you...
Anurag, my question is who are you? who am i? do u have an answer? it doesn't have to be defined in terms of soul.
I am God's creation, his part, and so I am God myself, just like you...
अनुराग की बात को हिंदी में कहें तो-
हम हम हैं, यही क्या कम है! :)
I think as part of this janma, your name and family you belong and things you do, end up being part of the "Karma" for "the soul" through the body named "Harsha" - It is something similar to "the almighty" taking part as "Lord Rama" or "Lord Krishna", does that make sense?
PS: Just my 2-cents worth!!
Pavan, thanks for the comment. When you say "I think" what are you referring to? your body? or the soul?
If it is body, then if I refer to late Dr. Rajkumar now, what am I referring to? his body? or soul? or something else?
:-)
So nice to see the question which reminds me of a session of my yoga class. Two persons should go on asking each other the same question "who am I" till one gets exhausted and nothing else to reply. As you said, for some time one can reply...I am so and so, father/brother/mother/sister/granddauther-son/uncle/aunty/niece/nephew/boss/servant etc.etc. At the end we came to know that I am everybody and I am nobody. If the name belongs to body it doesnot expand along with the body as the age grows. If the name belongs to the soul, why the body is called with the name. Here you get the answer that You means both body and soul and at the same time you are not too. I feel often, detachment in attachment could be the same. One thing is certain that all our thoughts,deeds,actions and reactions denote our standard of values,degree of adoption and we are only responsible for each and every happening in our life. When you analyse a feeling of happiness or depression, that wd be the result of your past actions or deeds. Our ego donot permit us to agree for the same, manytimes.
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