"WHO AM I ?"
Every person, in his journey of life poses one question to himself at some point or the other. This question sometimes has multiple answers and sometimes none. This question keeps returning at various stages in various forms. Many philosophers and thinkers have given various answers to this question but the same answer does not satisfy or fit everybody. Our journey of life continues in an attempt to answer this question. A continuous exploration of our inner self slowly but surely reveals an answer. But do we always need an answer to this or is the question enough to keep us thinking? Does the exploration end once we get an answer?
Some great thinkers have come up with answers to this question. Advaita professes the idea of " Aham Brahmasmi " 'I am God'. Dvaita contradicts this by saying '' I am different from God". There are various ways people have identified themselves. But did the question stop bothering once the answer is given? "NO". This question does not end in an answer. This demands more than an answer. This question demands a perspective, a thought, a reality and an identification.
Sometimes questions do not have a single answer. They can not be satisfied by a single thought. They need multiple answers. Answers evolve from each other like thoughts evolve and refine overtime. These thoughts vary from "Aham sahasra roopa" (I am everything (here sahasra means 'everything'... not 'thousand')) to "Aham arupinah" (I am nothing(formless)).
Every person, animal, plant.... for that matter anything.... has a uniqueness to itself. This conveys that every object has an "I" or "Aham" within itself. this makes "I" as everything. Everything has its self and the self takes the form of the object, like water takes the form of the container but at the same time, when one asks for the shape of water, it possesses none. The same way, self has no form or it is formless at the same time has every form.
This argument reminds me of a famous line popularized by Bhakta Prahlada "ఇందుగలడందులేడని సందేహము వలదు ఎందెందు వెదకినా అందెందే గలడు ". This seems like it is talking about the self present in every form or saying "He (God) is everything" and when this is conjunct-ed with "I am God", we can derive "I am everything". But when we ask our self, where is this "I" within you, the answer is nowhere... "I am nothing".
Did you find your "I" yet? if not.... its time to introspect...
Every person, in his journey of life poses one question to himself at some point or the other. This question sometimes has multiple answers and sometimes none. This question keeps returning at various stages in various forms. Many philosophers and thinkers have given various answers to this question but the same answer does not satisfy or fit everybody. Our journey of life continues in an attempt to answer this question. A continuous exploration of our inner self slowly but surely reveals an answer. But do we always need an answer to this or is the question enough to keep us thinking? Does the exploration end once we get an answer?
Some great thinkers have come up with answers to this question. Advaita professes the idea of " Aham Brahmasmi " 'I am God'. Dvaita contradicts this by saying '' I am different from God". There are various ways people have identified themselves. But did the question stop bothering once the answer is given? "NO". This question does not end in an answer. This demands more than an answer. This question demands a perspective, a thought, a reality and an identification.
Sometimes questions do not have a single answer. They can not be satisfied by a single thought. They need multiple answers. Answers evolve from each other like thoughts evolve and refine overtime. These thoughts vary from "Aham sahasra roopa" (I am everything (here sahasra means 'everything'... not 'thousand')) to "Aham arupinah" (I am nothing(formless)).
Every person, animal, plant.... for that matter anything.... has a uniqueness to itself. This conveys that every object has an "I" or "Aham" within itself. this makes "I" as everything. Everything has its self and the self takes the form of the object, like water takes the form of the container but at the same time, when one asks for the shape of water, it possesses none. The same way, self has no form or it is formless at the same time has every form.
This argument reminds me of a famous line popularized by Bhakta Prahlada "ఇందుగలడందులేడని సందేహము వలదు ఎందెందు వెదకినా అందెందే గలడు ". This seems like it is talking about the self present in every form or saying "He (God) is everything" and when this is conjunct-ed with "I am God", we can derive "I am everything". But when we ask our self, where is this "I" within you, the answer is nowhere... "I am nothing".
Did you find your "I" yet? if not.... its time to introspect...
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