Who Are You ?

“Hi, nice to meet you. I am the Relationship Officer.”
“What me? Judgmental? Of course not!”
“Of course I’m ugly! Have you seen my nose? It looks a mushroom sprouting out of a rotten log of wood!”
Our dear ‘Relationship Officer’ here, has built wonderful relationships with his colleagues, the strength of which is best conveyed through the nasty messages about him that they send to each other!
But does his wife hate him so too? Is he just his role? There must be more to him than just this, you know?
And this lovely lady who claims to be ‘not judgmental’ has not spoken to her supposed best friend ever since she saw her wearing yellow pants at a queer parade. (Now whether the yellow pants were her problem or her support of the queer community, even she does not know.)
So she is non-judgmental, kind, emotional, loving, caring, understanding and all the blahs that you can think of. But then, is she really? Is she just a psychological attribute anyway?
And this poor young boy, he just doesn’t seem to be able to look past the obstruction of his nose! Well, I do feel bad for him, but is he all about his nose? Is he just his body?
“This is hell and nor am I out of it.” -Of course I too have ideas about myself (and its okay, I know you do too. This man, this lady, this young boy, You and I are all together in this game.)
It’s so amusing how we end up attributing our sense of ‘Self’ to psychological, social and physical attributes! We always define who we (think) we are in-relation to a context and contexts keep changing!
But do you change? I can almost hear you say. “Of course, I was a more aggressive person before now I’m calmer” or “I was much shorter when I was a kid, I’m so tall now” or “I wasn’t so well-off before, but I’m so rich now.” (But if you think you were always poor and you still don’t have enough, well then that’s another issue!)
But jokes apart, short or tall, calm or aggressive, not-so-well off or rich, YOU are still YOU! It was ‘YOU’ who were aggressive, it is ‘YOU’ who is calm now. It was ‘YOU’ who were shorter, it is ‘YOU’ who is tall now. It was ‘YOU’ who was not so well-off but it is still ‘YOU’ who are rich now. Yes, your behavior may have changed, your body may have changed, but the ‘YOU’ in the word ‘your’ is still YOU!
Ha! You got it.
You know who you are now.
You are George Mckinsley or Jennifer Aniston, okay sorry! You can choose Renny or Anita if you like. That’s who you are. Period.
But… Umm... isn’t that just your name?
So who is this ‘YOU’ really? What is it really that these letters hold in themselves which we just can’t catch hold of?!
Am I saying you don’t even know who you are? Yes. I am saying that.
And if the basis of ‘knowing’, the very perception of your own self is flawed, your understanding of the world is flawed too! Yes. I’m saying that too.
We might use these attributes and descriptions to communicate and to convey some meaning, but that should be it. It becomes a problem when we begin to define ourselves and limit our understanding by these attributes. You do ‘have’ different attributes and skills etc which change in nature or degree with time just like your clothes, but you never say you’re your clothes, do you?

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It reminds me of the silk moth in its cocoon weaving stage. It keeps working in the figure of 8 secreting silk to wrap itself in this cocoon to hide itself. That’s what we do too. We envelop ourselves in cocoons of different kinds, making them our identity. But even is our ‘identity’ us?
The day comes and the cocoon has to break-the moth has to come out. It has to be just itself and no cocoon hides its real self anymore. Lucky moth. But what about us?
We just keep running round and round, imagining ourselves as something, then creating characters of others in our minds as per our social & psychological conditioning, then life doesn’t pass as we imagine it should and then we have conflicts and then we are sad. We are trapped in a perpetual habit of cocoons.
But are we really?
We can choose not be the moth and keep hiding our truth, the truth behind the ‘YOU’. We can break this spell, we can wake up, we can win this challenge, we can find out WHO WE ARE.
So can you find out who YOU are? Yes. I am saying that.
And can there be an absolute basis of ‘knowing’, an unconditioned, unchanging, truthful perception of your Real SELF and an unflawed understanding of the world? Yes. I’m saying that too.
You can take a left and then take a right then go straight then cross the bridge then take a u-turn then take a right and again take a right and keep getting lost in the abundance of philosophical theory and a lot of fancy talk.
Or, you could experience Vedanta and truly ‘KNOW’ who YOU are.
Do you notice the word ‘experience’? That’s what it is, it is something I cannot tell you about, it is something I cannot do for you, it is something that you undergo yourself.
What I am talking about is for you to find out. How and where is here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/transformativels/the-vedanta-experience