Who Am I?: How to Find Myself

Have you ever asked yourself, ‘Who am I really?’ Am I a father, a husband, a friend, an engineer, a passenger or a patient? The truth is that you are a father because you have a son. You are a husband because you have a wife. A passenger because you are on a train. So all your identities, everything you believe yourself to be, are all dependent on something else. So then, who are you? A father, a husband or a passenger?

By not knowing the answer to the question, 'Who am I?', you keep on creating new identities of yourself, consequently going farther away from your true Self. All the suffering in life is because of not knowing your true identity. Until you realize your true Self, you believe yourself to be the name that has been given to you.

So who are you? In reality, you are an eternal Soul. For infinite past lives the Soul has been hidden beneath a veil of ignorance. Due to this, we have been unable to experience the true Self. With the grace of the Spiritual Master (Gnani Purush), it is now possible to realize your true Self via a scientific process called Gnan Vidhi (Self Realization ceremony). Thereafter, you not only understand that you are a Pure Soul, but you also experience your true bliss.

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Who am I?

Pujya Deepakbhai explores the question "Who am I?" and explains that, after Self-realization, there are two viewpoints which resolve this age-old question.

Spiritual Quotes

A Gnani Purush knows the qualities of the Self and the non-Self and therefore, can separate the two.
There is no other method to acquire the experience of the Pure Soul other than through the Gnan and the Gnani's grace. The acquisition of Gnan, leads to pratiti (conviction), laksh (awareness), and anubhuv (experience). Furthermore, the conviction (pratiti) never leaves.
The world is the puzzle itself. It has puzzled itself. God has not created this puzzle. There are two viewpoints to solve this puzzle, one relative viewpoint and one real viewpoint. Real is permanent, relative is temporary. All these relatives are temporary adjustments and You are permanent.
Everything associated with 'My' are obstacles on the path of liberation. Once 'My' becomes detached from the 'I', everything becomes clear. The realization of, "Who Am I?" is spontaneously associated with the loss or detachment of 'My'.
Is there a God? Yes indeed there is God, and moreover, that God is with you. Why are you searching for him on the outside? When someone opens the door for you, you can receive His darshan (see him). However, the door has been shut so tightly, that it is impossible to open it on your own. Only a person who is Self-Realized (a Gnani Purush) can show you the path and open this door for you.
You do not have any boss in this world. Your bosses are your blunders and your mistakes. In the absence of these two, you are the Supreme Lord.
The first stage of moksha is where you experience a sense of neutrality towards problems and miseries. In the first stage of moksha, one experiences indifference towards any worldly unhappiness. Even in worldly unhappiness, one remains unaffected. In the midst of oopadhi (suffering imposed upon you by others or external factors) you experience samadhi (to be free from suffering and to experience the state of one's own bliss). That is the first stage of moksha. The second stage of moksha, permanent moksha, is attained after death. The first stage of moksha should be attained here and now.
If you want to know the answer to ‘Who am I?’, then you will have to go to a Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. The Gnani Purush will give you Knowledge of your real Self [Who Am I] in the presence of the egoism. Thereafter your accounts (karmic) will be settled [& things will start falling in place].
Without realizing the Knowledge of the Self, there would be no experience of the [bliss of the] Self at all.
When one attains the knowledge of Self (Pure Soul), he becomes the owner of the whole universe. Until then all are disciples. After attaining the Self Realization, one is a disciple as well as one is a God.
If you can cope with this worldly life, then there is no need to understand anything further. And if you find worldly life to be troublesome, then you need to understand spirituality. In spirituality, the Self has to be realized. Upon Knowing 'who am I', all the puzzles get solved.
One is considered to have Known the Self when He is not affected by a single misery of worldly life.
One can have awareness of the Soul (Atmalakshi) after realizing ‘Who am I?’
As long as purity does not arise, liberation (moksha) cannot actually be attained. For purity, the realization of ‘who am I?’ must take place.
The Knowledge through which One is not affected by the world is Knowledge of the Self (Atma Gnan).
The Gnan through which one can become free from worldly life is known as Atma Gnan (Knowledge of the Self); and when that Gnan is applied, it is known as Pragnya (the direct liberating light of the original Self).

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