What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name?

\Whatever name we give to the Sun, would that change its core?

If we call it a moon, would that go cold?

Our ego is based on external identifications provided to us by Sansar.

We store them in our minds and make that the sole purpose of life.

Outside people, organizations, media, friends, etc, mold our beliefs and our lives.

That’s a superficial and fake life we live.

We never go beyond this to realize the depths of our true inner selves, at the core of which lies the sun of purity and the truth; let it shine.

The world of names and identities is a societal arrangement, not the truth.

Go into the jungle, do the trees have individual names as we do?

Names and identifications are created for easy communication among humans, but we have gotten lost in the maze we made ourselves.

If we see a fellow passenger in a train, we can’t help but judge their appearance, make assumptions about them, and try to communicate with them based on our likes or dislikes.

We want to know the world, but the truth remains: we never know ourselves.

Without transcending the Ego, there is no way to know our true self.

: प्रेम गली अति संकरी, तामें दाऊ न समाई |
जब में था तब हरी नहीं, अब हरी है में नाहीं ||

The street of love is very narrow; two can’t pass through it at the same time.

When I was, there was no God (Hari), now there is God but I am not.
Kabir