Who Am I?

Who Am I?

What am I?

I don’t have ears, what do I hear?

I don’t have eyes to see.

I don’t have a nose to smell.

I don’t have a tongue to taste or talk.

I don’t have skin to touch.

I don’t have a mind to think, choose, desire, judge, analyze, or criticize. .

I am the peaceful awareness, I am the freedom, I am the eternally restful silence.

All our sense organs are meaningless if we are not conscious.

Consciousness makes all our senses meaningful, just as electricity makes all electrical appliances functional.

Yet we don’t “know” consciousness; it’s how we pay attention to the appliances, never the electricity.
[8:39 PM, 5/4/2025] Shrenik Shah: Every conscious human being is entitled and capable of searching within and discovering the consciousness.

A significant shift happened with the teachings of Mahavir and Buddha, who tried to shift people’s focus from the temples ( controlled by devious Brahmins then) to their own souls within, via meditation.

This was the most democratic approach for the salvation of people.

Mahavir said, “ Everyone is carrying a seed of the infinite within them, waiting to be discovered .”

And yet, what did people do?

They made them “Gods” and continued the rites and rituals around them.

Statues and temples were built, all of which they had clearly advised to stay away from.

Look at the irony.

Going within ( meditation ) is awakening, and getting lost in the Samsara is falling back into a deep slumber.

Worshipping an imaginative God is still understandable for people with a devotional inner makeup ( Bhakti Marg ).

But, “creating” God out of a human being who existed at one time among us is insulting to other human beings, telling them that he is superior and you are inferior; worship him.

In reality, all humans harbor the same instruments: the Body, Mind, and Soul.

By doing this, we are reducing the tremendous potential each human being possesses.

We have to release this potential by connecting with the infinite.

The body and mind are limited ( as they deal with the finite, material world—objects, people, and situations ).

The soul is the only infinite entity within us.

It is a spirit, formless, and stands apart from the rest.

Release yourself from the clutches of your mind and find your true self.

The body and the mind are yours ( we even say, my body, my mind ), but you are not them.

Worshipping an imaginative God is still understandable for people with a devotional inner makeup ( Bhakti Marg ).

But, “creating” God out of a human being who existed at one time among us is insulting to other human beings, telling them that he is superior and you are inferior; worship him.

All humans harbor the same instruments: the Body, Mind, and Soul.

By doing this, we are reducing the tremendous potential each human being possesses.

We have to release this potential by connecting with the infinite.

The body and mind are limited ( as they deal with the finite, material world—objects, people, and situations ).

The soul is the only infinite entity within us.

It is a spirit, formless, and stands apart from the rest.

Release yourself from the clutches of your mind and find your true self.

The body and the mind are yours ( we even say, my body, my mind ), but you are not them.

Your mind is the seat of all your vrttis and asanas; how can someone else ever remove them?

Who built them?

Only the one who built them can remove them.

Buddha once brought a silk handkerchief in which he had built a knot.

He said the knot did not come from outside.

It is simply a silk handkerchief that has been knotted up.

Our Vrttis and vasanas are our knots in the field of pure consciousness which was free of knots at one time.

We built the knots.

But you can’t just remove them that easily.

You have to study them. How did I build them?

Then only you can unknot them, one step at a time.

This study is on meditation.