"Who am I?"

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The masjority of religions present as more or less

complicated systems founded on faith and belief, in

which, if progress is made long enough, understanding

will slowly dawn.

Ramana's 'Self-Enquiry'is radically different in that

it poses at the outset all the most 'secret'

revelations.

>From soon after birth, I had no reason to ask "Who am

I?"; the answer was readily available on my birth

certificate. I was told that I was of a certain age,

gender, colour, race, religion, politics, language -

and accepted it all without question. At about ten,

however, I became a 'scientist' and was given a bumper

book explaining everything I hadn't till then even

thought of. With immense satisfaction, I learned that

I was enough iron to make three 4" nails; sulphur and

phosphorus for one box of matches;etc, - and, not

least, half a small cask of water. Which contented me

till about 20. That small cask of water performed

every action predestined throughout my life, including

anything my parents might term a 'sin'. So I was

happy.But when filling out official forms, it was

necessary to pretend that I thought I was a person

with gender, race, etc.

With six billion such people (or casks) on the planet,

supposed to be intelligent, one might imagine that at

least one would have mused who or what determines that

it is illegal to allow one's consciousness to identify

with any 'other' form. That we must confine awareness

solely within a skull-box or ivory tower. That this

identity was determined before birth, and cannot be

changed- the walls of my pink castle separating me

forever from 'that tree' or any other form. I would be

well-cared for by my gaoler provided in return I never

tried to stray. The qualifications didn't cease at

birth; every day I need new ones, such as pro- or

anti-episcopalian. Am I such a vampire that I need to

be staked to the ground by so many labels?

 

Nasrudin

 

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