1 and 2 Who am I?

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From " Who Am I? " by Ramana Maharishi

 

1. Who am I?

 

The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am

not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing,

touch, sight,taste, and smell,which apprehend their respective

objects,viz.sound,touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five

cognitive sense organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion,

grasping, excretion, and procreation, which have their respective

functions- speaking,moving, grasping, excreting, and enjoying, I am

not; the five vital airs, prana etc., which perform respectively the

five functions of in-breathing, etc., I am not; even the mind which

thinks, I am not; the nescience too, which is endowed only with the

residual impressions of objects, and in which there are not objects

and no functioning's, I am not.

 

2. If I am none of these, then who am I ?

 

After negating all of the above mentioned as 'not this', 'not this'

that Awareness which alone remains- that I am.