{"id":537,"date":"2010-04-23T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=537"},"modified":"2010-04-23T04:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:19:00","slug":"who-am-i-how-is-it-to-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Who am I? How is it to be found?  from Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ramana-for-blog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-216\" title=\"Ramana-for-blog2\" src=\"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ramana-for-blog2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">M.: Ask yourself the question. The body (annamaya kosa) and its<br \/>\nfunctions are not \u2018I\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Going deeper, the mind (manomaya kosa) and its functions are not \u2018I\u2019.<br \/>\nThe next step takes on to the question. \u201cWherefrom do these thoughts arise?\u201d The thoughts are spontaneous, superficial or analytical. They operate in intellect. Then, who is aware of them? The existence of thoughts, their clear conceptions and their operations become evident to the individual. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the individuality of the person is operative as the perceiver of the existence of thoughts and of their sequence. This individuality is the ego, or as people say \u2018I\u2019. Vijnanamaya kosa (intellect) is only the sheath of \u2018I\u2019 and not the \u2018I\u2019 itself.<br \/>\nEnquiring further the questions arise, \u201cWho is this \u2018I\u2019? Wherefrom does it come?\u201d \u2018I\u2019 was not aware in sleep. Simultaneously with its rise sleep changes to dream or wakefulness. But I am not concerned with dream just now. Who am I now, in the wakeful state? If I originated from sleep, then the \u2018I\u2019 was covered up with ignorance. Such an ignorant \u2018I\u2019 cannot be what the scriptures say or the wise ones affirm. \u2018I\u2019 am beyond even \u2018Sleep\u2019; \u2018I\u2019 must be now and here and what I was all along in sleep and dreams also, without the qualities of such states. \u2018I\u2019 must therefore be the unqualified substratum underlying these three states (anandamaya kosa transcended).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u2018I\u2019 is, in brief, beyond the five sheaths. Next, the residuum left over after discarding all that is not-self is the Self, Sat-Chit-Anand<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"share-link-wrapper share-link-button share-link-button-green\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?ibsa=share&id=537\" class=\"share-link\" id=\"share-link-55176054569\" onclick=\"iBeginShare.handleLink(event);return false;\">Share<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var el = document.getElementById('share-link-55176054569');el.params = {title: 'Who am I? How is it to be found?  from Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi', link: 'http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=537', skin: 'green', content: 'http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?ibsa=get_content&id=537'};<\/script><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.: Ask yourself the question. The body (annamaya kosa) and its functions are not \u2018I\u2019. Going deeper, the mind (manomaya kosa) and its functions are not \u2018I\u2019. The next step takes on to the question. \u201cWherefrom do these thoughts arise?\u201d The thoughts are spontaneous, superficial or analytical. They operate in intellect. 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