Who am I?

Kunal Verma
Sep 6, 2018 · 2 min read
“silhouette photo of a man on a cliff during sunset” by Zac Durant on Unsplash

AM I BODY?
The first distinction between ourselves and the world that comes to one’s experience is the boundary of the physical body. Our five senses keep us engaged to suppose our identity as the physical body. It is true because all the sensory apparatus are outward bound to the physical world. That means, we can not see our brain with our eyes, we can sense a drop of water flowing over the skin, but there is blood flowing under our skin all the time, are you capable of feeling it? No. The Physical body is just an accumulation of food that is taken to survive. Tell me, which human body will you call yours whether body at the time of your birth or your present age. Any accumulation or gathering can be yours but cannot be you. In the absence of some body parts, a physically disabled person does not die. It shows that you possess a physical body, you are not the body.

AM I MIND?
There should be some clarity about the terms brain, mind, and memory to go deeper with this question. Generally, the words ‘Brain’ and ‘Mind’ get used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Brain refers to one of the organs of the human body, and Mind is a collective term for imagination screen and memory. Mind applies to the faculty of the human brain where thoughts happen to generate with the help of impressions bank called memory. When we interact with the outer world, impressions get captured through our five senses and get stored in memory. These stored impressions flashbacks on the virtual screen, and brain control all these activities.
So, are you the mind? No. It is an accumulation of content, information, or say impressions. It can be yours but cannot be you.

WHO AM I??
The body is not you; the mind is not you, then which entity is you. There must be something more fundamental which gathers the body and the mind. Let look into this. Any food item, say carrot if eaten by a donkey, gets transformed into donkey’s body and if a human consumes it, it gets turned into a human body. What is it which manages this transformation? It is super intelligence (intelligence beyond intellect) whose active participation performs this transformation. There exists a non-physical entity which is the source of all creation; which is the experiencer; which can neither be created nor be destroyed due to its immaterial nature of existence. Modern sciences also come to the fact that the whole cosmos is created from nothingness (Big Bang theory), that is, an entity which is not-a-thing, which is non-physical, scientifically termed as super-intelligence or dark energy.

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