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Who Am I? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI Ramana, maharshi, famously. Inquired into the question.
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  Who am I? Through constant
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  self-examination with this question, the Seeker begins to
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  separate himself from the idea that he is the body or the
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  particular Life, Energy formation, or mental sense that
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  makes up his external surface personality.
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  And being for most people, we look to the physical body as
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  being who we are. When we bury someone in a
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  graveyard, we go to visit our family friend or relative and
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  lay flowers on the grave When recount that we went to see that
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  individual even though the body has likely long since
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  disintegrated, we are so embedded in the consciousness of
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  the body that we believed that we were born and that we will
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  die. And we cannot truly conceive of
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  what came before and what comes after in terms of consciousness,
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  some traditions, such as the, Tibetan Buddhist tradition have
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  explored, the question of Consciousness and great depth,
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  and this tradition describes practices such as transference
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  of Consciousness, as well as the movement of the Consciousness
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  after death through an intermediate State called the
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  Bardo and onto a subsequent rebirth.
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  At some point and SRI Ramana maharshi clearly has
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  Illustrated. We can begin to distinguish
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  between the essential nature of Consciousness and the various
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  forms in which it manifests, and we does begin to see that the
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  body, the life force or the mind are just specific, limited
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  forms, but do not either fully contain nor embody Consciousness
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  in itself. The mother notes, quote.
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  But first, this Consciousness must be mobile and one must know
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  how to distinguish it from the other parts of the being, which
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  in fact are its instruments. It's modes of expression, the
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  Consciousness must make use of these things and not you mistake
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  these things for the Consciousness.
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  You put the Consciousness in these things.
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  So you become conscious of your body conscious of your vital.
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  Conscious of your mind, conscious of all your activities
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  through your will for identification.
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  But for this first, your Consciousness must not be
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  completely entangled. Mingled join.
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  So to say, with all these things, it must not take them
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  for itself was not be mistaken. When one thinks of himself,
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  obviously out of millions of men, perhaps there are not 10
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  who do, otherwise he thinks myself, that's my body, that's
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  what I call myself. What's like this?
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  And so I am like that and then my neighbor he is also the body.
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  When I speak of another person, I speak of his body.
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  And so as long as one is in this state used the plaything of all
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  possible movements and has no self-control.
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  The body is the last instrument and yet, it's this, which one
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  calls myself most of the time. Unless one has begun to reflect
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  and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth.
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  exercises for growth and Mastery becoming aware of oneself Pages,
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