Know thy Self - our True identity

29/11/2025

Will the Dreamer be able to realise I am in my own dream? Yes, only upon close enquiry and examination into the nature of the waking and dreaming states.

28/11/2025

The waker believes this world is real.
The dreamer sees it as a passing dream.

When we identify the Self as the Person, the world has weight and everything is important and real — every emotion, every event feels solid and absolute.

But when we rest as the Witness, as the Self within, the same world appears like a dream: temporary, shifting, and without the power to bind anything or any act.

The shift is simple:
From being the dream character to recognising the Self as the awareness in which the dream, dream script and the dream character appear and disappear.

In this awakened recognition, life continues,
but loses its grip.

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26/11/2025

The ordinary sense of “me” is built out of two things:
1. Physiology — the body’s needs, biology, survival impulses
2. Psychology — memories, impressions, likes, dislikes, fears, hopes, conditioning

When Sadhguru says “you are responding either to your physiological or psychological needs,” he means:
Everything the person does — desires, fears, reactions, choices — usually comes from:
The body’s compulsions (hunger, comfort, s*x, safety, hormones)
The mind’s compulsions (identity, belief, trauma, ego, pride, opinions)

These two layers create the illusion of a “self.”
What we normally call “me” is actually a bundle of reactions:
The body pushes us in one way.
The mind pulls us in another. And we respond from those impulses.

We think: “This is who I am.”
But in truth, it is just: biology + memory
chemistry + conditioning patterns + past

When awareness dawns, we see we are not these patterns.

Sadhguru is pointing us toward the GAP where the real Self is found.

When we watch the body’s needs and mind’s reactions as a witness, suddenly we see:
“These are happening in me, but they are not me.”
That is the moment the idea of a separate, conditioned person starts dissolving.

Why this matters spiritually, because as long as we think:
“I am my thoughts,”
“I am my body,”
“I am my reactions,”
we remain trapped in the transactional reality (vyavaharika).

But when we see:
The body is just nature.
The mind is just memory.
The person is just conditioning.
—we begin to sense the Witness, the Sakshi, the I-AM that is untouched.

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25/11/2025

I (Self) deliberately and willingly forgets its identity and becomes one with its creation. It holds onto Maya (Ignorance) in seeking a place in existence.

24/11/2025

The waking script loses its control the moment the character realises it’s a role play - in the same way a dream loses its grip upon waking up 🙏.

21/11/2025

Life is a continuous flow of experiences, sensations, thoughts, emotions, circumstances - always moving, never static.

The banks are merely the limits or finite boundaries of experiences that define the flow.

The pairs of opposites that shape human experience symbolise Duality, such as:
Pain / pleasure — suffering and enjoyment
Right / wrong — moral judgments
Likes / dislikes — personal preferences and aversions
Knowledge / ignorance — learning and not knowing

Self / no Self (Rama / Shiva) - Rama symbolises the Person aspect of order and righteousness, “I as a person", whereas
Shiva symbolises pure formlessness: the void, emptiness, No-Self.

Ram and Shiva together represent the full spectrum of human identity, the Totality of Beingness — from the individual person to the Absolute.

Although life flows between these opposites, but YOU are not the river nor the banks, but merely a Witness to the Flow, that
sees pain and pleasure,
is neither taking sides of right and wrong,
observes both knowledge and ignorance,
appears as Rama (the Person) and dissolves as Shiva (the formless background).

Life plays out between opposites, however YOU as Pure Awareness remains untouched untainted.

Jai Shree Sachidananda 🙏🙏🙏

20/11/2025

Stay with it...without attributes

20/11/2025

Behind every arising (thought, emotion and moment) stands the silent "I AM" — the eternal Witness (Sakshi), the Seer (Drishta) and Knower (of both knowledge and ignorance).

18/11/2025

Ask yourself why?

The Person isn’t at fault — it is merely conditioning appearing within Consciousness.
It believes in a relative truth because it knows nothing else.

Absolute Truth becomes clear only when we see the impermanence of both the Person and the creation.

Note: while there is a Person, action has to be done and there is no escaping Karma, it is the bo***ge that the soul has to pay.

Rather than doing anything with strong desire or aversion (Raaga/Dwesha), with strong likes/dislikes, follow the FLOW of the NOW, let things happen naturally, spontaneously, effortlessly (Sahej Saheb), irrespective of what task it is.

No need to think, analyse or reanalyse too much. Taking the least resistance path.

The Self creates the situation and the Self resolves it, as long as YOU realise that your real nature is the silent Witness (Sakshi) that doesn't get involved in the activity.

The activities are done without the desire for the fruits of our actions (Nishkaam Bhav).

Just like the sayings:
What happens happens, whatever didn't happen didn't happen,
It is what it is, neither good nor bad, just the Flow of creation.

Once the movie ends, blank TV remains, not waiting for the next movie, but is is just there, doing nothing but aware, alive and blissful (Sat-Chit-Ananda) until the next movie is played.

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17/11/2025

The Power of Now exists not due to existence but through your presence as I AM, which precedes time.

You are not in the NOW, but you are the reason the Now exists.

Having said this, the NOW is a tool to transcend the I AM to simply Am-ness or Beingness.

We identify ourselves with the story of “me, my past, my future, my problems, my dreams”.

But when we rest in the present moment, we drop the story and realise “I AM” — I am the awareness in which the story appears.

In that sense, the present moment is not something we enter into later — it is what we already are.

Our true Self is always here, uncluttered by time.

In Lord Ram, we see devotion, duty, righteousness — yet these arise from the timeless Self which is untouched by role or change.

Through Shiva, we see silence, stillness, awareness, the dissolution of the “doer/enjoyer” and recognition of what is Eternal (Satyam).

The present moment is the meeting-place of devotion and awareness: we can do our duty (Rama) and rest in the unmoving Self (Shiva) simultaneously — not by resisting life, but by being fully present with it.

When doing simple tasks, like the kitchen, cleaning, walking - pause and notice the sensations: your feet on the ground, the breath, the sounds around. Let your attention rest there rather than jumping into future-thinking or past-regret.

Both these took hold of Raja Dasharat (guilt of past and fear of future), hence restricting him from realising the true essence of Ram. The ONE the whole world seeks for was right in front of him, with Sita Mata and Laxman, yet he couldn't see it.

Recognise when our mind is telling or making up stories: “I must do this”, “I should have done that”, “I’m worried about tomorrow”.

Instead of believing the story, step back and watch it. We are the awareness in which the story appears.

As Tolle says: “When your attention moves into the Now … there is an alertness. It is as if you are waking from the dream of thought.”

Try in the next minute - don’t do anything — just be. Let your attention rest on what is here.

We don’t have to sit in meditation alone. Meditation can be happening when washing dishes, helping someone, doing tasks — and yet be present, let the doing be permeated by the stillness of the Self.

This is where the teachings of Lord Rama (service, duty) and Shiva (non-attachment, awareness) merge.

We bring full presence itself in form of love.

Jai Shree Sachidananda 🙏 🙏 🙏

16/11/2025

So beautiful.

What happens after death? Can the soul ever perish?In this profound reflection from the Bhagavad Gita, discover the timeless truth that the Self (Atman) is e...

16/11/2025

Means:
Let the natural intelligence of the body–mind-person (Sanskaar or Deha-Buddhi) take care of decisions and actions in the world.

There is a built-in wisdom in us that knows how to walk, speak, digest, respond, and solve small daily situations without our interference.

Spiritual teachers say: don’t overthink. Let the system do its job.

Just as the heart beats and breathing happens, many actions can also arise on their own.

When we don’t interfere mentally, actions happen on their own—appropriate, practical and intelligent.

It is the same way in which we'll catch a falling cup before thinking.

That intelligence is already functioning “…while YOU remain as a witness.”

This is the key point.

YOU = the Self, pure Awareness is not the body, not the mind, not the doer.

Remain as the silent observer of whatever is happening— sensations, thoughts, emotions, movements.

Let actions happen through the body-mind,
but do not claim ownership over them.

In other words, rest as the witnessing awareness, and let the natural intelligence of the body-mind function on its own.

Actions will arise spontaneously and correctly without the Ego trying to control everything.

This is karma happening without doership, effortless action,
living in alignment with the Self.

E.g. When making everyday decisions
Even simple things like:
Should I take this route?
Should I rest now?
Should I talk or remain quiet?

When remaining as the witness,
the correct choice arises without overthinking.

It feels like: “It just happened on its own.”

That “just happening” is Deha-Buddhi’s natural intelligence.

When you rest as the silent witness:
Life becomes smoother, decisions become clearer, reactions reduce, love and patience increase and the inner burden of doership dissolves.

The body-mind-person will continue to do its duties— washing dishes, earning money, talking, caring— but YOU remain untouched, peaceful, spacious, vast.

This is Shiva as Awareness, Ram as action.

Jai Shree Sachidananda

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