What Am I ?

What Am I?

What am I?

I don’t have ears, what do I hear?

I don’t have eyes to see.

I don’t have nose to smell.

I don’t have tongue to taste or talk.

I don’t have skin to touch.

I don’t have mind to think, choose, desire, judge, analyze or criticize.

I am the peaceful awareness, I am the freedom, I am the eternally restful silence.

So, what is the message from this post?

It doesn’t mean you don’t hear, see, smell, taste, talk, or touch.

Do everything, but always stay fully aware, remaining detached from the outside world, continuously filtering in via the senses.

When you hear something, remain fully aware of what you are hearing.

Don’t get carried away by what is being heard by the ears.

Keep awareness in the center, and do not let what you hear influence you; just let it pass.

Whenever you see something, remain fully aware of what you are seeing and don’t get carried away by it ( beauty, scenery, someone’s looks, wealth, etc.).

The same is true for all other senses: eating unhealthy food, smelling flowers, touching, etc. Don’t get impressed by these experiences.

When you start remaining fully aware all the time while in Sansar, gradually, you will start realizing that awareness is the only perpetual reality, and what is in front of it is evanescent and transient, and that’s why it is unreal.

That’s when, gradually, Sansar becomes a fleeting dream, and the consciousness becomes the Turya state.

I am the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, the tongue of the tongue, life of the life, and eye of the eye. Being disabused of the false notion, the wise, having left this body, become immortal.

Kena Upanishad 1.2