Who Am I?

What is essential in any spiritual practice is to try to bring back the running mind and fix it on one thing only. Why then should it not be bought back and fixed in self attention (to this feeling of I)? That alone is self-enquiry. That is all that is to be done!

Ramana Maharshi

Humans strive for betterment; we invent, reinvent, rationalise, and compartmentalise every micro-detail of our existence. We weave imaginary threads of order and separation to create an illusory cocoon of safety. We know that our cocoon isn’t real, that it is a temporary armour set against our deepest fears and yet we weave. Why do we do this when the cocoon serves only to detach us from nature and narrows the aperture of our vision? In truth, we are spinning on isolated axis of aloneness, and disenfranchisement. The trauma of adapting to a rapidly changing environment and living non-communally has distanced us from the fundamental belonging, that exists beyond our understanding. It has made it difficult to connect with our innate intuition that assures us that we have already intimately experienced the profound harmony of our spiritual hearts.

Searching for who we are in a world on the brink of collapse may seem indulgent. But if truth be told it could be the solution. Searching for the I, the me, the where do I fit, is the first step to re-finding love and freedom. It is through meditation when we ask the essential question of 'who am I', that we can surrender our need for control, and connect to the infinite spiritual heart.

Self-Enquiry

Searching for an answer to the question, ‘who am I’, is a shedding process. We shed false imagery, judgement, names, and history. We shed our limits and prejudice and dissolve into the limitlessness of love. We ask, ‘who am I’ without expecting a rational answer because the profound recognition and wonderment that pervades our entire being is mystical.

Who am I is a question we should revisit regularly. The more we practice the less we receive superficial answers. Self-enquiry is an awareness of awareness itself. The limiting notion of 'I' will be replaced by harmony and recognition of divine connection.

Method

Find stillness through meditation and ask, 'who am I'. Ask until you sink into not needing an answer. In stillness you will experience a beautiful awareness of who you naturally are.