How to identify self in yourself ?

We all take pride of our intellect, knowledge, experience and most of the time we brag about these. We also take pride  that we are the best creation of God. It is true that the human beings are the most intellectual assets in this universe. Yet, how many of us are aware of our self identities in true sense?  Can you stand in front of a mirror and make an eye to eye contact and ask “Is it me?” If the answer is affirmative, then the next question should come to your mind to identify yourself and exactly where this self lives in your body?  The common people, who are mostly shackled with various constraints, will not think or like to ponder on these types of riddles. Perhaps, they opine that it is a sheer waste of time and energy.  Barring a few, all most all the  people are deeply engrossed in their own state of affairs neglecting these vital and philosophical aspects of life. But this only identifies the effervescence of any crisis, which grapples us. Further lack of understanding of this crisis, in advance invite most of the troubles. And, once the troubles are developed, the same gets only aggravated, because we are mostly blind and brag for our regular activities so much that we have very little time for introspection to search for the realities. There is a self within all of us, which is domiciled during our birth. Of course, this is an interpretation as this fact cannot be easily demonstrated through evidence.  Can we firmly say that we know where is the seat of the self in our body and who sits there?  Now, if you again look into the mirror, you will see a body. The same body which you see everywhere and all the time. Your this body houses a brain, which controls all your wishes, whims, fancies, and rationalities. Through this philosophical entity or bodily structure, you feel your life and you evaluate your experience as a personal entity. What you are able to perform through the brain power, it is entirely depending on you. Your assumption of understanding is recognized as “self.”

Almost all the religious gurus, preachers and saints of higher religion realm call this self as the seat of consciousness. This is the highest order of conceptual perceptivity of internal environment, which describes the presence of yours in reality. From this context, we conclude logically that all of us tend to see ourselves as a distinct and unique individual, which is different from others at least perception wise.  This forceful assertion further provides us the power of our self-existence.  But one should not misconstrue the self as a corporate image.  If this self is not attached to anything significant, how we feel, how we think, how we assess, how we differentiate and sense our experience of the body?  It is not so easy to ideally understand the reality of self in us.  It needs a deep thinking. Years after years, we put our sincere efforts to verify the self, observe and attain self- knowledge. 

Self-knowledge has been utilized for many years to understand the human energy and potential and how the same can be effectively used to focus on the aspect of self in our body. The unfortunate part that the evolution of the self is its internal adjustment, adaptations to external environmental conditions, which ultimately provides the modified human form, its functions and how the same is beneficiary to mankind and the societies at large, is not understood and so, the evolution of self becomes a subject of deep introspection.

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The transition from ritual, mundane and techno-commercial functions involved with daily life with spiritual or enlightening the body and soul, which represents the inner meaning of higher realm of life is not at all seriously thought off for the purpose of evolution of the greater body of the human beings.

All our future evolution is derived from the self’s self-perception of requirement and need. One has to substantiate this need and this process is verified and examined by self- awareness.  The more you are aware of this self-awareness in the present situation, the greater the chance of future’s evolution will be there. For this reason, most of the highly acclaimed spiritual and enlightened persons profess the value of understanding and self-assessment of our own self in us and this is one of the greatest values of any human being.  Since we are not so much adapted in this study, we seldom search and have the ability to find out this value.  Mostly, it is seen that we are unable to differentiate between the levels in which we exist or want to exist and outside the level of our perceptivity that animates our physical existence and functions.  Fundamentally, it is evident that we are very much effective to lead our lives external to our functions through the various states which are obtained by us as various routine functions.  It is a rudimentary influence that we must search our self not in function, but in “beings.”  This great world is full of various functions and the concepts of the self arisen from the degrees of our attachment to material identifications, namely our reference, fame, language, culture, likings & disliking, attitude and belief, happiness, despair, gloom, talents and social status.  A self, who is thus emanating is not at all a self.  The self should not be linked to any material identification.  It is true, the values link to the various identifications cannot be ignored in life, but self’s self-perception cannot be searched and established then. 

To know the self is to be the self and self-being is a very high, though related to spirituality, which is capable to provide life to the living, life to the afterlife, and ascertain the truth behind the mystery to understand the self in reality. You can focus and then only assess this activity to identify self in your body, but it is a game of deep level introspection and must be smeared with a spiritual touch of thinking and living.