Who You Are, What You Are Not

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Who You Are, What You Are Not

When you say or when you ask if I am not the body, if I am not the mind, you are making it hypothetical. I am asking you is it a fact that you gathered this body? Is it a fact? Is it a fact all the content of your mind was gathered from outside? Yes? What you gather cannot be you so there is no anything hypothetical about it, it is definitely not you, isn’t it? Do you still exist? What am I to say about it? What you are asking is who am I? Don’t ask me, why do you ask me who am I?

This happened in the Cincinnati airport in Ohio in the United States. People had lined up to check in at the airline counter. One man came in a big rush, jumped the line, came straight to the counter, thrust his ticket like this and he wants to check in. The lady at the counter said, “Sir, there is a line. Please go stand in the line.” He said, “No, I am in a hurry!” She said, “Everybody’s in a hurry. You please stand in the line.” Then he said, “Do you know who I am?” An official like you. She promptly picked up the microphone and said, “There is a man here who doesn’t know who he is, can somebody help him?”

You come and ask me who am I? What am I to tell you? Whatever I tell you will be just. Ask if I tell you you are an embodiment of the divine. If you go and act out your divine nature at home, your wife will leave you if you act too godly at home. If you try this in your office, you will get fired for sure. If I tell you “You are a no good nothing,” you won’t believe me. If I tell you “You are a drop of divinity that fell off Shiva’s lap and here you are.” Tell me what kind of story do you want? A pleasant story, an unpleasant story? I can tell you both, I am good at both. If I tell you an unpleasant story, you will not want to believe it. If I tell you a pleasant story, you will become fanciful and lose all your sense. If you know it, then it’s a different level of sense.

Right now, don’t bother. Don’t try to drop into a conclusion. When you ask this question, what you are trying to do is you want to arrive at the conclusion. Don’t arrive at the conclusion, just seek. What is not you, let’s keep it aside. If you keep all that is not you, what is you must remain, isn’t it? It should? What is not you, if it is removed, what is you must remain, isn’t it? Where will it go? That is if you exist. Suppose you don’t exist, suppose you really don’t exist. At least that we must find out, isn’t it, that I don’t exist? Suppose you are Vedanta and you believe you are all Maya. At least that you must discover, not believe what somebody said, isn’t it?

If you do not exist, is it not very, very important that you find out that you do not exist? If you do not even exist, what the hell are you going through? Why all the pain? Why all the nonsense? Why all the rubbish of life when you don’t even exist? Not what do I live, you do not even exist, isn’t it? Yes? At least if you are in existence and you’re getting somewhere, a little pain on the way, it doesn’t matter. Yes? You’re climbing the hill, you’re going to reach the top of the hill, on the way your knees are hurting, it’s okay I am going to get there. You’re not going to get anywhere just legs are paining. You don’t want that, isn’t it? You don’t even exist but legs are paining. Do you want that? For sure you don’t want that. You must find out. The symbol symbole et sacré is about keeping aside whatever you are not. What you are, I will not talk about it. I don’t want to make a statement about you. What you are not we want to remove. What you are, let’s find out what you are.