Why NOT? It's an emphatic YES. It's your birth right to know about yourself, which is the absolute Truth. It's always been there and it is right here right now with you. Only you've been oblivion to it's presence thus far. And as we saw in the previous blog post, our total reliance on our senses has made it still more obscure.
How can I know about this? What do I need to do? It's very simple of course. You need to be curious to know, you need to have desire for knowledge, inquisitiveness. Unfortunately most of us tend to live and die without bothering to know about our own selves.
Let me share my experience. I've been calling this hair-less, taill-less monkey as Raja and going about life without ever wondering to know what could be the purpose of this body-mind system, known as Raja. And I've been identifying this with a name and many added adjectives like profession, qualification, the community, the race, and what not.
But the moment there was a realisation that this body - mind system, this hair-less, taill-less monkey, is in fact a part of the whole and the whole is nothing but me!! Where everything around is just me and without realising this simple truth, I was searching out there for the truth. How foolish it was!!!
You may now think that this blog is moving at a tangent towards spirituality, a word which often has been misused, abused, unused and to put it bluntly, considered as a time- pass pursuit of a no-mind fellow. But if you can distinguish between 'mentality' and 'spirituality', you'll not make such a conclusion. I reserve this topic on difference between 'mentality' and 'spirituality', for another musing.
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