Know thy Self - our True identity

12/02/2026

Answering the question: WHO AM I? brings about a shift within us, giving us clarity, purpose and direction.

An enquiry in Knowing The Self is far beyond knowledge of the world, people, places, things and the PERSON - that is You. Yes, the Person is the sum total of everything YOU know and are including, personality, relationship, religion, character, beliefs, ideas, concepts, emotions, feelings, thoughts, sensations, likes/dislikes, a Sense of Individuality as a separate entity, I exist as a Being, I am different and I am special, this is ME, etc. Everything that makes YOU as you being separate is the PERSON.

Know that the Person is referred to as Naam-Roop-Vyohaara (Name-Form-Personality). The Self on the other hand is UNIVERSAL known as Sat-Chit-Ananda. There is only one SELF aka Consciousness or Awareness or God, if you may say.

Know that anything you define is the Person is due to the presence of Self. The Person only "exists" due to the Self.
So, when is the Person missing or not present?

In Deep Sleep of course or in a state that is similar to Deep Sleep is called Samadhi or Nirvana Padh (a state of liberation). This state is possible in deep meditation while in the Awake state as in deep sleep, one cannot know or learn the qualities of the Self.

Deep meditation means establishing in the Self to Be Thy SELF, NOT the Person.

To Be the Self, doesn't mean to Be the Person. The Person doesn't need to change to become the Self. Yes, establishing the Self for long allows the Person to change. Much easier than agonising over trying to change the Person.
It is a waste of a lifetime effort to change the Person, which every religion teaches due to establishing SATTVIC mode (State of Goodness). DO NOT do that, as the Person is defined by the world of people, places and things. The Self is totally independent.

When the Person is not there in Deep Sleep or in the state of deep meditation, the SELF remains as the WITNESS to the Nothing.

In the dreaming and waking states, the SELF is WITNESS to the Person. The state of liberation or SAT CHIT ANANDA (Truth Consciousness Bliss) can only be experienced when one practices being the " Witness that we call Atma".

Being the Self brings about these qualities in the Person, as described by Kabir Saheb:
(1) “Kurm” - Sound of creation
(2) “Gyani” - Knowledge of Self
(3) “Vivek” - Wisdom
(4) “Tej” - Shining (Divine ) Light
(5) “Sahaj” - Effortless
(6) “Santosh” - Patience
(7) “Surati” - Power of attention, concentration or focus
(8) “Anand” - Blissfulness
(9) “Kshma” - Power of forgiveness to release the Self from the grips of the Person
(10) “Nishkaam” - Selfless activities
(11) “Jalrangi” - Purity and cleanliness
(12) “Achint” - Fearless
(13) “Prem” - Love
(14) “Dayaal” - Compassion
(15) “Dhairya” - Resilience
(16) “Yog Santayan” - Knower of Yog (Union) or Yoga

THIS DOES NOT MEAN the PERSON has to sit in deep meditation all the time or become calm, silent and still forever.

Establishing in the Self, brings stillness within, not externally. Many times, there is no change externally as viewed by another, but only YOU will know the TRUTH about the SELF. Happy discovery. 🙏🙏🙏

12/02/2026

Swapna Nidra Gyan Saadhna reveals that Emptiness is experienced in Deep Sleep, which is not empty as claimed by the Waker or Person in the Waking State.

What happens when the Waker or Person is not there, then Everything is not there and there is only Nothingness or Silence and Stillness of the Deep Sleep.

This is not different from what is experienced in Samadhi (Deep Meditation). Only Sat-Chit-Ananda is present, which is the background ocean within which the Dreamer and Waker or Naam-Roop-Vyohaara, including the Universe arise and fall, day after day after.

Hence, an illusionary sense of Time is born due to an illusionary sense of Continuity, hence the concept of Karma is born.

Every misunderstanding arises from not understanding the Deep Sleep state, or the state of Nothingness as the source of Everything.

That Nothingness had also been given the name Shiva or Shiv Tatva, and we say SHIVOHAM, we mean I AM THAT Nothingness from where I (Person, body, mind , intelligence) arise and fall back not only every morning and night but moment to moment in every breath, in every thought, idea, sensation, feeling, emotion, concept,.....hence the Kaal Chakra or Wheel of Time keeps Shiva trapped in his own creation, maintenance and recreation.
Greatest are those who realise the Wheel.

The symbol of AUM represents the cycle of Deep Sleep, Dreaming and Waking, along with the illusionary Maya (half moon on the top) and the dot representing the Brahman or Shiva or the Absolute that is hidden. It has been given the name Turiya, meaning the Fourth, which is a state of Witnessesing that confirms that I had a good sleep.

Now what is there beyond Turiya?

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12/02/2026

12/02/2026

"Shoonyata mein hi Puranata hai" - in Emptiness is Fullness.

Hence, the saying, "you will come back to where you had started", meaning you were already Home.

Any attempt to do anything else takes you away from your Beingness of who you are - Sat-Chit-Ananda (Truth-Consciousness-Bliss).

Hence, the great rishis and yogis, discovered the Zero and Infinity which forms part of Mathematics now, as they knew this not through concepts or ideas, but through experience of Shoonyata (Emptiness) and Puranata (Fullness).

Gautam Buddha described the Shoonyata and Adi Guru Shankaracharya describe the Puranata.

The final ahuti in the havan is that mantra,

Purnamadah – That is Infinite or Whole (the Absolute, Brahman).

Purnamidam – This is also Infinite or Whole (the manifest world). E.g a piece of Mirror is still complete as a Mirror

Purnatpurnam udacyate – From the Infinite, the Infinite emerges.

Purnasya purnam adaya – Even if you take the Infinite from the Infinite, then

Purmam eva avasisyate – What remains is still Infinite.

The Emptiness and Fullness is also how the Black Holes are from which stars and galaxies formed and fall back into. A Black hole looks empty but has infinite density, energy and mass.

Similarly, a sidh yogi (enlightened Being) is also Empty of Everything (Naam-Roop-Vyohaara) and also full of Nothingness (Sat-Chit-Ananda).

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Na hi Kaal (Time) aur na hi Kaal Chakra (Wheel of Time)....of course only from the stand point of the Absolute, if one dares...🙏🙏🙏

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So beautiful...just hold onto the NOW.

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So beautiful....

Bin boli bin bhasha nahi,
Nahi kagaz par ang chadhahi,
Bin pag chale sune bin kana
Binu haath kare karam vidhi Nana
Bin vaani badta badh jogi
Binu jibhya ka sakal ras bhoogi...

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