Who Am I? Finding Myself as a portraitor Photo of Self or soul or ...

Who Am I?

Finding Myself as a portrait or

Image or Photo of Self or soul or …

Am I self, my name that was given/kept in childhood after birth and also the name of the different identity certificate?

Who do recognise or know me can identify me by photo; this is Kailash if my photo is brought to them. But they can neither identify my childhood photo nor whether my face has changed more.

It means they know my portrait, but not me. If I were that portrait, then I would be changing day by day as my figure changes. It means I am not today what I was yesterday or the day before yesterday.

Am I the son of my parents, father of my children, husband of my wife, or friend, brother, staff, etc.? All the surrounding people know/recognise me as a relation to my figure. But they may not recognise me because my today’s image/figure will be changed tomorrow.

That changing process continues as time passes, which makes me recognise myself as the same as yesterday or the day before yesterday.

But I feel myself the same all the time because I feel the same joy or pain or memory today, which were felt yesterday or in childhood for certain events.

All my identities, everything I believe myself to be, are all dependent on something else.

So then ` Who Am I?

Does Quantum Mechanics Predict the Existence of the Soul?

From one experiment of quantum mechanics,

A person may possess a body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles.

Both dualities participate in the element of subjectivism in explaining reality. This element of reality represents the philosophical aspect but has been neglected by contemporary cosmologists, who focus on the results of observation.

That experiment demonstrates the scientific evidence for body-soul duality and cites the recent discoveries in quantum mechanics and quantum information, and concludes that the metaphysics of this duality can be derived from the laws of nature.

Each one of us feels connected to someone or the other: parents, siblings, friends, spouses, at some time or the other in our life and with some individuals throughout our life and can somehow ‘sense’ at least the big events in that individual’s life.

In quantum theory, entanglement is the term used to describe the way particles can become correlated to predictably interact with each other regardless of being separated by an arbitrary spatial distance.

Does Dharma/Religion help to find Me?

Hinduism Theory:

Hinduism explains oneself as Ātman, which is a central idea in all of the Upanishads, and “know your Ātman” is their thematic focus. These texts state that the core of every person’s self is not the body, nor the mind, nor the ego, but Ātman, which means “soul” or “self”. … Atman is that which one is at the deepest level of one’s existence.

According to Lord Shri Krishna in the Bhagwat Geeta, I am a soul that is different from my body. Understanding the difference between body and soul—between matter and spirit—is the beginning of spiritual life and the only basis for true self-realisation.

We are the soul or the conscious life force within our bodies, and we are completely different from our bodies, which are only highly complex machines.

We sit in the heart, the seat of all energies of the body. From there, we experience the world through the wired machinery of the body’s senses, as well as through the more subtle energies of mind, intelligence, and ego.

Our body is constantly changing: infancy, childhood, youth, middle age, old age, and finally death. But we, the unchangeable soul, witness this “virtual reality” from within. That’s why, even though our body changes throughout life, we always keep our sense of identity.

Buddhism Theory:

According to Lord Buddha in Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no “eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman”.

Buddha’s teaching was opposed to all soul theories of his time, including the Jain theory of a “jiva”.

Buddha explained that because we have no ultimate control over the physical and mental processes that make up a person, there cannot be an “inner controller” that governs them.
Moreover, since all of these processes are impermanent, none of them can be considered an unchanging self. Even mental processes such as consciousness and will (chetana) are seen as being dependently originated and impermanent, and thus do not qualify as a self (atman).

The Buddha saw the belief in a self as arising from our grasping at and identifying with the various changing phenomena, as well as from ignorance about how things really are. Furthermore, the Buddha held that we experience suffering because we hold on to erroneous self-views.

Who Am I

Different Thoughts in the Modern Era

Even if skipping from this challenging fixed question “Who am I ?” and trying to be in present harmoniously and happily. This question is paused and creates several questions as

Why am I here?

Is there any goal to be born here?

Am I missing my duties to the born?

Are all present duties wasting our time being here?

… …

… like that.

Those questions make our lives vaguer. So,

How different would life be if I ask myself, ” How would I like to experience my life ” rather than Who am I? Almost as if my being were a fixed thing.

People who ask this sort of question are typically struggling with their identity and searching for a core sense of themselves. The irony is that the more I seek to identify who I am, the more fragile I am likely to feel about myself. There may be an inverse correlation between the question being asked and the ease with which I experience my life.
>Life can be challenging, and it is easy to feel trapped by our circumstances, our personal history and conditioning, and our daily struggle to change. But what if we could break free from these constraints?

Quantum physics reveals a world that is extraordinarily interconnected and exists in a state of pure potential. We too can live in that condition.

Final Thoughts

Actually, our body is a combination of matter and energy. And Our body activates and interconnected with nature all the time. So We should do any sort of activity either physical or mental carefully/awakened/awareness.

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