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Originally Posted by GRH
In a future post, I will hope to make this explanation more clear through a personal description
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Please do that. You are
not among fellow chemists. We can only learn from
your personal experiences.
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every conception of self breaks down-- where I cease to wonder "where am I?" or "who am I?" but I begin to wonder "what am I?" and eventually the "I" leaves the equation entirely. It's like kissing God in my estimation.
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Thats impossible for ordinary human beings.Consider this, in drug induced state, only the reasoning of the mind and some sensory data processing centres, some memories are inhibited. So the person cant remember "who I am"... or, "where am I"... its like waking up in a dark room.
But the questions here are:
1) does he also forget of being human?
2) does he also forget of ever having a body?
3) If the Ego is dissolved, then
who is asking the questions?
4) And to whom?
5) If there is no ego or previous memory, then where from comes the concept of "who" (=identity), where (=place), I am (=existence), when (=time) and finally,
I (=ego)
Without any ego, there is no such thing as I, we, here,
AND you, there, this or that. With an ego, there arises a feeling of separation from the rest of the universe. Me (
I) and the rest of the world.
The bubble of I-ness or ego differentiates me from the outer world.
Even though I support Vedanta theory, I support the I-ness theory of Yoga and stand aside from Vedanta in the final stage. I dont want to be dissolved or annihilated into the Infinite. I wish to retain my separate identity. But... we can discuss about that at a later stage.