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Self Realization
By: Arjun Haobijam

As I have been thinking around myself, I have been always asking myself about life and existence. Under a process of living together amongst all living beings, and I as a living being, living as human, I have been always asking myself what sort of person I am. And what is my contribution to this existence.

I just keep on asking myself what would be the real criteria assessing myself into this process of living. So I started asking who am I? I conclude myself that I am part of the existence. Then I ask myself what is existence? Well, asking what is existence is as good as asking who is God? Then I started asking who is God? And I conclude, God is existence. Oh! Is this the logical conclusion of who is god, what is god and who created god? I have been asking these kinds of questions for so many years throughout the process of my living. I heard people saying that god is almighty, he is omnipresent, omnipotent, he is the one who Created us and he is the master of the whole universe so on so forth. I have been hearing all these things but I could never conclude anything at all. But when I attached myself with nature, I started pondering deeper and deeper into self-realization. Then I conclude, god is as good as existence. Well, I must also answer a question, what is existence? First, I have no solution and I have no answer for it. But when I realized that god is existence then the whole thing just popped up to my mind and say it's quite logical to say that god is existence and existence is god. After I realized this I started thinking again deeper and deeper and asked myself another question, what is the ultimate truth? And how will I define truth? And I conclude, the definition of the truth is as good as defining your soul, your own inner beauty, the beauty inside you- the ultimate inner self, a part of the whole self. And I said the ultimate truth is the whole self. If I have to say that the ultimate truth is that whole self, that means the ultimate truth is that you are in existence, that is , the ultimate truth is the existence. Because I cannot say that there is no existence. There is existence. This is what I have concluded myself. I have been always a thinker, always trying to assess myself, analyze myself and bring into conclusion whatever that is logical. I have been always discussing and having a conversation with my colleagues about what we have been understanding, what I am into and what I am exploring within and outside me. And also about the interrelationship between living and non-living beings, the whole expanse of the cosmic existence, the whole universe, the whole part of living and non-living, the constituents of matter and ether. It is quite amazing and spellbound . The whole existence is mysterious to me. I always find it quite strange to go deeper into the context of our mind, our body, our soul, our capabilities, limitations and so on and so forth. As I have always asked around, the quest for knowledge is endless. It has no bottom. But it's only because of our thinking power; our reasoning power and our logical power that over a matter of time we are able to reach the real ultimate truth. Now I conclude, if I have to find the ultimate truth, it's nothing but the true self. Because there is no other else. The ultimate truth is but a self realized self which is the part of the whole self, whom we consider as god. So the ultimate truth is the truth by itself. There is no other definition for the truth. What I mean is I am me, myself. The self is the self. I can't define anything else. When I am born I may be given a name, I may be a different caste, creed and culture and different behaviour but this is just nature's natural selection but my inner beauty - my inner self has no name. I am not born with a name. Because I am the part of the existence - the whole self.

So I conclude myself that the inner self within me is the part of the existence. And it is the part of god. Because there is no definite concrete thing where I can define god. The whole existence is god. God may be very powerful, may be controlling the whole universe but if I have to say just god is god is not so logical. But if I say that god is existence then it is logical. I content myself to state that god is existence. And I believe in it. There is no doubt in it. Because the whole self or the almighty is nothing but the whole emptiness- the ultimate truth. I am happy to understand this because I am integrated. I have realized my inner self. It's an essence in one's life so as to have his inner beauty and confidence within. Then only I am fearless. Inside me, I have no name . I don't know where I am. I just know my inner self. This is the beauty of life. When I am self realized, I realized the whole self, the uncontaminated self. And it's all within me. And whatever that is inside me push me into a spot where I am. So when I am that kind of sublime and conscious person, I realized that it is very important in life. I just don't have any botherations. Instead, I go deeper and deeper within me with full of happiness. Once you are self realized, you will know there is no boundary of the self. What we see in the society is just predefined by our mindset. I realized that it is not necessary to preconditioned myself and believing whatever people say. We change our mind over a period of time with the society and do whatever the society says. It's not agreeable with me. What I believe is that if each and every individual is realizing our own inner self and form a unity amongst us to form a self realized community living together to form a Society. It would be a very beautiful society where nobody will ponder over hypocrisy , illusion and materialism. There will be no mistakes and blunders in our day today living. Well that would be a utopian society but it can exist. We can be interconnected to each and every mind of us and always live in harmony. In that society, there will be no boundary of good and bad, rich and poor, black or while people, animal or human being. To all self-realized people it does not make any difference. We are all the same. We are all the part of the whole self. Our whole individual self is connected to the whole self. And the whole self is nothing but the whole existence. And the ultimate truth is the whole self. Because we are within the confines of existence. We may be interchanged or inter-located or may be predefined or conditioned ourselves into a specific boundary or platform of existence. That is possible because the whole expanse of the whole universe of the whole existence is very vast. It could not be even reached by human mind. It's very difficult. But we understand that there is existence. Because existence is within us. Existence starts with us. Knowing this always makes me happy. As we are living everyday, we are preconditioned by the physical and psychological time but we don't need to define time when you are generalizing your inner self. Because you don't need to define time. The whole existence or the whole self has no time, no limit, no beginning and no end .Everything is within the pre-confinement of existence. There the beauty is that we will be realizing our own self. And there will be no end and no beginning. We are the existence. We are the part of God - the ultimate truth and the whole self. We will be at the platform or pinnacle of truth, the whole self .The whole thing what I say makes sense in believing. It may be thought as utopian but to live an eternal life you don't need your body. It's just a carrier of your soul in this materialistic life. When you realized the whole self, you don't need your body. Because your soul is purely inter-linked to the whole existence. And that would be the most beautiful part in life. That is what exactly I like in my life. I have been always asking about the whole existence and it's boundary. When I realized myself who I am. I say I am I am. My physical name-Arjun just defines my physical domain but my inner soul or my inner self has no name. I am just the part of the whole self. And I felt that it's great to know this. I know now that my identity is the whole self.


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