Who Are You?

How do you introduce yourself when you meet someone new? Do you tell them your name, your occupation, who you’re related to, or where you’re from? Most of us introduce ourselves that way. Here in the physical world, we identify ourselves in physical ways. This is how others are able to relate to us and remember us. This also tends to become what we ourselves identify with. We think of ourselves as that familiar face in the mirror, or as a teacher, or as Suzi’s mom. But we can easily get caught up in those physical identifiers, and forget that we are so much more than that.

My physical form would not exist without the formless Spirit, which brought the form into existence and dwells within it. My body is the vehicle, and my true self is the life which animates it. I am a soul. I am spirit made manifest. I am something immense and sacred, something far greater than my body, choosing to experience physicality. We all are.

None of our identifiers in this physical world are permanent. Relationships end, bodies change, and we can lose jobs or possessions. If we only think of ourselves in physical terms, we are shaken when one of those physical identifiers inevitably changes. We feel diminished by a loss, and can feel that we no longer know who we are. Yet there is peace in remembering that who we really are is permanent and changeless, and that no loss in the physical world can diminish our true selves.

If you have a desire to learn more about who you truly are, there are many books in both the Jwalan Muktika School Library and the JMSI Belk Library on the subject.