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Who are you?

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Take a look at the mirror. Is this who you are?
If yes, then who is the person in the 10-year old family portrait? And where will you be when the mirror shows a wrinkled face with grey hair 20 years from now? Are you the
person who was sure he could not live without a certain somebody or the one who is now cursing the day he met her?
What is it that attracts you to another body — for a short while, temporarily, but enough to enamor you and make you regret later when it is too late as your body has aged? Think about it. What is it in this body that is you? What is it that makes you who you are?
People tell me ‘we are the soul’ but then where is the soul? What is the soul? All these are just words till the time you actually have an experience of it. The truth is we do not know who we are, what we want or why we are here. So when we have no idea of what or where we are, who is that we are serving? We spend our life and birth chasing things that we think we want or need and the incredible part is, these too keep changing every instant.
The situation may be compared to a treasure hunt, where the participants are blind men and the treasure is
the color red. None of them know what that is, and every time they stumble upon something they think that is the treasure, only to realize that it isn't. And the irony is, even if they find that treasure, they would never know they have found it because they are lacking the sense that is needed to comprehend it.
The only fact and the truth in this hunt would be that the body will go, your senses will fade away and you will be scared and confused with just one desire left — to look the way you used to and go on for more years. And go on why? For how long? Even you don’t know, but you just want to go on.


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