Who Am I?

Nan Yar

All living beings desire to be happy always, withouth any misery. In everyone there is observed supreme love for onself. And happiness alone is the cause of love. In order therefore, to gain that happiness which is one’s nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep, where there is no mind, one should know oneself. To achieve this, the Path of Knowledge, the enquiry in the form of “Who am I?”, is the principal means.

• Who am I?

• If I am none of there, then who am I?

• What is the nature of Awareness?

• When will the realization of the Self be gained?

• Will there not be realization of the Self even while the world is there (taken as real)?

• Why?

• When will the world which is the object seen be removed

• What is the nature of the mind?

• What is the path of inquiry for understanding the nature of the mind?

• How will the mind become quiescent?

• What is the means for constantly holding on to the thought ‘Who am I?’

• Are there no other means for making the mind quiescent?

• The residual impressions (thoughts) of objects appear unending like the waves of an ocean. When will all of them get destroyed?

• Is it possible for the residual impressions of objects that come from befinningless time, as it were, to be reolved, and for one tom remain as the pure Self?

• How long should inquiry be practised?

• What is the nature of the Self?

• Is not everything the work of God?

• Of the devotees, who is the greatest?

• What is non-attachment?

• Is it not possible for God and the Guru to effect the liberation of a soul?

• Is it necessary for one who longs for liberation to inquire into the nature of categories (tattvas)?

• Is there no difference between waking and dream?

• Is it any use reading books for those who long for liberation?

• What is happiness?

• What is wisdom-insight (jnana drishti)?

• What is the relation between desirelessness and wisdom?

• What is the difference between inquiry and meditation?

• What is liberation?