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This article is based on the teachings of Guruji V Ravi. Any mistake kindly pardon
me for lack of understanding.
The title itself will give us an Idea of what this article is all about. To understand who
we are, we need to have a clear understanding of how we came into existence.
The entire universe was actually created out of nothing. Meaning the planets, stars
and sentient beings like us are the resultant of nothingness. This nothing was
termed by our Rishis as Para Brahman or Maha Shunya (as per Buddhism).
Then out of this nothingness the SELF (Brahman) came into being. It is not
important for to know why the SELF came into being, as this will not help us to get
us nowhere.
Since the SELF is always perfect and because of this perfection it remained inert,
hence to get the process of Creation move forward Maya/Shakthi (kinetic enery) was
created out of this SELF and this Maya used the energy of the SELF and started with
the process of creation by creating souls (Tiny Brahman of the larger SELF) and
surrounding around it so that it can interact with the external world.
To interact with the outer world first there was a necessity of a Consciousness, Mind,
Intellect and Ego to understand and discriminate activities. But the Consciousness
cannot exist by itself, hence it requires a body to perceive its surrounding and
interact with it.
When the body reacts with the external factors, the mind starts reacting to the
stimulus on a continuous basis. When this happens the pure consciousness that is
pervaded by SELF is slowly corrupted. Meaning the Mind perceives external
information, for the sake of preserving the body the Mind triggers commands to the
Intellect, Intellect acts on this and is moved Consciousness and finally Ego is given
the command to act on the stimulus.
This action creates impressions in our sub conscious mind. When an Impression is
created in our sub conscious mind, the pure consciousness pervaded by the SELF is
corrupted. When this happens on a continuous basis, our consciousness is devoid of
purity that it possessed earlier. Hence the link between the Mind and SELF is
forgotten, due to constant interaction with the external stimulus.
Since there is constant interaction of mind and external factors, the mind keeps
reacting and creating more and more sub conscious impressions in our mind, hence
impressions further gets accumulated and consciousness is devoid of essence of
SELF.