Self

4/18/17

Sometimes I wonder about the self. By that, I mean the self as an abstraction. Not "a posteriori" as Kant would put it. Not based on analytic judgments. Not how you dress, or how you talk, instead it is a question of who, or what you are.

The other day I asked my friend how he thinks it’s possible to find your true self. I enjoyed his answer. He replied the self is like a trinity of components. The first is who you are in private. The second is what you want to be (your aspirations). The last one is how others think of you. According to my friend, these 3 parts define the self.

Although his explanation was very interesting, I was not completely satisfied. Mainly because this definition depends on too many externalities, which confuse the truth seeker.

I started reading the Bhagavad Gita. According to the interpreter of this ancient Indian text, the Gita explains that self-realization is the highest achievement in life. Finding the self should be everyone's top priority. Maybe I will find clues in those scriptures.

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