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PUNE, Maharshtra, India
मुझे पाना हो तों मुझमे उतरकर देखों / य़ू किनारेसे समन्दर को देखा नहीं जाता // I am an Ayurvedic Practitioner from Pune,interested in Life(now,who isn't ?).I appreciate Life in its totality,as a whole.By Life I don't mean mere human life but the whole Existence.I consider Life more than a subject to be explored through various streams of Knowledge like Science,Spirituality,Arts and anything beyond.Life is an ultimate Adventure(no not just Bungee jumping and all that) without any specific Destination,without any goal,without any certainty.So-called ideas of Enlightenment,Liberation,Salvation are mere tip of the iceberg.Although Human endeavor to investigate Life is an unfair attempt in its glory, we humans tend to speculate it with our inefficient tools-mind and the senses;but that has to be excused by dear Life !

The Hypothetical Self

        Ultimately Religion or Spirituality doesn't exclusively exist .By and large it is an extrapolation  or an extract  of the physical world may be in a subtler way.
        Like for example the relation between the center and circumference is interdependent.As long as there is center there lies the circumference and vice versa. In similar fashion ,the so-called self/spirit and its fabric - body relatively exists.
       The Self being the center and thereby the body,thus so on and so forth the perceptible world being its circumference.Self exist as long as Body or the physical knowledge exists.In absence of the one the other obviously cease to exist.Thus when the two exist it is the realm of 'Duality' and when one vanishes making other also to vanish- it is 'Nondualism' or 'Monism '.
       So,it is questionable as to whether or not there is any individual Self existing.No,technically there is no such individual self thereby ruling out any possibility of Self-Realization or Self-Knowledge (Atma-Saakshatkaar or Atma Gyan). Say,during sleep neither there is any 'Self' aware of itself being asleep nor aware of the physique and physical world.Here there is no center nor any periphery ,ruling out any existence of inner and outer world.Also,if any possibility of heightened awareness or higher degree of consciousness is considered to be true,where the Self is realized ,that again would be a totally sophistic statement to be consider as valid.
       All the spiritual practice is nothing but an urge and means to satisfy the mundane needs.The Spirit doesn't exists hence essentially it is called as Spirit.Just like the volatile aqueous solution Spirit vaporises on exposure to air , in the same way the Spirit cease to exist without the body . As long as the body is intact,that vital principle can be arbitrarily  termed as an 'Entity', as 'Spirit'.Thats it !
       In the physical world it is possible for one to come face to face with somebody else but as far as oneself is considered it is next to impossible to acknowledge ourselves.At the most we can perceive our image in the mirror but coming face to face with ones own self is impossible.Our eyes can see the whole but can it see itself ?, NO ! Reflections are different from the very thing,the Subject.Like we say 'The map is not the territory',we can map the consciousness at the most but can never understand it in real sense.
      Just like when you go on peeling an onion what you are left with is 'Nothing' ,such is the case of our tryst with gaining knowledge about the non-existent self.Ultimately we are left with 'No-thing' to be acknowledged  as 'Self' ; and that which is labelled as 'Self ' is merely  a superimposition of our 'EGO' , a convenient label ,a despicable tag.

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