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    What Am I?: An Existential Conundrum
    What Am I?: An Existential Conundrum
    What Am I?: An Existential Conundrum
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    What Am I?: An Existential Conundrum

    By Anusha Krishnaswamy

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    Even as the title, “What am I?” – An Existential Conundrum, sounds cosmological, there is a lot more to this as we tend to develop so many characters out of ourselves. Some inherent and some imposed. As we do so, we get surrounded by layers of personalities, most often leading to loss of the core, and eventually we spiral out. While searching for an Identity is very human and natural, are we really being ourselves? Does our Identity lie in the Past, Present or Future? All of us are into the process of ‘Identity Search’, knowingly or unknowingly. Let us see if our paths cross in the process ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnusha Krishnaswamy
    Release dateFeb 21, 2020
    ISBN9780463277379
    What Am I?: An Existential Conundrum
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    Anusha Krishnaswamy

    A dentist by training, Anusha Krishnaswamy always makes opportunities to hone her creative capabilities. She is presently working as a content creator, and she is a fervent writer. Her other areas of interests include painting and photography.

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      What Am I? - Anusha Krishnaswamy

      Anusha Krishnaswamy

      Copyright © 2019 Anusha Krishnaswamy

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      Contents

      1.WHO AM I?

      2.INTRODUCTION

      3.THE I TRIAD

      4.THE BORN IDENTITY

      5.ROOTS OF ORIGIN

      6.CREATION STORIES

      7.PAST PERFECT PERILOUS PRESENT

      8.WHAT IS G-O-D?

      9.THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

      10.THE INNER MASTER

      11.CORRUPTED CONSCIENCE

      12.DEAL WITH THE DEMONS

      13.RIPPLE EFFECT

      14.SUCCESS STORY vs HAPPINESS QUOTIENT

      15.KARNA YOGA

      16.HUMAN TRANSCENDENCE

      17.LITTLE BIG CHALLENGE

      18.LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH!

      19.BEHAVIOUR CONDITIONING

      20.PERCEPTUAL THINKING

      21.DECISION MAKING

      22.SELF PARENTING

      23.BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

      1.WHO AM I?

      Who Am I? – The

      Question that lingers,

      In all our Minds,

      The answer we could never Find,

      We put ourselves in a Bind;

      Making us Blind!

      I have always been Around,

      Sharing all your Joy and Sorrow;

      That none could ever Borrow!

      Wiping away your tears;

      Making the Path Clear!

      Alas! What a Fair-weather friend you are!

      Seeking Me Only when you Fear!

      Conventional wisdom demands Prosperity;

      Goes off the boil, when you focus upon Eternity!

      Conflicts of Facts and Fictions – Yet

      You had the Courage of Convictions!

      Often, I had to pick a bone;

      Haven’t Set that in Stone;

      For the Endurance you had;

      Blissful Ignorance I Bestowed!

      Impeccable I am – Yet

      Inseparable We Are!

      Believers claim my Benevolence;

      Critics believe I am Extinct;

      Science calls me Instinct;

      I reside in your Conscience – Together

      We could make Better Sense!

      Not an Awful Lot you know – Yet

      ‘I’ Speak to you through many ways…

      Grateful I feel – For

      You made me realize…

      This is ME

      And this is All … ME!!!

      Digital collage – Who am ‘I’?

      Life takes us through various channels, and finally tells us who we are. I have just tried to collate a few such channels to create this collage.

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      2.INTRODUCTION

      "We know what we are, but not what we may be." –

      - William Shakespeare

      ‘Who am I?’

      This is a seemingly simple yet complex question. The complexity in part is attributable to its simplicity. Maybe it depends on the way it is put across. Many a time, we tend to overlook this owing to our spatial and temporal connections. In simple terms, when we are asked to say about ourselves, what comes in our minds first? Our name may be? biological origin? Religion? Gender? Profession? The list is endless. There are various dimensions to define ourselves. But is that all?

      Have we ever thought it through? Indeed! A few intellectuals would say that we are all great beings, the Humans, Indigenous, epitomizing the hierarchy of evolution. But what are we actually made of? A scientist would say we are a collection of positives and negatives, constantly changing polarity, perhaps that means Innovation? Or Intelligence? Materialistic world would say we are recognized through our possessions and we call it Identity? A few others would simply attribute it to the inside factors and they call it an Inward journey. And a few others…

      That being said, how else can we define who we are? Are we how we appear? Are we how we exist? Are we what we transfer across generations? If Nomenclature attributes to biological status, then are we not dynamic entities in terms of time and space? Perhaps! Because these points of references are not stationary.

      The simplest of the simple definitions can be ‘we are all humans, superior to all other life forms. Even as the Sixth Sense, as we call it, imparts the superiority, honestly, are we there yet? Almost all of us would have encountered this array of conflicts amidst our daily drama. Whether the conflicts take a base from outside, through a bunch of fellow beings, or inside, emanating from a bunch of brain cells, conscious or subconscious, it is simply the process of defining ourselves. This happens at various levels at various perspectives.

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      3.THE I TRIAD

      I know that I exist; the question is, what is this 'I' that 'I' know. - Rene Descartes

      Given that humans are superior to all other life forms and nature, it can be said that there is something innate in humans that defines their superiority. What is that which distinguishes humans from other living beings? Perhaps a highly evolved brain? Aristotle therefore calls humans, rational animals. What do the humans possess that make them rational? Ability to think and speak? Potential to lead their species to future through their instinctive understanding? Their capacity to adapt to the dynamic living space - the entire universe?

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