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True Identity

A person identifies himself with a particular race, religion, culture and nationality, and he will fight for that, die for that.. and others will die with him too.

Instead, share a broader perspective - that first and foremost we part of the Divine.

Our second identity is that we are Human Beings.

Third, we are male or female

Fourth, is our nationality, the country to which we belong.

Fifth, is our religion.

If the order of identification is understood, then human values are honored. But if we identify with a particular religion or nationality, forgetting that first we are part of the Divine, and human beings then we bring misery unto ourselves and others as well.

We have to have proper priorities. Everything is changing around you - your body, mind, priorities, friends, foes.. Everything is constantly changing.

For this change to be recognized a reference point is needed - and That is your BEING!

Wake Up! and see that you have a bigger identity than your gender! You identify yourseld with the spirit. You are not just a piece of flesh and bone! You are Spirit! You are Life!

This is when you need to know the knowledge.. That you are spirit. You are the sparkling, scintillating consiousness!

When you identify yourself with that, all complexes dissolve and fade away.

The ancient rishis said put it into a sentence "Tutvamsi" - "THOU ARE THAT"

Don't think you are just amino acids, carbohydrates and proteins moulded into either 2 different forms - male & female. There is something beyond that - the spirit, the conciousness, the Bliss that you are, the joy that you are... Look to the Love that you are!

Love is God, God is Love - because both are the same ethereal phenomenon.

When you come sit near the Master, you cannot but catch his etherealness in you. When that happens, then the Master says - "What do you think you are? Do you think you are a solid body? Do you think you are a set of concepts, ideas and emotions?"

No, No, No, Don't Mistake it! This Love that you are feeling - that is what you are. Thou art That!