00:00Who am I?
00:00When the world asks us this,
00:02it often expects us to answer in terms of our names or the roles, right?
00:06Like a good child, a good son, a good daughter, a good student, or a good friend.
00:10What are we?
00:12Such a beautiful question.
00:13May I know your name, please?
00:15Arushi.
00:16So you already know who you are.
00:18Arushi.
00:19Arushi.
00:25How can we have any inquiry into the real
00:30while simultaneously having a lot of belief,
00:35a lot of confidence in the unreal?
00:38The problem is not that we do not know who we really are.
00:42The problem is that we know too much of who we are.
00:47And all that, as you rightly pointed out in your question itself,
00:51all that is quite superficial, very superficial.
00:55Yes, you indeed are Arushi.
00:56The school records would attest to that.
00:59Your admit card, your Adha card, all your identities,
01:02they'll say you are Arushi.
01:03Indeed, definitely Arushi.
01:05But that's the outermost level of your identity, no?
01:10Any real search starts only when you start discarding the false.
01:17How can I ask for water if I believe that this is already full of water?
01:22I must first of all see that it is either empty
01:25or full of something else pretending to be water.
01:29I must first of all see that I am not what I have been told to be.
01:37That I am not what I have been taking myself to be.
01:43And there must be a dissatisfaction.
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