You = Physical Body + Transcendental Soul
“Know thyself” — Socrates
Who are you? Do you know yourself? Knowing yourself doesn’t include your name, gender, nationality, family lineage, or personality traits. It is much deeper. It is about knowing your existential reality to find your relevance and purpose in the bigger picture.
You cannot underestimate the importance of holistically knowing yourself. You must establish who you are to be able to go about life, have successful relationships, perform your responsibilities, set realistic life goals, understand others, make conscious choices, and live a productive, meaningful life.
The process of knowing yourself is very clear and well defined:
You = Physical Body + Transcendental Soul
Every human being on the planet is intrinsically the same — a combination of physical body and conscious Soul or the atom of life. The soul is permanent and formless and without physical body, it is just “pure being” in itself. The soul can (and thus) adopt a physical body to become a human being and experience reality.
As a conscious soul, you have the capacity of imagination and understanding. As a physical body with very advanced biological and neural systems, you are able to communicate and experience being and existence.
The soul has specific values like justice, truth, happiness, and so on. The physical body has a separate set of needs — mostly concerning nourishment. As a human being creating good memories during interactions with others is your purpose.
These experiences and memories in the form of understanding and knowledge can be collectively stored in society as tradition and culture. Every newborn human being connects to the culture and learns from it.
Now that this knowledge is available and can be spread the process of having an undivided Human species is underway. Every single human being can validate and assimilate the same at his own pace.
Creating an utopia where every human being can live in bliss now has a path to be followed.
About the Author
Anand (@ananddamanica) is an Existential Realist Philosopher, a Serial Entrepreneur andStartup Advisor with over 20 years of experience in Manufacturing Sector, International Trade, Custom software, Web & Mobile App. Development and Life Consulting. He has provided IT integration guidance to over 200 SME & Startup Clients across the globe.
A Chartered Accountant by education and an Entrepreneur at heart, Anand has a knack for simplifying ‘complex’ problems. He shares his expertise in business and management, and also writes about the profound Philosophy of Coexistence, in his blog:www.ananddamani.com/blog. You can reach him at: anand@ananddamani.com.
