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who am i? शिवोऽहम्

as per निर्वाणषटकम् I am (and we all are) pure soul :) ... the human form makes me (us) forget that often - but the journey is towards staying afloat in that state forever ... key is in getting up every now and then when the truth is forgotten 

who knows, it might take years or lifetimes (or beyond) ... OR it might be just seconds or minutes (or max hours) to get there :D

मनोबुद्ध्यहङ्कार चित्तानि नाहं

न च श्रोत्रजिह्वे न च घ्राणनेत्रे ।

न च व्योम भूमिर्न तेजो न वायुः

चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥१॥

https://greenmesg.org/stotras/brahman/nirvana_shatakam.php

every morning is certainly a fresh start! सुप्रभातम् :-)

who am i?

i think i am given a box of match sticks ...

i am looking for candles/lamps who are either blown off or unlit - i am happy to light them up - the potential (unused fuel) is a 'hidden gem' - let's brighten up the place

there is need for more light around us :-)

who am i? MBA

i once introduced myself to someone as MBA

Monk ..
in Business
.. of Abundance :-)

i want to increase your happiness because that increases mine !

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/very-happy-little-monk-jumping-cute-680161318

गणतन्त्रदिवसस्य शुभकामनाः - Happy Republic Day India

सर्वेभ्यो भारतीयेभ्यः गणतन्त्रदिवसस्य शुभकामनाः

we value more when we are far .. same applies to motherland too

nature depicting colors of Indian Flag - [google search]

जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी jananī janmabhūmiśca svargādapi garīyasī

“What is obvious to you is amazing to others.” - Derek Sivers

i came across this quote - and i was wondering .. if we start sharing - we will increase the "value" of our thoughts and ideas - we can turn our "stones" into "gems" by simply exchanging :)

it also gives us confidence and assurance - especially, helpful when we feel our actions and tasks are 'insignificant'

who am i?

now that i have started to write more frequently, there are many posts lined up in my "DRAFTS" section of this blog ... few of them on same lines made me thing - i should have some kind of a series of "who am i?" - and to give it a start, i thought of writing an old poem/lines in Gujarati that i used to like once

when i thought of searching them up (to give due credits/links) - i realized i probably had remembered little differently ... seems, they are all mixed up memories - from several creations of LATE Shri Ramesh Parekh (સ્વ. શ્રી રમેશ પારેખ)

અરીસામાં (આરસીમાં) પણ પ્રતિબિંબોથી હોઉં હું જુદો
તો હજુ તું કોઈ સાથે કેમ સરખાવે મને ? https://rdgujarati.wordpress.com/2006/05/18/parekh-exclusive/

OR

બધાને આવતો સરખો વિચાર હોઈ શકું,
અગર વિચારના વર્તુળની બહાર હોઈ શકું;
હું કોઈ નક્કી નથી કે મને વિચારી શકો,
જીવું ને જિંદગીમાંથી ફરાર હોઈ શકું ! https://layastaro.com/?p=5339

OR

one of the lines i remembered "મને જ ખબર નથી કે હું કોણ છું?" (i don't know who am i) is still not something I could clearly search up with his name (maybe too generic for google search)