Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 2:47
Is it possible to attain the universal identity?
When we are talking to anybody outside our family, you become protective of them or you speak for them. Likewise, politicians potentially assume an identity on behalf of a county or a state or a country or whatever it is. So we assume different identities as we go about our daily lives at different times
And if we are taking away those constructs and then you're looking at the universe and the entirety of everything, then what is even self? What is assuming that identity, whether it's temporal or whether it's I don't even know that someone could exist in that state because I don't even know what that is. Right. I think my short answer is I have no idea
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 2:54
So if we can just talk about kind of me as an individual versus me identifying as a couple, forget about the larger group of a whole family or a whole city or a country or a country or whatnot just going from one to two. What does it entail? What does it mean? What changes within? So I would be sort of interested in knowing your thoughts around that. What does that look like? If you want to continue the discussion, I would love it. Thank you
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Ah. I think I'm gonna step back and listen to the other responses. The way that I make sense of the world may not fit in the way that you're wanting to go through this conversation. And and I don't understand a lot of the ways that humans operate. So I'll just I think I'll step back and listen to you what others have to say
You also asked about how even the paradox of trying to know yourself. And I was reminded about something in a lecture from Swami Vivekananda and I quote it here. He says, you cannot know your own self. You cannot move it out and make it an object to look at because you are that and you cannot separate yourself from it. Neither is it unknowable for what is better known than yourself. It is really the center of our knowledge