An Exalting Formula

Q:  Is it possible to resume the principle of truth-orientation in a single formula? 

A:  Yes.  Truth can be infinitely small and infinitely big.  "The process of who am I?" consists of a practical exercise to achieve truth-orientation.  Every dimension of this principle is included and resumed in [this process.]  One could follow the course of a transcendental life through the question of "who am I?"  The more we progress in finding its answer, the further we move in the course of perceiving and revealing the truth.  "Who am I?" is a formula for sublimation and salvation. 

Q:  Could we assume that, from this angle, "the process of who am I?" resumes your teachings? 

A:  If we consider this process in its totality and from its every angle, [the answer would be] yes.      

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Q:  It seems quite simple indeed!

A:  An atom is also very simple yet it holds many worlds inside itself. 

Q:  Are you suggesting that "the process of who am I?" is comparable with an atom?

A:  Yes. 

Q:  Why do you consider "the process of who am I?" as being so important and essential?

A:  "Who am I?" leads to self-awareness; and man's life is a reflection of his self-awareness.  Destiny is transformation of self-awareness.  Whatever you lose and gain is the result of self-awareness.  Good health and illness, greatness and baseness, poverty and wealth, failure and success, comfort and trouble and everything arise from self-awareness.  Self-awareness determines your place in the existence.  People's self-awareness has an impact on the society you live in; and, even, national self-awareness determines their governmental system.  Your strength and weakness depends on your self-awareness...

To reach the truth and to know God lies also in self-awareness; for one's self-awareness will evolve into God-awareness.  [In fact] self-awareness is the result of "the process of who am I?"  Along the growth of one's self-awareness goodness grows in one's life- and this means one's integral growth. "The process of who am I?" is another interpretation of the growth of self-awareness.  Human pain and deviation are rooted in ignorance; self-awareness brings an end to evil and wickedness and eliminates [human] suffering and bondage.  The answer to "who am I?" is the answer to all questions of man.  [This answer] leads to love, to God and to the truth. 

Q:  What will one ultimately achieve through "the process of who am I?"

A:  To be a man.  You will become what you are; [you will achieve] your true human identity. 

Q:  Do you think there is sufficient ground in our times to accept this teaching?      

A:  Yes; for man is facing an "identity" crisis or rather a life crisis.  "Who am I?" has belonged and belongs to all times, indeed. 

Q:  Is there any special procedure to follow "the process of who am I?"

A:  This is a [general] course one has to follow during all one's lifetime - of course, it cannot be applied to a particular life's span.  "Who am I?" is the systematic meditation of the art of transcendental life.  To achieve a transcendental move one has to practice this meditation along one's existence in general and across one's life in particular.

[This meditation can be practiced] along one's life through observation and awareness.  [We have] to be constantly aware of "who am I?"  To find out "who this "I" is" we have to constantly watch and listen to this "I"; to observe the "I" who is in action, communicates with others and reacts...

That is how we are going to keep ourselves in an ever-growing course towards harmony and concurrency and everything is going to become slowly polarized towards the truth.  That is how contradictions and inconsistencies appear and, thanks to one's continuous awareness and observation, they will be eliminated and be gradually replaced by union and integrity.  "The process of who am I?" results in "a increasing [self-] control."   

Q:  Could you give and example of how "the process of who am I?" eliminates contradictions and brings about harmony? 

A:  Let's suppose that a person believes he is a servant of the Lord.  The question "who am I?" triggers an observation which, [in its turn], makes that person realize his belief has no practical outcome; for he lacks signs a servant has.  He is not at the service of his "lord;" he does not obey His orders.  According to indications, he realizes he is "someone else's servant."  He consequently faces a bitter and painful reality - a reality we plainly deny in ordinary situations.  Now he has two options; either to continue to serve that other person or to return to the service of his creator.  He has become aware of huge gap - a gap between his words and acts, between his beliefs and behaviors.  He realizes falsehood and delusion have taken over him.  As this observation goes on, he tries more and more to get closer to the real fact - to be the servant of the Unique Creator.  He slowly or suddenly renounces to be someone else's servant.  Slowness or suddenness [of one's reaction] depends on the intensity and completeness of one's observation.  This is how a person gradually harmonizes himself with his inherent reality and takes a direction towards the flow of guidance.  This is how contradictions and inconsistencies decrease in his existence and vanish away. 

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