WHO ARE YOU?

Sri Ramana Maharshi asks, "Who are you?"  i.e.  who is a person really?  His answer is that we are consciousness itself, pure consciousness, the screen upon which our lives are being played out.  This ground consciousness is the Atman, the personal aspect of Brahman.

The Atman is a witnessing consciousness, furthermore.  It watches, observes.  Observing, though, is all that it does.  It does not participate in our lives, has nothing to do with this world of form beyond looking at it only.  It is not responsible for events in the world. 

This universal mind can be experienced in meditation, typically in turiya, the fourth level of consciousness.  The feeling of it is supreme bliss. This is who we truly are, as opposed to who we think we are.