|| Shri Hari ||

How to be Free of Sense of Me and Mine? 

I am this body, this body is mine -  this belief is the main mistake.  This itself, is a mistake.  You think about it. This body has been acquired, and that which is acquired cannot be mine.  That which is ours remains eternally ours.  It never separates from us; from beginning to end it remains ours.  But that which we have received, cannot remain with us forever, it separates from us; therefore how can it be ours?  The self was there in the beginning, it will remain afterwards, and in the middle it acquired a body, then how is it considered to be the Self?

Idam shariram kaunteya kshetramityabhishreeyate |

etatdhyo veti tam praahuh kshetragya iti tadvidah ||  

(Gita 13/1)

In other words in "this" form that is called the 'kshetra' body or "field" and the knower of this form, this field, the knowledgeable one is called the "knower of the field" (kshetragya).  Therefore the "field" and the "knower of the field" are two things.  Just as "I" know the pole, then the pole is the thing that is known and I am the knower of the pole.  The knower is separate from the thing that is known - this is a rule.  We know the body;  therefore we are separate from it.  We say - this is my stomach, this is my feet, this is my neck, this is my heat, this is my senses, this is my mind, this is my intellect etc. etc. That which is "this", how can it be "I" (self)?  "Egoism"  i.e. "I-ness" is also "this".  The illumination in which the body-senses-mind-intellect are seen,  in that very same illumination the "egoism" (sense of I-ness) is seen.   That which is seen, is not our true Self,  how can it be?

I am not this body - accept this point with a firm conviction.

From "Kalyaankari Pravachan"  in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji