"What you can perceive, can not be you". That's what mystics say.So we are not our bodies,minds as well as

Question

everything else we can see,perceive..
In Bhagavad Gita, it says: "A sword can not cut itself". Meaning what you can watch, can not be you.
What we can watch are: body,mind,thoughts and everything else

Do you think this is true? Do we really have a inner self other from body and mind? Or are we just like sophisticated robots perceiving themselves? (robots of merely flesh and blood)

Answer 1

If you are understanding the mystics to have said that you cannot see yourself, either the mystics were wrong or you misunderstood.
A sword cannot cut itself, because a sword is functionally two dimensional and doesn't bend. A sword is also not a living being and has no sensory organs. In truth, a sword cannot cut anything without the help of a hand to move the sword. A sword is not a person and an analogy that tries to make you believe that a sword is like a person is either a bad analogy, or you have misunderstood it.
You are a body with a mind and a soul. This explains why you are aware of being a body with a mind and a soul. If it helps, you are a soul with a body and a mind.

Answer 2

I disagree with the premise. Our "self" is an ongoing neurological process that does not require a soul to be at the center. We carry on an internal dialogue because this process allows a multiplicity of self-perceptions. We talk to ourselves. We become disappointed or satisfied with ourselves.

For some reason, humans initially have a difficult time imagining that our brains are flesh and blood. But see someone who has suffered brain damage from disease or injury and you will become convinced that the organ is able to do more than we can imagine, but is also fragile in its own biology.

Answer 3

Yes, we have an "inner self", also known as the entity, or oversoul. It is our true self, and it is experiencing our lives as we know them.

"What you can watch cannot be you" means what you can watch you have projected; a projection is what is perceived, and perception is a wish fulfilled. The images we project then think real, are not us. We are formless, invisible, perfect creations of the reality behind the word, "God".

God is mind, and God is All That Is (this means all that is real...people always make the assumption that it means God must be all the bad things, as well, but the bad things (evil, murder, poverty, starvation...) none of that is real, only God and God's creations.

Answer 4

i've asked that very same question thousands of times. i have watched a lot of things and have not seen my self even once. but i can see my cousin thurman real good.