Who sees what we think we see.... who am I?

Answer 1

You are an eternal spirit soul, who is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna.

http://www.krishna.com/gitaframeset/gita_frameset.html

Answer 2

What a brilliant question - you have just touched on what I have been questioning for years.

I don't know the answer, but I can give you some advice to help you work out what consciousness is:

All too often consciousness is assumed to require a brain. If you assume for a moment that it isn't necessary, then anything can have a first-person perspective.

Now, I know what you are thinking, "a tree can't see something in the first person, it has no eyes". Correct, but trees are alive and so must have some response to stimuli. Does a blind person have less consciousness than someone who can see? No? Then why can't a tree have consciousness (the sence of first person)?

Once you are happy with consciousness, think about a consciousness that transcendes the universe (and I don't mean God - God requires intellegence. Let's assume that intellegence requires a brain, but consciousness doesn't). There is no reason why consiousness can not transcend the universe when it isn't tied to it in any way.

These are just some things for you to think about... keep thinking, you are on the path to enlightenment!

Answer 3

In human society there are attempts to educate the human being, but for animal society there is no such system, nor are animals able to be educated. Therefore animals and unintelligent men are called vimudha, or ignorant, bewildered, whereas an educated person is called vidvan. The real vidvan is one who tries to understand his own position within this material world. For example, when Sanatana Gosvami submitted to the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, his first question was 'ke ami', 'kene amaya jare tapa-traya'. In other words, he wanted to know his constitutional position and why he was suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence. This is the process of education. If one does not ask, "Who am I? What is the goal of my life?" but instead follows the same animal propensities as cats and dogs, what is the use of his education?
A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,Founder-Acharya of
ISKCON(International Society for Krishna Consciousness)

He further says,
There are so many things to know but the advanced knowledge is to understand "Who am I?" If I do not know who am I, then what is the meaning of my advancement of knowledge? Generally, despite so many universities all over the world, people are going on in the concept of this body, "I am this body." "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim." So everyone is identifying himself with this material body. Then where is the advancement of knowledge?

Therefore Bhagavad-gitta(2.13) first of all teaches, who am I, not the body but soul, " "As the embodied soul continually passes in this body from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change."

The word dehi means "the proprietor of the body." We are thinking, "I am this body," but actually this is not so. We are the proprietors of the body, and that is the real understanding of the self. We do not say, "I am this finger" or "I am this hand." Rather, we say, "This is my finger, this is my head, this is my leg, etc." Similarly, the same can be said about the entire body. "This is my body." This means that I am the proprietor of this body. The body has been given by maya, the material energy as told by Krishna in Bhagavad-gita(3.27), "The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature."

So the answer is the Soul sees and not the body.
Higher than the gross matter is sense(eyes that sees etc..)
Higher than sense is mind and higher still is intelligence and the Soul higher still. Even ordinarily senses don't work(like eyes don't see), but the mind thinks, wills and feels then if the message is passed on then the eyes see. Higher than the mind and intelligence is ultimately soul which directs the mind and intelligence.

Katha Upanisad(1.3.3-4) mentions,
"The individual soul is the passenger in the car of the material body, and intelligence is the driver. Mind is the driving instrument, and the senses are the horses. The self is thus the enjoyer or sufferer in the association of the mind and senses. So it is understood by great thinkers."

Answer 4

1.This is u & ur mind who is watching u every time every thing u r doing is feeding ur mind like a recorder & u can recall it.
2.U r a simple human being with extra-ordinary powers.U have no past & no future, only present.So live in the present & forget all
things. We came here for once.So live ur life & forget all.

Answer 5

i went thru this, and let me tell you that questioning urself this question "who am I?" it's a good sign, it's good news, keep asking these questions it will lead you to be more strong in faith

you are from a sperm created inside an egg. u did not chose ur mother neither ur father, neither the color of ur skin neither ur nationality, u did not chose how u look like, neither did u chose the day you born or the day you will die. to Allah you belong and to Allah you are returning back. peace

Answer 6

Good question. Bunch of mass having all the organs fitted into it and blood ,water inside. So "I " could be just a perception.

Answer 7

GOD only can see what you think and what u see and what u r.

Answer 8

Eyes generally.You are a human being.

Answer 9

I think ur Kauly

Answer 10

you're in need of a philosophy course!