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A case of mistaken identity

Dr. Monica Gulati

Abstract
The ordinary life that we live, which is considered as a normal human life, appears to be a case
of mistaken identity when we look at it in terms of spirituality. I identify myself as the thoughts,
as the feelings, as the sense-perceptions, as the limited views and opinions of ‘my’ mind. All of
this sooner or later narrows and constricts us and brings suffering. Since no one really likes to
suffer, this suffering or pain helps us move out from our inertia, from our comfort zones, from our
identification and attachment to thoughts, and images about ourselves; and seek for resolutions,
seek for some relief, and there we have the possibility to wake up to our true nature, or at least
embark on the journey of realising our Truth, without which suffering will persist.

One Divine Consciousness serving us well. Waking up from the slumber
of knowing ourselves as the limited ego-
Ordinary human consciousness is extremely consciousness is not a luxury for a few, but
narrow and limited. Though it has its own utility an urgency for each one of us.
in human evolution, but now collectively
we are at a stage in human evolution where There is only One, the Divine, and nothing
this limited view and perception is not really else. All of the manifestation and the unmanifest

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