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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
Deepening Meditation: Who Am I?
So first relax and allow your body to relax. See your pleasant face and tell your mind you are taking some time for yourself. Then you feel veerum on your breath and build the rhythm of your breath within you. Slow down and then do brim and let the energy come up. The energy, which was accumulated and engaged at the lower level to satisfy the lower desires, is lifted upward. Your attention is raised to higher levels.
Then you are ready to begin to use the mantram kohum. Ko means "who" and hum means "I.” To remove pretension, ask kobum, “Who am I?" Very gently and slowly with a relaxed feeling, you ask this question. Probe into yourself. It is an investigation, a confrontation with yourself. Try to see who you really are. Ask yourself if you are what others think you are. Examine what you think you are. See if that is not a projection of what you want to be. Ask, “Why do I want to be that? Is it my idea or someone else's?" If you are trying to mold yourself according to someone else, are you free? Is living like this bringing you true understanding of life?
Then you repeat kohum. Let the investigation within yourself continue. Don't repeat it over and over without pausing to ruminate. Tell the mind to come here and find out who you are.
Man's mind can take him everywhere. You may be sitting for meditation and your mind will take you to the Eiffel Tower for tea. It also takes you around your own environment: do you have the right job? the clothes you like? the right place to live? The mind drags you through all your different hangups and feelings.
