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		<title>Begin with the End in the Mind, But what is the end?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the reason for our Birth? Is there a purpose that we are serving in this earth? What happens when we die? These are the basic questions that ponders everyone&#8217;s mind when they think of Life Before even getting into that, we need to know who we are!. I was thinking about who am &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://aravinthan.in/blog/2007/07/05/begin-with-the-end-in-the-mind-but-what-is-the-end/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the reason for our Birth? Is there a purpose that we are serving in this earth? What happens when we die? These are the basic questions that ponders everyone&#8217;s mind when they think of Life <img src='http://aravinthan.in/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Before even getting into that, we need to know who we are!. I was thinking about who am I? I could come up with different attributes that i have, but i couldnt come up with a complete fully satisfactory answer!</p>
<p>Some of the answers that we can think of is:</p>
<p>1.I am my name (Uh.. not i am not just my name its just an identification!!)</p>
<p>2. I am son of Mr&#8230; (oopss. this is just the relationship that i am mentioniong not me!)</p>
<p>3. I am a Software Engineer (!!! part of my identity.. not me&#8230;).</p>
<p>4. I am the aggregate of all the attributes mentioned above and more! ( No way.. i am not just my attributes!!).</p>
<p>So who am i? Who are you?</p>
<p>Could I say I am my feelings? I am my thoughts? I feel this is appropriate.. as any other explanation is either physical or an property of the physical being.</p>
<p>If i am my feelings or Thoughts then i die every moment (weird); As and when I am thinking about a word and as soon as i have thought about that word;  its no more a present thought, its a past thought.</p>
<p>So I am what is my current thought?! But i not limited to that! I can traverse back to my previous thought; when i recollect some happenings in the past. So i am kinda past thoughts and present thoughts? But mere thoughts wouldnt necessarily define me, i only act on certain thoughts that i have and discard some of them; So am i a subset of the thoughts which are actionable??!!</p>
<p>Still this is a vagaue answer. Who are you and Who I am! Not sure. Not sure what the answer is <img src='http://aravinthan.in/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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