The Virtual Self.

A Philosophy Of Existence.

Sri Ramana Maharshi uttered a few verses in Tamizh Language that He Himself or His devotees compiled in the form of the Text of 

(உள்ளது நாற்பது)

A disciple and devotee of Sri Ramana translated the same into Sanskrit, with the title :

सद्दर्शनम् 

T. M. P. Mahadevan

Erstwhile Head of the Department of Philosophy, Madras University,

Wrote down a commentary on the same with the title :

Sri Ramana Maharshi, (and His) 

The Philosophy of Existence.

Today is the 29th October 2024.

Going through my own thought-process which is like of a common man, thinking of and about my own existence as a self, I too in my own way, tried to give words to my own Philosophy of :

The Philosophy of Virtual Existence of the self.

Based upon this theme I could compare 'myself' as an adopted child of my own parents that I found in this world when I was born with this name.

Like and every other person, I too had my mother and father in this world. But they were my physical parents and the mother-father. However I could also say I discovered one another couple, who I could call my virtual parents of "myself".

I can say this body-mind complex that caused myself  - the sense of "myself" in me; as a particular individual being, in the world - are my virtual parents that gave birth to me - "the virtual myself".

Therefore I see this is also true for all and every individual soul on the earth.

I can also say that though physically an individual person has either a male or a female body,  this body-mind complex could be said to be a couple where either of the body and the mind could play the role of being either a mother or a father accordingly as individual has a physical body in the form of either a male or a female.

For example - I'm a male person, as my this body is a male, I could say this body is my virtual father while my mind is my virtual mother.

Therefore, I think, as every-one has this body-mind complex as one's identity in this world, one can accordingly say who out of the two, the body and the mind is one's virtual father and who the other is the virtual mother.

The two are indeed a committed couple, who adopted me - the virtual self, myself, and I don't exist apart from any of them both together.

Therefore I see my existence in the world is consequential to their existence and I have none other independent identity of my own.

And as I was inspired by and wrote my thinking, while I was going through and trying to understand the above-referred text, I feel, I'm really blessed in a way. 

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