The Question - Who I am?

Who I am?

Why is this question always and generally asked only in this manner? Can't we ask "Who I was?" or "Who I will be?" or "Who I am now?"

Whenever we ask this question, "Who I am?" it is always an unrevealed known identity or forgotten identity which is driving us to ask this question only in this manner. The day or moment we find the answer, then the question, and the questioner disappears into the answer and become the answer itself. 

Does the questioner really become the answer? 

It is quite paradoxical. I don't think the questioner can become the answer. The answer has actually created the questioner because of a thought. An illusion which is created by the thought also created the illusory questioner because of the thought. Hence, the questioner is always asking or seeking in search of that answer who it really is by asking the question - Who I am?

But does the questioner find the answer by seeking for the answer?

No. As long as the seeking is there, the questioner keeps on creating more and more thoughts and further enhances illusion. The process of seeking creates more restlessness and ripples in the lake of stillness. The moment the seeking stops, the ripples subside - the questioner does not exist anymore and since the questioner does not exist, the question also disappears and what remains is only the answer. The game of seeking to find the answer is a big illusion created by the illusory thought.

Does it mean that there should not be any seeking?

No. Anything/any one that has taken birth will seek for liberation. It is an inherent characteristic built into the very structure of each and every particle that is manifested in some or the other form. The form of human-being has an advantage over other forms due to an evolved brain structure and mind. This evolved brain and mind enables a human-being to think and pursue differently when compared to other animals, provided there is an intention and the intention along with its search are in the right direction.

The seeking in a human-being makes it (purposefully 'it' is being used instead of he/she to avoid all kinds of gender bias and intention is to go beyond the body) restless and look for happiness all around. It cannot find its happiness until and unless the seeking gets interiorized within it and by using the breath as an anchor, let go the thought process and drop all thinking. The moment the thinking is dropped, the question is dropped; the moment the question is dropped, the seeking is dropped; and the moment the seeking is dropped, the seeker or the questioner is dropped; and once the seeker/or the questioner is dropped, what remains is the answer which gets revealed all by itself.

The only thing that was hiding the answer all the time is the process of seeking and effort of seeking for the answer in the wrong direction. Once the seeking drops and effort turns effortless, in the transformation from doing mode to a being mode, the being realizes and becomes aware that it itself is the answer.

"Truth reveals itself in the being mode to the being to become the Being."