Who am I?
Our life is the quest to find an anwer to this question. Am I the body? No because the one who is thinking about this is not the body.
Then, am I the mind who is thinking? But then I can observe my thoughts. I can sometimes understand that the mind is playing some games. Then who am I? I don't know what is soul. I have not observed it. The soul is something other than body and mind. It is thought that identifying this is the quest of life. I was always puzzled why all the scriptures and philosophies just dont mention who I am. Why is it left for me to find out?
I have been blessed to have met very great Gurus in my life. What I could faintly understand from their teachings is that there is no answer to this question. Just because the mind wants something to play it is asking this question. And the answer that I am nothing wont satisfy this mind. So the ancient scholars want ourselves to search and be assured that "I am indeed nothing." And that nothing is everything. And everything is nothing. So Iam actually nothing into nothing. Sri Sri Ravishankarji said it so easily and the mind understood it so easily but experiencing that nothingness is the journey for me yet to be completed.

In search of nothing- Paresh