YOU ARE YOUR GREATEST MYSTERY

  Today I woke up with one of the strangest thoughts I've ever had; I was contemplating on some of the muddled issues of life, and in the course of doing this, it appeared to me that there is no matter whatsoever as muddled as the being called "Me". Well, I hope not to make a placid philosophical essay, but to put in a poetic form, those things I have realized about personal Identity. I can also call it "the mystery of personal identity."
    We have from ancient ages emphasized on the need to know ourselves; self realization has thus remained an underlying topic in the field of philosophy and spirituality. Socrates, an ancient philosopher is known to have said, "Man know thyself," Following this line of thinking, I believe that (i) We can know our true selves (ii) Our supreme mission in life cannot be conceived without self realization. But beyond this, I add "You can know yourself, but you cannot know the entity called you" Does it make sense? Consider this:
     You cannot see you, but you can see yourself. You cannot locate the being called "you", because it is "you" that tries to locate. The only thing you can locate is what belongs to you, not you. What do I mean? Firstly, answer this question, "Who are you?," You may immediately answer,(for example) "I am John", but John is your name--not you. You may say, "I am my body,"but this is wrong--your body belongs to you, hence, cannot also be you.  You are not your spirit, not a soul, nor  mind; all these belong to "you", i.e, "Your spirit, your soul, your mind," So, who are you? How can you locate "you"?
       I will move at this stage, to answer this mysterious question. I begin by saying that you are your greatest mystery. You cannot see you, because it is you that desires to see; you cannot think of you, because it is the same you that tries to think; you cannot talk about you, because it is you that talks. Wait! You cannot know you, because "you" are the one trying to know. Having gone through this, do not even try to understand you, because it is the same "you" that tries to understand. 
     What we can best study, realize and understand is "the self" (a property of the real you). At this point, I want to add that this is the mystery I contemplated upon. It is not a fixed axiom--I have made no concrete conclusions. Your reactions and contributions are of great importance.