Coupled Identities

Identity is a symbol of recognition. Is it a symbol of feeling the existence, believing and sensing the presence what does identity actually mean? Or to be identified?

One is identified by deeds, act, and personality, for one’s intellectual or spiritual knowledge. This stays forever… This is a belief. On observation, identities are only after coming into existence and one lives for a lifetime. Prior to an existence of a life and its existence in its actual physical state, identity does not exist.

A fetus does not have an identity but has a life though its existence is felt. It is identified only after it is formed and takes shape. It’s the same situation in a different manner when one life comes to an end. The identity is replaced by the word body and addressed as a soul, or a spirit or a ghostly figure…What happens to the actual identity? Which school of thought do we come from?

This is so ironic to the symbol of identity. It makes me think is identity confined to only until one is alive in physical state or does it have something to it beyond its actual existence. Prior to the physical form and latter to the attainment of physical form, why does it diminishes.

On a broader perspective identity should not be associated with anything. It should not disappear once perished and be replaced by a word or the manner in which it is addressed. It need not be complimented with the actual identity (physical or non-physical state).

More or less similar situation before inception.Is it all the chemical reaction that leads to a formation and hence no identity associated, as it is yet to be formed or is it because we see identity as a physical state of existence.

Isn’t this thought only an illusion? Is it not the time to break the illusion and start to re-think all over again? Identity is in every single particle. Seen or unseen felt or unfelt. It is the part of the entire universe which is always there.

At times, we fail to associate with it. Maybe, because we block our minds with a thin membrane of illusion that stops us from thinking deeper. A thought that tells us that identity itself is not a physical form prior to its existence or it perishes.

Identity is in the thoughts, the perception of you. It ever exists. Identity is not bound to time, object or any kind of materialistic or non-materialistic existence.

Both the prior and latter existing identities actually complete the entire circle and are coupled together.

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