{"id":55764,"date":"2025-11-25T00:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=55764"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:05:48","slug":"why-cant-i-understand-that-i-am-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=55764","title":{"rendered":"Why cant I understand that I am the Self ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-48x36.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-155x116.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is due to the work of Avidya, Who is Anadi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vidya = Knowledge = I am the Self<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avidya= Ignorance = I am the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sastras averr that when Life revolves around the Body, it is steeped in misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHEN iT REVOLVES  around the Self, is resplendent with Joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What Vedas call Ignorance, is called by the Bible as SIn. The atrophied Spiritual Consciousness which characterise the normal Animal Man, is referred to a Death in the Bible and as Ignorance in the Veda! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stipendium peccati mors est, the Reward of Sin is Death!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is due to the work of Avidya, Who is Anadi Vidya = Knowledge = I am the Self Avidya= Ignorance = I am the body. Sastras averr that when Life revolves around the Body, it is steeped in misery. WHEN iT REVOLVES around the Self, is resplendent with Joy. What Vedas call Ignorance, is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=55764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why cant I understand that I am the Self ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55778,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764\/revisions\/55778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}