Self-delineation and self-conception giving rise to self is self-ignorance.

Self can be in many forms, for example, self-conception, self-ideation, self-identification in form of name, gender, relation, class, caste, race, religion, nationality, feeling of being inner self, etc. Self is stress of hypnosis due to association with known and unknown giving rise to self-ignorance.

Self-ignorantly, you may believe that you are eternal immortal inner self independent of constituent cause and conditions.

Inner-Self Is Stress

Life and actions according to self is rigid and in conflict with the reality. Inner-Self is stress arising due to association with known and unknown ideas about self.

Through association with known and unknown ideas about self, you get hypnotized and attached. You get hypnotized and attached to self-conceptions like race, gender, religion, caste, class, beliefs, ideas etc.

An infant just born has no notion or sense of self till a certain age. Infant is a natural and nature is original. The notion and sense of self is developed later in life during growth in order to interact with the environment. Self is acutely conjured for meeting the demands of environment in order to survive and flourish but should disappear when not necessary.

However, due to wrong upbringing and unhealthy conditions, the sense or notion of self can become chronic and severe. Self is a rigidity and stress that is necessary to deal with life and society.

During meditation, by relaxing your body and calming your mind, you will know that the hallucination of being inner self is due to stress and activities in mind. Through meditation you will be free from hypnosis due to self-image.

Fully aware, you can exist without inner being or inner self as well as self-image. You are not inner being or inner self or inner soul or inner spirit. Self-image is the result of self-conception based on unnecessary artificial ideas about yourself.

You Are Phenomenon of Awareness.

Nature and natural richness is original. Naturally you are the result of dynamic interaction of your indispensable constituent cause and conditions, including but not limited to your ancestors, your body, your processes of life, actions and effects of those actions, without which you cannot continue to exist in any way.

You are awareness, phenomenon of knowing arising due to your constituent cause and conditions without independent inner self. You become your actions and you continue in the effect of your actions. This is commonsense and as obvious as truth of earth, nature, pain, disease, old age and death. However, some cultures may ridiculously believe that life enters the womb rather than birthing from women.

Society Enforces Ideas of Eternal Inner Self

This hallucination of being an inner self, may seem real due to stress in the process of life and due to hypnosis by premature formation of “Self-Image” and self-conception.

You are prematurely or chronically hypnotized due to association with self-conception through artificial ideas and beliefs about who you are. This self-delineation divides you and gives rise to stress in form of inner-being or inner-self.

Society imposes eternal immortality to this feeling of being inner self. You get prematurely and chronically hypnotized by this idea of being independent eternal immortal inner self with after life or next birth.

Eternal reality of inner self” or inner being” or “Ego” or inner soul or inner spirit” etc.., independent of the process of life and actions, is a naive primitive idea sustained artificially by institutions of society and passed down from one generation to the next through cultural and customary beliefs.

For right or wrong reasons, society delineates self through its tangible and intangible institutions and instill you with different beliefs about existence of inner being or inner self independent of the process of life and actions.

At an early age, society imposes you with artificial ideas like class, caste, religion, race, nationality and unproven ideas like past life, next life, soul, ghosts, after life, rebirth, reincarnation, supreme Creator and controller etc.

If you are brought up in such society, the idea of distinct inner self or inner being may seem real, and you may live and act through self-ignorance according to your self-delineation.

You tend to accept the idea of reality of distinct inner self or inner being independent of conditions of life, if it is given to you by someone whom you trust, like or depend on, for example, parents. You tend to believe just because everyone believes and not because you know.

Inner “Self” is an Artificial Idea and Belief

Independent reality and existence of inner self beyond the process of life are concepts artificially created by society. You never try to fully investigate the reality of these concepts through right means or methods. You believe without trying to know their truth.

Eternal reality of immortal inner being or inner self is an idea not as naturally evident as reality of pain, old age, disease and death whether it is believed or not. Ideas of eternal immortal independent inner self need institutionalized collective human belief in order for such beliefs to exist in society.

You get hypnotized by many such artificial ideas due to your early life vulnerability, your dependence and trust on your care takers, lack of exposure to contrary alternative ideas and the artificial conditions conducive for hypnosis by such ideas. After you grow up, you forget that you are susceptible to hypnosis, and you continue to live under hypnosis by such ideas.

You are ephemeral. You eventually disintegrate, disperse and get endlessly recycled. You are neither eternal nor immortal. You are empty. Know this in deep meditation just as you consciously know pain and pleasure, youth and old age, birth and death.