d/dx

The operator d/dx, has brought tears of pain in many eyes and has let to an outcry from many as 'tell me one real life situation where this comes of use'. It recently occurred to me, relating to my own experience, that in the domain of self inquiry, the way it happens, the way the dis-attachment of the consciousness from the pre-assumed identity 'I' happens, is quite similar to the polynomial which when subjected to d/dx gets reduced, a degree at a time, unless only a constant with no variable is remaining.

Whatever opinions, judgments or interpretations one has are centered around the false 'I' that is the ego. All the thoughts one can have, when traced back at the root, has the false root as this 'I'. Now when one questions the validity of this 'I' itself, the source of all thought, something else, something of another dimension starts happening. Then one witnesses the reduction of this complex paraphernalia of emotions, stories, past, future, guilt, suffering, confusion, anxiety, happiness, sadness, all that is the product of the unconscious attachment with the false 'I' coming into the witnessing light and disappearing bit by bit. The whole life story one has built around this variable 'I' starts to crack and starts getting reduced to lesser and lesser degree of complexity.

The tool d/dI is the device formulated by the realized masters. Some are in the form of self inquiry,  some in the form of self remembrance and much more.. These tools are there to reduce the complex mess that is this 'I', to annihilate this 'I', to free the consciousness from the false identification with the body-mind, and to reveal its true nature.  The unchanging constant that remains is something beyond description and has to be tasted only by being that..