4. I - Personality :

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Each of you now please ask this question to yourself :" Who is this ? Or what  constitutes this ego - sense in me ?" Is not the I - Personality in each of us nothing but memories of certain facts of life lived in the past such as, I am the son /daughter of so - and - so, educated, lived, loved, hated, taught,  etc. ? In short, I am the sum - total of all the retained memories of all vivid experiences I have had in the past. The I - concept includes, also, my hopes for the future.
By Swami Chinmayananda.

 Next- Memory bits and Hope - flakes : 

 Continues......  

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