My life is a succession of events, just like yours. Only I have detached and see the passing show as a passing show, while you stick to things and move along with them.
Question: In Self-Inquiry, to whom is the question "Who am I?" addressed?
Bhagavan: To whomever or whatever you are, is given the way for finding out your true identity. The ego-self, when it feels the necessity to know its own origin; or is, for whatever reason, impelled to rise above itself, takes the suggestion and goes deeper; and there, discovers the true source and reality of itself. So, the ego-self of first, in beginning to know itself, ends in perceiving its Self.
It is therefore the ego, or body-mind, that begins the quest.