DAY 204
I Do Not Clearly Know What I Am
기원전 1500~1200년경(구전 전승)
ORIGINAL
न वि जानामि यदिवेदमस्मि (na vi jānāmi yad-iv-edam asmi)
📜 THE VERSE
I do not clearly know what I am. Fettered in mind, I wander as something I cannot grasp.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
Do I assume I fully know myself — the one person I have lived with the longest?
📝Reflection
Even one who speaks as if knowing everything grows small before this honesty: 'I do not know myself.' The self I have lived with longest is sometimes the strangest guest. The poet does not pretend before this, but admits the self that wanders, fettered. The moment I assume I fully know myself, self-inquiry stops. The path to the true self begins not in the certainty 'this is the kind of person I am,' but in the open question 'I do not yet fully know myself.'
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Today, find one of your own actions that surprised even you, and look at why — without judgment.
📖 Source:
Rigveda 1.164.37.
Sanskrit original with public-domain translations consulted; rendered independently by ONGO.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
