Who Are You, Really? Hume, the Buddha and the Upanishads – Documentary

Who am I? Advaita Vedanta explained through Ramana Maharshi's self-inquiry (atma vichara), Adi Shankara and the Upanishads. A cinematic philosophy film on the oldest question: what is the Self, beyond body, mind and thought? Not your name, your job or your story, but the one who is aware of all of them. This film follows that question from Descartes, Hume and the Buddha to Ramana Maharshi at Arunachala, Shankara's teaching on superimposition, the three states of waking, dream and deep sleep, and the Upanishadic declarations tat tvam asi and aham brahmasmi. Then it asks the practical question: what does seeing this change on an ordinary Monday morning? This is the first film in a longer study of Advaita Vedanta. If you want the inquiry to continue, tell us in the comments what you would like explored next. हिन्दी में देखें:    • मैं कौन हूँ? अद्वैत वेदांत सरल भाषा में | ...   తెలుగులో చూడండి:    • నేను ఎవరు? అద్వైత వేదాంతం సులభంగా | రమణ మహ...   Chapters 0:00 Cold open 1:09 The question 1:53 Body, memory, thought 3:46 Descartes 4:44 Hume, Kant and the Buddha 7:19 Arunachala, 1931 9:49 The inquiry in practice 11:56 Shankara: superimposition 14:22 The knower and the brain 17:24 Waking, dream, deep sleep 19:21 Tat tvam asi 22:43 Aham brahmasmi and the pot-space 25:23 Monday morning: freedom in action 30:00 Return Sources cited on screen: Chandogya Upanishad 6.1.4-6, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.10, 2.4.5 and 2.4.14, Mandukya Upanishad 2, Gaudapada's Mandukya Karika 2.17 and 3.3-7, Bhagavad Gita 2.47, 2.48, 2.50, 3.27 and 5.8, Samyutta Nikaya 22.59, Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. #WhoAmI #AdvaitaVedanta #RamanaMaharshi How this was made: script researched and reviewed by us; visuals are AI-generated reconstructions and illustrations; narration uses synthetic voices. Historical figures appear as silhouettes or labelled reconstructions.