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Who and what is the Greater Self?
Question No. 3249
31 August 2022
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Who and What Is the Greater Self?
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The Greater Self is the “I” that reflects the divine majesty of God. This “I” is a choosing, free-willing self, capable of the highest excellence in its exercise of choice; through choosing rightly, it becomes one whom God has chosen.
Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)
Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center“I” is the very “I” in which the majesty of the Divine is manifested.
The “I” within every “I” is the choosing, willing self; the supreme “I” possesses the perfection of beauty in its power to choose and will, and has become God’s chosen one.
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