The Importance of Being Conscious

A spiritual teacher in both Hinduism and Buddhism is a kind of, well, what he does to awaken you. To get you over the hallucination of being the skin-encapsulated ego,. He bugs you in a certain way. And because we are all dead, whenever a questioner used to come to Sri Ramana, the great Hindu sage who died a few years ago, they said to him, Master, was I living before in a previous incarnation? And if so, who was I? The answer: "Who are you?"