When the soul goes further in the path of knowledge it begins to find: "Yes, there is something which feels itself, which feels the inclination to call itself 'I'." There is a feeling of "I"-ness, but at the same time all that the soul identifies itself with is not itself. The day when this idea springs up in the heart of man he has begun his journey in the path of truth. Then analyzing begins, and he begins to find out: "When this is 'my' table and this is 'my' chair, all that I can call mine belongs to me, but is not really myself." Then he also begins to see: "I identify myself with this body, but this is 'my' body, just as I say 'my' table, or 'my' chair. So the being which is saying 'I' in reality is separate. It is something which has taken even this body for its use; this body is only an instrument." And he thinks: "If it is not this body which I can call 'I', then what else is there that I can call so? Is it my imagination with which I should identify myself?." But even that one calls "my" imagination, "my" thought, or "my" feeling. So even thought, imagination, or feeling is not the real "I." What affirms "I" remains the same even after having discovered the false identity.