From the perspective of Advaita Vedanta , the question “Who am I?”  has a very specific answer: you are not the body, not the mind, but pure awareness itself.   You are not merely the body, the mind, or the changing personality that appears in daily life. The body ages, thoughts arise and pass, and emotions constantly shift, but there is an unchanging awareness that observes all these experiences. Advaita teaches that my true nature is this pure consciousness, known as Atman