Name, Form and Function is what is the world, prapancha; by the way, the term prapancha refers to what is grasped by the five senses and mind with the help of buddhi. Ego plays a dominant role in this game of Sansar. It is ego that goes on advertising the name and function with an ID or a visiting card,too. All the Upanishads say the reality of existence lies in dropping this name, form and function. This will be realized when go back to the state when we were just born or in old age bedridden waiting for death, looking at the ceiling! We play all sorts of games holding onto the Adhar card, the ID and the name boards herald as so and so while we are actually nothing! This we will realize when we retire on superannuation and there is no where to go and nothing to do. Nobody will bother to talk to you and call upon you when you have all the time in the world. That day will be a sad day. People who were flocking to you, waiting for your attention, will look elsewhere when you really want them. When the ego is thus pricked by reality, wisdom may or may not dawn as to who you really are. This is what calls for the 'realization of the self'.
The most intriguing part of our life is the role we play in this 'make-believe world' where we play an engineer, professor, industrialist, a legal luminary, or even a Bharat Ratna, or a Nobel Laureate while we are nothing in reality. Thus the Upanishads advise us to have a clear idea about who you are. This realization is not forthcoming.
Thus, when i realize the fact that my name is given to me by some body and i had none when I was born. So also, all the other details that i acquire as i grow are mere acquisitions! Nothing is real. We all wear mask and play several roles in this drama of life. Shakespeare rightly said, "The world is stage and we all are actors, and spectators, too" But we do not realize this. While we were just school-going children we were playing hide n seek, or games of train , hospital, school, or householders' roles; as grown-up, too, we play the same but do not realize this! We think we are real engineers, doctors, advocates or judges, or police officers and teachers. But, at 80 (if alive), when we realize it's all a past, a memory, we feel disillusioned and miserable. Here, egp plays a major role.
It is 'ego' , the 'i-ness' (aham-kara). Aham, or me, i is the basis of all existence of life. if 'i' goes, the world disappears! This 'i' is the mainstay that runs through life.But little do we realize the fact that this great 'i' also disappears everyday at night when we are in deep sleep and reappears as soon as we get up! Where does this 'i' go in deep sleep? In fact, it is the same self that rests with the supreme self, paramatman evernight or every time we go to sleep! This state is said to be the real state, the Brahmn. Nothing exists when 'i' (the ego) is merged in 'I' (the Self), and both are merged in supreme Self, Brahman. A yogi who realizes this will take to yoga, dhyana, dharana, and samadhi and consciously merge in Brahman. this is the state of supreme Bliss, parama ananda. There will be no disillusionment at this state. The yogis is one who takes to sat nyas Right Path), sam nyas (Path of Totality consciousness or 'Oneness'); or sanyas (renunciation) and by dropping the name, form, and function the yogi enjoys the bliss of oneness, 'nothingness' (dynamic silence). This 'all-knowing nothingness' is the state of the Buddha. It is also 'Krishna-consciousness'..
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