What is real?

Sri Yogananda defined real as "that which changes not."

Jobs come and go. Friends come and go. Back drops change. Things they ebb and they flow. 

How we cling and cling and force and force to achieve a sense of certainty and security in a world that changes daily, even by the minute.

We constantly mistake the real for the unreal. 

The unreal being our profession, our associations, our likes and dislikes—what we see, hear, touch, and taste and so on. Things that come, stay for awhile, then ultimately pass away.

What is real? What can we depend on?

The inner observer, the one that watches it all. The chalkboard beneath the chalk. The movie screen beneath the motion picture.

You are not your body.

You are not your mind.

You are not your achievements.

You are not your relationships.

You are awareness.