Thus the seemingly innocuous question is most difficult to answer.

Who am I? This is the basic question that Hindu puts to all.

And everyone struggles to get the correct answer! Correct answer is not coming out at all. Yet human beings call themselves intelligent species!

They will discover planets in distant galaxies without knowledge of self identity!

There are two main branches. First one identifies 'I' with body and the other one identifies 'I' with soul.

If we accept 'I to be body then it should change along with the changes in the body because according to this definition of 'I', body is 'I' and child's body is different from that of the adult's. Thus child's 'I' is different from the adult's 'I'.

But every one feels the same 'I' while in childhood and adulthood. How is this continuity of the feeling of same 'I' can be justified before and after changes in body? If you consider in continuous chemical or biological change the reactants and products are not the same.

But we feel the same 'I'. It indicates that this whole body belongs to someone which is different from body. Just as innovations or changes in the structure house does not make change in feeling of 'I' of the house owner,, similarly even though there are innovations or changes in the body structure from birth to death, the 'I' which is housed in the body but different from the body preserves it identity.