Kas esi ir kas neprarandama

ENThe question of who we are, of self identity, is perennial and has not been decided by any argument and even by comparative investigations of diverse conceptions offered by various cultures. Resultantly the present essay demonstrates that all the designations of who we are, based on cultures and languages, allows us to have numerous and changing identities, ranging from being named, acquiring a social position, becoming a member of a cult, an ideology, etc. none having any continuity. Nonetheless the essay explores a continuity that is never lost, comprising a background that is a depth of primordial, pre-linguistic awareness with its "cosmic", context as continuous ways of living and understanding that frames all things and events. For the author, this experience and the "cosmic paths" provide criteria which remain constant for the awareness and a way of living through all the changes and varieties of constructed identities. Such experience and cosmic paths are part of Lithuanian "singing/poetic" tradition.