When it's dark everything looks homogenous, like one black mass. But when the sun emerges, we see variety. Most of us live in darkness. We can't discriminate between soul and Supersoul, self and source.
We read a little Vedanta and we think we're it because it tells us "tat twam asi" (you are that) or "aham brahmasmi" (I am spirit). We fail to distinguish and say "all is one".
This is where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Knowledge is like the sun. It dissolves illusions and ignorance. But most people don't know that they don't know, if you know what I mean. They think they know.
Of your interested in a subject then to get the correct conclusion you need to specialize or dig deeper than surface understanding. This is equally so with knowledge of consciousness.
You are indeed spirit, you are that pure divine eternal spirit that is non different from the source, from Godhead, but only in quality, but in quantity and therein lies the world of difference.
The mature understanding, based on Vedanta is that the living entity is indeed eternal, fully cognizant and fully blissful spirit, but currently covered by the material energy.
The living entity in inconceivably and simultaneously one work and also different from source or Godhead. We're the same in quality but very small in quantity by comparison. That is the small detail that refutes this Adwaita philosophy that you are it. Meditate on that and study the Vedas for more knowledge on the subject.
Our God is the sun. We are all children of the sun.
Bhagavad Gita ch5:16
ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मन: ।
तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ॥ १६ ॥
jñānena tu tad ajñānaṁ
yeṣāṁ nāśitam ātmanaḥ
teṣām āditya-vaj jñānaṁ
prakāśayati tat param
SYNONYMS
jñānena—by knowledge; tu—but; tat—that; ajñānam—nescience; yeṣām—of those; nāśitam—is destroyed; ātmanaḥ—of the living entity; teṣām—of their; ādityavat—like the rising sun; jñānam—knowledge; prakāśayati—discloses; tat param—in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
TRANSLATION
When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights up everything in the daytime.
PURPORT
Those who have forgotten Kṛṣṇa must certainly be bewildered, but those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are not bewildered at all. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, "sarvaṁ jñāna-plavena," "jñānāgniḥ sarva-karmāṇi" and "na hi jñānena sadṛśam." Knowledge is always highly esteemed. And what is that knowledge? Perfect knowledge is achieved when one surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa, as is said in the Seventh Chapter, 19th verse: bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate. After passing through many, many births, when one perfect in knowledge surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa, or when one attains Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then everything is revealed to him, as the sun reveals everything in the daytime. The living entity is bewildered in so many ways. For instance, when he thinks himself God, unceremoniously, he actually falls into the last snare of nescience. If a living entity is God, then how can he become bewildered by nescience? Does God become bewildered by nescience? If so, then nescience, or Satan, is greater than God. Real knowledge can be obtained from a person who is in perfect Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore, one has to seek out such a bona fide spiritual master and, under him, learn what Kṛṣṇa consciousness is. The spiritual master can drive away all nescience, as the sun drives away darkness. Even though a person may be in full knowledge that he is not this body but is transcendental to the body, he still may not be able to discriminate between the soul and the Supersoul. However, he can know everything well if he cares to take shelter of the perfect, bona fide Kṛṣṇa conscious spiritual master. One can know God and one's relationship with God only when one actually meets a representative of God. A representative of God never claims that he is God, although he is paid all the respect ordinarily paid to God because he has knowledge of God. One has to learn the distinction between God and the living entity. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa therefore stated in the Second Chapter (2.12) that every living being is individual and that the Lord also is individual. They were all individuals in the past, they are individuals at present, and they will continue to be individuals in the future, even after liberation. At night we see everything as one in the darkness, but in day when the sun is up, we see everything in its real identity. Identity with individuality in spiritual life is real knowledge.
Reference: Bhagavad Gita As It Is, translation and commentary by Swami A C Bhaktivedanta, original MacMillan 1972 edition.
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