There is no scope for separateness in the vastness of the Infinite
Ocean of Oneness. How then can there be any room for individuality in
indivisibility? In the indivisible unlimited Ocean of Reality, how can
there be scope for each drop that has fully awakened to Reality to
individually proclaim: I am the Ocean!
The moment the drop has been stirred to
consciousness, it isolates itself into a separate entity and acquires an
individuality, a false I-Am-ness. This awakened ‘I’ is enveloped in
falseness that grows with every step of its increased consciousness in
proportion to its field of impressions and expression. This falseness
that at first helps the drop to establish in individuality in the
Indivisible Ocean, becomes the perpetual hindrance that keeps the drop
from knowing itself as the Ocean. The ‘I’ has to get rid of the
falseness before it can realize Who it is in reality.
At the end of the journey, when at long last
the Goal is reached by the grace of the Perfect Master, this falseness
is entirely removed and the ‘I’ alone remains with its supreme
Self-knowledge – saying, my falseness is gone – I am God!
Thus, when each individual drop sheds its
false awareness of being other than the Ocean, it proclaims itself as
being the Infinite Indivisible Ocean. At the instant its falseness, its
very own falseness is removed, the drop asserts its Infinite
Individuality. It then consciously and continuously experiences for all
time as being without a second: the Almighty, Infinite and indivisible
Paramatma. This is the I-am-God state. This is how every Atma, from the
instant its consciousness is unburdened of falseness (i.e., impressions)
for all time, asserts itself as Paramatma, God Absolute.
from The Everything and the Nothing
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