What do you think yourself to be? Hindu, human, individual soul? No! Brother, husband, son, businessman? And also dishonest, thief, liar, deceiver, cheater, murderer? There does not seem to be one good thought about ourselves. God has embedded such a machine in the mind which records every thought you have about yourself (not what others think of you). This is what Chitragupta, the record keeper of our deeds, plays back to Yama, the lord of death. "I am a sinner, I am a saint, I am attracted to this, I have that, I am happy, I am sad". You are recording all of this yourself! Have you not signed this?
You are not this ever-changing "I" (the ego). The one "I" among all of these notions of ego, that supreme self is you! By a change of the body, of space or time, by change in pride and associated, that "I" does not change.
The supreme self is different than the part and the whole.
He is not the partial knower or the whole knower (omniscient). He is knowledge only. There is no part or whole in him, and neither are they separate from him. Who will know the omniscient? What kind of individual soul will recognize Ishvara? By the grace of Ishvara, this maaya or illusion is going on : The difference between the part and the whole, and the difference between the partial knower and the omniscient, both of these are caused by ignorance of the self. It is that which causes all delusion and bondage, therefore, discriminate between the self and the not-self. Then the fire of knowledge will spark, and it will burn ignorance and all of its effect at its root.
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