This and THAT
Aham-Brahma-Asmi — I am Brahman (God); Tat-Twam-Asi — THAT You Are
These statements from the Indian scriptures have caused considerable confusion among spiritual seekers because their inner meaning has not been comprehended.
Every twam is not Tat: every you (the form) are not THAT (the Formless). THAT is every you, THAT will always be there without you, but you cannot be there without THAT.
Unless this is very clearly understood, every seeker will want to be one with THAT and will, therefore, be frustrated. What is to be very clearly understood is that every human being, in his or her daily living, must continuously remain connected (in awareness) to THAT Source and never be disconnected from it.
The individual entity — the Ego — gets disconnected from the Source whenever he considers himself or the ‘other’ as the doer of some action, and blames and condemns him for some action.
The connection finally ends when the body dies and the Ego no longer exists as a separate entity.
To remain continuously connected to the Source in one’s daily living means doing whatever is necessary to be done in any situation as if one is the doer — and, therefore, to witness whatever is happening as something that is precisely supposed to happen according to the Cosmic Law, without regrets about the past, without any complaints in the present, without any expectation in the future, and, importantly, without condemning anyone for anything — neither himself nor the other.
