We are like a drop of ocean analogy

[Redoptics]

I have heard  the analogy of us being a drop of ocean separated and we are trying to get get back into the ocean, I also believed this.

Until I actually read Ang 878, where Guru Nanak Ji, actually is saying we are a drop of ocean within the ocean,  but we do not know we are in the ocean.

 

[MisterrSingh]

"Who understands, and knows this?"

You've read that wrong, bro. They haven't contradicted themselves or made a blanket statement that everyone is ignorant of their existence.

It's a rhetorical question verging on a lament commonly used in Punjabi compositions. You've heard of the phrase, "Kaun jaane?" accompanied by a throwing up of the hands at the enormity of the situation? It's something vaguely on those lines. It's not a literal statement; it's a device employed for exaggeration.

Although in this particular question, "Who knows and understands this?" places the emphasis on US, the sangat, and asks which of US is cognisant of whether we realise not only that we are the drop, but also that we should, one day, merge with the ocean. Implicitly, whoever realises this truth is on the road to salvation; those who don't, I presume, will remain in ignorance.

[Redoptics]

29 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

"Who understands, and knows this?"

You've read that wrong, bro. They haven't contradicted themselves or made a blanket statement that everyone is ignorant of their existence.

It's a rhetorical question verging on a lament commonly used in Punjabi compositions. You've heard of the phrase, "Kaun jaane?" accompanied by a throwing up of the hands at the enormity of the situation? It's something vaguely on those lines. It's not a literal statement; it's a device employed for exaggeration.

Although in this particular question, "Who knows and understands this?" places the emphasis on US, the sangat, and asks which of US is cognisant of whether we realise not only that we are the drop, but also that we should, one day, merge with the ocean. Implicitly, whoever realises this truth is on the road to salvation; those who don't, I presume, will remain in ignorance.

Its not that we are ignorant or our existence,  we are ignorant of everything is Vaheguru. But vail of maya is such a distraction,  most people think Vaheguru is elsewhere but is everywhere and everything. So you can not be separate from the ocean, we just don't know we are in the ocean.

Ang 23

 

[Redoptics]

Also Bhagat Namdev Ji, Ang 485