What Is the Problem?

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What is the error about myself, that i am a limited consciousness? I am only the little sun in the pot, the water in the pot. It's like looking at your face in the mirror and then beginning to think, ah, i'm not the mirror, but i'm that face. From that face, you have to come to the original face, your real face, from the reflection of your face. That turn has to be done intuitively. And that er vidanta points towards it. All these teachings that thou art, it points towards that, and we have to catch it intuitively. The very word appearance means false. Has two meanings. Appearance means that which

Sage Uddalaka asks his son Svetaketu: What is that knowledge by which we hear the unhearable, perceive what cannot be perceived and know what cannot be known? Inspired from this story from the Chandogya Upanishad, Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the great saying (mahavakya) - Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art). This discourse is also inspired from a verse from the Brihadharanyaka Upanishad (Mantra 4.4.12) as taught in the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya: "If a man knows the Self as ‘I am this,’ then desiring what and for whose sake will he suffer in the wake of the body?" Mantra 4.4.12: आत्मानं चेद्विजानीयादयमस्मीति पूरुषः । किमिच्छन्कस्य कामाय शरीरमनुसंज्वरेत् ॥ १२