The basical is asking if everything is brahman, thi's the question. We experience the world as sentient beings and insentient things. The shirt on my back does not appear to be conscious, but the person, the body wearing the shirt, appears to be conscious. What makes the difference go by exact by your experience? As we experience the world, this is how we experience it terms of adita verant.
Question and Answer session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on Dec 31st, 2017.