So ham means "I am the same." But "I am the same" does not mean "I am the same Supreme." - I am the same in quality

Expressions researched:
"So ham means" |"I am the same." |But "I am the same" |"does not mean" |"I am the same Supreme." |"I am the same in quality"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Koṭi karmī madhye eka jñānī śreṣṭha. Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said that, "Out of many, many karmīs, one who is jñānī . . ." Jñānī means one who knows that "I am not this body. I am spirit." But still, there is some mistake. They think that, "I am the Supreme Spirit." So 'ham. Māyā is so strong. Even after so much austerities, coming practically on the verge of perfection, they are misled by māyā, this so ham. So ham means "I am the same." But "I am the same" does not mean "I am the same Supreme." "I am the same in quality." So 'ham does not mean that, "I am as good as the Supreme Brahman." It does not mean. Part is never equal to the whole. We are part of the Supreme Brahman, mamaivāṁśaḥ. So in quality, just like a small particle of gold is also gold—quality is the same.

741025 - Lecture SB 01.08.45 - Mayapur

Koṭi karmī madhye eka jñānī śreṣṭha. Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said that, "Out of many, many karmīs, one who is jñānī . . ." Jñānī means one who knows that "I am not this body. I am spirit." But still, there is some mistake. They think that, "I am the Supreme Spirit." So 'ham. Māyā is so strong. Even after so much austerities, coming practically on the verge of perfection, they are misled by māyā, this so ham. So ham means "I am the same." But "I am the same" does not mean "I am the same Supreme." "I am the same in quality." So 'ham does not mean that, "I am as good as the Supreme Brahman." It does not mean. Part is never equal to the whole. We are part of the Supreme Brahman, mamaivāṁśaḥ. So in quality, just like a small particle of gold is also gold—quality is the same. A small drop of seawater is the same quality—salty. But that does not mean the drop of seawater becomes the sea. The māyā is so strong. Therefore Bhāgavata says, "The impersonalist, Māyāvādīs, although they think that they have become one with the Supreme, but their intelligence is not yet complete." Ye 'nye . . . ye 'nye 'ravindākṣa vimukta-māninaḥ (SB 10.2.32). They think like that: "Now we have become perfect, Nārāyaṇa." But Bhāgavata says, "Sir, you may think like that, that you have become liberated, but you are not liberated, because you are still in ignorance, because you are thinking one with the Supreme." Aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ: "Your intelligence is not yet perfect."