How far is the Master??

This is a follow-up on the previous post. This is triggered by one of the comments in David Godman's Blog.

The comment made me re-think on the "Tracing the Master by His scent" analogy. One of the commentators had given another anology for enquiry, i think... of holding onto the ray from the soruce and tracing it back. So, I was just thinking... how far is this other end of the ray of light from the source? Zero! which means, the other end is already at the source itself than coming out of it. Applying the same to the dog tracing the master makes it all the more wonderful. :)

How far is the dog from His Master? at a zero distance, which means that the dog is same as the Master! The dog and the Master are the same one source! Which means that the dog, which is part of "Master" has wrongly identified himself to be a dog and is trying to find his origin and become the master, even after being the master all the while! :) Which is what Maharshi says... that even being the Self all through, we wrongly identify ourselves with the non-self (i.e., the body, or the dog in the example) and cry all the time!

This throws into light another thing - that the ego, is literally not seperate from the Self(because of the zero distance). It already is That, with the impurities(wrong identification) added. It is probably like - when we throw a pebble into water, some droplets of water raise, even when being a part of the water body, stay there for sometime when it takes some form and then merge back into the source. And while it, it is independent, while ignoring the subrstratum, the water body... The picture added at the start of the post is used to depict the same. (I am talking about that part of water that has "stretched" itself from the water body - not the droplet of water that has completely snapped out of the water body).

We already are That! :)