A friend shared the following:
Source: The Marginalian
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I replied:
The soul is distinct from the Self. Self is the only reality and is One. The so-called souls are nothing but the so-called jivatmas, which in a way are nothing but a reflection of the Self (the “I Am” or the sense of being or the sense of existence) in the mind, but are now taking themselves to be the body-mind, which constitutes the ego. So there are many, many souls and none of them real. The quality of each soul is determined by the mix of the 3 gunas in varying proportions, the sattva-rajas-tamas, which gives rise to the differences amongst ourselves, and so the so-called castes, which even Plato acknowledged by talking about the tripartite soul of reason-spirit-appetite. But this duality of souls is unreal and constitutes the world drama.
Does this world drama interest you?
Then you are caught and you cannot apprehend the truth.
Do not fall in love with the pots.
The soul is just a pot.
“The problem with us is that we only keep on putting commas and semicolons in our lives, never a full stop, so this world drama never comes to an end. But someone will turn around and say, but why the world drama should end, I like dramas. And thereby hangs a tale.”
“Discover the peace that is there in silence and then you will not get caught in the drama of this world.”
Know Thyself 