Monotheistic Deities Have It Hard.

[sanatanadharma]

21. If separation is an illusion, then rejoining is unnecessary

The Advaita Vedic philosophy argues that separation is an illusion and that rejoining is unnecessary for that which was never separate.

Seeing the whole (be it system, universe, or God) as an assemblage of parts, opens up the possibility of disassembling the whole, leaving only a hole.

We too often confuse the objects of our awareness with the awareness itself.
That my known world and another one's known world seem to differ is too obvious to refute.
However, there is no evidence to support the idea that the existent conscious-power of one person is different from the existent conscious-power of others.

Sentience (awareness, consciousness) exists in the absence of objects of the senses.
Awake we are aware of the world of our senses, or may be simply spaced out.
When dreaming we are aware of the memory of our senses, knowledge and desire. In deep sleep, we are sentient without awareness of the external or dream worlds.
Do we deny the existence of sentience in one who is in a coma? An individual with amnesia doesn't know "who I am", but this person knows "that I am".

While not denying the apparent differences of various body-mind-sense complex-experiences of individuals, the oneness of consciousness can be upheld in Vedic philosophy and logic.

We seem to understand that men, animals and plants all differ, but "life" itself is common to all, and we know that when "life" withdraws its power from the form, the sentient becomes inert. We know that life-forms are many but we do not seem to think that "life" itself is multitudinous.

Assuming a limitless sentience called God seems to preclude affirming a limited sentience called "me".
Perhaps Infinite-consciousness is role playing, acting out the many different individual characters, while remaining always "itself"; as an actress continues to be the actor in and out of role.