Our personality is just like a bubble in the water. As little probability as there is of a bubble once merged in the sea, coming out again composed of the same portion of water, so little probability is there for the soul once merged in the ocean of consciousness to come out again formed of the selfsame portion of consciousness The bubble may come back in the same place with the same portion of water, or it may be another portion of water. There may be half of the first drop of water in the second bubble, there may be a small part, or there may be some portion of water added to it. If one bubble comes, and we call that bubble Mr. John, then we call the other Mr. Tom and another Mr. Henry; yet they are all the same water.

And if we call the water Mr. John, they are all the same Mr. John. All is the same spirit, the same life, involving itself into all the forms and names. According to this point of view there is no I, no you, no he, no she, no it, in the light of reality; all are but the differences of a moment. Every bubble loses either reflections or any properties it possessed during its existence, as soon as it merges in the water, and if once in a thousand chances it came formed of the selfsame portion of water, it does not retain its previous property.

In the same way, supposing as a groundless assumption that the selfsame portion of consciousness, which in the first place is not so solid and stable as water, could possibly appear again on the surface, without any addition or deduction, still it is utterly impossible that it should possess its past qualities and impressions, for it has been absolutely purified by sinking into the Consciousness. And if even a drop of ink loses its ink property in the sea, why should not the ocean of Consciousness purify its own element from all elements foreign to itself? If Hinduism teaches the belief that bathing once in the Sangam at the uniting of the two rivers can purify men from all life's sins, how can it deny that this bath of the soul, sinking into the Consciousness even once, purifies the soul from all the properties it has gathered during its previous life? In the first place, the nature of absorption itself in the Spirit is purification from the material state of being, and the very nature of manifestation is for the soul to come new and fresh. God bless you.