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one that I am, the one that is touching? With what can I touch?
Therefore the hands touch everything but cannot touch themselves. The eyes see everything but cannot see themselves. In regard to our own selves we are blind, none of the senses that are known to us are of any use. Unless some other senses open up -- some eye that can see withinwards, backwards, in the reverse, or some ear that is affected also by the inner sound -- there is no way we would be able to see and hear and know ourselves. Till that happens there is no way of touching our own selves.
What is near is missed; what is nearest of all is not possible to be known. This is why the fish is not able to know the sea.
The second thing: a fish is born in the sea, it lives in the sea, the sea is its food, the sea is its drink, the sea is its life, the sea is its everything. Then it dies and dissolves into the sea, but it never gets the opportunity to know the sea because it does not have any distance from the sea. A fish, however, comes to know what the sea is if someone comes and lifts it out of the sea. This is a very contradictory thing: the fish comes to know the sea when it is away from the sea -- when it is struggling for its life on the sand under the hot sun, then it knows what the sea is. For knowing, this much distance is necessary.
How can we know the one that existed even before we were born and that will remain existing even after we are dead? How can we know the one in which we are born and in which we shall disappear? For knowing, some separation is a must. That is why the fish does not know the sea; only when someone throws it out onto the shore does it come to know.
Man is in a greater difficulty. The divine is the ocean that surrounds us. It has no shores to it where you can be thrown out, where you may start writhing with pain like a fish. It would have been very easy if there was such a shore. But there is no such shore; God is the ocean. This is why those who look for God as a shore are never able to find him. The shore is available only to those who are ready to drown in the ocean of the divine.
There simply is no shore so there is no way
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