Since the time we are born we are assigned different roles. We establish our identity as per the roles assigned. Someone’s son, brother then we become someone’s husband, then in office and all life we keep playing different roles as per different situations and with different people we are with. If we are so many people in one, then how can we be so many, we are just one. It means, its the role we play, its not the real us. Because real us can only be one and if we are so many, we cannot be one..but we also know we are just one..we cannot have 10 Sheetals. We say its just a different sides of us..actually its just one being behind all these roles. So start observing different roles you have been playing and become the awareness behind all the roles you have been playing. You become observer of all the roles you have been playing and you will realise that you just have to be there not become the role yourself.
You are not the role, you are just the being behind that. You are not thoughts or actions, you are just the consciousness behind those, that is why you are the consciousness yourself. Once you liberate yourself from the roles you are playing, you understand who you are or you will always be devoid of this awareness of actually who you are.