What is it to be human?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Acharya Prashant (AP): So let us just talk about what is it to be human. What is it to be human? To be human is to be two and yet be one. To be human is to be body-mind. To be a person, and at the same time, to be human is to be the source of all. To be human is to be these two, and to be human is to be one, when these two are together when the body-mind is one with the source. If as a human being, you are just body-mind, then you will be in for a lot of suffering. If as a human being, you consider yourself to be the source, then you are in for an equal dose of suffering because you are still meandering in thoughts.

Questioner (Q): How?

AP: Because, if you think you are the source, you are still thinking. Because that is…

Q: A little thought, thought a big thought…

AP: Yes. So, to be human is to be both at the same time; parallelly, simultaneously. I am very much a creature of flesh and blood and at the same time very much divine, that is what is to be human. I am both! That which you can see, that which you can hear, touch, and that which cannot be touched, which cannot be heard, which is beyond all perception, I am both! And I am both at the same time, this is what it is to be human. To be human is to be both…