It’s good to see oneself as a robot because we are all just dancing to Ishwara’s tune. It’s important to know what you are, but that’s just the beginning of one’s true life. The best is yet to come. People say they know and leave it at that, but claiming self- knowledge is basically conceit. If you actually experience yourself as you are, there is nothing to know and therefore nothing to claim.
So, where does the rubber meet the road?
Answer: When you are perfectly satisfied with yourself as you are warts and all and when you are completely satisfied with your circumstances, no matter how pleasant, tedious or tortuous. Most spiritual people are stuck in convenience. They have comfortable lives, superior to the lives of average robots, but they are robots themselves, flogging the dead horse of success.
Vedanta says, “Quit when you are ahead” and move on to simplicity and divine inspiration. One should look in the mirror and see a new person every day. And smile. And then forget today’s person as you live it out in anticipation of enjoying and forgetting tomorrow’s person. Nobody who thinks they are human is fully satisfied because humans are not real. “I shine and the world and its humans shine after me.”
If you hear yourself saying this with easy confidence, you are not a robot. You are existence itself shining as whole and complete unborn awareness.