Droplets are still a part of the ocean

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

This sense of being, which is the consciousness, has the capacity to realize its true nature and abide in the Ishwara state - that is, the godly state. The ancient scriptures, the four Vedas, have affirmed the sense of being as the pure Brahman only, which is also vouched for by the sages and saints.

The spray of the ocean contains innumerable droplets. But they are the ocean only when not separated from the ocean. On separation, they are individual drops. Nevertheless, the salty taste of the water, whether of the ocean or of its droplets, is the same. Just as the salty taste is present in the entire ocean, the beingness or the sense of "I am" in the human form has the inherent capacity to be all-pervading. But having conditioned - and thereby limited - itself to the body form, it is interested only in protecting and preserving the body.

As a result of the arising of body forms, the manifest consciousness apparently was fragmented. But this fragmentation should be viewed only with respect to the body forms because in actuality the consciousness pervades, both within and without the bodies.