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ONENESS -A DAZZLING EMBRACE OF DIVERSITY!
“If everyone were the same, there
would be no need for you and me."
Most confuse oneness with
sameness and the obvious gets ignored: that while we are all ‘One’ we need not be the same! But each
one of us, each so-called difference, manifests willfully as a unique aspect of
that which is called Oneness. And thus
true oneness is when you can accept these ‘differences’ as aspects within it and revel indeed in the differences
that make it up- instead of trying to change all those who are
different from you, into what you consider the right ‘one’! This is why ‘One’ becomes many …to
explore it myriad aspects!
Yes you touch this briefly
when you are ‘in love’ and when you partake with friends and family…until the ‘differences’ crop up. And instead of
acceptance and a widening of your embrace, you allow these various hues to
segregate and diminish you instead. More importantly, and this may surprise
you, when you go about converting everybody into some ‘golden light’ and ‘God’…
it is the easy way out! A convenience
so that you do not need to be one with the many nuances that make up life and
its people. It is far easier to be one with an undifferentiated sheen shorn of
the multiplicity that makes it up, than to be one with the ‘different’ aspects
and qualities that make up your world! And true oneness is not in rendering
variation, null and void, but in being ‘at-one-ment’ with all that is.
Start with self and view the varied aspects that compose ‘you’. Do you not accept the colors of your hair,
your skin, your eyes? Your myriad qualities, relationships, and occurrences…as
‘the one you’? If you glance deeper, even
your physical biology rests on the immense cooperative venture of your
innumerable cells- each
inviolate and yet connected to the
universe. And this ‘you’, is a
collective consciousness at its most effective- and often you are not even aware. You wrap your hands around yourself and
feel “I am ‘me’”! Now extend
this embrace wider and encompass
your infinitesimal aspects: the multitude of cultures, religion, race and
color! Spiritual growth is not merely a vertical line upwards but an horizontal
encompassing, an embrace of all so called ‘differences’ -not rendering any as heretic, outcast and
things to flout!
Humanity finds group or
collective consciousness a difficult concept to truly imbibe other than
intellectually and you wonder how
‘all’ can think alike? Who will be spokesman? Whose ideas
will dominate? Will they not conflict? But oneness is not thinking or being
alike…it is different aspects ‘being a magnified one’! Just like your different
body parts - your nose breathes, your lungs pump it through, your stomach
digests, your bowels eliminate and there is no clash because they truly know oneness.
Do not mistake experiencing
‘oneness’ with basking in some light of
sameness with no differences, no choices, all awash with one
glow; for indeed in oneness you will reach a dynamic multiplicity
you cannot even conjure! In
oneness your journey does not end but indeed begins an eternal and dazzling embrace
with all truths and beliefs and diversity!
Each facet a display of affection! And variety an open declaration of love for
all that is! A love song so beautiful …made up of the various notes within.
So come beloved readers begin
this embrace now: not with one
special other- God or lover; not with few special others- friends and family;
but with all that you are- with all that is reflected in what you call life and
world and its people.
Divyaa Kummar
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