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Namah Think it over

in everything and everyone. in form to truly embody and inform about
the essence, the unique essence of the Divine
Are we just a label? that one is, way above and beyond any and all
notion of nation, region, religion… absolutely
True, there is nothing wrong in identifying limitless.
oneself with one’s nation of ‘citizenship’ (usually,
one’s place of birth), one’s faith and the like. When one accepts and commits to the Truth,
Yet, how true is that reference — identification one expresses the Truth and one is set free
and acceptance of that identity? Are we only a by Truth.
nationality, a system of faith or religion?
How true it is! Thus, the sages, seers, phil-
Instead, what happens if one acknowledges, osophers, masters, all God-realised and Self-
for example, one’s faith, and at the same time, actualised beings, have left an indelible imprint
reflects one’s awareness and acceptance of of immortality, through and on eternity,
one’s Reality, a soul in form, ever one with identifying solely with the Reality — the
God — and thus, states, “My religion is One, the Infinite — having outgrown and
Hindu” or “I follow the Hindu faith”? transcended the labels, once those labels have
served their purpose, having led them to the
Life is fully experiential, ever-evolving unbound identity.

Change in awareness causes change in perception, Truth is its own validation
bringing about, as a spontaneous consequence,
a change in expression — even if ever so slightly, How true it is, the query, “How true it is, when
yet effecting huge change in experience. we identify with a nation, with a religion…?”

Also, each faith system is a way to God- We are all That, ‘I Am’, God in form, as God’s
realisation, yet a faith system cannot be levied forms, in form to realise That…and thus, are
as a ‘baggage of inheritance’ nor can it be limitless. That I am is just That! One might ask,
imbibed and inculcated just as a ‘naturalised “How true it is, this assertion?” Understandably!
citizenship’. It is entirely a matter of personal and Mark Twain says: “Truth is stranger than fiction,
direct exploration, experience and expression, and but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to
hence is termed ‘realisation’ — the experience and possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
realisation of one’s Oneness with God. There are
no fixed ways even when one follows a particular True! And so, the previous ‘adversaries’,
system of faith. Each one of us has unique paths, science and spirituality, are found to be
unique moments and unique experiences. just the reverse, as science too has come to
recognise and acknowledge the Truth, the
Truth is unique to being, each one of us spiritual truths being arrived at by science too,
is unique via its own methods. Science is no more averse
to and no more an opponent of spirituality.
Truth is unique to a being, as each is a unique Rather, science has become an emissary of
being — each a disembodied spirit, essence, spirituality, its acknowledgment of spirituality

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