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Namah The Ascent of Man — Unity and Diversity

underlying unity supports a great degree of exceeds even what the most fertile human
variation. Modern socio-political ideologies mind can imagine. These variations are
under the stress of the Time-Spirit, seeking meant to enhance the delight of existence
for human unity hastily, often blur the by expanding the delight of oneness into
distinctions and try to build a unity based a delight of multiplicity. The Upanissads
on the surfaces of creation which abounds in in fact state this as the very reason for
variations and variety. The ground of Unity creation itself to come into existence. That
must be first discovered and the variations and is why all efforts to create forced unity
their underlying processes and purposes need by manipulating the surfaces of life
to be understood before we can truly discover through enforced uniformity, regimentation,
in practice the means to arrive at human unity. conversion of the different elements into a
single type are bound to fail and sometimes
Such a ground of unity exists in the depths quite miserably so. The history of religions
of creation. It is this underlying unity that is witness to this failure and fall. As long as
expresses as the interconnectedness of the spiritual ground from where religion is
creation at every level of existence. Mystical born is kept intact, things look fine. A spirit
experience across the world affirms the same of universal brotherhood is felt during this
ground of Unity and Oneness everywhere early phase and which flowers in acts of
and in everything. Having discovered this charity and compassion and bears that fruit
ground of Unity, mystics are freed from of the Divine Sacrifice we know as universal
anger, fear and grief. No more deceived by love.
the ever-changing appearances, they are at
home everywhere and feel all creatures as
their kin. Hatred and jealousy pass away from
their heart and the will to possess with its
poison fruits of lust and greed, ambition and
acquisition, attraction and repulsion leaves
them, until by and by they are completely
freed from the deceiving ignorance that
sees the many as separate entities, each
independent of the others. Rather, they
see each as an inevitable part of the whole,
distinct but not separate, different but not But with the passage of time, there is an
independent of the All. This ground of Unity externalisation and the truth of Unity
is found in the spiritual being within us. We is twisted into the need of uniformity
can discover it through the doors of the secret through custom and tradition. A further
soul within us. The mystic key to Unity, the decline works like an evil spell, leading
secret lever that can open us to the Universal to a multiplication of cults and sects and
and the Sole, is there. the infighting and quarrels between them,
each claiming its own way as the best, each
But Nature takes delight in creating as many struggling for supremacy over the rest. Then
variations as it can conceive and which enters into this, twisted truth politics and

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