06 May The Truth of Oneness – May 7 2020
There is nothing to fear, and to live with this understanding is called holistic living. Holistic living is to live with the understanding the blissful Supreme Being pervades the entire universe and we are a part of it! To live like that, it has to be worked out in your mind. This is not a fantasy but a fact. The actual process by which this is made possible is known as ‘sadhana’ – meditation.
Sri M
There is an underlying truth to the universe. This truth is of the oneness of all things, all people, always. You, me, everyone we’ve ever met, everyone we ever will meet.
The ‘truth’ of the relative world, the world of the mind, is difference and competition, opinion and separation.
We will never come together with others by changing their opinions (or even our own).
We can, however, let go of our opinions – our attachment to our opinions – and act from our own underlying truth, knowing that we are reaching out to this underlying truth in others. This is called love, and it is available to each of us, at every moment.
From this position, anything is possible.
This does not mean to ignore evil in this world, to let it run unchecked. It does mean, however, to recognize that someone stating an ill-thought-out opinion (or posting it on social media) is not perpetrating evil. They’re just talking.
Today I will take time to recognize the Self in me, and, when I see or hear some other person speaking from a vision of the world that does not match my own, I will remind myself that underneath their layers of opinion, they are Self, too.