29  Oneness TC  "29  Oneness" \l 1

Because these flowers are tangible we call them material. We call the vase material because it is tangible and perceptible by the five senses. We can see it, touch it, hear it, and smell it. But beyond the value of the five senses that make these objects material, there is a binding force which keeps all those molecular structures together in a wholeness. If that quality of “keeping together,” that binding force, was not there, then all this would disintegrate. The binding force, although imperceptible and intangible, is the main factor behind all forms of materiality. When we learn to recognize that behind all forms of materiality there is a binding force of spirituality, then we will know there is no difference between materialism and spirituality. What you call material, I call spiritual.

A man that separates materiality from spirituality can become deluded. Really speaking there is no separateness between materiality and spirituality. There is just the attitude and our understanding of what materiality is.

The purpose of life is to find oneness. In finding oneness the fragmented mind achieves a unity which can only produce happiness. When a person’s mind is fragmented, losing all one-pointedness of purpose, then life becomes purposeless. When life is purposeless what do you do? You just float through life. You do not live, you just exist. Everything exists but existence must be enlivened. So we put life into existence, and thereby we are proceeding on the path towards wholeness.

We must go beyond the laws of opposites, or duality . . . pleasure and pain, sweet and bitter. When we start going beyond those laws of opposites we find the aim and need of all existence, the point where everything just becomes one. When that oneness is there who can hate whom? How can I hate you when you are me? This is a brief glimpse of the purpose of life.

That is how it all starts and that is how it all ends . . . from Divine nothingness. But that nothingness is the everything of all existence that is beyond man’s mental comprehension. We call it nothing because we do not understand it, yet it is everything. It is the very life force of every single atom. The human being is fortunate to have all of that within himself, to be able to appreciate it to a certain extent with the mind, and to experience it with the heart.

In stillness we do not only find our individual self, but we find our universal self. For the extent of every person is as vast as the extent of the entire universe. The entire universe is within each and every one. It is only when the individuality merges away in universality that we cross the boundary of time and become boundless and timeless.

There is nothing on earth that can give you happiness: it can only give you temporary pleasure.

Anything which is complete can never be dual. Completeness itself is oneness.

All existence is composed of that oneness and that oneness can be called Divinity. It is only one. All the differences we see are just name and form.

There is no adversity in life. There is only opportunity! That which we regard to be adversity might be the very lesson we need to learn.

The act of observation is dependent on the understanding of the observer, for what you see in the object is a creation of your mind. Do I see it as perfect or imperfect? A man limps down the road with one leg and a crutch. Is that man imperfect because he has lost one leg in the war, trying to protect you? We do not say he is imperfect. We forget his body. We regard him as a total human being. Why can’t we do this in every aspect of life?

In mundane and materialistic ambitions, we just need to infuse the spiritual quality and a mundane ambition becomes a spiritual ambition. That is how we reach the kingdom of God which is within.

If a person speaks of “me and mine” and “you and yours” it is because he finds a separation between me and you. And that would be on a very relative level. But if we unfold ourselves spiritually then we handle the matter from a deeper, subtler level and in that subtlety “you” and “me” ceases. It is “us.”

Your mind, the individual mind, is interconnected with the universal mind, and the universal mind contains the experience of the entire universe.

If Divinity is omnipresent, to where can it project itself? For Divinity to project itself it must have a place—somewhere to project itself to—and that is why we say that the projector and the projection are one. The unmanifest and the manifest are one, and it is all within the realm of pure consciousness—so it is all pure consciousness.

I am the master of my destiny because I can change my destiny, yet the higher realization comes when destiny and “I” find no separation. I am the destiny. I am that I am.