Unity and diversity

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Dear Friends,

Why should I be moral? Why should I not rob others and be rich? What

prevents me to enjoy this life at the cost of others?

When we try to explain these predicaments from physical, mental, or

intellectual unity point of view we are disappointed as every person is

physically, mentally, and intellectually different. The unity is not

found therein however hard we may try.

We try to find unity in those departments where it it is not present. We

deceive ourselves and become hypocrite. Whole charity and philanthropy

comes to naught because of this misplaced focus. The dormant feeling of

inequality lingers and comes to surface in the form of ethnic violence,

racial strife, and concentration camps.

But unity must be present somewhere; otherwise morality and ethics has

no place in this world.

This unity in diversity (and multiplicity) is found in the potential

divinity of every soul.

The divinity of man is the focus/locus of unity. The spiritual nature of

myself and everyone else, knowingly or unknowingly, makes me love and

serve others. The dignity of human being is based on the divinity

within. When (and if) I see divinity in others, my love and care becomes

service to God. Then every work becomes worship.

Vedanta teaches us to realize - experience - this divinity in oneself

first so as to become aware of the same in others. By undertaking

spiritual practices - sadhana - one can realize this truth of Unity of

Existence: Spiritual Solidarity of Universe.

This is the aim and destiny of human birth.

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Unity amongst diversity and multiplicity does not mean reducing

everything to " sameness " . It is not a morose attempt to curb the

talents and bring the fellow to lower grade of mediocrity. Nor it is an

attempt to curb the richness in human endeavor, so as to bring parity at

lower level, be it material prosperity, artistic richness, or scientific

progress.

dr c s shah

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