All creation is a play of oneness with multiplicity. Oneness is behind, multiplicity is in the front. Oneness is like the calm depths of Space: vast, free, holding its luminosity back within itself or else letting it escape in the splendour of the stars. Multiplicity is like waves upon waves of Time rolling upon the surfaces of life, first supporting and strengthening, then cancelling each other. But nevertheless each wave, whether it unites or destroys another of its kind, derives its strength from the same ocean floor. In fact, the deeper the origin of the wave, the stronger is its rise.
So is it also with earth and humanity. There is an interconnectedness of each with all. Each person, each event, each separate seeming object is an indispensable link in this vast chain. Each of us is like a cell of the vast body of humanity and therefore what happens to each one of us in our separate consciousness affects and afflicts all. This is the secret law we have yet to learn as a race. And Nature compels us to learn it.
To live only for oneself is obviously an ignorance and absurdity. To live for one’s own individual escape from the tangle and care of life is another form of Ignorance. Both try to cut themselves from an indivisible whole and such a thing is by the very nature of creation impossible. That is why selfishness is at its bottom hollow. It is like chasing a non-existent shadow. It is the ‘original sin’ born with the mind that acts upon the ‘One’ indivisible whole to cut it into countless ‘appearances’ of bits and parts. It treats each part as if it was independent of the rest and tries to link them again through superficial cause and effect. But the real cause and effect will always elude us so long as we do not dwell consciously in the House of Oneness even while playing with the multiplicity of life.
But for that, we must enter the next evolutionary curve, the ascent beyond the limited and limiting, the divided and dividing mind into the luminous vast expanse of a greater consciousness where oneness is natural and native and the differences of multiplicity are secure and harmonised in a rich diversity.
That is the need and work of this millennium and the call and demand of the Time-Spirit within us.
