Know that we are all One

Part 1

All Master Who came said the same thing: God is Light and we are all children of Light. The same Light enlivens all creation. Just as bulbs have electric connection give light when the switch is pressed, the same way the Power and God enlivens all creation. When that Power withdraws from the body we have to leave this body. So you see we are children of Light, which is One and not two, the one Power that is our source and sustenance, called God, Who is Light.

Kabir has explained why he cannot see God. He says,

So long as we are identified with the Indriyas, the outgoing sense-faculties, we cannot see Him. When we rise above them only then we can see God.

All Masters say the same thing. Kabir further says in the same context:

I saw that all pervading Light in me and in all creation and all my doubts were dispelled.

Lord Krishna says the same thing in Gita:

He who sees me in all and all in me, he is dear to me.

So you see that we are all offsprings of the same Light. All are equal; high, no low. All are born the same way. Is there any doubt about it? Where then is duality? When a baby is born we cannot recognise whether it is a Hindu or a Moslem. Let us take the example of foundling homes where abandoned children are sent. When a child is received there it carries no distinguishing marks to show whether it is Hindu or Moslem child. It is a man, as God made it. This is a fact and needs no reasoning.

So we are all One, no proof is required for that. Only we do not perceive Him – in the present state of close identification with the body and outgoing faculties – and that is why there is duality. We have a body and we have a mind but we are a conscious entity, the soul. With all our physical and intellectual advancement we are unhappy. Because we do not know our Real Self that we are children of Light. Great is man.

The Supreme Being once wished:

I am One, let Me be many,

and with one thought wave of His the whole creation came into existence.

As Guru Nanak says,

There was one Source Eternal from which flowed countless millions of streams.

He is all Light and we are children of that Light. When He can create millions of planets by a mere wish, a single thought wave we, who are conscious entities and of the same essence as that of God, can we not, by withdrawing our soul current from all outside and concentrating within create even a city?

Masters Who came from time to time, all proclaimed:

Oh man, you are attached to outer labels when the source of all joy and happiness is within you. God, all Supreme Father, is in you. Father and son both live in the same house – the man-body – but You, the Son of the Almighty through identification with outgoing faculties, wander outside. Rise above the body consciousness.

Maulana Rumi says:

Oh dear heart rise above this physical life of flesh and you will realise the Life Eternal that enlivens this body.

As I said before, the Masters one and all, laid stress on Unity of Man. For that one to unravel this body and know carry on our bodies. We forget that purpose and got attached to the outer labels. The same light burns in temples, in mosques and in churches. Which Light is good and which is bad? Why these conflicts and fights? We revere the temples, the mosques and churches but fight each other.

This is all due to lack of right understanding. We are already One, no proof is required for that. But we have forgotten that Unity. If you want to have a first-hand experience of that go to a person Who has realised that Unity within Himself. He will put you on the Way up and give you practical demonstration of it that we are One, the children of Light. He will open your Inner Eye and you will see that Light within you.

What is knowledge? Gurbani says:

By contacting Naam (i.e. God-into-expression-Power) within, one sees the Light of millions suns.

That Light is within you.

All Masters say,

God is Light.

Kabir says,

Formerly I had some doubt about it, but when I saw that Light in all, my doubts were dispelled.

Why then fight each other? If you strike two stone of different colours against each other they give the same spark which has the colour of fire. You may have a cow of any colour, black brown, or red, the colour of milk is the same – white. We may have many labels and badges of any shape and colour we are all children of Light. But we have forgotten ourself.

Masters come to awaken us that we are all One. We have to realise that Unity. We are man first: labels came afterwards when we became Hindus, Moslems, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains and further we had labels of East and West and became devotees of countries and nations. Unless we rise above these labels we cannot realise God.