Know that we are all One

Part 2

During my third world tour I was asked in a television interview:

How can we cement Unity?

I said:

When people will rise above isms and labels that they are carrying and kings and Presidents rise above countries.

Labels only indicate which school one has joined – for self-knowledge and God-Knowledge. Masters never gave any labels, these came when, after Their demise, social bodies were formed to keep Their teachings alive so that more people may benefit from them. They were formed with a noble purpose but the same good old custom corrupts itself and with the passage of time there was stagnation in the social bodies followed by deterioration. Masters come from time to time to revive then same age-old teaching.

They give the call:

Brothers! Wake up. You have forgotten yourself. How long will you remain asleep?

They see the Reality within, They speak from that level, therefore, what They say is cent percent true.

The outer preaching is all true, but without first-hand experience there is no conviction. Remain in the formations to which you belong and keep your forms and formularies. These are just to show that one should realise the purpose for which one has joined a particular formation named after the Master one professes to follow. It is a blessing to remain in a formation one should keep away from parochialism and narrow-mindedness which in turn lead to deception and delusion.

The basic purpose of this conference is to bring home to all the fact that we are already One, but we have forgotten that. This is the basic teaching of all Masters and the formations set up to keep alive Their teachings. The highest knowledge is to realise the Unity which is innate in us. The various places of worship – dome shaped temples (made after the head), nose shaped churches, forehead shaped mosques and others – are all modelled on the man-body, the True Temple of God. They are just to remind all those whose Inner Eye is not opened and who do not see the Reality, that such Light shines within you and such Sound reverberates in each one of you. Those who realise It – the twin principle of Light and Sound, the manifestation of God-into-expression-Power for them body is the True Temple of God. And one can realise it at the feet of a Competent Master Who has realised Him in the man-body.

This is what the Masters give us. They give us direct first-hand contact with Reality. They come to make people see who do not see and they who see outside may be blind. Those who only see the outer physical phenomena are still blind from Their point of view. Don’t you feel it? If your mind were to be still for just a moment and all thoughts nullified, you would feel this oppressive blindness.

Ramakrishna Paramhansa once cited the example of a tree with many birds sitting on its branches. If some one were to clap his hands the birds would all flay away.

We have the Sanskaras or impressions of countless incarnations filling the reservoir of our mind. A few moments ago some sadhus were clapping hands on the stage. Let there be a clapping of hands through nullifies all thoughts except this that we are all One. Is there any doubt about it in anyone’s mind? If there is let him seek a Master Who has realised Unity within Him. He will open your Inner Vision and make you see and that will dispel all doubts.

Let us all pray to God:

Oh God Almighty whoever are called by different names it is only through Your names that we can wake up from deep slumber of ages.

The Vedas say:

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

Kabir says the same thing:

Wake up, oh sleepy head wake up. It is not time to sleep.

This is the lesson that is repeated before you. It is the message for the whole world and a panacea for all our ills today.

They asked me in the west (USA) during an interview:

How can we evade the disaster of atomic war?

I told them:

When king and President would rise above countries.

Then they asked me if I would meet their President?

I told them:

Well, this is my conviction. And surely I would like to meet your President.

I told them that they should not only tend their own garden but help others to keep their garden in full bloom.

It is a matter of right understanding, right understanding would lead to right thoughts and right thoughts would result in right words and right actions. Remain in your own formations but rise above body consciousness, rise into universalism and leap into the Beyond and know you are already One. These are three things have been put before you with one purpose – there is no intention to break bodies,

They do not come to destroy but to fulfil.

The Masters after Whom the various formations been set up, are all One. Their teaching is one and the same. As I said this morning, let us pray God to awaken us. Who can awaken a man from sleep? God or God manifested in man, in other words a Godman.

I have all Love and regard for all you who have come from India or from far off places. The teaching of all Masters Who came, in East or West, is the same. I have Love and regard in my heart for all Masters Who came, those here present now and those who may come in future. They are sent by God from time to time to awaken mankind from the slumber of parochialism and narrow-mindedness.

Guru Nanak came in this context and recently both hands and said,

Oh Hindus, oh Muslims, you are my own.

So what I say to you is nothing new. I would request all of you to spread it, all that you have heard here, wherever you go. Proclaim it from the house-tops that there may be peace and happiness on earth. So I pray to God and you pray with me that He grant us His special grace and provide for us to have first-hand experience of Reality.

The ideal before us is this:

That we are all One!