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<p class="paracenter">VI
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<p class="paracenter"><b>BEYOND THE DUALITIES </b>
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<p class="para"> It is true that mind in its 
natural state seeks the truth, seeks to know the fact, know what is what. But 
the difficulty is, it has its own criterion of truth, it has a mould and 
whatever does not fit into that mould is brushed aside or doubted as untruth. 
The most simple and the most categorical of its canons is that a thing is always 
itself and cannot be anything else (it is the famous logical law of identity and 
law of contradiction). One is always one and cannot be two. So by extension the 
mind affirms if the reality is one it cannot be also many. I£ the Brahman is 
there, the world cannot be, and if the world is there, Brahman cannot be. There 
begins also the unending theological dispute that either God has a form or He is 
formless. He cannot be both at the same time.
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<p class="para"> What the mind forgets or ignores 
is that the law of self-contradiction belongs exclusively to the finite. It does 
not hold good in infinity. The Infinite is infinite because it has transcended 
the laws and categories of the finite, even as Eternity has transcended the 
temporal. In the transcendental consciousness the reality is single and multiple 
at the same time, simultaneously (although the conception of time is not there 
at all); also God is both with form and without form at the same time. The mind 
may not be able to conceive it but the fact is that,
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-25</p>
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<p class="para">for one can rise above the mind and see and experience the 
reality.
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<p class="para"> There are other dualities that 
are confusing to the mind. It is said two objects cannot occupy together the 
same spot or position. One object must drive out another to occupy its position. 
Obviously this is a truth belonging to the material world—for it is said matter 
is impenetrable. But this law, however valid in the material plane, becomes less 
and less applicable in regions subtler and less and less material. Two movements 
or two vibrations of consciousness may exist together without annihilating each 
other's identity, being a total identity.
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<p class="para"> And there is a law, a law of 
scientific rational inquiry which they have posited and called the law of 
Parsimony which means that a simpler solution to a problem is always to be 
preferred to a complex solution. But if it means that a simpler truth is more 
true than a complex one then we would be on a doubtful and even dangerous 
ground. To find a simple truth one may be tempted to slice off truth, that is to 
say, reject or ignore or shut one's eyes to some forms or aspects of the truth, 
even those that belong to its very essence. In fact the real world is not a very 
simple thing, it is complex to its core. Contraries and even contradictories 
co-exist in the universe and they have to be equally accepted in an inevitably 
complex solution. Modern science is in such a delicate situation. How can the 
same thing be a particle and a wave at the same time? How can a point be also a 
line at the same time? How to reconcile, assimilate, synthetise electric energy
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<p class="para">and gravitational force which seem to be two distinct and 
incommensurable entities governing, between them, the universe in its ultimate 
analysis? In other fields also, social and political, there are ideologies, 
forces that run contrary to each other but claim equal allegiance of mankind.
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<p class="para"> There are no unitary solutions to 
these problems; the unitary solutions are constructions of the mind that lead 
nowhere except in a merry-go-round. We have to rise out of the mind and go 
beyond and realise that unity in plurality or plurality in unity is a 
self-evident fact, somewhere else than in the mind.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-27</p>
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