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<p class="paracenter"><b>VII
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<p class="paracenter"><b>THE WORLD IS ONE </b>
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<p class="para">The world is one, in fact and in potentia.
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<p class="para"> There is already a realised 
unity; that unity runs as the fundamental chord in and through differing and 
discordant notes. These different and discordant and even denying notes have to 
be re-conditioned, blended, harmonised; that is the effective and patent unity 
that lies in potentia and has to be brought forth in front. The world is one at 
bottom; it is to be made one up to the brim.
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<p class="para"> The material world is a factual 
unity. For it is one matter that exists everywhere; the same fundamental 
elements constitute, although in different degrees, the earth, the sun, the 
stars, the distant galaxies and the extra-galactic rays. It is in the last 
analysis charges of electricity —infinitesimal and infinite charges of electric 
force, points of energy that form the entire creation—pullulating particles that 
fill the universe; but they are not isolated, disconnected, disunited, they are 
a continuum. This, continuum was called 'ether' at one time, it is now called 
'field'. This material unity consists in the one extension that turns and swirls 
into creases and eddies giving the impression of separativeness and disunity. 
The task of the scientist is to know how to recondition the swirling dispersing 
expanse so as to assimilarise, polarise the disparate elements. That is the 
meaning of what the
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<p class="para">scientists are now handling as the 'laser' or 'maser' beams<sup>l </sup>
Likewise, the vital world is also one. It is one life that pulsates in and 
through all living formations—one sea as it were, swaying and heaving and 
breaking into innumerable waves and ripples. In spite of infinite variations 
there is one over-all pattern that persists through the living creation. Anatomy 
and more clearly physiology links in a strange way even the plant and the animal 
and man. And in humanity if there is a great vital upsurge somewhere, it spreads 
its vibration far and wide like a seismic motion. And it is because of this 
vital unity that there arises the phenomenon known as contagion or pest and 
pestilence—that is to say, mass-movements are occasioned by one indivisible 
life-urge. A common suffering or a common elation is normal to human life.
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<p class="para"> This fundamental unity, here too, 
works through discord and disunion, battle and conflict, denial and negation. 
Here too the drive or purpose of progress and of evolution is towards the same 
polarisation, that is to say, reorientation, evocation of vibrations that are a 
pure or harmonious expression of the unity.
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<p class="para"> Coming next to Mind, the unity 
here too, is quite marked, clearly discernible. There is only one Mind that 
rules the myriad mentalities of this world. Thoughts and
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<p class="para"> <sup>1</sup> 
Laser: Light amplifications due to the stimulated emission of Radiation. 
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<p class="para"> Maser: 
Multiple amplifications, etc 
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<p class="para"> The 
result is that the light ray cuts diamonds, bores rocks, welds metals, and works 
as a surgeon's knife. 
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<p class="para">ideas are not in reality personal creations, they are various 
formulations of the one universal Mind; they enter into and possess individual 
minds as receptacles, and no doubt in the process undergo particular 
modifications in their general character. It is a very common experience to see 
the same or very similar ideas and thoughts expressed by individuals (or groups) 
living far from each other, having practically no mutual contact. We have known 
of &quot;independent discoveries&quot; of the same truth or fact and innumerable instances 
of this kind has history provided for us. It is not a freak of nature that we 
find Socrates and Buddha and Confucious as contemporaries. Contemporaries also 
were India's Akbar, England's Elizabeth and Italy's Leo X. Also the year 1905 
has been known as Annus Mirabilis, a year of seminal importance—the sowing of 
the seed of a new earth-life—significant for the whole human race, for the East 
and for the West, particularly for India, for Japan, for Russia and even for 
England. And today's world has indeed become a world of compact unity in human 
achievement and also, alas, in human distress!
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<p class="para"> Now if one goes to the very 
source, the very root of the matter, the cardinal fact of unity is that of the 
supreme Consciousness, the original oneness of the one Divine Existence. It is 
the Ultimate One, inviolate, inviolable <i>—ekam sat. </i>
That unity is transferred or translated or imaged on all the levels and strands 
of creation. That is the basic reality that holds together all tiered 
multipli­cities. True, there has been side by side a movement of</p>
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<p class="para">aberration, denial, disjunction in the multiple formulations and 
translations of the One. A re-union remains to be achieved conveying and 
embodying the basic unity.
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<p class="para"> The disturbing factor in the 
universal sway of unity is the sense of individualisation, the sense of ego. 
That is the dark ray that cuts across the radiant harmony and produces the 
apparent discordance and disunion with all its attendant and consequent evil and 
bale.
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<p class="para"> The sense of separated and 
isolated existence, the feeling of a closed system that one assumes in 
opposition to others is the Maya of which the Vedanta speaks. It is real so long 
as it is taken to be real. But it possesses no inherent or absolute reality. A 
re-orientation or a remodelling of the individual self is the way towards 
reestabhshiag in the forefront, the background unity. Egoism, as it happens to 
be now, is the broken-up and scattered unity. Polarisation means precisely 
re-ordering and re-orienting the dispersal movement of ignorance and bringing 
into a new purposeful existence the unity that already exists.
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