Authentic Religion-4.

Part-4.

In a home there are so many different items such as bedsheets, pillowcases, table cloths, shirts, towels, handkerchiefs, napkins, etc.

But one who sees a little beyond says that they are all cotton only, no matter what shape, form or color they may be.

A lady may wear a variety of ornaments such as a necklace, bracelets and rings.

We see many things, each one different from the other, but the goldsmith sees only one thing - gold.

In a pottery factory you can see innumerable different items of pottery in all shapes and sizes.

We see the great variety, but the owner of the factory knows that they all consist of a single element-clay.


So, even as various kinds of cloth of different sizes and shapes and colors are constituted of but one material, namely cotton, even as different types of gold ornaments worn on various parts of the body are made only of gold, and even as different kinds of pottery are but one material, clay, even so, the entire universe of innumerable variegated names and forms are, in essence, but one Being in a glorious cosmic manifestation.

Therefore, the appearance of the many does not invalidate the non-duality of the one Supreme Principle. IT alone prevails, non-dual, one without a second.

Swami Chidananda
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