The Flower of Love in the Soil of Unity

 

A sense of unity opens the floodgates of loving nature. A sense of unison empowers you in untold ways. Love, peace, justice, equality, happiness and harmony are all the natural derivates in a system standing on the principle of unity.

The apparent diversity at the level of matter is just an illusion at the periphery. In reality, there is a unity of spirit, of life. There are ways and means of feeling this unity. The more you accept the principles of unity, the more the extreme, egoistic divisive forces take a backseat, allowing your spirit to chime with the cosmic harmony. All in all, it simply makes you a loving, kind, grateful and compassionate person. And mind you, given the way things are going around, it may not be possible at the level of organized religions to provide this feeling of unity to their respective followers. But unity in love is always possible. So go out there and spot how everything is unified in the larger scheme of things. 

Take clues from the open book of life lying around you. Look lovingly at the trees and plants nearby. Just because they don’t assert their importance in the language we are used to get messages, we have taken their availability and contribution to our life for guaranteed. But man and women, if the tree is cut, you too will suffer in your science-derived cocoon. If the garden around you burns, you too will feel the heat. Look at the larger stage, and you will realize, it’s merely one huge cosmic stage, where sneeze by one protagonist leaves upheavals in distant most corners. 

There is a system of goodness. The simplest code nature shows is of unified and interdependent co-existence. All things, phenomena, life processes and transformations give and take from the larger system. In simple terms, nothing can exist in isolation in this universe.

Our little environment is supported by earth, earth is supported by sun, sun by larger suns, they in turn by galaxies, and the latter by super-galaxies, and so on and so forth. There is absolutely no such thing as individualism in nature. It’s all a collective behemoth, ever expanding in more and more transformative ways. So how can our very own happiness come from our own limited self, concerning and defined by just our little fights and brawls in the arena of life?

Ask someone, whom you take as the epitome of material achievements, has he hit the biggest treasure of joy and happiness during his pursuits to get more and more power, prestige, money and material in his life? Just a little talk with someone who has spent decades on the path may clear your vision, helping you in reorienting your journey.

We just take fractions of happiness from the bigger pool. Happiness is never complete, or you can say just cannot happen, if it is confined to the limits of the individual self. There are happy families in happy societies and happy individuals in happy families. You simply cannot have happy individuals in an ant-swarm of unhappy society comprising unhappy families. And you cannot have a happy society surrounded by an unhappy ecosystem. You simply cannot.

If you think that the conveniences created science are the modes of happiness, then you are mistaken. These are mere utilities. Utilities are just contributors to happiness like countless other things. And generally these utilities come with far more intangible costs than we presume. You have cars, then you have pollution, and your lungs suffer, simply because trees are suffering. It’s just like everything and everybody is unhappy and suffering in a forest fire. In a flowery luxurious garden, on the other hand, everybody and everything is happy and peaceful.

We are happy or unhappy as a collective unit, not individually. Well, this is how it is, if you consider the real substantial meanings of peace and happiness. The rest are simply temporary delusions, nurtured under the mistake of taking some scientific conveniences as the destination of happiness, which they are not. They are simply the means of a tiny, temporary purpose in life.

So nurture this habit of connecting to the environment around you. The natural environment is the base of our struggle and sustenance. See the processes of life and learn the art of miraculous interdependence. And come out of this delusion that we humans can be happy and unhappy in isolation in our modern-day scientific cocoons.

Far above the debate between elixir of life and curse of death, creation has just one source, single point of focus. Elixir of life and curse of death spring from the same source. The nectar and the poison originate from the same place. Life’s shadow is death, and death’s shadow is life. The perceived duality is a mental image projected in vacuum as we peer through the lens of “ego”, i.e., helpless bondage to the outermost layer, the grossest level of our material existence. The latter stands as the bridge to the shaky walk this way or the other. Break the bond and these drift away into non-existence.

Love is tied to hate. And our “ego” is the rope, the bridge holding the two extremes of duality. Clinging to the two extremities, we have the option of treating one as the substance and the other as the shadow. If your ego allows love to be the substance, then hate turns a shadow. And vice versa. But in treating hate as the substance, we contradict the basic principle of nature. Hate is an exception, love is the rule at the cosmic level. Endless swathes of cosmic tranquility into fathomless depths cannot sustain without inherent love, peace and harmony. By hating we are putting a roadblock, a speed-bump in the path of infinite space-time continuum.  Through love we speed up the cause of evolution. In choosing love and the elixir of life, we add to the inherent cosmic harmony. In hating we add to the cosmic explosions and accidents.

So guys sow the seeds of love in the soil of unity. It will be a rich crop. It makes the world beautiful and provides you strength and affability at the same time.