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Monday, September 30, 2024

How can we always remember the principle of oneness and nondualism?

 We walk in the thick dusk of evening when things are seen but dimly; a rope lies haphazardly on the path! Each one who sees it, has their own idea of what it is, although it is really just a rope! One steps across it, taking it to be a garland. Another takes it to be a mark made by running water and treads on it! A third person imagines it to be a vine, a creeper plucked off a tree and fallen on the path. Some are scared that it is a snake, right? Similarly, the one highest Brahman, without any change or transformation affecting It, being all the time It and It only, manifests as the world of many names and forms. The cause of all this is the dusk of delusion (maya). The rope might appear as many things — it might provoke various feelings and reactions in people; it has become the basis for variety. But it never changes into many; it is ever one! The rope is ever the rope! It doesn’t become a garland or a streak of water or a creeper or a snake. Brahman might be misinterpreted in a variety of ways, but it is ever Brahman only.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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