The Magnificence of Unity

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Chris Attwood

It is miraculous that every part of this apparent creation is able to observe it from its own perspective. As humans we each have the ability to experience the whole in the context of our own needs to grow into the realization of unity.

There is a Sanskrit saying, "Anoraniyan mahatomaniyan." The whole exists from smaller than the smallest to bigger than the biggest. And in each part of creation, the whole is contained.

So as an apparently individual personality, the whole of creation revolves around "me." Wow! Every interaction, friendship, experience, is a perfect reflection of what is "inside" of me and is exactly what I require to move from the illusion of separation to the joy of unity.

This is why each of us experiences increasing joy as we give priority to the things we love. And why we get increasingly miserable as we deny the loves of our life, the passions in our life, to do what we "think" we "should" do. The saying from The Passion Test, "What you love and God's will for you are one and the same" is the expression of that truth.

"God's will" is life's inherent intelligence which is always guiding me to open more fully and completely to the reality of unity. The more I choose for separation, the more I suffer. The more I choose for connection, integration, collaboration, the more success, the more joy, the more fun I have in I life.

And this "I" applies to each of us. Dharma, the path of right action, is the path of life in which my apparent individual nature is completely integrated with, cooperating with, and supporting every other aspect of creation. I am living my passions, giving my unique gifts, loving each part of my life because I recognize every single part as the gift it is.

When I am attacked, it is a chance to gain more clarity. When I deny the gift that is being given to me in that moment and resist and fight back, without understanding, then I deny myself the ability to expand into a new, more expanded experience of life.

Attacks come from two sources, the need to correct a direction which is leading me to greater suffering and unhappiness--in other words, it's a wake-up call, or a test of my resolve, my commitment, to what I know to be true, right and aligned with my purpose in life.

In either case, and with every experience of my life, it is uniquely and specifically designed for me, to allow me to know myself more deeply, or, from the perspective of unity, just to have more fun.

Miraculously, the billions of apparent "me's" each exist in their own world, specifically designed for them for the very same purpose, to step into the experience of unity. The world of each of these "me's" is perfectly connected with, aligned with and integrated with the world of every other "me".

In science it's called infinite correlation. Each experience is completely and infinitely correlated with every other experience in creation.

That is the true miracle of the magnificent, unfathomable intelligence of unity.