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=What Is Oneness?=
All are linked together by a secret Oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-february-1956#p9</ref>, which is precisely the divine Presence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-february-1956#p12</ref>The Divine we know is an Infinite Being in whose infinite manifestation these things have come—it is the Divine itself that is here, behind us, pervading the manifestation, supporting the world with its oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-problem-of-suffering-and-evil#p6</ref> . The Being is one. The infinite multiplicity of the One and the eternal unity of the Many are the two realities or aspects of one reality on which the manifestation is founded. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-integral-knowledge-and-the-aim-of-life-four-theories-of-existence#p6</ref> It is only the mind which for the temporary convenience of its own thought and aspiration seeks to cut an artificial line of rigid division, a fiction of perpetual incompatibility between one aspect and another of the eternal oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-object-of-knowledge#p16</ref>
Sri Aurobindo says: the Oneness exists; whether you are aware of it or not, it exists, in reality it makes no difference; but it makes a difference to you: if you are conscious, you have the joy; if you are not conscious, you miss this joy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-february-1956#p14</ref> . Not only Spirit is one, but Mind, Life, Matter are one. There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-cosmic-consciousness#p9</ref> .
All unity between creatures is in its essence a self-finding, a fusion with that from which we have separated, a discovery of one's self in others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-sacrifice-the-triune-path-and-the-lord-of-the-sacrifice#p2</ref>. From the minute you become conscious of the Unity—unity of Force, unity of Consciousness and unity of Will—well, you no longer have the perception which makes you quite separate from others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-february-1956#p24</ref>
This infinite and eternal Self of things is an omnipresent Reality, one existence everywhere; it is a single unifying presence and not different in different creatures; it can be met, seen or felt in its completeness in each soul or each form in the universe.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-sacrifice-the-triune-path-and-the-lord-of-the-sacrifice#p15</ref>. Individualization, in its feeling or perception or impression, in its sense of separate individuality, has no lasting truth. It continues to exist in all its power and all its knowledge, but with the sense of Oneness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-29-1968#p22</ref>
=Why Do We Seek Oneness?=