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Unity does not come from any exterior disposition, but by becoming conscious of the eternal Oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/human-unity#p75</ref>
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If we can by the mind and heart get at the touch of the Spirit, receive the powerful inrush of the Divine into this lower humanity and change our nature into a reflection of the divine nature by love, by universal joy, by oneness of mind with all Nature and all beings, we can break down the walls. Even our bodies are not really separate entities and therefore our very physical consciousness is capable of oneness with the physical consciousness of others and of the cosmos. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-cosmic-consciousness#p9</ref>
It is as though there were innumerable doors or paths by which one could reach the Divine. So when one approaches he does so from a certain angle, he enters by a certain door, but as soon as he has gone right in, he realises that it is a single oneness, it is only the path leading to it or the particular approach which is different. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p6</ref>
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The mental being has to enlarge itself into the oneness of the Divine before the Divine will perfect in the soul of the individual its gnostic out-flowering. That is the reason why the triple way of knowledge, works and love becomes the key-note of the whole Yoga, for that is the direct means for the soul in mind to rise to its highest intensities where it passes upward into the divine oneness. That too is the reason why the Yoga must be integral. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-principle-of-the-integral-yoga#p10</ref>
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One has to get rid of selfishness and ego, by selfless service of the Divine and by merging the ego in the Divine Consciousness, submitting the personal will to the Divine Will, calling into the being the Divine Peace, Purity, Oneness, Knowledge, Light, Ananda, replacing the ego by the psychic being devoted and surrendered to the Divine.
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<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p26</ref>
  
 
The main business of the heart, its true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and oneness; for to see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it with the heart and in the psychic being, and this means a delight in the One and in all existences in the world in him, a love of God and all beings.  
 
The main business of the heart, its true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and oneness; for to see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it with the heart and in the psychic being, and this means a delight in the One and in all existences in the world in him, a love of God and all beings.  
 
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-power-of-the-instruments#p12</ref>
 
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-power-of-the-instruments#p12</ref>
  
Limitation of the universal "I" in the divided ego-sense constitutes our imperfect individualised personality. But when the ego transcends the personal consciousness, it begins to include and be overpowered by that which is to us superconscious; it becomes aware of the cosmic unity and enters into the Transcendent Self which here cosmos expresses by a multiple oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-destiny-of-the-individual#p16</ref>
 
 
The divided ego cannot have it, because it is in its very nature separative and because even with regard to ourselves, to our own psychological existence it is a false centre of unity. Only in the spiritual self can we possess the true unity; for there the individual enlarges to his own total being and finds himself one with universal existence and with the transcending Divinity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p7</ref>.
 
 
By Knowledge we arrive at identity with the One; for there is, an essential identity by which we can plunge into our Source and free ourselves from all bondage to individuality and even from all bondage to universality. And the height of all our action, is the immersion of ourselves in the Lord through unity with the divine Will or Conscious-Power by the way of works. The height of love is the rapturous immersion of ourselves in unity of ecstatic delight with the object of our love and adoration.  In the world the individual Self converts itself into a centre of consciousness through which the divine Will, one with the divine Love and Light, pours itself out in the multiplicity of the universe.  <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-modes-of-the-self#p5</ref>
 
  
 
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Read more about Oneness from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.


What Is Oneness?

All are linked together by a secret Oneness. [1], which is precisely the divine Presence.[2]

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. [3] . Not only Spirit is one, but Mind, Life, Matter are one. There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. [4] .

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. [5].

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. [6].

Why Do We Seek Oneness?

This is the very motive of the creation of the universe, that is to say, all are one, all is one in its origin, but each thing, each element, each being has as its mission the revealing of one part of this unity to itself, and it is this particularity which must be developed in everyone, while awakening at the same time the sense of the original unity. [7]

If the truth of our being is an infinite unity in which alone there is perfect wideness, light, knowledge, power, bliss, and if all our subjection to darkness, ignorance, weakness, sorrow, limitation comes of our viewing existence as a clash of infinitely multiple separate existences, then obviously it is the most practical and concrete and utilitarian as well as the most lofty and philosophical wisdom to find a means by which we can get away from the error and learn to live in the truth. [8]

We may even say, in a sense, that it is to have this joy of union as the ultimate crown of all the varied experiences of spiritual relation between the individual soul and God that the One became many in the universe. [9] .

How Do We Reach Oneness?

If we can by the mind and heart get at the touch of the Spirit, receive the powerful inrush of the Divine into this lower humanity and change our nature into a reflection of the divine nature by love, by universal joy, by oneness of mind with all Nature and all beings, we can break down the walls. Even our bodies are not really separate entities and therefore our very physical consciousness is capable of oneness with the physical consciousness of others and of the cosmos. [10]

The mental being has to enlarge itself into the oneness of the Divine before the Divine will perfect in the soul of the individual its gnostic out-flowering. That is the reason why the triple way of knowledge, works and love becomes the key-note of the whole Yoga, for that is the direct means for the soul in mind to rise to its highest intensities where it passes upward into the divine oneness. That too is the reason why the Yoga must be integral. [11]

One has to get rid of selfishness and ego, by selfless service of the Divine and by merging the ego in the Divine Consciousness, submitting the personal will to the Divine Will, calling into the being the Divine Peace, Purity, Oneness, Knowledge, Light, Ananda, replacing the ego by the psychic being devoted and surrendered to the Divine. [12]

The main business of the heart, its true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and oneness; for to see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it with the heart and in the psychic being, and this means a delight in the One and in all existences in the world in him, a love of God and all beings. [13]


Read more about Oneness from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

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