WHAT IS HUMAN UNITY?

PANCHKULA-1417,Unity in real sense is to stay aligned in any condition while uniformity is integrating and maintaining similarity in external appearance. In fact, when we talk about human unity, it becomes a tough task as humans are free to behave / act in their own way as allowed by their share of preferences. This daunting task is possible only through the personality who is supreme and, in fact, an embodiment of God. We call such a personality the True Master of the day. True Master uses the common factor of fatherhood of God to bring about human unity.

We find the walls of narrow mindedness splitting everything that is coming under man’scontrol. Thereare disputes over the minutest of thingevery day, resulting in bloodshed of the innocent. In fact, man urges to bring situations and things under his control for his own personal needs and demands. His self-centeredness is the cause of distance; distance from ‘unity’. Only the objects that man has failed to capture or are beyond hiscontrol are common to all. Take for instance the air. It blows for all. If air was under the control of man, wallswould have been erected by now to divide it. The same is the case with the sunshine. Man has not been ableto put up a wall to stop it from going from one place to another. In other words, the objectsthat are somehow not governed by man or have escaped his rule are available to alluniformly.

As a matter of fact, all the objects created by God are meant for all human beings. It is manwho is the sole reason of imposing limits on them because of his own selfishness and narrowmindedness.Unbridled material progress is leading towards destruction. It is essential to have a check ofspirituality on it.
All humanenergies and virtues stand misused when we utilize these gifts of God for making othersunhappy. No object or power is bad by itself; bad is its misuse.Similarly, wherever we associate this One (God), our problems are solved, our difficulties areover. Our petty feelings, jealousy and hatred vanish. In order to save the world fromdestruction today, we must find a way to see that spiritual knowledge prevails upon all ourmaterial achievements and all our actions are influenced by the association of God based onthe realization of its omnipresence.If God enters one’s life, the feelings of hatred, jealousy and pride disappearand then all the material progress of the world becomes a source of joy. Nobody appears to
be an enemy, nobody remains a stranger.

If walls are erected around a man, he cannot see the world outside. He is barred from thereality of the world. He is totally cut down from the entire world and finds himself in utter be wilderness.Man created this hell for him when he erected the walls around himself based oncaste, creed, color, language and religion. Surrounded by these walls, he can see onlyhimself. He thinks everything for himself and fulfillment of his own interests. The result isconflict between man and man, separation from each other, pain and suffering.So long as these walls are not broken, man cannot be free and cannot find peace. There are somany diversities in our social life – the diversities of language, dress, diet and mode of living.Once we are in alliance with God, all these diversities stand converted into unity. No doubt,we may never be able to achieve uniformity i.e. similarity of dress, diet and mode of living,which is impossible. In this way, we cannot bring minds closer. Here we require sense ofunity, unity which is possible only through the realization of God. Suppose we want to make agarland. This is not possible without a thread. Once we have the thread, we can put togetherflowers of different colors – red, yellow, white and so on. But if we do not have the thread atall, we cannot make a garland. Similarly, it cannot be possible to make a garland of mankindwithout the thread of God.

The diversities have existed for agesand might continue forever. If we concentrate on or remain engrossed in these externalfactors, differences will continue, conflicts will never end.
Such diversities can be seen even in our body. The fingers of our hands arenot similar. Their impression is different from each other. Infact, uniformity is not something that we require. What we need isunity- unity in diversity. We do not want uniformity of material goods but unity of hearts. Incase we are guided by the feelings of love and affinity, we are all equal, bound by the samethread. Since our garland has the same thread, we talk of this one: know One, adore Oneand be One. So long as we do not realizeOne, worship One, unity is impossible and we justcannot think of goodwill for all. Then these walls of language will remain there, thediscrimination of high and low will continue. It is because of these divisions that innocentpeople are killed today.

The dispute is not that of languages, neither states nor nations; the problem liesin not treating others as our own, in treating them as lower than us, inferior tous.One part ofthe body cannot think of harming the other. The same becomes true of mankind, when theyare unified through their relationship with God, when they become one by knowing One. Forthis, knowing God is essential. If God is associated with our life, everything else becomes inorder automatically. What we require is only to incorporate God in our lives – not merely tomake a mention of God. If religious people are found to have any dispute or clash, theirreason too is the ignorance about God. Once they come to know God, these disputes will endautomatically.

This universe with all its objects – animate and inanimate, is the creation of God. It is justlike the creation or production of a portrait by an artist. It is said that ‘God created man in Hisown image’. Obviously, God must have wanted that human beings should love one another.Whether the great spiritual masters belonged to the Golden Age, Silver, Bronze or Iron Age,whether we refer to Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Hazrat Mohammad, Lord Jesus Christ, fromGuru Nanak DevjiMaharaj to Guru Gobind Singh jiMaharaj, who lived in this world, we find the same feeling expressed by them all. They said we must love thisGod, love its creation, the human beings, welcome them and not condemn the