Short story: When is oneness really oneness? When we are our real selves within it.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23742)
Australia
March 17, 2022 7:22pm CST
The Vedanta master, Sri Herata Ramangatti, was talking to a group of his followers about his ideas about oneness.
"The one God is indivisible in his oneness, so all that appears to be outside of this one great oneness, are merely really only ever just happenings within the great body of this same oneness."
"All is connected, and all affects all else, because it is all a part of the whole happening, and nothing happens separate from this whole."
"When something happens, it is happening for this oneness, as a part of this oneness, within this oneness."
Just then, a young teenage boy, put up his hand, and he asked a question, as the master nodded to him to go ahead, and to do so.
The boy said,
“So, I ask this question, but really it is God who is asking the question, through me, as all is God, even down to me.”
“Why then do I hurt when I stub my toe on a rock? Does God feel this hurt too?”
The master smiled broadly, and replied to the young speaker, like this:
“A fly lands on you, and you swat it, and you kill it, but God still stays alive, and so when you kill God in you, by swatting at life only with your mind, God still stays alive within you, even then too, but he exists in the inner you, not in this fly swatter, which is just an outer tool of the both of you.”
"Our mind is a fly swatter, swatting at each thought that comes up, sometimes giving it time, sometimes killing it with a deft swat, but beyond our mind is our soul self, which lives as a real part of God, and is our part in his oneness, inseparable from him too."
"Love is composed of a single God, inhabiting infinite souls."
The Vedanta master, Sri Herata Ramangatti, was sure that oneness was oneness.
Given the state of the world, though, can we be sure of this too?
Only, if we stop swatting flies, and let all be as it's meant to be.
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
Alfred Lord Tennyson, that great British poet, (1809 to 1982), said this.
And what are words, but thoughts?
So, our thoughts too can both conceal and reveal our souls to us, as long as we drop our fly swat, and stop trying to combat God with ourselves against life.
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com
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@RasmaSandra (98054)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Mar 22
I always know I can rely on the Lord to get me through each day and when things go very well I always remember first to look up and say thank you Lord because I know He was there by me to make sure it all happened,
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
18 Mar 22
I know that God is always there within the back of my mind, and heart, but in the foreground of my mind, I often carry doubts, and wonder if anything much will get me through my latest crisis.
God is sort of always there, but he appears to be so distant at times.
He still leaves a lot up to me to decide, and to work things out, and to make the actual decisions, for myself.
When lost in a crisis, it is harder to hear his guidance then too.
@RasmaSandra (98054)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Mar 22
@innertalks best we can do is just keep on believing I know I never waver in my faith, 
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
18 Mar 22
@RasmaSandra My mother had that type of faith to never waver away from it, but me, I have some big doubts throwing a spanner into my works sometimes, and perhaps the biggest one, is my brother, who is an atheist, and tries to get me to be one too.
@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
18 Mar 22
That is thought-provoking Steve.
We have unlimited freedom of choice but we reap what we sow.
We can take a broad view or a selfish one.
When we look and act through oneness, the world looks and lives differently.
However, we go about swatting those we dislike through our minds and physical actions.
That is a war against oneness and against our creator himself.
Violence begets violence and then we have to live within the fissures of our creation.
The choice is ours and God is ever patient.
He lets us have an inner knowing that we will live on and also face the music so that we may correct the wrongs that are mostly wilful.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
20 Mar 22
@Shiva49 We always want the pick of the spoils for ourselves, and perhaps we will never learn just to take enough just to satisfy our own needs, not our wants.
@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
20 Mar 22
@innertalks Maybe, the more we take, the more we have to replenish now or later. That is fair dinkum anyway.
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@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
19 Mar 22
@innertalks Yes Steve, it is clear we take God's blessings for granted and do what we like.
A bit of thought about the consequences of our actions will make us realize that we are the most ungrateful of all species - wilfully doing harm to everyone and to us and, maybe, God himself.
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