In our school, we used to study differentiation and integration. Differentiation divides the whole, while integration sums up. Life is integrated. Science of the day has proved that it is the same unified field, which they call "Higgs Field", which has given rise to matter and energy. It is just the forms that look different. So many different sweets are made from the same milk and sugar, yet they taste so different because of the different ways they are prepared. So many different seeds are sown in the soil, and different types of plants emerge from the same soil because their genetic moulds are different, and that mould converts the soil into so many different forms.
If we remember that all life forms come from the same source, there will be collaboration instead of competition. Do we have competition with our kids? No. Because we know that we have given birth to them. A mother has kept the baby for 9 months inside her womb. How will she compete against the same child or pull him down? But when it comes to people outside the family, generally, we have a very strong sense of separation. We feel that we have to protect our interests and respect. Self-interest and self-respect are the buzzwords today, and people openly teach their children to fight for them. Rightly so because the world is so cruel that if somebody does not fight for his self-interest and self-respect, other people are so driven by their selfishness that they will just make the first person a tool to fulfil their ambitions.
But the fact of the matter is that in the process, we lose awareness of the integration at the very core. We lose awareness of the fact that all the plants in the garden that we are fighting against have also taken birth from the same soil. We share something at a very fundamental level: the field of consciousness. It's like people from the same lineage forget each other after a few generations and start fighting one another.
Ideally, there should be a complete integration of humanity at the core and differentiation at the level of form. We should be aware of the fact that all of us are different forms of the same consciousness and therefore are one at the core of our existence; however, we have come to this world to explore many different things. However, at the level of matter, we are doing a deadly mix. Today, we go to the mountains as tourists and aim to get all the luxuries of the metros there. From swimming pool to parties. The cruises are full of consumerism. We have mixed nature with entertainment so badly that the poor mind can never decipher whether it is going for tourism to get that entertainment or the serenity of nature. It cunningly uses the memories of such a trip just to give us the best of both worlds. However, we fail to realise the damage we have done to ourselves in the process. We feel that we like nature, while the fact of the matter is that we can't stand nature in its raw form. Similarly, we create the impression that we are not mad about entertainment, while the fact of the matter is that we can't stay without it.
Such a deceptive mind can't enquire into reality. Unless we learn to discriminate in the outer forms and what lies at the core of these forms, we can't develop the capacity to lean inwards and enquire into the hidden and disguised unconscious mind. If Ram cannot discriminate between Bali and Sugriva, he can not enter the unconscious mind (Lanka). He will have to first identify Sugriva correctly when he is fighting the battle with his lookalike Bali. Discrimination in the outer world and integration in the inner world are key, but unfortunately, we do the opposite.
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