Post No. 11,885
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Hindus see unity in diversity; it has been there from the Vedic days. We see Ekam Sath; vipraahaa bahuthaa Vadanthi (Truth is One; Scholars name it differently)
And the Upanishads say,
Gavaam aneka varnaanaam
Kshiirasya asti eka-varnataa
Kshiiravath pashyate jnaanaam
Linginas tu gavaam yathaa
Cows are many different colours, but
The milk of all is of one colour, white
So the proclaimers who proclaim the Truth
Use many varying form to put it in
But yet the Truth enclosed in all is One
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Krishna says not once but twice
Mama vartma anuvartante
Manushyaahaa, Partha, sarva saha
To but one goal are marching everywhere,
All human beings, though they may seem to walk
On paths divergent; and that goal is i
The universal self , Self consciousness
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Siva mamima stuti says
Trayii, Saankhyam, Yogah
Pashupati-matam , Vaishnavam iti
Prabhinne, prasthaane, param
Idam, adah pathyam iti cha
Richiinaam vai chitryaad
Rju-kutila naanaa patha jushaam
Nrnaam Eko gamyas- Tvam asi
Veda, and Saankhya, Yoga, Shaiva view
And Vaishnav and many others such
Men follow as they variously incline;
Some thinking this is best; some others, that;
Yet thou art One Goal of aall those ways
Some straight aand easy, others crooked, rough
As of the countless streams, the one vast sea.
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Again Upanishad says
Yathaa nadyah, syandamaanaah, samudre
Astam gaachchanti naama roope vihaaya
Tathaa vidvaan naama roopad vimuktah
Paraat param padam upaiti divyam
As streaming rivers pass into the sea
Abandoning all separate name and form
So, he who sees the One casts of all name
And form and merges in the State Beyond
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Buddha said on one occasion,
Just as O Monks! The rivers Yamuna
And Gangaa Achiravatii, Sharabhuu
And Mahii, when they fall unto sea
Lose distinct names and forms
Known as one ocean only; even so
All men of all four classes, when they come
Into the Doctrine and Discipline
Of the Tathaa-gata ‘who knows the truth’
And pass from many homes to homelessness
They lose distinctive names, clans, naama gotra
And are thence forward, known as Bikshu only
–Udaana 5-5
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Zoroaster teaches
And we worship the former religions of the world devoted to righteousness (Z.Yasna 16-3)
At toiianghen Saoshyanto dashyuunam (Gaathaa 48-12)
Even the Dasyus, tribes uncivilised
Will have Saoshyantas, apostes, sent
To give them teaching and look after them
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Confucius said
I only hand on; I cannot create new things.
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Buddha and Jina speak of past and future Buddhas (enlightened ones) and Tirthankaras (makers of the fords or bridges) who reveal the same fundamental truths, again and again , for the benefit of humanity, only revivifying, confirming, enforcing them by the fire and fervour of their lives.
Source book :Essential Unity of all Religions, Bhagavan Das, Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan, 1932)
Tamil poet Bharati also said it by using the imagery of different colour cats
வெள்ளை நிறத்தொரு பூனை
எங்கள் வீட்டில் வளருது கண்டீர்
பிள்ளைகள் பெற்றதப் பூனை
அவை பேருக்கொரு நிறம் ஆகும்
சாம்பல் நிறத்தொரு குட்டி,
கரும் சாந்தின் நிறம் ஓரு குட்டி
பாம்பின் நிறமொரு குட்டி
வெள்ளை பாலின் நிறம் ஓரு குட்டி
எந்த நிறமிருந்தாலும்
அவை யாவும் ஓரே தரம் அன்றோ
இந்த நிறம் சிறிதென்றும்
இஃது ஏற்றம் என்றும் சொல்லலாமோ
வண்ணங்கள் வேற்றுமை பட்டால்
அதில் மானுடர் வேற்றுமை இல்லை
எண்ணங்கள் செய்கைகள் யாவும்
இங்கு யாவர்க்கும் ஒன்றென காணீர்!- Bharatiyar
–subham—
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