What is Universal Brotherhood?

What is the norm that would exist in the spiritual world? It is neither oneness nor separateness, but the unity of all existence. It transcends this idea of oneness and separateness - or to be together and to be separate. It goes beyond it and says, when we are all one, where is the question of being separate or being together. Whether you like it or not, whether you feel it or not, we are parts of one whole. This is what Babuji means when he talks of universal brotherhood. Now, we can be brothers who never meet for the next fifty years. Yet when we meet we are as if we have never parted. The intervention period doesn't seem to make any difference to that relationship. Now, that is a commonality. Between brothers it is a commonality of interest, of heritage, that we are born of the same parents, that keeps us together.

The way of science, the way of Archeology, the way of Anthropology, the way of all the human sciences, so-called, dissect life into bits and pieces, brings us to the smallest individual unit and then, in desperation, hands us over to the doctors, the psychiatrists to put these pieces together again. And all that they can do is to cut us up into further pieces. Spirituality says, "Look inside and you will find the same thing in all of them. That is the unity which will unite all of you."

So never look at the outside, you will only see differences. Develop the spiritual vision which helps you to penetrate to the core, to the essence. That alone can unify life into one grand, unified whole. That is why my Master always said, "Everything else divides: politics divides, religion divides, culture divides, language divides, spirituality alone unites." So that is why we are here. It is not enough to say spirituality unites, we must show that it unites by becoming a brotherhood, strong enough to sustain the onslaughts of those who are not here, as a first step. The next step is to bring them into the brotherhood. Because whether they know it or not, whether you know it or not, they are part of that already. Because if my essence and that essence is the same, nothing separates us but our foolish human individual consciousness.

So you see, all these things can be possible, will be possible, if we retain the brotherhood, forgetting the friendship, forgetting the loyalties of religion, of culture, of race, of tradition, of language, nationality, even sex. How to forget? It is difficult to make a list of so many things to forget and tick them off one by one, you see. Remember Him, forget everything else.