Despite outward differences we are one

Despite outward differences we are one

A colour wheel is a round, flat disk made of paper or cardboard. The outer edge is painted or coloured with stripes for each of the seven colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. When the wheel is spun quickly, the colours blend and turn into white. As it spins at high speed, only a pure white wheel with no hint of any of the rainbow colours is seen.

Children are often amazed at how all the colours can turn into white. But what they do not realise is that it is the other way around. It is white light that is the only colour, but through a process of dispersion, it breaks up into the different colours of the rainbow.

Each colour has its own wavelength. As light passes through different materials, those substances reflect light at various wavelengths, giving the appearance of different colours. But there is only one colour – pure light.

Similarly, if we look at humanity, we see on the outer surface a variety of people with different hair colours, eye colours and skin colours. While outer colours may vary, the underlying colour of all humanity is the same. That colour is light.

Our soul is our true essence. The differences among us are only due to the different vestures in which that Light is embodied.

Just as white light manifests as the seven colours of the rainbow when it passes through different types of matter, similarly, the Light of the soul is one, even though it inhabits physical bodies having many different colours.

At our physical level, all we see are our physical differences. When we develop a spiritual consciousness, we experience that the same Light of God is within each person. We are all united at the level of soul.

When we reach that level of awareness, we start to see all living beings as one big family of the Creator. We no longer differentiate between people based on outer form and custom. We recognise that there is beauty in diversity. We start treating all people with love and respect, because we know at their very core is the same essence of which we are made.

If we want to get a small glimpse of how this is possible, we need only look to our primitive technology today. We think we are very advanced, but it is just a small beginning for what humanity will develop in the future. If we look at the internet, we find that all information is available to us by logging onto different sites. The server that hosts all the sites is a storehouse of all the information on all the sites. By logging on we access all the information we want.

God is like a giant server that hosts all our individual souls or websites. Thus, all knowledge about us is known to God. God is also able to simultaneously know what is happening to each of us at every second at the same time. When we tap into that spiritual consciousness and merge into the ocean of God, we too have access to all-consciousness.

We can attain spiritual consciousness by focussing our attention within through a process called meditation. Through meditation, we contact our true nature, our soul, and discover it is one with God, the Source of divine love. Then we will experience peace and bliss.