Man should unite within himself before he can think of human unity. There have been failed attempts in the past to create an ideal society based on unity (Ekattva). Ekattva is the fundamental truth of the New Creation. Everything is contained in everything, and everything is of the Divine. As an illustration of the principle of Ekattva, the speaker narrates the story of Shikhidhwaja and Chudala, and also the story of Yajnavalkya. Ekattva is a far-off goal till one has bheda-drishti (separative seeing). Bheda-drishti is the basis of the old creation. Even if one goes into seclusion, he cannot cut himself off from the world because individual nature is a part of the Universal Nature.
A short video address by Dr Alok Pandey to the 58th All Odisha Study Circle Conference
‘The Chariot of Jagannath’ is an ideal that Sri Aurobindo envisaged and explained in his early Bengali writings of the same name. It is...
This talk is based on the Yoga of Integral Knowledge. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.