Twelve Facets of Reality

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: New York Dodd Made & Company

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Freedom from Dependency 39 begin to appreciate your human being-ness. You will change your attitude toward other people. You will not see only the physical body.
You will stop relating to people as objects. Your relationship will be that of the subject. Now you see someone only as an object and you do not feel oneness with the individual. When you see someone as the subject, you see the “I," the one who is.
When you experience “I am,” you are living in your consciousness. There is no duality. As soon as you say “I want,” desire begins. From desire comes the object. Now you are separating from the world. Out of the two, “I” and "want," a third thing comes, “the world”; “I want the world.” This trinity is born from duality. The world out there is born every time you separate from the subject, your center, “I." As soon as you are out of your consciousness, duality is there, the world is there.
Ekatva means to realize ultimately "I am,” not “I want.” It means to break the concept of duality and be oneself. When you bring the whole world into “being," life merges into one flow. Then there is no manifestation of otherness, only oneness.
If you keep that essence in awareness, then seeing what you see does not create duality. You are not seeing someone or something through the eyes of wanting or judging. Rather, you see as if you were seeing in a mirror. The person whom you used to see as an object is now the subject, the same as you. You see the reflection equal to you, no less, no more. The reflection is not different from what you are.
Once there was an artist. He decided to put pieces of mirror all around his room, on the ceiling and on the walls, so that they would reflect the one light which was in his room. And it was his joy to sit and watch the reflected lights. By chance his dog entered the room. Not being able to understand that the dogs he saw in the