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The Multiplicity Is Only Apparent. This Is The Doctrine Of The Upanishads. And Not Of The Upanishads Only. The Mystical Experience Of The Union With God Regularly Leads To This View, Unless Strong Prejudices Stand In The Way.

Consciousness Is Never Experienced In The Plural, Only In The Singular. Not Only Has None Of Us Ever Experienced More Than One Consciousness, But There Is Also No Trace Of Circumstantial Evidence Of This Ever Happening Anywhere In The World. If I Say That There Cannot Be More Than One Consciousness In The Same Mind, This Seems A Blunt Tautology - We Are Quite Unable To Imagine The Contrary...

Vedanta Teaches That Consciousness Is Singular, All Happenings Are Played Out In One Universal Consciousness And There Is No Multiplicity Of Selves.

Thus You Can Throw Yourself Flat On The Ground, Stretched Out Upon Mother Earth, With The Certain Conviction That You Are One With Her And She With You. You Are As Firmly Established, As Invulnerable As She, Indeed A Thousand Times Firmer And More Invulnerable. As Surely As She Will Engulf You Tomorrow, So Surely Will She Bring You Forth Anew To The New Striving And Suffering. And Not Merely "some Day." Now, Today, Every Day She Is Bringing You Forth, Not Once But Thousands Upon Thousands Of Times, Just As Every Day She Engulfs You A Thousand Times Over.

Consciousness Is A Singular Of Which The Plural Is Unknown. There Is Only One Thing And That Which Seems To Be A Plurality Is Merely A Series Of Different Aspects Of This One Thing, Produced By A Deception, The Indian Maya, As In A Gallery Of Mirrors.