This is not a thing that many honestly wish for. It is not a thing that
many honestly desire. The man who has realised unity knows no
difference between himself and the vilest wretch that walks the earth.
He sees only the God that walks in the sinner, and knows that the sin
is not in the God but in the sheath. The difference is only there. He
who has realised the inner greatness of the Self never pronounces
judgment upon another, knows that other as himself, and he himself as
that other—that is unity. We talk brotherhood, but how many of us
really practice it? And even that is not the thing the yogi aims at.
Greater than brotherhood are identity and realisation of the Self as
one. The Sixth Root Race will carry brotherhood to the highest point.
The Seventh Root Race will know identity, will realise the unity of the
human race. To catch a glimpse of the beauty of that high conception,
the greatness of the unity in which “I” and “mine,” “you” and “yours”
have vanished, in which we are all one life, even to do that lifts the
whole nature towards divinity, and those who can even see that unity is
fair; they are the nearer to the realisation of the Beauty that is God.
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