NON-DUALITY AND YOU

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

75. NON-DUALITY AND YOU
Worshipful homage unto the supreme, eternal Reality, the one, absolute, transcendental,
cosmic Spirit Divine! By virtue of the fact that It is transcendental, absolute, one and non-dual, It is
present everywhere, encompassing all by Its infinity. Therefore, all existence is Its own
manifestation, as it were, is Its own expression. For there can be no other.
That Reality, therefore, is your reality. That infinite Cosmic Life, therefore, throbs within
you as your own life. Your feeling of your awareness of your existence as “I am” derives from that I
AM.

Thus, it is the One that knits the seeming many into a homogeneous living unity. There are
not many though there seems to be many. Within all the seeming many, one Being alone proclaims:
“I AM. I alone am.” Therefore, all who are gathered here at this moment are not many. Seeming to
be many, we are only one in that Being.
Regarded individually, waves may be many, but regarded in the context of the ocean, they
are one. They appear upon the one; they subsist upon the one; they subside into the one. Even during
this seeming threefold process, the ocean and the ocean alone exists. Even when the waves seem to
exist, it is the ocean alone that exists in the seeming multifariousness. That is the fact of God and
man. That is the fact of the Universal Soul and the individual soul. That is the fact about the
Presence in which we are and ourselves. There is only One. Harmony prevails. Deep peace alone
pervades. Supreme joy alone prevails and pervades everywhere, always, at all times, in all
seemingly changeful circumstances. The change is a passing appearance. The unchanging is the
reality and that reality is Divinity. It is ever-present Divinity, peace profound and bliss perennial.
A thin veil separates you, as it were, from the ever-prevailing Presence, peace and bliss.
And, that a thin veil prevents you from perceiving is only a manner of expression. There is no veil
because there is only non-duality. It is only a method of trying to explain that which is absolutely
inexplicable.
The Reality is immediate. It is never absent, and It is the only thing that is because It is
non-dual. And, the Reality is everyone’s property. It belongs to you; you belong to It. This is the
central experience of our ancient, common ancestors of the Upanishadic era, and we are the
fortunate and blessed heirs of this experience which they have left us as our heritage. Over the
heritage, the heir has a natural right.
Therefore, it is said: “Ask and it shall be given, for it is yours by birthright.” The tragedy of
this earth life is that no one asks. They ask for what they can see—passing unrealities. No one
realises the worth and value of that which cannot be seen. For when an object is too close, it cannot
be seen.
There is no lack of That which you are seeking. But there is a lack in the seeking. There is a
confusion as to the direction. You cannot go and find an object by searching for it when it is already
in you as you.
May each and every one of you make this truth and fact an actual experience within your
own consciousness— not in some remote future, but in the immediate present. And may it be your
endeavour ever to dwell in that consciousness, ever to live that Reality in all your being and your
doing.
May your existence, your entire being, be the experience and the expression of this sat, chit,
ananda and santi!