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The concept of Unity refers to the interconnectedness and oneness of all things across world spiritual traditions. Many traditions converge on the idea that Unity is a fundamental aspect of the universe, promoting harmony and balance. However, they diverge in their interpretations and approaches to achieving Unity, offering unique perspectives and practices.

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Knowledge is what moves towards unity, and when it reaches the supramental level, it grasps the oneness, essence, and self-law of existence, and views and handles the many things from that light and fullness, somewhat like the Divine does from the highest point from which He embraces the world.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingAttainmentHarmony
The Life Divine, p. 521
The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
Swami Sivananda
HinduScriptureAttainmentLiberation
Practice of Karma Yoga, p. 29
United with pure reason, one lets go of both good and bad actions. Therefore, embrace yoga, for yoga is skill in action.
Swami Sivananda
HinduScriptureOnenessPurpose
Practice of Karma Yoga, p. 28
The yogi who, having attained unity, worships me dwelling in all beings, remains in me, regardless of his way of life.
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
HinduScriptureAttainmentDevotion
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 585
The primary goal of life is to attain a conscious awareness of our unity with God.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingAttainmentHarmony
Bliss Divine, p. 281
The psychic personality within us blossoms as the saint, the sage, or the seer. When it reaches its full potential, it directs the being toward self-awareness and the divine, toward the highest truth, goodness, beauty, love, and bliss, and the divine expanses, opening us to the experience of spiritual sympathy, universality, and oneness.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingAttainmentLove
The Life Divine, p. 253
Those who do good deeds can break this bond and free themselves.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingGood DeedsUnitySanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 4710
They understood this self-building as the creation by man in himself of that other world, or the high-ordered harmony of infinite being, which already exists perfect and eternal in the Divine Infinite.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingHarmonyUnity
The Life Divine, p. 515
This secret psychic entity is the true, original conscience within us, deeper than the conventional conscience constructed by moralists. It always points us towards truth, rightness, beauty, love, harmony, and all the divine possibilities within us, persisting until these become the primary needs of our nature.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingHarmonyLove
The Life Divine, p. 253
The one who practices non-violence develops cosmic love to the highest degree. The practice of non-violence eventually leads to the realization of one's true self or the unity of the Self.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingHarmonyLove
All About Hinduism, p. 38
The one established in non-violence can move the whole world. In their presence, all hostilities vanish; even natural enemies like lions and cows, cobras and mongooses live together peacefully.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingHarmonyNon Violence
All About Hinduism, p. 37
Divine grace removes bondage
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
HinduTeachingGraceUnity
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 249
True religion teaches us to come together, rise above all kinds of discrimination, and treat all beings as children of the same Supreme Father, serving and loving them selflessly and genuinely.
Baba Hardev Singh Ji
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Gurdev Hardev Part 2, p. 71
In just this way the individual self of the wise one dissolves into the Supreme Self. Day and night, everywhere and always, the wise one delights in that Oneness.
HinduScriptureDifferencesHappinessSanskrit
Guru Gita 163
Through recitation of the Guru Gītā one obtains infinite reward. It pacifies all sins and destroys all forms of poverty.
HinduScriptureAdversitiesAttainmentSanskrit
Guru Gita 134
He is also emancipated who looks upon life and death, pleasure and pain, gain and loss, and agreeable and disagreeable things with an equal mind.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingAttainmentEqualitySanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5507
See the one Self in all beings. Recognize the unity in diversity. All suffering will cease to exist.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingHarmonyOneness
Bliss Divine, p. 481
The Guru Gita has the power to captivate all living beings and to release them from the bonds of worldly existence. It makes one beloved by gods and rulers alike, and all planes of existence come under one's benign sway.
HinduScriptureGuruLiberationSanskrit
Guru Gita 142
Indeed, when all the bonds of the heart are broken, even in this human life, the mortal becomes immortal.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingUnityDeath
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 226
When all desires that reside in a person's heart are released from their bonds, then the mortal achieves immortality. Even in this human body, one can experience God.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingAttainmentLust
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 226