The Supreme’s gaze looked out through human eyes
And saw all things and creatures as itself
And knew all thought and word as its own voice.
There unity is too close for search and clasp
And love is a yearning of the One for the One,
And beauty is a sweet difference of the
Same And oneness is the soul of multitude.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book I, Canto III, pages 31 – 32.
Secret Oneness
Sweet Mother, here it is written: “All are linked together by a secret Oneness.”
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 98
What is this secret Oneness?
It is precisely the divine Presence.
Because the Divine is essentially one, and yet He has subdivided Himself apparently in all beings, and in this way recreated the primordial Oneness. And it is because of this divine Oneness — which, however, appears fragmented in beings — that the Unity is re-established in its essence. And when one becomes conscious of this, one has the joy of the consciousness of this Oneness. But those who are not conscious — what they miss is the joy of consciousness. But the fact remains the same.
Sri Aurobindo says: the Oneness exists; whether you are aware of it or not, it exists, in reality it makes no difference; but it makes a difference to you: if you are conscious, you have the joy; if you are not conscious, you miss this joy.
The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956, CWM volume 8, pages 75 – 76.