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Harmony and the Underlying Oneness

When all is in agreement with the one Truth or an expression
of it, that is harmony.
CWSA 29: 278

... each idea, force, separate consciousness, living being by the
very necessity of its ignorance enters into collision with oth-
ers and tries to live and grow and fulfil itself by independent
self-assertion, not by harmony with the rest of existence. Yet
there is still the unknown underlying Oneness which compels
us to strive slowly towards some form of harmony, of interde-
pendence, of concording of discords, of a difficult unity.
CWSA 21: 299

Harmony is the natural rule of the Spirit, it is the inherent law
and spontaneous consequence of unity in multiplicity, of unity
in diversity, of a various manifestation of oneness. In a pure
and blank unity there could be indeed no place for harmony,
for there is nothing to harmonise; in a complete or a governing
diversity there must be either discord or a fitting together of
differences, a constructed harmony. But in a gnostic unity in
multiplicity the harmony would be there as a spontaneous ex-
pression of the unity, and this spontaneous expression presup-
poses a mutuality of consciousness aware of other conscious-
ness by a direct inner contact and interchange.
CWSA 22: 1077 Sri Aurobindo

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