Unity and Difference

Adam before he ate the forbidden fruit did not see Eve, or Hawa, as a woman. He noticed the differentiating physical factors only after he ate the forbidden fruit, hence the attempt to hide them.

This piece of information offers a clue as to how we may regain that earlier blissful state here on earth: to interact with each other as if we are not different, that is as if we are the same person, despite visible physical differences. It is difficult to do this kind of thing in the summer here is the West. Nevertheless, it is an excellent practice.


I have heard somewhere in South Africa a hotel has attempted to re-introduce this earlier blissful state by asking men and women to remain uncovered and yet act as if they were not.

Strange it may sound, most woman practice not looking around relative to men. They do look around but with less frequency than men.


From this point of view women would be closer to blissful states than men. Not looking around implies disinterest.

More effective way to maintain disinterest to all objects and persons except where there is mutual Interest-If there is, then you focus on how did it become real and then work towards it-and hear this and nothing else, is work, particularly work that helps one satisfy needs and aspirations.

Sometimes one's work might not help one attain needs or aspirations. If so, one ought to continue to work, modifying his work as needed by relevant causes and conditions. In the mean time, one ought to remain disinterested to the outcome of his work, but fully focused on his work. Even if one succeeds In attaining desired ends, one ought to still remain indifferent to such outcomes.


One, for instance, ought to not imagine someone saying I like you so much because you have done a great job. Doing so attaches one to the fruits of his work. It is possible such imagined state is false. Even if it is true, one may imagine another one saying the opposite.