10. All Beings are Eternally Unique

We are all unique. Sometimes people who subscribe to democracy are very proud of the Declaration of Independence in America. Especially Americans, but even other people, they’ll say, “There it says, Thomas Jefferson wrote, ‘All men are created equal.’” Then first question: and women? Women didn’t have equal rights when he wrote that. And what to speak of people of colour, they weren’t considered ... They weren’t as enlightened as they appeared to be, the so-called “Enlightenment thinkers”.To rephrase that we can say, “All beings are eternally unique”. Because that didn’t include our friends the animals and so many others. So rather we can restate that as, “All beings are eternally unique”.

So, we have so much variegatedness in the human position, in the animal position and all of the species. And as I stated at the beginning, “The body is the biological expression of the soul’s delusion.” So no two are identical, actually, and in that sense not equal. They are all unique. There are similarities, but all unique. So, we look the way we do ... You could say this if you are following the theme of what we were discussing this evening, is that the way we look at present is a perverted reflection of our spiritual features.

We have unique spiritual forms and features called swarūp, but the swarūp at present is covered by layers of ego, in Guru Mahārāj’s words: acquired prejudice, acquired tendencies. It’s being pervertedly expressed into this plane. Our loving propensity towards Kṛṣṇa is being expressed as an exploiting tendency towards matter in the mundane, and we have taken on these varieties of forms that are all unique, but they are perverted reflections of the original. That swarūp, covered by layers of ego, acquired prejudice, acquired tendency, mind, mental body, or intellectual body, mental body, physical body, but still it’s different, unique. But it is not the pure expression. When we are enriched with dedicating tendency, when we withdraw from the plane of exploitation and are reconfigured as dedicating units, servitors, then, gradually this body, which is constructed upon exploiting tendencies, starts to dissolve. And the swarūp, which is the spiritual form expression of dedicating tendency, starts to manifest.