Our in-born focus on differences, on how the person next to us is different than us, gives rise to strife and unhappiness. It is the basis of discrimination. You will observe this in nature. Individual creatures with similar characteristics and profiles group together while they shun those with differing traits. We are born with this tendency as well; we criticise those who are different than us in their beliefs, we fear those whose practices vary from the orthodox, we distrust those whose looks and behaviour differ from the norm.
What we fail to realise is that all arises from a singularity, a single point. That which we know, that which we see, feel, hear, touch, taste and perceive in other ways, they are all different representations of the same thing. Our knowledge - mathematics, science, the literary arts - they eventually will converge to the same point. Even sensitive aspects of our awareness - religion and race - are merely various forms of the same.
Religious knowledge will change over time - nothing is permanent, not even the concept of permanence itself. Yet, parallels can still continue to be drawn across religions given that most are born of the same essence and driven by the same fundamentals.
There is gospel truth in every religion just as there is falsehood. Our perceptions introduce elements that deviate from the original intentions. The individual who sits on the fundamentals will not be troubled by falsehood even as he seeks the truth. However, the enormity of truth means that one will not be able to fully understand until he is beyond the cycle and beyond the effects of the cycle. Only then can he grasp the significance of all there is and all there isn't.
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