anger, hate and cravings; they are all one's own creation. All finitehood and limitation is subjective and self-created; and with the surrenderance of self-will and ego-centered imagination there arises the true perception of the infinite worth of That Which Is.

When the Infinity of the Truth is adequately grasped from the point of view of non-duality, it also becomes fruitful for the adequate solution of social problems. Social problems can never be adequately solved by a point of view which accepts duality as an irreducible fact. Mere manipulation of numbers, howsoever clever, can neither yield right adjustment between the individual and society, nor can it yield true harmony between the various groups which come to exist within society.

If the social claims of a general nature are determined by the considerations of a small minority, the interest of the vast majority remain unreconciled, and the majority remains in inevitable rivalry and opposition to the minority. On the other hand, in democratic countries, claims of a general nature are determined by the considerations of the majority rather than those of the minority. But this point of view is still within the domain of duality, where there is the existence of the many; and therefore the problem of minorities remains unsolved. Since in this point of view their interests remain unreconciled, the minorities remain inevitably in rivalry and opposition to the majority.

As long as a social problem is dominated by the idea of numbers and multiplicity, there is no lasting solution; a final solution can come only when illumined by the truth of an indivisible totality and intrinsic unity in all. The One-in-All cannot be contacted through the multiplication of the many, but only by shedding the false idea of the many. Any number, how­soever great, is bound to be finite. Spiritual Infinity is not a number, however great; it is the sole Reality without a rival.

Where there are many, there is necessarily comparison between them; there is a smaller and a greater. There is a hierarchy of claims, privileges and rights; all evaluation gets twisted by the recognition of gradations of different types. From the spiritual point of view, all these are forms of false consciousness, because the same Truth vibrates in every one. But the sameness which is experienced in Realization is necessarily different from the principle of equality, which means that one person is equal to any other single person in respect to claims, rights and worth, but can never be equal to two or more persons.