Unity is a theme of this week’s reading, pages 98–108 in The Constant Companion.* The Lord is The Self in All, Whose Face Is Everywhere, Who Has No Form and yet has taken infinite forms as well.
Easwaran shares a story of a mutt, dismissed by a passerby as liking everybody:
“Mutt or not, I wanted to tell her, that dog was teaching us a lesson. Those who like everybody, even if their opinions or color or social status is different, have tremendous potential. Such people can go far spiritually, because they identify themselves very little with their body, feelings, and opinions.”
“When you see someone like this,” he instructs us, “remind yourself that he or she has already some awareness that all of us are one.”
What is one statement that speaks to your heart in this reading? How will you put it into action this week?
As we read The Constant Companion, we are working to strengthen our practice of Spiritual Reading. This week consider how these stories are speaking to you about your relationship with animals.
For our spiritual treat, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “The One Appearing as Many,” from the Shvetashvatara Upanishad.
* For those using electronic versions of The Constant Companion with different page numbering: this week’s reading is Easwaran’s commentary on the names Whose Face Is Everywhere through Who Has No Form. (Please note that the latest edition of our ebook is titled Names of the Lord.)