Unity in diversity has become a catch phrase for civilized people who celebrate differences and want to end civil disruption, communal violence, religious conflicts and international tensions.
The principle of unity in diversity has its origins in the concept of inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference. Although the Vedas enjoin; everything is non- different from the God who is the Supreme Soul, this creates logical enigmas. For instance, if everything is one, why do not I eat my kith and kin? Further, how can Brahman be complete since it also presupposes negation of everything material?
The idea of simultaneous oneness and difference may pose problems for rationalists, but it is easily resolved when one accepts an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent god. In other words, essential truth contain paradoxes, and we cannot know everything by reason and deduction.
For instance, our body functions as a holistic unit, but we constantly make distinctions
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