‘Out of Many, One’, is a motto found on the great seal of the United States – in Latin: ‘E Pluribus Unum’. It describes how a single nation emerged out of many colonies or states, or that out of many peoples, races, religions and ancestries, has emerged a single people and nation. ‘Prior Unity’ however, is not a union ‘out of many’. Prior unity is there now – you don’t have to do anything to cause it.
Prior Unity means a unity in which there is no separateness, no "difference", no otherness and therefore, no opposition. It is already ‘one’. Adi Da says: "Not-Two Is Peace”. "Not-two" is prior unity. So he is saying that the acknowledgement of prior unity is the requirement for there to be peace in the world. We’re not talking here about struggling with anyone to establish some kind of structure or system, or convince everyone that there is prior unity.
Prior unity really does exist, and so, it is like the law of gravity: it operates whether you know about it or not, whether you understand it or not, and regardless whether you like it or not! But we know that in spite of the law of gravity, planes can still fly and rockets still can go up into orbit. And despite the law of prior unity, people can still have wars and huge difficulty getting things done together – acting like there is no ‘prior unity’.
Prior unity, and the need to implement Prior Unity via some new political and practical structures, is simply true, and everyone's participation can be invited on that simple basis. What is really true will be felt to be true at heart – there is no “proof”.
Gloria Applbaum is a Canadian living abroad who has studied Global Peace for years. She sees this as the turning point in all of human history where economic, environmental, security, and other global crises will lead us to the point of radical change, or catastroph. Please read Not-Two IS Peace a book by world friend Adi da to bring peace for the world.
