Thursday, August 3, 2017

The mystery behind “the one and only”


When we hail or haul or refer to someone as “the one and only,” what for do we do so? Yes, it is a general reference to and acknowledgment of a person incomparable, par excellence, unique. But then, are we not unique, each one of us? Each one of us, essentially, is “the one and only.” Our uniqueness lies in the subtle and not just in the gross…and even when we consider the gross, two identical twins subtly present their non-apparent uniqueness: their non-identical fingerprints!

The propagation of the saying is the unawareness of the truth in operation. The reference, “the one and only” yet again turns out to be not a limitation of this language, English, but an inference drawn not in conference with an inner knowing: “I am ‘the one and only’…you are ‘the one and only’…we all are that, as we all are one and yet unique, as all are one with The Infinite One…we all are the infinite manifestations of The One Infinite which can only express Itself as ‘the one and only’!”

Sushmita,

August 4, 2017