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Commandment 6
Know all people as thy brethren and treat them as such.
The perfection of human nobility lies in the devotee being always within the sphere of devotion. All things descending from the Origin should be treated as coming from the same source. Just as children born of the same mother are related to each other in one and the same way, so also are all bound together by the same common tie of brotherliness, and are related to each other in the same way.
The underlying sense had never been fully grasped. Every thing emerged by the effect of motion around the Center and all work together unitedly. All are connected with the same Reality. There is no real separation. It was all really the effect of our own thoughts and actions that converted brothers and friends into strangers. It was due to our own feeling of selfishness that made them appear like aliens. This engendered separative feeling must now therefore be removed so that brotherly relations may be revived. This is one of the veils which enshrouds a devotee. Just as a feeling of remoteness sets in by itself among the members of the family when the number increases, in the same way our brothers and relatives begin to appear more and more remote by the lapse of time and distance, and the state which is common to all vanishes from the
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