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mind, your soul are functioning together in deep accord, when the visible and the invisible, the manifest and the unmanifest are dancing together. when they are like two lovers in deep love-mbrace, merging. melting into each other, the manifest making love to the unmanifest, the unmanifest making love to the manifest when the manifest and the unmanifest are no more two but have become one.
This is represented in the Upanishads by the number hundred. The number hundred is used to symbolize the ultimate state of oneness. The two zeros in the number hundred represent "this" and "that", the manifest and the unmanifest, the phenomenal and the noumenal -- two zeros. Both are whole, and when these both wholes become one, the number one in hundred represents that oneness.
One hundred is a symbolic number; it has a message. The two -- the body and the soul, the world and God, the changing and the unchanging, the time and the timelessness, the matter and consciousness -- are represented by the two zeros. When those two zeros become one, when they are not antagonistic to each other -- as in these three thousand years the so-called religious people have done... They have destroyed this beautiful symbol; they have put those two zeros against each other. They have created a life-negativity; instead of affirming life they have condemned it as sin. When these two zeros merge in a love affair, into a deep lovers' embrace into each other, then oneness is born. That is represented by number one in hundred.
A full material existence with a full spiritual life: that is wholeness. And that's my message to you. Be a spiritual materialist -- or a materialist spiritualist -- because to me they are not separate. The inner aspect is spiritual, the outer aspect is material.
The religions have divided humanity into materialists and spiritualists. Now Soviet Russia, China and other communist countries think they are materialist. They are communist -- they deny God, they deny consciousness, they deny soul, they deny the unmanifest; they believe only in matter. The word "matter" means that which can be measured; the "matter" comes from "meter" -- that which can be measured.
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