Duality vs Singularity: From Devotion to Divine Remembrance

Duality vs Singularity: The Journey from Devotion to Remembrance

There comes a moment on the path where something subtle shifts.

You stop trying to become spiritual.
You stop trying to earn God.
You stop trying to fix yourself.

And instead, you begin to remember.

When I remember who I am, I realize something that cannot be contained in doctrine or debate: God and I are not two.

Yet most of us do not begin there.

We begin in duality.

The Necessary Illusion of Separation

Duality is the experience of distance.
God is there. I am here.
God is whole. I am incomplete.
God is infinite. I am limited.

From that experience, devotion is born.

Devotion exists because there appears to be a separate self. An ego that feels small, afraid, responsible, fractured. And somewhere “out there” is a Presence that feels vast, powerful, complete.

In duality, there is an object and a subject.
The worshipper and the worshipped.
The seeker and the sought.

And the ego thrives here.

The ego insists on authorship.
It wants control.
It wants to be the doer, the achiever, the one who arrives.
Even spiritually, it wants superiority.

But something deeper whispers that control is not freedom.

The Words of Jesus: Two Statements, One Truth

In the Bible, Jesus speaks two lines that seem to contradict each other.

He says,

“The Father is greater than I.”

And he also says,

“I and the Father are One.”

Both are true. But they belong to different stages of awareness.

The first speaks from humility within duality.
The second speaks from realization within unity.

When separation is still felt, reverence protects the heart.
When unity is remembered, there is no hierarchy left.

Krishna and the Order of the Path

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna is very deliberate.

He does not begin with non-duality.

Arjuna is confused. Afraid. Torn by responsibility. He experiences himself as a separate doer standing in the middle of conflict.

So Krishna first says:

“Fix your mind on Me. Be devoted to Me. Sacrifice to Me. Bow down to Me. You shall surely come to Me.”

Why?

Because Arjuna still feels separate.

Devotion is medicine for the ego. It softens it. It humbles it. It opens it.

Only after devotion matures does Krishna reveal the deeper truth:

“By devotion he comes to know Me in truth, and having known Me in truth he immediately enters into Me.”

First devotion.
Then knowing.
Then unity.

Not because unity was absent.
But because separation had not yet been seen through.

Ignorance Is Not Sin

Ignorance is not a moral failure.

It is simply separation.

To not remember is not wicked. It is human.

And knowing is not an achievement.

It is remembrance.

You do not climb your way into singularity.
You uncover it.

You bow because you still feel separate.
You serve because humility keeps you honest.
You surrender because control exhausts you.

And slowly, quietly, the boundary dissolves.

Duality Collapses Into Singularity

Singularity is not an idea. It is not philosophy. It is not a clever interpretation of scripture.

It is the collapse of “other.”

The collapse of “me versus God.”
The collapse of “us versus them.”
The collapse of “superior versus inferior.”

When singularity is lived, devotion becomes love without distance.

Service continues, but there is no doer claiming credit.
Silence deepens, because truth no longer needs branding.
Compassion expands, because there is no enemy left to defeat.

You realize that what you were bowing to was never outside of you.

And yet humility remains.

Because remembering does not make you special.
It makes you responsible.

The Responsibility of Remembrance

Remembrance is not a spiritual badge.

It is a lived responsibility.

Serve while you do not know, so humility keeps you human.
Be silent when you do know, so truth does not become an identity.
Love in both, because love is the only force that survives the collapse of the divided mind.

This is not about new beliefs.

The world does not need more people defending ideas of God.
It does not need louder certainty.

It needs fewer people certain of who they are.

And more people willing to remember.

To remember that beneath the roles, the fear, the politics, the labels, the religious arguments, there is one life breathing through all of it.

When that is remembered, duality becomes a doorway, not a prison.

Devotion becomes a bridge, not a hierarchy.

And singularity becomes less about enlightenment and more about simple presence.

You are not here to become divine.

You are here to remember that you never were separate.

And when enough of us live from that remembrance, the “us versus them” mind dissolves.

Not by force.

But by love.

A Call to Walk This Together

If this message stirred something in you… stay with that.

Awakening is not meant to be a solo climb up a mountain. It is something we remember together. In community. In shared intention. In honest conversation. In silence that feels alive.

The Awakening Collective is a space for exactly that.

Each week we gather with clear intention. We release what no longer serves. We anchor what we are ready to embody. We practice remembrance not as theory, but as lived experience. No hierarchy. No performance. Just real humans willing to soften, listen, and grow.

If you feel called, join us.

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