A LIVING GEM FROM RAMESH
(never before published)

Nature appears to be a hierarchy of many grades, corresponding to what the scientist calls “levels of magnification”. Thus, when we adjust our lenses to watch the individual cells of our organism, we see only particular successes and failures, victories and defeats in what appears to be a ruthless “dog-eat-dog” battle. But when we change the level of magnification to observe the organism as a whole, we see that what was conflict at the lower level is harmony at the higher: that the healthy, ongoing life of the organism is precisely the outcome of this microscopic turmoil. Now the expansion of consciousness is no other than extending our vision to comprehend many levels at once, and above all, to grasp those higher levels in which the discords of the lower levels are resolved.