Totality is all that is. We are a part of the totality, but in reality, we are also the whole of it! Like the water in every drop of ocean is the ocean, and ocean is nothing but the drops of water in it. This is the ultimate paradox, where the whole is in every part and every part is the whole. This whole is the true essence of all that is, the isness of everything. The decision to be knowingly whole or to identify with a part,  is always the freedom and choice of the totality.

It may be understood better if we explore the mechanism of this choice. Every action that we perform is a result of a thought, feeling or impulse. These thoughts arise, and we either choose to comply and act on them, or we choose to ignore them and they pass us by, without resulting into a physical manifestation.

At this level, the choice that decides which thought is acted upon and which thought is ignored at any moment, is conditioned and therefore not free. This preference to go with one or the other thought comes from the mind, which itself is shaped by numerous influences acting on it throughout the years.

So, this apparent choice is not really a free independent choice of the individual, but a conditioned response of the totality of all the influences that the mind has ever been exposed to. This choice is therefore made by that totality and not by the individual! It is the choice of totality expressed through an individual mind, and each choice thus made, serves the interests of the totality.

There is no individual separate from totality and there is no action that can serve an individual against the totality. An action would not be possible if the totality was not allowing it, if it was not aligned with its flow of oneness.

Morality and ethics are a completely different matter. Our human ideas predominantly evolve under a heavy influence of what we are exposed to, deeply conditioned by the prevailing social norms and practices, in the limited context of the influences to which a body-mind is exposed.

It is obvious that morality is relative, it changes with the time and space of the shifting geographical and cultural borders. There are strong moral and ethical values that we as humans identify with, that may be outrageously different in a society far removed from our current one, either in time or place.

Within our limited context and perspective, we create a framework of norms and expect ourselves and our peers to live by it. This works fine for a sane social environment to prevail and should not be challenged unless there is a valid reason or a pressing need. The human social fabric needs some basic rules to uphold a functional structure, that is safe and offers dignity to all its members. This equilibrium changes, evolving with the time and age, taking new shapes as civilizations rise and fall.

But when we talk of totality, it is not a human tribe, society or civilization that we are talking about. We are talking about the whole, all that exists, the reality, the essence, the truth, the meaning of all that is. Totality is everything, there is nothing that is not part of totality. Everything that has ever been, is and will ever be, is part of totality.

It is not bound by moral rules and expectations of the human mind. It is free and includes everything, there is nothing outside of it. It is whole, complete and perfect. Totality is the one reality. It is alone and is its own absolute standard. Human definitions of relative morality have no meaning in the reality.

Totality is in perfect balance and harmony. There is no chaos, no upheaval no anomaly, every apparent anomaly has its complementary aspect, everything apparently separate is paired with its opposite, everything is interconnected, nothing is isolated, lost or abandoned in reality! Reality is perfectly and asolutely balanced within itself. This whole, balanced one is the totality.

As oneness, as totality, what is the best course of action for the individual, apparently isolated, body-mind-ego entities?

As individuals, we have a very narrow view of the context where we find ourselves. We may extrapolate using all our reasoning, knowledge and faculties, but we still cannot see the complete picture, as we are limited by our senses.

The arms of science and rational thinking that we can project around, fall way too short to reach the edges of the totality pervading and surrounding us. We must accept in all humility that we do not understand many things and perhaps will never know completely what lies beyond the scope of our phenomenal understanding. There may be possibilities that we may never be able to imagine or comprehend.

Once we accept our limitation, we allow an opening for the mystery to remain, instead of forcing our fixed interpretations and conclusions on reality. We refrain from sculpting out a rigid image of the truth, that may satisfy our thinking minds, but will always be limited by its boundaries.

There is a lot in our lives which happens by itself, the doership of which can certainly not be claimed by an ego entity. All such occurrences proclaim the choice of totality. Body processes, chance events, the major and minor details that lead to a plan being formulated and the various influences that modulate how this ‘plan’ is actually implemented!

Things successfully being planned and carried out accordingly, do not imply doership. They imply a perfect flow, regions of which materialized through apparent doership. These are the segments where an individual’s wishes and will happened to align smoothly with the flow, asserting the choice of totality.

If it is all just the movement of the totality flowing as a current of oneness, then the ups and downs of the individual waves and ripples pale in significance. Each can only move where the force of totality pushes it. In the light of this understanding, can anything happen that is not a choice of totality?

We can forever intensely debate topics of free will, choice, destiny, chance and predetermination. But where is the room for the will of any individual wave to materialize, if not as one with the movement and flow of the whole current?

Everything up may go down, as everything down may move up, in an eternal continuous sequence. What can any isolated wave or ripple wish, project, manifest that is not already aligned with the flow of the whole? Will such isolated wishes and hopes be able to survive or see any reality, if they were against the direction of the whole? Is not the wish to move against the whole flow of totality an illusion, and the cause of all suffering?

We live and move as the billions of ripples in one ocean. The apparent differences and separations within this, are only illusions. There is no real separation.

There is no isolation, no fear and no suffering in totality. Whether or not we realize and live it knowingly, we are always only that. Once we clearly see, really understand this-  we are freed from the illusion, to consciously claim our absolute union with the oneness, our wholeness. We embrace the choice of totality!

As separate body-mind-ego we can never be free, but as totality we are always free of suffering. The choice is ours, as totality. We are free to choose ignorance and suffering identifying with a rigid separate isolated body-mind-ego construct. Or we can choose our reality of being one whole limitless totality, then we are instantly free from all conflicts and suffering.

Totality itself chooses to be identified with the illusion of separation. It is always free to choose itself as totality again! There is nobody else who can choose. There is nobody else who can be. Just by our being, we are the totality! There is no other way, no other possibility for us to exist, except as totality. We are always that.

We can be that knowingly, with a complete recognition, by aligning our lives with the whole. Then, our body-minds may continue all their functions as before, but there is absence of psychological suffering. We live in unperturbed happiness, being one with our reality, aligned with its flow, consciously embracing the choice of totality!