Two Boxes or Three?

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Imagine a giant diamond… so large that you can put your whole face against each facet and look inside to see the entire diamond from within.

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Such a view through each facet gives a unique perspective on the same one diamond.

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Through each facet, the entire diamond is seen in terms of that facet.  It is all about the view in terms of that facet.  That facet is everything.  Nothing is greater than that angle of perception.

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This explains why devotees of one God or another see their God as the only truth and greatest God.  And they are correct.

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Simultaneously valid, yet contradictory realities, is the structure of the universe.

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This is why each Purana states that that deity is the greatest and the source of all the others.  They are all right.

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They only appear to contradict.