In order to experience Divinity, we should have totality, which is unity and not multiplicity. We are considering the one as many instead of unity in diversity. We only divide and do not make efforts towards unity.

All are one; be alike to everyone

The tailor has got the instruments of scissors and needle. What does he do with them? You give him a single piece of a two metre cloth and ask him to stitch a shirt. The tailor takes the scissors and cuts the cloth into several pieces like those for collar, arms, etc. The single piece of cloth is cut into bits. The tailor joins them all and stitches them into a shirt. It is the pair of scissors that he uses to cut the cloth into pieces. Then he uses the needle to stitch them together. We divide the one God into many, like Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Allah, Zoraster. But with love, we should bring them together. (SSS Vol.31)

There are a number of women belonging to good families, who have no independent means to sustain themselves and are not in a position to take up jobs outside. I felt that such women should be taught tailoring and given a sewing machine so that they can earn some income independently. Immediately 70 sewing machines have been purchased. (SSS Vol.26)

Women in various places observe what is called Ladies Day. The day should not be observed only by making speeches or holding bhajans. They should endeavour to help the poor and the destitute. Helpless women who have no means of livelihood should be taught some occupation like tailoring to enable them to earn an income. Slum dwellers should be helped to keep their huts clean. The environment also should be cleaned to help the children grow in a pure atmosphere. Proper housekeeping should also be taught to those people. Disease is caused mainly by unhygienic surroundings Moreover the air, the water, the mind, everything is polluted. This pollution is causing several, new types of diseases. (SSS Vol.29)

You go to Kashmir in summer and find that woollen cloth is available there at a low price. You buy it, bring it with you, leave it in your box and forget about it. After four or five years you find it in your box while rearranging things. You are reminded about it, call a tailor, and get a suit made out of it. Wearing that suit, you attend a marriage function. While sitting for a meal,

the trouser gets torn and you ask yourself in amazement how a new trouser could get torn so soon. No doubt it is a new trouser, but the cloth is quite old. In the same manner, your body may be young, but the nature and age of the jiva may be quite old. (SSB 1973, p.239)

Likewise, the bodies of a young person may appear as new and fresh, but may be of old stock belonging to some previous births. Just as the garment is the cloak for the body, the body is the vesture of the spirit. Krishna thus compared the body to a garment which gets soiled and worn-out, drops off and is reduced to ashes. “Death is the dress of life.” At the time of death, we cast off one dress and don another. No one laments when he is told that fire is hot or ice is cold. It is quite a natural phenomenon. Similarly, it is natural for the body that is born, to die. To lament over it, is sheer ignorance. (SSB 1979, pp.87-88)