Oneness isn’t a feeling you achieve — it is a fact that exists whether you’re conscious of it or not. Danish integral yoga practitioner Jaya Berggreen Clausen opens Shakti Kumbh 2024’s session on unity with this precise and powerful statement from the Mother’s 1954 evening classes: “You think you are separate from one another, but it is the same substance in you all — and a vibration in one centre automatically awakens a vibration in another.” Oneness is not aspiration. It is metaphysical reality. Sri Aurobindo adds: “The divine is one. He only appears fragmented in things and beings.”
Jaya uses the layered symbolism of the Mother’s symbol, the Auroville mandala, and Sri Aurobindo’s symbol as holographic entry points — each piece containing the whole. The Mother symbol is treated not as a fixed system but as a living hologram: wherever you enter it, the entire teaching is accessible from that doorway.
The session culminates in the Mother’s flower teachings from Auroville’s garden — 900 flowers catalogued by the Mother herself, each named for a spiritual quality. The plumeria is given as Psychological Perfection — with its five petals mapping directly to sincerity, faith, devotion, aspiration, and surrender.

About the Speaker:
Jaya Berggreen-Clausen -Project holder at Unity Pavilion, Auroville, is a Researcher and Integral Yoga Practitioner