I am the One and Only !

I am the One and Only.

Almost every revelation, discourse from any prophet, incarnate, divinty worth their name in salt have uttered thus or some variation.

Bhagavad-Gita 12:06 

Bhagavad-Gita 07:14

and many more in the Bhagavad-Gita, Bible and many such religious texts.

And each time that happens, a new religion, sect etc. is formed, claiming to be followers of the only true one and the others to be false (MASSIVE FACEPALM).

Achieving the EXACT opposite of the revelation.

The 'One' is all pervasive, unmanifest ! Logically also it makes perfect sense, the case that there can be only one 'One', and well, that's exactly what the One claimed, albeit about the unmanifest and not the manifestation.

And then each one of us, instead of understanding that there's only one One, with our finite wisdom, generally mislead by marketing managers (religious leaders) ask the question 'Which One ?'

The global religion marketing wars are now common knowledge, each selling their version of the 'One'; (with online ads also being adopted by some)

Ïn Hinduism, you will see religious scholars debating on the dashavtarrs being incarnates; whether of Krsna or of Vishnu, of who the greater God is Vishnu or Mahadev.

And they forget that the almost every form that they claim to be the One, including Vishnu, from whom these worlds are supposed to have emanated, mentioned that the One is unmanifest.

Going further, I have also at a point read a story about the BramhaDev (5 headed) of earth, once getting riled up about something and deciding to go to the One to complain, and being asked to stand in a queue, where he meets the BramhaDev of another much bigger world and thus having a 1000 heads who narrates issues tremendously bigger than his, and this reminding him of the triviality of the issue.

The story is mentioned to remind us that we are really trivial, the path to the One itself is important and should be the focus of our lives, instead of trying to decide which One !!