Unity in Diversity: The Grand Paradox... How can everything be one, when we so clearly experience a world of infinite diversity and difference? This paradox is at the heart of many non-dual philosophies. They don't deny the reality of diversity; they simply state that it is not the ultimate truth. The concept of “bhedābheda,” or difference-and-non-difference, attempts to describe this. The universe is different from the absolute in its manifestation, but non-different in its essence. It is like