When we first began to study arithmetic and we got involved in division, we were usually taught about something called the lowest common denominator. It works like this, if you divide thirty into ninety, you can take the zeroes off the ninety and you will still get the same answer, three. A common denominator means that the two numbers can both be divided by the same number. Once you find that, the division gets quicker and a lot of extraneous numbers are left behind. For instance, if you divided three hundred into thirty million, it would take you quite awhile to get through all the zeroes unless you did away with some of the zeroes. Or the same way with five and twenty-five, like that. There’s a less complex way of doing things.
In this world we need to find a less complex way of doing things. We need to somehow get to the lowest common denominator. What does that mean? That means “What is it in all of the different things that are going on in this world, in all of the different ideas that are going on in this world, that if we looked at humanity, what is it that we all have in common? What is it that is the same within all of us? What is it that we can focus on that is not different, but same?”
We have different languages. We have different nationalities. We have different religions. We have different colors. We have different castes. We have different ideas. We function in different ways. We have different cultures which hold different things to be more important than others. In different places those things alter tremendously.
But, what is it that we all have in common? We were all created. We all have a mother. We all have a father. We all have those things in common.
If we look at our commonality as opposed to our differences, we can get closer to the lowest common denominator within humanity. If we focus on the fact that we were all created, then it should become very evident to us within a period of study that even though we may look different, the method of our creation is the same. The method of our being brought into the world is the same. If we look closely, we will also notice that the dilemmas that we all deal with when we come into the world have a similarity to them. They are the same.
