Path of love 1

Love is the very fabric of our consciousness and is therefore such a deep need that we cannot live without it : either the real thing or some substitute is needed. The substitute is always false, but so long as it gives us the feeling that we are in love it brings us joy. The moment we realize its falsity, we feel the need for a change of substitute. Lovers are thus changed, friends are changed and even religions and gods are changed. Ego then goes further into another life and is preserved life after life; only the outer garb, the substitutes keep on changing from birth to birth.


Amidst all these changes of life, however, love remains a great need of the mind. Mahamati has found in this urge of love a spring board using which one can transcend the plane of dreamy consciousness very easily. The ascetics, the men of learning and the tireless workers rendering social service labor hard at achieving the higher state of consciousness, but grind it very difficult, almost impossible, to succeed in their efforts; and million other efforts also fail to touch it. But Mahamati says that with the help of the basic urge of love haunting our minds, this gigantic task of awakening does become very simple. What we have to do is merely to understand the true nature of love which differs from the worldly attachment and through which our physical urges for passion are transformed and sublimated into softer forms of spiritual experiences of ecstasy.


When we look through love we know the reality as it is, for love is existential experience. It is orgasmic, our consciousness begins to stream. The existence has always been streaming and both streaming meed and mingle and are fused in each other. A higher synthesis arises: the part meets the whole and the whole streams through the part. Then something arises which is more that the part and the whole together.