We would love our neighbors, our associates and friends without allowing our love to become lust. We would not allow our love to become an act of dependence and slavery. And in such state of loving, we will be able to cross the other shore of consciousness without any difficulty. The other shore is always by the corner and any moment were put ourselves in the universal loving state of mind, we can move to it. It is not somewhere far away in some remote galaxy, it is always here hidden in our understanding. It is a quality of our loving state of mind in which we live in the world without allowing the world to live in us. We have not to escape from the world, we have not to escape from our family and profession, from the opportunity where we can radiate the beams of loving glance to one and all.
Nothing else is essential. Truth is not in scriptures nor can it be found in the dialogues of the theologians. No amount of control of breath or repetition of God's name will bring us near it. Truth lies in the opening of our heart. Then love becomes the bridge between us and truth, then truth becomes available to us in our present existing conditions. Love joins us with the others and eventually with truth. Ego separates us from it. How ironical it is that, at first, we become something special and cultivate the ego and then say, 'I feel very lonely'.
Ego means a small island vulnerable to even a slightest attack from any side. The greater our ego, the deeper it is hurt and the bigger sorrow it creates. The lesser the ego, the smaller is its hurt. The wound is immediately healed. When there is no ego, it is hurt at all. Indeed, there is no one inside to be hurt. We simply live from moment to moment without malice for anyone, without being joyous at any success or frustrated at any failur. We simply live and that simple life is the true religious life, says Mahamati.
People who ask about God are not in fact asking about God; they are seeking love. God is love. Once love has penetrated our heart, God is there. We begin to see His presence everywhere. In the thrill of love is the Beloved; in the vision of love is the vision of God. The world seen without love and compassion looks material. Seen with love the world is transfigured and becomes the abode of God. Nothing changes outside, but with the wine of love in one's eyes we have a totally different existence available to us.
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