True love is Devotion to One Supreme

The purpose of soul's descent in this world is to acquaint her with the subtle joy of separation from her Lord. Having seen enough of the worldly sufferings, she takes recourse to the path of devotion to unite with her Lord. If a person is turning round in a circle, the first time he goes slow, the second time he goes faster, the third and fourth time he goes fasters, but the fifth or sixth time he will fall down. The first time he experiences the joy of turning, the second and third and fourth times he experiences more of it, till at last he is drunk with it and experiences it to the full and falls down. This is what the soul has been doing ever since the creation. Whatever she does she wishes to do more and more. A patriot wants to become greater patriot and a singer longs to sing more songs until she loses her voice. In every activity there is intoxication, having experienced which the soul wants to turn back from it, and then finally commences her homeward journey.


The female-mind makes the difference when one takes the return journey back home and moves on the path towards God. Every male has to become like a female, because he has to learn to wait and to trust; he has also to learn receptivity and acceptance; he has to learn non-aggression and passivity; he has to learn compassion, love and service-all the qualities of the female mind. The particular qualities associated with devotion such as meekness, compassion, obedience and readiness to serve are to be found prominently in woman. When a woman is most truly herself, she longs to give everything, claims nothing, surrenders herself, and renounces self-will. This is the true attitude of devotion (Bhakti) in the philosophy of Mahamati Prannath.


Mahamati, therefore, speaks of a bridal type of love for God. Because so long as our need of love would keep on looking for an ideal spouse in the world, our devotion to God shall fall short of the required intensity and single-pointedness. Jesus also says, 'The love of the bride and the bride-groom is the symbol of love between God and His chosen perple'. The devotees like Meera, Chaitanya, Kabir, Catherine, Teresa and others have always considered the soul to be the bride longing for union with her Supreme Lover. Mahamati emphasises that the heart of a devotee must necessarily be moulded into a heart of woman waiting with infinite patience to meet her separated husband.

Path of love

The religious person is life-affirmative. Nothing looks hostile to him. Even if it appears at times that certain acts of people are being performed due to some misunderstanding, he immediately perceives in him the will of the sporting divine love. He calls it a game of plurality without giving rise to any feeling of enemity and rancor. His affirmation to the existence is absolute and total. He knows that he has not heard the whole song, so some note appears to fall out of line. Since we do not know the whole story, some part of it may look not fitting with the whole. But everything has to be good in the end if it has originated from divine love. God is the guarantee of goodness.


The irreligious person is a no sayer to all that exists. He fights with the whole and tries to prove that he is something special. Ego arises out of disturbance when one is not filled with love. In the absence of love ego is always observed with a need to show the world that it is important. If someone loves us we feel fulfilled. We donot bother about others. If we are not loved we feel a vacuum inside us. We look into the eyes of other to fulfill it. We try to gather crowd around us. Through the crowd the leaders try somehow to fulfill their love need. But power cannot fulfill a love need.


Those who long to enter the temple of love by amassing wealth power and other worldly things always enter as a beggar. Love is an alchemical phenomenon, it can raise one to an emperor. For to love is to become a part of God, to allow love to happen is to float in the ocean of Reality. Ego simply does not exist with love. Love fulfills the heart so deeply that it ceases to yearn for anything else. But if that divine nectar is missing, one will try to fulfill it somehow by becoming great. One will hanker after music, literature and politics, or even one may lead a life of licentiousness and oppression of the weak.

Path of love 2

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.