TRUE LOVE IS A GIVING
When you say yearning for love, the whole perception is wrong. Love is not yearning because when you yearn for love, you seek a particular possession you want. Love is not wanting; love is giving, so yearning cannot exist. True love can never be associated with yearning, and when that concept disappears of yearning for love, then you will experience true love. True love does not want anything. True love is not wanting; true love is giving. So where is the yearning? Yearning is necessary primarily. Without yearning, these are the stages one passes through to find true love. You still have to yearn first before you can earn. Take the Y away. You yearn for true love, and then the yearning stops. That is the time you earn the actual value of love. To repeat, love is not wanting, never. Love is giving; you give to yourself because you cannot help it. You are giving, giving, giving.
DIVINITY NEVER ANALYSES; IT IS JUST THERE IN BEING, GIVING, GIVING, GIVING
My Pushpanee loves me not because she yearns but because she just gives of her heart to my heart in total purity. That is the secret; by that, you will pass and find peace beyond understanding. The mind creates understanding. But we do not want to interfere with the mind; it is shit. Love does not come from the mind at all. The mind is too analytical; we analyze things and say, “Ah, this is nice, and that is not nice, or this is fine and not fine and not fine.”
But the heart does not analyze. The heart just gives. I love you all, but not with my mind; I love you all with a heart that does not analyze anything. You might be the greatest sinner in the world, but I do not care a damn; the only thing I know is that I love you without any analysis. That is the secret of becoming closer and closer to that Divinity. Divinity does not analyze. Divinity is just but an energy. What do we, as little humans, have to do? I do not belong to this planet; I am from somewhere else. Love knows no analysis. Divinity never analyses; it is just there in being. It is just there always, giving, giving, and giving.
BE REGULAR IN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND YOU WILL FIND THE PEACE THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING WITHIN YOURSELF
That is the way you find the peace that goes beyond all understanding. Understanding is a quality of the mind, but peace is a quality of the heart. The mind will never give you any peace because the mind is filled with all kinds of complexities and conflicts. But when you go inside, there is peace that surpasses all understanding.
So, what do we mean by understanding? It is analytical. You understand this, or you know that, or you understand whatever. Peace does not need that. Peace needs no understanding. Therefore, to repeat, we say the peace that passeth all understanding and that peace is within you. It is there. You are born from peace; you must live in peace and leave this world in peace.
Let me tell you another secret of life: that peace has nothing to do with understanding – nothing at all. As I said before, understanding is analytical; you try to analyze and work out your computerized mathematical problems, which is not essential. That peace is felt here within, and your Spiritual Practices gain it. Be regular, and you will find that peace. When you find that peace, you will feel so much at ease. That is what you need.
PEACE IS GREATER THAN UNDERSTANDING
What is understanding? You read Schopenhauer, Spencer, and Kant and all those bullshitters that try to analyze and analyze and analyze. But what peace have they found, nothing? I have studied their lives, and they were the most disturbed people in the world.
I do not know if I told you that while traveling around, I might have talked about this in some lecture, but I cannot remember anything. For me, the moment is the moment, and nothing else is. Going through this village, I met this village potter. He was making clay pots, which are better than all your aluminum, and food cooked in those clay pots is far, far tastier; I can assure you that. I know I talk of experience. So, I saw this village Potter turning out his clay pots, and I sat down there watching him, feeling the beautiful serenity. He did not know at all, had no education, and was just an ordinary little Potter, but his very presence emanated that deep peace, although he had no understanding of all the Scriptures or anything. He was very poor, and we had one chapati together; chapati is an Indian bread, and I sat there for three days with him. He had a little hut to live in. I slept on the floor; I did not mind just being in his presence. I asked him to teach me something, and he replied, “I know nothing.” Yet he had everything, which was a peace that passed all understanding, and in that peace, I found so much knowledge in his peace. Because through the mercy of our Lord, I absorbed some of his peace, and you are absorbing my peace. So, what is more extraordinary, ask yourself? Peace is more significant than understanding.
TO FIND PEACE, YOU HAVE TO GO BEYOND REASON
Of course, we need proper understanding in today’s modern world because our minds have become very analytical, and we want to know the reason for everything. I will tell you something else that might be surprising: do not be reasonable; become non-reasonable, which means without reason, non-reasonable where all the different kinds of understandings gained are nullified and then going beyond the mind that keeps on reasoning and reasoning. Here, reasoning disappears, and then you reach the peace that surpasses all understanding.
So, to find peace, you have to go beyond reason because reason can only befuddle you. The reason is questioning, and one question will breed half a dozen other questions, while the half a dozen different questions will breed another dozen questions. So, the mind becomes more and more befuddled, as I said. So instead, seek within, and you will find the peace that surpasses all understanding. That is the secret of life.
Up to now, all of you have been involved in reasoning and working out problems; that is all you have been doing, and do you know the solution to one problem creates another dozen problems? It never ends. So, how far does your understanding go? It goes nowhere, but peace, ah, ah, that is something different, where there is no reasoning, no questioning, and just being oneself. And that is the goal of your life: to be at peace. Is that not what you want? Everyone desires it, but they do nothing about it.
So, find that peace that goes beyond understanding. I can only guide you to it. I can show you the path, but you still have to do it yourself, and your Spiritual Practices will help you. I know, through hundreds and thousands of people worldwide, I know. I know. It gives them the ease of peace, and then if they feel very hard up, you can always release the P in peace and go to the toilet.
IT TOOK TIME, BUT I FOUND PEACE, AND THIS IS WHAT I AM GIVING TO YOU
Remember my words, remember them, and think about them; it will do you good. That would be a path to find peace through understanding. So understanding is also essential. It is a step on the path to peace. Understanding brings you the right perspectives, and having the right perspectives brings you peace in life. When you have wrong perspectives, then peace becomes a disease. So, to have proper perspectives is very important. So, one step leads to another.
Having a proper understanding of life will surely help you with your spiritual practices. The power our Lord imparts through me to all of you will help you find peace. That is for sure. Is God not great? He sure is. He sure is. That is it; you have the idea. But now we are not talking of words. It is nice to have that as an affirmation. But the realization is essential; it sure is, and once we have that realization, we proceed from a mental understanding to the result that He sure is, and that is peace. If you could understand my words, your life could be transformed daily. It would. I do not teach by my words only, no. I teach by my life. Looking at me closely, you will find me in so much peace because I saw that. It took time, but I found it, and this is what I am giving out to you: my peace through the Grace of our Lord.
I GIVE MY PEACE UNTO YOU, BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOURSELF RECEPTIVE TO RECEIVE IT
The peace I give unto you. But you have to be receptive to receive it. If you are not receptive, it is like water from a duck’s back. You have to be receptive to accept it. You can have the strongest seed, but if the ground is not fertile, the plant will not grow. Make your grounds fertile. You can make love to a barren woman, and she will not conceive, and yet your seed is potent. It is the same analogy using it in different words. Become fertile through your spiritual practices, and you will conceive that seed of Divinity.
So, I give my peace unto you, and you can only gain some benefit from it if you are fertile and the land is well cultivated. Then that seed will grow into a beautiful plant or whatever. That is important. So, make yourselves fertile, and you can do that easily if you are regular in your Spiritual Practices; I promise you, I promise you, I promise you. And my words are gospel truths. But it is not my words. It is His words, I am nothing, I am a shit arse.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang CAN 1987 – 04
