LOVE JUST IS
I love you passionately, deeply, profoundly; there is no measure. Yet, I am non-attached to you, for it is not I who loves you; it is that Divinity within me which is one with the Divinity within you. That oneness, that fusion, is love. You see how powerful it is.
Someone is pretty, and someone is ugly, as the saying goes. As people observe through their eyes, some are tall, and some are short—what matters to me? Some might be healthy; some might be lepers—what matters to me? That is just an outward, physical manifestation. I am interested in what you are.
Knowing that which you are and knowing who I am, no question is left of service or loving. I do not love. I am Love. Because when I say, “I love,” it means I am applying a conscious effort to love, and when I apply that conscious effort to love, I put the mind in between.
Real love is beyond the mind; it goes from here to there – your Heart. There is no going and coming. It just is. I do not serve. I just am. Why should the flower be conscious of its beauty? Because as soon as that consciousness is considered, that head of ego pops up. “I serve.” No. I do nothing. Yet we know that the player requires his instrument to play.
In this game of life, all these things are necessary. How would you like to go and see a football match that does not have a ball? The ball is needed in the game of life. It is not always counting the goals all the time; the enjoyment of the game is important. Happiness, joy, and absolute sincere inner joy are essential, expressed in love and action, for the kind of love man knows of today is also an action and movement.
LEVELS OF LOVE
There are levels of love. The finest love is that which is still, just like the ocean’s depth where it is still. Specific movements occur within its levels, and certain interchanges occur on surface levels. As we go deeper through our meditational and spiritual practices, the movements of love become less and less and less.
Then, the reality of love—just the stillness—is known. Then, we know who acts. There is no action. Nothing is happening! It just is! It is nothing. Total stillness. That is the Absolute, the absolute love. But that is far, far away. I am just giving you an idea of my own experiences. But between stages, the movement is there; the interchange is there. It has to be so.
We do our spiritual practices and our meditations. We improve our actions in a goodly, godly way; any person has that little common sense to perform his or her actions reasonably. All this helps. Good reading leads one’s mind to better thoughts; listening to Satsangs helps; gaining new perspectives in life helps; being in good company, holy company, one has bathed in spirituality that holy people emanate from themselves. You will feel different. Something is happening. It has its long-range effects. For some people, it takes a little time immediately; for others, it takes a little time.
With all these things, we start realising what our actions are worth, for we reach the stage from doing, doing, doing, to non-doing. We reach the stage from mind, mind, mind, to no mind. We reach the stage from world, world, world, to no world. So, how far have we travelled? From nowhere to nowhere. And that is where the real spirit is: nowhere. Yet, if you spell the word “nowhere” with a hyphen in between the letters, it is “now-here.”
With these attitudes in mind, these little understandings, a person evolves. If a person is greedy, lustful, or has negative qualities, try to control and curb them. You cannot because the more you think about it, the more you strengthen that weakness.
You do not dwell on them. Substitute them with the things that I have spoken about. You could never remain in a vacuum; when a more significant, purer force comes in, the weaker force of the weakness is pushed out automatically. That is how we get rid of all our negativities.
It is like two wedges, oblong-shaped – at the fat end of one wedge, you would have the narrow end of the other wedge. This is how positivity and negativity work. At the broader end of positivity, negativity would be less. At the wider end of negativity, positivity would be less. It is an oblong shape. That is how we progress, through these realisations backed up by the integration of force and power within us.
In our spiritual practices, we combine all these pieces into a wholeness. When we function in that wholeness, we can live the injunctions of the scriptures, which say, “First be established in Self and then perform an action, for that action will be non-binding.”
Good action is also binding – bad action is also binding. The difference is that good action which binds brings you harmony and more joy, and the path is smoother and more positive. Wrong action brings about disharmony and negativity. But the time must come when we rise above both good and bad. Then we reach the Absolute, for everything has its rewards. Good has its rewards, and so does bad. If we have the choice, if the little ego self has the option, then be good, do good. It is just as easy, and as a matter of fact, it requires less energy than the reverse of that.
Be good; doing good requires less energy than doing no good. It requires less energy to smile than to frown. Smiling exercises the facial muscles as well. These things are so, so simple. They say, “action for the sake of action,” that is fine, but all words, words, words. But these are the procedures, these are the mechanics, whereby that aim or that goal can be reached, where just spontaneously everything we do becomes an offering to Divinity because you are divine, the action is divine, the offering is divine; and that to which it is offered is also divine.
Proper understanding of these spiritual values can only come when we become more integrated. Then, we no longer need the mind to analyse them for us. We know. It is a knowingness beyond all analysis. It is a peace beyond all understanding. That is how it works. You see, it is so simple. You can like that.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 79 – 09
