Differences or Sameness

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Differences or Sameness, Separation or Unity, Fear or Love

 

Differences => Separation => Fear => War

Sameness => Unity => Love => Peace

 

Amma says, " Intellect is like a pair of scissors which cut and separate; the

heart is like needle and thread which sew things together. "

 

Amma, Jesus, all genuine teachers teach the same thing:

" Love God, Love yourself, Love everyone including enemies. Seeing God in

everyone makes this possible because God is Love, and your true nature, who you

really are, is also Love. Love is Truth. " This is the essence of all

spirituality, the rest are all details which need to be managed in an

appropriate sattvic way without allowing intellect to distort Love[ Truth ] into

negative emotionalism.

 

When the essence of this teaching has been experienced and understood deeply

enough, one sees from the heart that there is no difference between Amma,

Christ, Babaji, others as far as the essential teaching is concerned. It's the

same.

 

If you see differences, you are seeing from the intellect focusing on some

details and not on the essence. For example, if you know yourself, your true

nature, as Pure Love, then it doesn't matter if you are married, single or a

renunciate; you will be happy. But, if you don't know your true nature as Love,

then it may seem to matter a lot. And if your choice, which is your

responsibility, doesn't work out as your intellect had expected, your intellect

will find someone/everyone to blame except yourself.

 

This blaming will make you miserable and the intellect will look to justify

itself perhaps by clinging to some fundamentalistic divisive belief " my

belief/teacher is better than your belief/teacher, etc. "

 

There is nothing wrong in you believing that one teacher is better/best for you

personally, but if you try to impose this relative truth onto others, then

you're trying to make a relative truth an Absolute and entering the dangerous

route of divisive fundamentalism.

 

One big problem in all of this is that emotionalism, even negative emotionalism,

may be confused with Love. But negative emotionalism, actually, is not a feeling

of the heart, although that's the common mistaken assumption. Negative

emotionalism is actually the head interpreting what Love should be in a

distorted way.

 

In order for the intellect to function properly without distortions, the heart

has to be sufficiently open to God's Pure Love as an experience. This is not so

hard, as many experience this as compassion for the suffering of others as in

the Haiti disaster, etc. This is why Amma emphasizes selfless-service so much,

in order to bring proper balance between heart and head.

 

It is not the heart that needs to be purified because the " heart " as I use the

term here is always pure. It is the intellect that needs to become more pure,

more sattvic, to allow the experience of God's Love in its Purity, not distorted

into negative emotionalism.

 

All spiritual practices are for the purpose of 1) managing the mind and keeping

it out of trouble( i.e. making it more sattvic), 2) slowing thoughts down to

increase space for the heart, 3) allowing your identification to shift from

body-mind to Love[ Self].

 

thanks for listening

Amma Bless,

amarnath