The Key to God's Heart (6b)

September 17, 2007

LOVING GOD

(Chapter 6)

- continuation -How does God spend His time? What are His leisure and pastime activities? What does He do? It may be that perhaps that is the whole crux of the matter for

since He is omnipresent and is aware of all things at all times, the

only diversion for Him, the only true happiness for Him is your love,

is when you spend time with Him. More especially, persons who yearn for Him and want Him for Himself, and

not for the gifts He can or may bestow. It is a delight and a novelty

for Him to be loved for Himself. Otherwise, I guess it to be quite

tedious being in possession of all knowledge, past, present and future.

We have so many options before us to attract our attention to keep us

occupied and preoccupied and to amuse us. Lost

in the various distractions vying for our attention and being immersed

in the delusion of worldly reality, we forget Him but to whom can He turn?

Every

waking moment, one should be submerged in the contemplation of the

divine. Have you ever thought that He is trying and making attempt after attempt to attract our attention, to make us turn to Him! How can we even hear His calls

entrapped as we are in the delirium of our minds. We have so many

tasks, our days are full of work, duty, office, home, children,

ironing, washing, cleaning, cooking and working. When can we find time

for God's work? When can we find time, when can we make time for Him?

When can we find time for loving Him? Our desires multiply to make us

busy. We have neither the time nor the inclination to sit in silence,

to hear His call. With God, there are no shares. We cannot say that

there is a separate God life and worldly life. Do not separate your day

into God's

time and your time. One must make all work God's work. He will not

share Himself with you, your desires and your wants and needs.

One must remember, at all times, that God should not be treated as a distant deity to be bowed to and worshiped but is actually the closest, nearest and the dearest. He is the integral indweller of each and every one of us, nearer than your own skin, part of your flesh and blood. Imagine His feelings on being

ignored by ninety nine percent of

His creation? Do not place Him on a pedestal to be worshiped as a

deity or a sovereign divinity on a regal throne. Worship Him, if you

must, as your very own self, as very much an inseparable part of you,

not apart from you. Merge Him intimately into your life. Treat Him as a

friend, brother, sister, mother, father, confident, beloved, the

dearest, nearer and dearer than any other. Share everything with Him, your food, clothing, time, work, and play. Let there be the feeling that both are in one body and not two separate persons interacting. It is not an imaginary companion that you will have. It is a real, true and perhaps

your only friend that you will be blessed

enough to have. Whatever you wish for, your hopes and aspirations, ask

of this beloved friend. This process and practice will increase your

devotion and love for Him to such an extent that He will perforce become a living reality for you. You will so bind Him to you with these silken and enticing bonds of love that He will be unable to resist nor desire to withstand.

To see God, to acquire His response, to capture His love, to secure the golden

key to His heart and gain entry therein, there must be an acute,

passionate, consuming desire; an overwhelming desire that sweeps

all before it. God cannot be treated as a side issue of secondary

importance. A response from Him will only occur, be received when the

yearning is incredibly intense, even painful. When being parted from

Him is an agony that cannot

be borne any longer. If you place Him first, then He also places your

wishes at the top of His list and thereby, you receive everything. Alter the priorities of God and desires around and it is entirely up to your past merits as to what you receive or suffer. You are not

then entitled to that total complete protection that He offers, that is

yours for the asking unconditionally. You will only receive if you will seek Him first.

Develop your own love of God and do not evaluate or emulate others

for love emerges only the heart and not from observing others. If you

have love for Him, the Lord Himself, will play with you and become your

eternal companion. Loving the Lord is a divine romance. There is only

one romance worth the while to be enacted, experienced and enjoyed;

only one romance that guarantees bliss and always keeps its sweet

promises. All other worldly loves and romances give only pain and

sorrow for they are based on a conditional love, a demanding obsession

or desiring love. Love with and for God, and His love for us is totally and completely

unconditional. The divine romance is the most exquisite of all. This

profound love will be stamped with the hallmark of supreme total and

complete attachment to Him. See Him, the one you love, in everyone

around you. It becomes a simple task; look then in the eye and see the form of your beloved Lord. Within repeat the mantra 'I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you' every waking moment and witness the miracle that transpires. This is one of the ways to please God, to attain Him. Once you use the mantra 'I love you', you will observe how incredibly harmonious and beautiful the world becomes for you. How exquisite and full of priceless joy is every moment. How deep the happiness expands

and over flows in your heart. There is no time for worry, fear, anger,

or jealousy. All the vices and negativity will flee before the highest

mantra of love. There will be no room left for these things in your

heart. Merely repeat the mantra until it creates the love within your

heart, until tears gleam and fall like diamonds in longing of Him. Say

I love you to the people you see every day, the woman in the street,

the stressed mother with her children. I love you to the beggar. I love

you to the caretaker, the school children, the baker, the shopkeeper and the executive; that is all that is needed. Repeat it until it becomes a living reality within you. And a visible transformation

will take place, not only within you but all around you and in the

people you come into contact with. Your aura, your positive love will enter into these people and will have an impact upon their lives also. The 'I love you' mantra is more powerful than any other force in the world. That is not to say He is an egoistic being demanding love, devotion and servitude. Quite the contrary, what He seeks is not bowing and scraping, the creeping and pandering or prostrations but the sharing of love on an equal footing, as equals, as shareholders in His power.

Love for God is not complete, is not fully of the highest until there is no

distinction between lover and beloved. There should be no curtain, not

even the finest of veils to part you; no barriers nothing. There must be a total at onement

for that love to be complete. For then it becomes love that is poured

from one vessel to another. It is exchanged, and in that

exchange, it grows ever more from the devotee to the Lord, from the

Lord to the devotee. Backwards and forwards, forwards and backwards,

and each time it becomes more and more fervent and intense until it reaches the

highest state of devotion, sheer ecstasy. It may cause temporary

unhappiness leaving you dejected and sorrowful but your longing and

yearning will all the more ensure a flood of grace showers. Such grace

that you have never imagined. Such grace as you have never thought could exist. The more you yearn the more this wonderful profusion of grace will stream and descend upon you. Eventually, you will find that even the communication

and the connection are insufficient and that you need more, more from

the Lord, more closeness and cherished intimacy. The only solution to

wanting Him is to yearn, desire, long and wait

until you are ready to receive what you desire. Do not allow anything

to deter you in your resolve to reach the goal. For it is only through

this suffering (longing and yearning for Him) and tears is purity attained, purity enough to attract His love.

Through inner silence, learn to tune to God's voice. The distance between you and Him is the distance between you and yourself. Be attached under all conditions to the source, substance and sum total of all power. The power of the

Lord for then you can draw from that source all that you may need. This

attachment is called devotion, it is called love of God. Loving the

Lord is meditation. It is the highest from of meditation.

Just being immersed in thoughts of Him that is true meditation.

Conversing with Him is true prayer. It is the only real prayer. Real

meditation is being absorbed in the thought of God all the time, God only and only God. Think God, breathe God, see God, hear God, live God and love God. The Lord

is understood only by His devotee and the devotee is understood only by

the Lord. This is the mystical connection between the two. The desire

to know God, love God, and be loved by God, is not a desire that binds,

it is the one desire that frees you from all other attachments, from

all other binding forces. It sets you free forever.

Be content with the relationship you have with His presence. Yearn and want but do not allow discontent,

unhappiness, sadness or depression to mar your life. When one is

unhappy and distressed, how can the Lord be happy? One

must be constantly aware of His thoughts and feelings. If you are

joyful and blissful, so is He. He is a shareholder in all your feelings

and emotions, all your trials and tribulations, your joys and sorrows.

Love alone is enough. With love, one can win God and that is all that is

necessary. There is no need to read great philosophical thesis on the

philosophy of attaining God. All that is necessary is an all consuming

love, a little faith and He can be captured and bound to you. The

philosophical treatises demarking the scientific theories are for the

intellectually driven, for those seeking knowledge of God, those fascinated by facts and who like to analyze, deduce and conclude to their own satisfaction. The seeker of knowledge

asks how and why, the lover needs to know nothing; his primary concern

being that his love is returned; that it is worthy of being accepted by

the Lord and that it gives pleasure to the beloved. When you have the

Lord as your companion, have compassion for all those poor souls that

do not and cannot understand that they can have the Lord with them

personally intimately, close near and dear. They flounder in their daily decisions wondering if they have made the correct choices. They do not have anybody

to help them directly, to tell them what to do, how to avoid terrible

consequences. This is a delight, a joy that only the lover of God is

blessed with. Companionship of the Lord is one of the greatest gifts

that exists in the entirety of creation. Our sojourn on this earth is

for this one and only purpose. And once that companionship is ours,

there is no higher mountain to climb, no heaven left to attain.

- to continue -

(From : THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART by R SAI)

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