The Knowledge of Love

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The Knowledge of Love

 

Mohabbat ka rastha jisne dikhaaya

Shraddha saburi se jeena sikhaaya

Sayee ko mere laakhon pranaam

Jab gaatha hoon mein Sayee kaa naam

 

" The one that showed the path of love, to live with faith and

patience,

Oh Sai unto you I bow countless times as I sing the glory of your

name "

 

What did those learned say about the path shown by Saibaba? Is it

bhakthi marg, the path of devotion, or jnana marg, the path of

knowledge? If it is bhakthi, devotion, what is devotion? Is devotion,

mere love of God? How different is this from the " love " of other

things? If it is knowledge, Knowledge of " what " ? Is it the Knowledge

of love? Or perhaps the path itself is " prem rog " , the healthy

disease of love that culminates with the death of the self!

 

How does loving anything that doesn't last long be considered as sane

practice? A serious contemplation on this is perhaps the means and

purpose of any knowledge. Transience is the proof of falsehood and

the real is eternal. Saibaba is the concrete form of one that is

eternal. Acquiring any amount of knowledge on the nature of eternity

is still halfway unless it transforms into everlasting love towards

that which is eternal. Sri Rajaji said jnana is mere tinsel, a flashy

glitter, unless it is transformed into bhakthi.

 

In the path of Sadguru, no matter however learned one may be, the

knowledge he acquires is no more than a tool to experience the loving

devotion for Sadguru, the love and devotion to the exclusion of

everything else.