Love All Love God

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Love All Love God

 

When we say that we love God, it automatically follows that our love now extends

to entire humanity. Humanity is creation of THAT creator. Not loving HIS

creation would mean disregarding and disrespecting HIS existence thereby

implying that our love for HIM is superficial.

 

Often we hear learned people saying that they love God and love everyone.

However, it is easier said than done. The very same people will be seen judging

others, telling others what is wrong in their behavior and how to behave rightly

etc without realizing that each and everyone behaves in a particular manner due

to various reasons (karmic, Prarabdh etc) which one cannot comprehend with his

limited knowledge. We do not know why a person behaves in a particular manner

because we know only about his present lifetime and not his past births.

 

Loving God means accepting each and everyone just the way they are and not

passing any judgments. Everything that God has created is in perfection. All

that we see around us and also what we cannot see or feel through our five

senses is result of that Divine Will. Therefore, it has to be PERFECT. What is

perfect need not be judged.

 

Our Shastras are full of stories where one person’s bad behaviour (like Kekayi

in Ramayana) has resulted in destruction of demons. With our limited

capabilities we cannot judge what the cause of someone’s action is and what will

be the ultimate result of that action. Keeping this in mind, if we stop judging

others, and love everyone equally we will be reflecting back what we have got -

God’s Love back to HIS creation.

 

True divine love is impartial. It knows no difference. The Sun, the Moon, the

Trees - The Nature offers its love, services, comfort & grace to all equally

without any discrimination. We are also part of this creation and most

intelligent of all then why do we distinguish when it comes to giving out love.

It could be because we consider ourselves and others separate from each other.

This is mine, that is theirs etc.

 

While interpreting a verse of The Bhagvad Gita, Shirdi SaiBaba has very kindly

explained that “the disciple also is in fact of the same swarupa(form). But, it

is overlaid by the effect of the samaskaras(impressions) of innumerable births

in the shape of ignorance, which hides from his view that he is Shuddha

Chaitanya (pure divinity)(see B.G. Ch. V-15). As stated therein, he gets the

impressions - " I am Jiva(a creature) humble and poor. " The Guru(spiritual guide)

has to root out these offshoots of ignorance and has to give upadesh or

instruction. To the disciple, held spell-bound for endless generations by the

ideas of his being a creature, humble and poor, the Guru imparts in hundreds of

births the teaching - " You are God, you are mighty and opulent. " Then, he

realizes a bit that he is God really”. In a state of ignorance, the human

believes that I am a Jiva (creature), Body is the soul (I am the body), God,

world and Jiva are different, I am not God, Not knowing that body is not the

soul and Not knowing that God/ world /Jiva are one. Unless these errors are

exposed to his view, the disciple cannot learn what is God, jiva, world, body;

how they are inter-related and whether they are different from each other, or

are one and the same.

 

Our body is vehicle of our soul and our soul is part of Divine Spirit. We have

what God has but in our ignorance we fail to understand this and feel that we

are different, separate and better than others. When in ignorance we compare

ourselves with others we are admitting that we are separate from each other

which is not true.

 

Now that we realize we are God really, it means the whole humanity is God

indeed. If that be so we are all One with the creation and creator. If there is

no separation, there can be no comparison and difference. All deserve love

without any discrimination.

 

It is a fact that divinity is embedded in our inner being (we being his

creation). Thus, we have vast ocean of divine love flowing gently within us. We

all are full of Love and we are not even aware of this. All we have to do is to

accept this fact, realize it, tap it and shower our inner divine Love outwards -

towards whole humanity. What we give out we get back. Therefore, this greatest

gift of God that we have- LOVE, is meant to be shared impartially with everyone

so that it easily comes back to us too. SOW love REAP love.

 

Vandana Ritik

New Delhi

 

http://saivandana.blogspot.com/2008/08/love-all-love-god.html