Spiritual path of Life.

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Dear friends and devotees,

 

Bhakti is eternal,

 

Share the wisdom of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji,

 

Love

 

15. There are three kinds of love; the love that comes out of charm, the

love that comes out of comfort, and Divine love.

 

The love that comes out of charm does not last long. It comes out of

unfamiliarity or out of attraction. In this love, you lose attraction

quickly and boredom sets in, like most love marriages. This love may

diminish and bring along with it fear, uncertainty, insecurity and

sadness.

 

The love that comes out of comfort and familiarity grows. You are more

comfortable with an old friend who is a familiar person, rather than

with a new person. But this love has no thrill, no enthusiasm, no joy

or fire in it.

 

Divine love supersedes all other love. Divine love is always new and

the closer you get, the more charm and depth you experience. Divine

love brings comfort, familiarity and enthusiasm. There is never boredom

and it keeps you alert and aware.

 

Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine

love is like the sky †" limitless, infinite. From the bottom of

the ocean, soar into the vast sky.

 

16. Beyond an event is knowledge. Beyond a person is love. Beyond an

object is infinity.

 

Knowledge is not in an event; it is beyond events. If you take one

event and infer anything from it †" infer knowledge †" it

will be erroneous knowledge. If someone gets angry and shouts, you

attribute anger to that person, but actually the anger was carried from

someone else to her. Someone else got angry first and someone before

that and someone else before that and on and on.

 

When you go beyond an event, only then will truth dawn. One particular

event gives you a false notion, so you have to consider the totality of

events, the totality of all events infinitely. Beyond the event is

knowledge.

 

What do we call a person? A person is a body, a mind, a complex of

behaviors that is changing. Love is unchanging. Beyond the person is

love. When you lose your personality, you become love. If you cannot

lose yourself, you cannot find yourself. So, lose your personality and

find yourself.

 

Behind every object is infinity. An object is limited. Reduce an

object to atoms and you will find that each atom contains infinite

space. Beyond the object is infinity.

 

Maya †" delusion †" is getting caught up in the event, in

the personality, in the object. Knowledge, love, Brahman †"

divine consciousness †" is seeing beyond all these. Do you see?

This is just a little shift. The object behind the object is infinity.

The person behind the person is love.

 

To be continued. . . .

 

With love and regards,

 

Sastry.