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In a message dated 2/20/1999 12:26:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,

madhya writes:

 

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Harshadeva;

 

I spent some time a couple of evenings ago reading the words of

Ramana Maharshi. They are quite delicious.

 

Madhya >>

 

Thank you Madhyaji for your recent words and contributions. Thanks to Jan for

his poetry and his very educational comments on being a raw food eater and a

fruitarian. Thanks also to Gloria Greco for her insights. Thanks to Jerry,

Gene Poole and Tim and so many others who share from their heart.

 

Siva to Parvati: The happiness attained in this aloneness is the highest,

boundless bliss. Which learned persons will not revel in that Supreme Reality,

in which there is absolutely no action? -- Devikalottara, verse 11.

 

Be in Peace, Stay in Peace, You are Peace. Peace

God bless you all

 

Harsha

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What brings us all together is love is it not? A dear friend set this to

me today.Gloria

 

"The final lesson is about the true meaning of love. I have said

> before that fear is the self-imposed block to the awareness of love's

> presence. When fear is released, love is revealed. And yet the true

> experience of love is beyond anything you can now imagine. It is beyond

> the thought or the idea of love. It lies past all the images and

> symbols you have made to obscure love's call. And yet it is closer than

> you know, closer than your breath or even the silent whisper of love's

> longing for itself. And what is the secret that love has whispered into

> your half-closed ear, the distant echo that has haunted you so? Only

> this: You are the very essence of Love. This very monent, just as you

> are, in spite of all the preconceived ideas you have of yourself, love

> claims and accepts you.

>

> "You have forgotten who you are because in your fear of losing love

> you have witheld that which is your foundation. Love by its very nature

> is a gift that is freely given. And yet this gift is known only as it

> is given again. Only when love is breathed from one heart to another is

> it fully experienced. When love is witheld, it is forgotten, and

> because you and love were born together, you are forgotten with her.

> She lies hidden within you beside the still forgotten memory of your

> truest Self. Though asleep and dreaming, she awaits the dawn when her

> name is called and she is again brought back to life. And the awakening

> of love is your awakening as well, so intimately linked, all from giving

> freely that which you are: the full awareness of love's presence. But

> this awakening requires that you willingly give up all the ways you have

> tried to limit and contain her. You cannot guide love's path, but if

> you submit to love's truer vision she will guide you, showing you a new

> vision of yourself.

>

> "True, or unconditional, love is unaware of the strange demands you

> impose on your relationships. Love is the same for all. Your attempts

> to reserve love for specific relationships and then withold it from

> others is the very thing that has blocked your vision of love's

> presence. Give as love gives -- just as the sun who gives its light to

> all who ask, or the sparrow who sings not for the one who listens, but

> for the song itself. When you give love, love is your reward. When you

> judge some people as worthy of your giving and other people as

> undeserving, then it is you who is undeserving; not because you have

> been judged by love but because you have forgotten love's law.

>

> "You, in your essence, are the fountain of unconditional love. The

> water you give refreshes the whole universe, for you are not seperate

> from one part of the universe but intimately linked to all. Let your

> gift be free, then. Let it flow from you and wash over all those you

> see, all those who cross your path. Do not think that you cannot still

> have relationships that are more involved than others. Involvement has

> nothing to do with love. There will always be those in your life with

> whom you share the deeper pulse of your thoughts and those whom you do

> not. But the love you give is the same for each of them. It is but the

> recognition of the very same life of which you are continually reborn.

>

> "Love is a knowing; a pure understanding. It knows that all things

> are whole, regardless of their appearance of delusion, and it gives of

> itself wholly, without judgement, without recognizing the difference

> between this relationship and that. It understands that there is only

> one real relationship and it is the one we all share, the Self that is

> beyond the thought or the idea of Love, the holy encounter of life with

> life. The secret of unconditional love is that we are all the same,

> holy beyond imagination. This is what the release of fear reveals.

> This is what you are all looking for. And this is what you will find

> when you open your heart to every element of creation."

>

> We all sat there for a very long time without saying a word. The

> silence was overwhelming. I looked up at Teacher and thought I noticed

> a change. His face began to glow, I was sure of it. The Light radiated

> from him and all around him. Then it extended to include all of us. We

> were engulfed in the Light. I cannot describe what this was like

> because it was beyond anything the world can understand. Several of the

> women and attendants stood up from their chairs. One of them started

> jumping up in the air, and another began laughing out loud. Soon we

> were all laughing and dancing, moving with the energy and sharing the

> Light. I could no longer tell the difference between myself and the

> others. In that instant, I understood everything. I was Teacher. I

> was the Light. I swam in the ocean of sameness and knew I would never

> leave again.

>