Day 2
It is immortal, undying, because it is unconditional, it is not attached to some strings. When you love somebody, you don't care what they do with you, how they behave with you. You simply love them.
Even in the case of the child and the mother, you have had many such examples where the children are not so kind, but the mother is always kind. You know, I heard about an instance in a train at a railway station, where a son had an argument with the mother, an elderly lady, and he really beat her up.
She was all bruised, but when the police came to catch the son, she said, “No no, don’t do anything to my son.” She prevents the police from taking action on her son, who has been very brutal.
Getting angry she says, “Never mind, he’s my son.” The police is trying to discipline her son, but she doesn’t want that to happen. Love is unconditional. Such unconditional love is amrit swarupa-undying, immortal, it makes you immortal.
It is not that one day you fall in love and the next day you fall out of love. Devotion is not that. It stays deep inside, even if you don't feel it everyday on a day-to-day basis.
Often people feel devotion one day and they start repeating all those exercises so that they can feel it again, but it doesn’t happen. But it remains, it is undying.
Once someone tastes the pinnacle of love, they can never forget it, they can never leave it. So that love is undying. Having attained that, human life becomes perfect. There is nothing that you feel you don’ t have. That perfection dawns in life.
You recognise that something deep inside which has never aged, never dies. It brings such fulfilment. Love brings such fulfilment in life. Having attained that, there is no more craving, no more desires.
You will not sit and cry for anythin, there is no sadness. You do not hate anything, nothing else is rejoiceful. Nothing else is pulling you off your centre, nothing else is charming.
Then there is no other enthusiasm or excitement that can take you off. That does not mean you are devoid of enthusiasm. You are not over enthusiastic, not over excited about anything.
Knowing which you become intoxicated, so still deep within you. You are reposing in the self. Only love can make you repose in the self, only love can quieten you, only love can intoxicate you.
There are so many types of intoxication, but the intoxication that comes out of love is the intoxication, the supershot. You are amazed, wonder-struck. It is baffling. Atmaramo bhavati - it reposes you in the being.
