17th September, 1997
Chapter 1 - The You That You Want To Change
Day 56 - Love (Continued)
When you love something, it becomes alive. With love, the whole creation becomes personal. For children, everything is personal. Children make each toy come alive. Even a tree has a face, even the sun laughs, and even a stone attracts reverence when it
becomes personal. In love, you raise even objects to life.
If you remove love, even people become objects. Violence is removing love. How could a person kill another? Only when they see them as an object, not as a person. People who see God as impersonal do not progress. The impersonal cannot attract your love or reverence.
Question - When we personalise something, we make it real. So then, what is reality?
Gurudev - You are the reality. You are not the thoughts, you are not the emotions, nor the actions. You are not even a person. There are 3 kinds of love - the love that comes out of charm, the love that comes out of familiarity, and Divine love. The love that comes out of charm does not last long.
Out of unfamiliarity you are attracted, then once you become familiar, you quickly lose attraction 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 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 fire in it. Divine love supersedes all other love. Divine love is ever new. The closer you come, the more charm and depth is there. Divine love has comfort, familiarity and enthusiasm. There is never boredom and it keeps you on your toes. 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. Beyond an event is Knowledge. Beyond an object is infinity. Beyond a person is love. Knowledge is beyond events. Every event colours your awareness in some way, pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow, anger, jealousy. Each event gives you a false notion of what reality is.
Truth is beyond all the colours of particular events. Behind every object is infinity. Objects are limited and changing, yet they exist in infinite space that never changes. Reduce any object to atoms, you will find that within each atom is contained infinite space. Beyond all objects is infinity. Beyond each person is love. A personality changes.
A body, a mind, a complex of behaviours is always changing. Beyond each personality there is unchanging love, love is what you are. When you lose your self, you’ll find your self.
The event behind the event is Knowledge. The object behind the object is infinity. The person behind the person is love. Maya delusion is when you are stuck in events, personalities, or objects. Brahman divine consciousness is seeing beyond all these. See? Just a little shift.
