Love is the most important truth of life and yet has been the least understood.
Before we understand love, we must understand why we came into being. God created
us ("Eko aham bahusyam") because, all alone He could neither love nor be loved. There was so much of that pure joy in Him (Anand in Sachidananda), that He wanted to share it.
But the One appearing as many was basically an untruth, so Maya or delusion had to be created. Like you
cannot create ornaments with pure gold and must add some
copper,God could not have made a creation of dualities with a non-dual Core of His pure consciousness. So there had to be delusion.
So, as 'there was light' and creation was springing forth, God wanted to see if in this cosmic play,we would choose Him and love Him, or we would choose His gifts of dualistic creation and misuse / abuse our separate identity. For this choice to be exercised, He gave us free will and made us in His image, complete and independent in our minds.
Maya or Satan was given a job : to take us away from God, to let the One appear as many ; this was a centrifugal force set in motion. But God didnot want us to go far away and be lost either,so He kept drawing us back - this is a counter-balancing centripetal force. His love is unconditional and constantly though silently, it pulls us back towards Him. Isn't the earth pulled away from and back inwards towards the sun, at the same time, or the electrons away from and towards the nucleus of an atom ? If there was not this balance, the earth would either be flung irretrivably away or sucked into the sun, and be lost in either case ; and so for the electrons orbiting around the nucleus.
God pined and hoped we would love Him back, but most of us chose not to. He had to be a part of the drama, even though inwardly detached, knowing it to be what it was - just a play. The Satan also, being a conscious force, "a liar from the beginning" (since his existence was to make the One appear as many) and wanting to perpetuate his own existence and the tremendous power over us that it implied, overdid his job and rebelled. Wanting to not lose our freedom, we sided with him.
God waits patiently ; He can make and unmake galaxies in a split second, but He wants us to love Him spontaneously, without prompting, without force. No one can be forced to love,after all - not even a baby.
In each soul, being made in the image of God, there is this yearning for love, this desire to share the quiet joy within ; it's a pure feeling. It's love.
But the ego, a micro-cosmic reflection of the macrocosmic Satan that it is, corrupts this pure innate feeling into attachment. Love cannot be attachment ; attachment is an emotion and the natural end of all attachment is its opposite : resentment or repulsion. When we are too attached to a certain sweet, for example, it eventually causes nausea and we don't want to even look at it, let alone eat,any more ; when we are too attached to a person, it ends in disappointment and disillusionment,often
hatred.
Love is not possessive. It wants to give. All it wants in return is true love, but it does not cease even if not reciprocated. A flower does not stop its fragrance if crushed, or discarded, or even trampled. It does not choose who will receive its fragrance ; true love similarly is universal.
When you love truly, you love all. Because God is omnipresent, and true love is Divine.
So, then, is all human love, so contaminated as it is, futile and vain ? No, it is just dross under purification - a necessary part of the process, a base metal being converted into gold by the touch of the Philosospher's Stone that the Guru's loving wisdom is, even much more. The world is a school where, in families and friendships, we learn to purify human love into Love Divine. It does not happen overnight - through pleasure and sorrow, through sharing and quarrelling, through
attachment and aversion, through apparent owning and losing, through indulgence and restraint, ...it gets slowly catalyzed into pure love.
Francis Thompson calls God a 'Hound of Heaven' in his renowned poem by that name . He says God chases us, rather than we chasing Him. We don't need to chase Him, really, He is willing to come running anyways but do we really care for Him even half as much as we care for His many gifts?
He seeks and chases us because He knows what a mess we have landed ourselves through misuse of the free will He gave us, He knows we would never be happy until we loved Him back, so in Francis' poem, God says to us :
'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me !... Not shelters thee who wouldst not shelter Me !'
One may ask, didn't God, being omniscient, know this mess would be there ? Well, it is for Him to answer,but I guess He knew, we would eventually all return to Him and a drama, so sad and poignant in its course, would have a happy ending. For, one in-built good in Satan is that, he never binds us for ever ; a falsehood is falsehood after all and must fail.
So we keep seeking that 'something else' which will make us all happy ; God's love is that something else, my Master says, and for those who have found It, the search is over. and when we love Him, we will love all alike, for He is in us all - equally, no matter what our mistakes !
Dust of your holy feets,
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