GURU

Vefútgáfa  |  Uppfæra stillingar  |  Afskrá Líka við Tísta Áframsenda http://livingsolitude333.blogspot.com Love is not an emotion ... Posted by Hans Dholakia on 15 February, 2013 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 maya, a cosmic 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 aversion and 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 rose 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 Thmpson' poem, "The Hound of Heaven", God says to us : 'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me !... Not shelters thee who wouldst not shelter Me !' This poem was a favourite of my Master, Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (author of 'Autobiography of a Yogi'), who taught us what true love is. Human relationships, the Master said, will always be imperfect until anchored in the Divine. 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 afterall 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 ! Love, Peace and Joy , Hans www.hansyoga.com Motivational Life Coach & Trainer हम जो भी करें, आनंद से करें.... Posted by Hans Dholakia on 15 February, 2013 हम जो भी करें, आनंद से करें. आनंद हमारा स्वभाव है, इसे न छोड़ें. हम सत-चित-आनंद की संतान हैं , आनंद ही हमारा स्वभाव है ! हमारा एक मन है, हमारी भावनाएं हैं, सफलता / असफलता, पसंद / ना-पसंद, आदि सब हैं, पर हम इनमें से कुछ भी नहीं. हम तो एक दिव्य आत्मा हैं - हम सच्चिदानंद के स्वरुप में बने हैं . "ईश्वर अंश जीव अविनाशी, चेतन अमल सहज सुख राशी". सृष्टि-रूपी इस रंगमंच पर अपनी भूमिका (role-play) करें, पर यह याद रखते हुए कि स्वयं हम हमारी भूमिका या role नहीं हैं ; role तो बदलते रहते हैं पर कलाकार वही रहता है. अच्छे कलाकार बनें, संपूर्ण मनोयोग के साथ, योग्यता के साथ अपनी बदलती भूमिकाएँ निभाएँ, पर अन्दर से स्थिर, स्थित-प्रज्ञ बने रहें,सबमें शामिल पर सबसे अलग, सारे कार्य करते हुए पर उनके द्वारा नितांत अप्रभावित. हम कुछ नहीं करते, गुण ही गुण में वर्तते हैं पर हम स्वयं को कर्ता मान लेने की भूल करते हैं, अतः कर्म-फल से बंध जाते हैं. ईश्वर के लिए सारे कार्य करें, अन्दर से निस्पृह बने रहें, और जीवन-मुक्त बनें , संसार में रहें पर संसार के बन कर नहीं, प्रभु के बन कर. कर्म आपको स्पर्श भी नहीं कर पाएंगे. सदैव प्रसन्न रहें, ज्ञान की यही अभिव्यक्ति है . आनंद मानव की शाश्वत खोज है, हम जो भी करते हैं, उस आनंद की प्राप्ति के लिए क्योंकि यही हमारा आत्म-स्वभाव है , पर अविद्या और अस्मिता के प्रभाव में, हम आनंद को दैहिक सुख मान लेते हैं. यही हमारे क्लेशों का मुख्य कारण है. हम आत्मा है, यह ज्ञान ही सारे दुखों का अंत है . न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशम् पवित्रं इह विद्यते ...(गीता), अर्थात ज्ञान जैसा परिमार्जक कोई नहीं . हमारे साथ जो होता है उसका कोई विशेष महत्त्व नहीं, हम कैसी प्रतिक्रिया करते हैं, इसी का महत्त्व है . और यह निर्भर करता है हमारे मूल्यों पर, हमारी मनोवृत्ति पर - हमारी चेतना के स्तर पर . कोई तो वन में बाहर से त्यागी होकर भी अन्दर से मोह-ग्रसित हो सकता है - संसार की यादों में, सुख-भोगों की इच्छाओं में सोचते रह कर. और दूसरी ओर, कोई महलों में रहकर भी वैरागी हो सकता है (भगवान् श्री राम, द्वारकाधीश श्रीकृष्ण, और मिथिला नरेश महाराज जनक की तरह). भोगों के बीच आन्तरिक त्याग का अभ्यास करें. जो अन्दर से छोड़ा, वही त्याग है, फिर बाहर से हम जो भी करें . यदि हम सब कुछ ईश्वर के लिए करें तो हम हर कार्य, हर कर्म आनंद से कर सकते हैं - न फल की चिंता होगी, और न कर्म-बंधन का भय होगा. जो भी करें, आत्म-स्वभाव में करें, आनंद से करें. 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