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No Love, No Progress
As our gratitude to the Master continues to increase, and as we are
able to perceive the ever-increasing grace that is flowing from the
Master, love for the Master begins to dawn in our hearts. I sincerely
believe that only when such personal love and devotion for the Master
begins, our real spiritual journey also begins. Upto now it has all
been the mere play of Master's power arising out of his transmission
and, in a sense, it can merely be called a tamasha [fun]. The
real progress comes only when there is love because, as Master has
repeatedly said, he himself is a mirror and only reflects what he sees
before him. Therefore when we love the Master, the Master begins to
love us and thereafter our spiritual progress no longer depends on us
but on Him. It is like the child being carried by its mother and very
literally from then it becomes the Master's responsibility to take the
lover as His own and to take him wherever He wishes to. In this part
of India, God is represented as love. In Tamil they say, "Anbe
Sivam," meaning God is love. But I believe God only loves those
who love Him, and perhaps the second half of the phrase has been left
out deliberately or by mistake.
So this is the secret of spiritual sadhana and spiritual progress that
if the link with the Master is maintained unbroken and the fire or the
flame of love is kept fed with renewed impulses of devotion, that love
alone is enough to bring us up to the goal, because His reciprocal love
starts flowing. He says, "Aise mohobbat karo Malik se, ki who
tumhe mohobbat karne lagen, phir to bhai, tumhara kam ban gaya".
(Love Him in such a way that He starts loving you. Then, brother, your
job is done.) These are Master's words.
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