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Transmission Is Nothing But Love
Once when I was alone with Master, it was midnight on a very cold night
in Shahjahanpur. He was unusually moody and distressed about the progress
of abhyasis, and he casually said something, the significance of which
I did not realise at that moment. What he said was, "People say
God is love, and it is true. But yet when God comes to us, we are unwilling
to receive His love." Later on I understood that this love could
be what transmission is. It is the love that God has for us that is
transmitted, and it is that love which makes us grow. And this also
answered for me a very important question, why there is no compulsory
discipline in Sahaj Marg; because love cannot demand or force; love
must evoke. Therefore even the Ten Maxims tell us only what to do and
leave it to us to do it when we have developed sufficient love for the
Master and for our goal.
Always it has been my experience that, in the final sitting of an utsav,
a celebration, the transmission is full of love. It is something always
very unique; the final sitting is very unique. I have seen this through
my almost twenty-seven* years with Sahaj Marg. It is as if the Master
is giving us a promise: "You are going now, the celebration is
over, but my love for you continues." Celebrations end, but love
does not end. I think it is a message for us: "Love each other.
Through love conquer hatred, conquer dissension, conquer differences.
Where love exists, nothing of these things can exist." But unity
is impossible without love.
So organisation is necessary only to distribute love. Kitchens
are necessary to cook food, to distribute food. Satsangh is necessary
to distribute grace. Otherwise all these things are meaningless. A sanstha
[organisation] is a crazy thing unless it can do what it is there for:
to make the Master's grace, His benevolence, His love, available to
one and all without any categorisation, distinction of anything, any
nature.
* speech given in 1989
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