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Love Received Must Flow Like A River
It is love that begot us; love nurtured us through the initial years
of our life; love strengthened and fortified us as we grew into adulthood;
love makes life possible thereafter, and brings into our life a flowering
and fragrance that warms our heart and cherishes us and fortifies us
to face life to its very end. Every one of us participates in this divine
play of love. In a sense each one of us is a tiny rivulet given birth
by love. Each of us is a rivulet capable of, and with the potential
for, becoming the mightiest of rivers. As each rivulet merges into another,
and as a stream thus formed of many rivulets merges into a river, and
as that river too merges in its turn into a mighty river, which ultimately
flows placidly into the ocean, we too in our lives must merge in a total
manner into something greater, mightier than ourselves.
We are attempting to do this. The love that we receive fortifies and
strengthens us. But then what is it that holds back fulfillment? We
are all too willing to let other loves merge into us, into our self,
and swell it, but we are unwilling to allow this accumulated love to
flow into the ocean of Master's Universal Love. In effect we are not
rivers of love, even small ones, but merely small ponds which tiny streams
flow into and stop there! Stagnant water in time stinks and becomes
unfit for any use. So we too become stagnant. The love that we receive
stagnates in us. And thus we too become unfit for anything, even useless
to ourselves, unless we allow the accumulated love in our lives to flow
into Him, and thus bring life-giving flow and power into our lives.
By surrendering the love that we receive, we keep uninterrupted the
cyclical flow of love. When we surrender this to Master, the mighty
ocean of His love is swelled, ever more and more, until it too merges
into the Universal repository of Divine Love. From there the Universal
power of the Master showers it abundantly back on all humanity of which
we too are a part, and we thus derive our love-sustenance from it! Thus
a cycle of love is established by which we derive increasingly more
and more of the love that we surrender to Him - provided we do not selfishly
treasure the love that we receive and lock it up for ourselves in our
little hearts in miserly fashion. If, unfortunately, we do this, then
the love that we receive stagnates and finally corrupts us and thus
does a disservice to those who had given us generously of their love.
The acme of surrender, is therefore, the surrender of the love we receive,
and it is this which brings about a state of spiritual surrender in
us. It is not merely a duty to surrender all the love that we receive
to the Master, it is the real way of surrender itself! This is true
surrender.
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