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True Love Exists Beyond Eternity
One of his own brother disciples of our great Grand Master Lalaji Saheb
used to wake up at night before Lalaji woke up, intuitively knowing
when he would get up, intuitively knowing what he would need. He was
ready with a pot of water, with a towel, whatever was the need of the
hour. Lalaji Saheb, our Grand Master, was working in the Courts and
when Lalaji wanted coffee in the court, this abhyasi knew what he wanted
and he would go with coffee to him. There was no telephone. It was something
which you may call the telepathy of love. It is not mere telepathy,
it is love responding from one heart to the other heart. But yet there
was this fact that it was my Master who became Lalaji's chosen representative,
successor, and therefore, the recipient of his complete love.
It is my suggestion that when you have loved a person at the very innermost
core of existence, the physical disappearance of that person has no
meaning. Because, to the lover, the beloved is still alive, very much
alive. So how could Babuji ever have had an intimation that Lalaji had,
as we say in the normal way, died? So that is the secret of Babuji's
love for his Master. Because, had he been conscious of Lalaji's passing
away, I would say that it was a lesser form of love for his Master.
The proof is that throughout his life he said Lalaji was with him. He
used to question him; he used to ask for advice from him. Therefore,
that is the proof that, for Babuji, the figure and form of Lalaji, his
physical existence, had no meaning. That is the type of love we should
speak about when we talk about love in spirituality.
I asked Master, "What is the secret?" Master said, "When
two are present physically it is easy to love each other. Only the true
lover can also love when the physical form is absent." In his own
poetic fashion, he put it that 'any moth can immolate itself in a living
flame, but the moth that can immolate itself in a dead flame alone gets
what it requires, what it wants, what it seeks. So love which depends
on physical form, physical presence, physical aspects of existence,
is a transitory love. It is not love at all. You can call it by so many
other names, affection, attachment, passion, all these names or terms
are applicable.
But true love exists beyond eternity because the presence is unnecessary
for it. When the physical form is necessary, the presence is necessary,
there is a limitation of time, there is a limitation of space. But when
we have transcended the physical form and then the physical form perhaps
disappears from our vision one day, and that love continues to grow
beyond all possibilities of growth, then you know that here is a true
lover of the ultimate. Such a person has transcended eternity itself
because all the physical factors have been obviated from his vision,
have been erased from his vision. He is now Master not merely of his
Master, but of eternity itself. So the Master becomes, don't think I
am being disrespectful when I say this, but the Master becomes the slave
of such a lover. He becomes the servant of such a lover and therein
lies the service that Divinity offers to humanity.
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