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How to Love?
Go into the heart, establish yourself in that heart, don't seek to posses
but go in and become the tenant of that heart. So all this grappling
and groaning and grumbling, you know, from the outside, it only brings
about imprisonment of the beloved, therefore a desire to escape from
the embrace of the beloved and therefore a broken heart! This is the
hint for the westerners who are always crazy about love. A very necessary
thing, but if you love from the outside, it is always doomed to failure.
You may possess but you will never be the ruler of that which you possess.
To rule something you must be inside.
We are human beings. If you have love here, if your heart is no longer
a heart but is an object of eternal love purified by love, filled with
love, therefore undying - love never dies; hate dies, prejudice dies.
They are here for the nonce, few days, few years, maybe even a few centuries,
but love prevails, prevails till the very end of time, for eternity.
Therefore one who has become love is also, ipso facto, eternal.
This is why we say God is love and if you are love in that sense, you
are divinised. So this is what we have to try to become. Our business
is to purify this heart, remove all the grossness, the hatred, the prejudice
that is now the only occupant of our heart, so that the love of the
Master may flow into it.
So, this is the message of spirituality: love. Love so well, love so
much, love so absolutely that your heart becomes capable of receiving
that which is ever flowing for us, ever raining down upon us and then,
in one second, the miracle is achieved that my heart is as big as the
divine heart and now, instead of receiving, it starts to give, and that
is the real beauty of existence.
You must love in such a way that you are not conscious that you are
loving. When we reach that stage all these aggrandisements of the Master,
eulogies, praises will stop. We will speak the truth about the Master.
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