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Creating Love
Meditation is only a process. Constant remembrance too is a process.
It is designed to create love for the Master. So one who claims that
he is constantly remembering the Master but has no love for the Master,
is really not in constant remembrance. It cannot be true, because as
Babuji said, "We remember those whom we love." Here by remembrance
we try to create love and when love comes, remembrance as an act ceases.
It goes underground like the bed of a river on which the river flows.
We only see the river, we don't see the river bed. But without the river
bed, the river cannot be there.
So, the remembrance must be in such a way that it promotes love. It
makes the heart, you know as they say, beat faster. The anguish of separation
grows and grows until a person is ready to burst with longing! Until
that stage is achieved, my dear brothers and sisters, there is no hope
in spirituality. No hope in the sense that the higher gifts of spiritual
realisation which the Master only can bestow on us, remain beyond our
grasp.
By trying to remember Him, remembering Him constantly, we create
love for Him. Then we obey Him, His principles, His teachings -
not because it is some imposition of the Lord, or some authority that
He has established Himself to be, but because we love Him. We wish to
please Him with everything that we do. We wish to become what He is,
or what He wants us to become.
So, we must try to cultivate this love for the Master. For that, a great
deal of personal contact is essential. You know, you have the four stages
- Salokya, Sameepya, Saroopya, Sayujya* [progressive stages of
nearness to God]. So when are we going to create this love? We are only
playing with forms and names, pretending to love - most of us. But even
that is good because Babuji said, "By pretending to love, real
love can come into effect." So, at least let us start with the
pretence that we love, and try to make that into reality. So, for this
purpose, as I say, constant meetings are essential. I used to wonder
why Babuji travelled so much. It was only so that he could give an opportunity
to the abhyasis to be with him. He didn't have to be with them. They
had to be with him. So, since everybody cannot go to see, he was graceful
enough or shall we say gracious enough to come to us periodically, so
that he gave us an opportunity of being with him to enable our love
for him to grow. Therefore frequent meetings are essential.
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