Love-Trust

 

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Love-Trust

There can be no trust without love – only love creates trust. The mind is extremely frightened of love and trust. The mind is so used to control that when love and trust make an appearance, emotions take over and mind loses control. Specially on the spiritual path, when we are initiated and taken as a disciple of a living Guru – it implies implicit trust and trust cannot come without love. So, our complete unconditional surrender at the Guru’s lotus feet means that we have complete love and trust for our Guru.

When we trust as part of our daily life means we have reached a stage where our love is overflowing and all our relationships flow through this love and trust. When we say love, we are not talking about the physical aspect, we are talking about love for all beings – sentient and non-sentient in nature. It is a state of our being that we are loving and trusting; that whatever happens our loving and trusting will remain the same….we may be deceived, cheated too….but the love and trust still remains.

Love needs two things – it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know how to trust. If both these are available to us, then our life starts blossoming as if suddenly spring has come. Love always trusts and if it finds that trust is not possible it simply moves off in a friendly way, there is no conflict and fight.

Trust has a higher value than love. In trust, love is implied; but in love, it is not necessary that there is trust. When we say we have complete trust in our Guru, love is implied; but in love, trust is not implied. When we tell someone that we love him/her, trust is not at all in the picture. In fact, this love, steeped in physicality, is very suspicious, very untrusting, very afraid, always on guard, observing the person one loves. In such kind of love, the lover becomes a detective, keeping tabs on the other person – they become spies, spying on each other.

If trust cannot be established in love, then it is better to separate rather than become a mental wreck. This kind of love destroys. Separation helps keep the love fresh, unpolluted.

Love and trust certainly play a significant part in the relationship between the disciple and the master. But that is only a stepping stone. One has to go beyond it. Love is beautiful, but not enough. Trust is better, more grounded, more solid. Love is emotional: trust is intuitive. Emotions go on changing every moment — they are in a flux; you cannot rely upon them — but trust can become a great foundation. Love helps one to reach to the place where trust is possible.

Without love, trust is not possible. Love is almost like a bridge which can collapse any moment but still it is a bridge. If one uses it, it can take one to trust; without it, one cannot reach to trust directly. So, love is a necessity, but love unto itself is not enough. Its use is as a means; the end is trust.