Never Compare Love

 

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Never Compare Love

Most people compare themselves with others and that creates the problem. Everybody has their own way being in love, it’s pointless to compare it. Somebody may be dancing, may be ecstatic and singing, and somebody else may be sitting silently with closed eyes. Both are mad in their own ways. Don’t think that you are not mad and the one who is dancing is mad, because one who is dancing will think, “Are you mad? You have fallen in love and are still sitting with closed eyes? What are you doing there? Dance!”

Everybody has their own way of madness also. Just as nobody has the same face, same eyes, same fingerprints as us - nobody has the madness that we have. Everything is unique.

Everybody falls in love in their own unique way. And it is good; it has to be so. Never compare. Trouble arises with comparison. Then we feel that we are missing something. Our love is calm and quiet and respectful. Then we start thinking there must be something wrong. Why are we not so passionately in love? Why are we not like a storm, why are we blowing like a small breeze? But that is our way. And God needs both. Storms and more storms…. He also needs a little rest. A little breeze is always handy.

Don’t be worried. This is how God is happening to us. Never compare. Just look within and enjoy whatsoever is happening so it can happen more. Enjoy it, delight in it, and it will happen more. We may become even more gentle; even the breeze may disappear and stop. That too has happened before. There are as many ways towards God as there are seekers. Everybody has his own way and there are no super ways, remember — no super highways. Everybody walks on their own path. Unless of course one is following His Holiness Shivkrupanand Swami – Swamiji plants the seed of meditation in us, and after initiation he takes you on the super highway and drops you off near your own inner abode. The last mile connectivity is ours and only ours. We need to do that journey alone.

In fact, the path to one’s inner abode is not found ready-made. We create it by walking, and it disappears when we have gone on ahead. Nobody else can walk on it; it is never left behind. It is just like the birds flying in the sky. Once they have flown, they don’t leave any footprints. Nobody can follow it. There is no need. Don’t compare. Be contented with yourself. Enjoy, delight — help yourself to be yourself. This is YOUR way.