Love is Freedom from ‘I’
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Love is Freedom from ‘I’
Swamiji spoke about ‘love’ recently
in his daily messages – there was a series on selfless love. In this post we
will see how selfless love sets us free from the ego of ‘I’. Love it is said is
the means to tune in the strings of the heart so that divine music is the
result. The values of the heart represent all that is good, truthful and
beautiful. Unfortunately, modern society all over the world has lost that
tuning with its heart – the world today is heartless, cruel, selfish and always
seeks the shortsighted easy way out of situations, even if that means hurting
others!
For strengthening the bonds
of the heart, to tune the strings of the heart, love is required to recondition
the heart into its original role – that from where music can arise. One can
attain Paramatma through selfless love, prayer without any love is false and
futile. Prayer expressed just in words have no value at all unless they are
embellished with selfless love.
In this context love is not
physical love, it is something which is pure and which flows from the heart to
touch all beings on earth – human and otherwise. When we say we love you, we
are actually seeking love not giving it – think about it! Every time we tell
someone ‘I love you’, we are in fact asking ‘Do you love me?’ We are actually
begging for love because that is the state of the world today, it has become
dry and selfish. Only a person who has risen above the need for asking for
love, can give love – Swamiji is a prime example! Love knows only giving, it
does not know anything about asking.
Love comes only to the door
of the house from where the hankering for love has disappeared. Love starts
showering on the house of one who has stopped asking for love, but on the house
of one who is still hankering for love, no rains will fall. Love will not flow
towards an asking heart. The asking heart does not have the kind of receptivity
that makes it possible for love to enter. Only a sharing heart, a giving heart
has the kind of receptivity for love to come to his door and say, "Open
the door! I have come.”
Love is an inner flowering.
It arises from some dormant energy within, yet all of us search for love
outside. All of us search for love in the beloved - which is an absolutely
false and futile action. There can be only two voices inside a person. There
is no voice of love within the person who is filled with the voice of 'I'. And
there is no voice of 'I' within the person who is filled with the voice of
love. The two of them can never be found together. It is impossible.
There can be no love within us, because if
we search inside, we will find that the voice of 'I' is resounding there for
twenty-four hours continuously. We breathe with this 'I' , we drink water with
this 'I', we enter a temple with this 'I'. What else is there in our lives
except this 'I'? The love which comes from the ego is absolutely false
hence I said that all our love is false - because it comes out of ego, it is
the shadow of ego. And remember that the love which comes out of ego is more
dangerous than the hate, because hate is clear, direct and simple but love
comes with a changed face and it will be difficult to recognise it.
Love is the door to the divine and ego is the door to ignorance. Love is
the door to light and ego is the door to darkness. 'I' is the first in a
person's life and 'I' is the last. The person tied up in 'I' experiences pain -
and after getting free of 'I', he attains to bliss. Find this 'I'
and the doors to bliss can open. If the rock of 'I' is shattered the springs of
love will start flowing. Then the heart fills with the music of love. When the
heart is filled with love, a new journey starts which is difficult to describe
in words. That journey will take you to the very center of life.
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