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Caught in
Limitations
Bliss is freedom and vice versa - freedom is
bliss. In fact, they are two sides of the same coin. Misery arises out of
limitation. Bliss is to know that we are infinite, that even the sky is not our
limit, that we are one with the whole. Only then does one know both the taste
of freedom and bliss. They come together simultaneously, in the same instant.
And freedom is the goal of life. We are caught in
many limitations – the body, the mind – and we have created many artificial
limitations – of nation, of religion, of colour, of race – and all together
they create a prison around us. We should just dis-identify ourselves from the
body, mind, from all that limits us, and out of this dis-identification,
freedom arises and a fragrance that is bliss starts flowing.
Love is the bravest thing in life because it needs
total courage on our part. It needs our total courage because the ego has to be
dropped. Love can happen only when the ego disappears. With love we cannot have
the ego, with the ego we cannot have love. They can’t exist together, there is
no possibility of their coexistence. If the ego is there, then love is false,
pseudo; it is something else masquerading as love. It can even be hate with the
label of love.
The ego has to be completely dropped, and it can
be dropped because it is not really part of our being. It is an artificial, it
is our own creation. In itself it has no substance, it is a shadow. Hence to
look deep down into it is to make it disappear; to look for it is not to find
it at all. It exists only because we never look within.
Look within - let the ego disappear, and then we
will be surprised - great love is welling up – love that we have never known
before, love that we have not even dreamed about, love that is not a
relationship but a state of being, an unconditional sharing of joy.
Once this love starts overflowing it turns to
compassion and anyone who comes within our aura gets impacted by it. That love
and compassion is felt by the other – sense of love and compassion becomes overpowering.
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