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Life
Transforming Glimpse
A single glimpse transforms one’s whole life. Once
we have looked into our innermost core, we are never the same again. Then our
life becomes nothing but pure love. Then we live love, then we are love.
And that love is not the love that we know. What we
know is nothing but lust camouflaged as love. What we know is a kind of
exploitation, a mutual exploitation, of two persons who are not capable of
being alone. They exploit each other and help each other to be together.
Real love arises only when the real person has
been looked into, when the real person has been encountered. Then love is a
state of being, not a relationship. Then we give because we can’t do anything
else. Then we share - not that we decide to share - then we find that sharing
is just happening. Then we bloom in love. Then great lotuses open up and the
fragrance is released.
Buddha has spoken about two words: pragyan
and karuna. Pragyan means samadhi, wisdom, enlightenment; and Karuna
means love, compassion. These two are two aspects of the one phenomenon of
encountering the real human being.
Look within! We have been looking outside for many
births and still continue to do so! Enough of searching outside – outside is
only illusion. We have lived in the dark night for several lives; it is time,
it is the ripe time, to look inwards. We have become extremely artificial, very
unnatural.
Swamiji has introduced us to our inner self…. we need
to become acquainted again with who we are. And a single glimpse, transforms,
and transforms for ever. Once we turn inwards and see our self with our
inner eye, nothing remains the same again.
This transformation is not something special - it
is very ordinary because it is just our nature. Knock and the door shall be
opened for us. Ask and it shall be given to us. Seek and we shall find. Let us
turn inwards and return to our true nature.
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