Everything is suffused with love (Prema). So we can unhesitatingly declare that the Supreme Lord is the form of love (prema-swarupa). In all living things, love manifests itself in various forms and is known through many names such as love for offspring, affection, devotion to God, desire (vaatsalya, anuraaga, bhakthi, ishtam) etc., based on the direction in which it is channelised. But whatever the form, the essence is the same. On the basis of this knowledge and experience, it is clear that the supreme Lord is the inner Atma of all created things (Sarva-butha-antar-atma). That which teaches the highest knowledge of this unity is known as nondualism (a-dvaitha); that which teaches the principle of the lover and the Loved is known as dualism (dvaita); that which teaches about all three, love, lover, and loved — or nature (prakriti), individual (jiva), and Brahman— is known as qualified nondualism (visishta-advaita). But these three are one.
Baba (thought for the day)
If we transcend the mind, what is left is 'pure being', non-conceptual state of just being, we breathe it in and out, but it has no substance. And if we transcend not just a state of being, but a relationship which is eternal between us and the Lord, what is left is just 'pure love' and that means there is nothing but 'pure love' and not only 'thin air' – being.
Do you know what I mean? Thus we meditate and find ourselves after all in an ocean of love. We cannot transcend it anymore; there is nothing else but 'love'.
That is what Baba is telling us in that thought for the day. As there is nothing else but love, we can declare that the supreme Lord is the form of love. Imagine you get aware that there is a 'state' of love; the whole universe is filled with it, nothing but love. That was the reality we experienced in Prasanthi in his presence, after a while there was nothing but love. We breathe in love and we breathe out love.
It is a state of being, it cannot be transcended and that is why it is final, it is unlimited that means it feels the whole universe and it is non-changeable and that means it is all there is.
It is in Baba's words, it is here when you read it. That is why ceiling of desires, we let go of everything to just fill our life with love. We talk here only about the essence and it is in different forms, but the essence is only non-changeable and transcendental, not just awareness, but love and if it is awareness it is the awareness of love.
On the basis of this knowledge and experience, it is clear that the supreme Lord is the inner Atma of all created things (Sarva-butha-antar-atma). That which teaches the highest knowledge of this unity is known as nondualism (a-dvaitha); that which teaches the principle of the lover and the Loved is known as dualism (dvaita); that which teaches about all three, love, lover, and loved — or nature (prakriti), individual (jiva), and Brahman— is known as qualified nondualism (visishta-advaita). But these three are one.
If we have the lover and the loved there are two still, 'we and He' but he is telling us 'we and He is I'. That 'I' is not about two anymore. We have to look at the first step also, it is 'you and I are We', so we know we are two or more people. If 'you is (the group) and I' it is still the group and Baba is included as We. If it is 'you and I' there are two people, but it is also 'we' and that is a relationship, he made it when he said 'engaged'.
If we look at the situation in the interview room when he said to the group, 'you and I are we' it means 'we', all the people in that room Baba included.
To get to a right conclusion we have to look at it in different ways and it is always the same, it doesn't change – Baba is included, we are on the body level.
The second step is 'we and He is I', it is also true when Baba is part of 'us - we' in the group, because he is also in the body and 'He' is the divine principle. It is also true when it is about 'you and I are we', two people and Baba is not part of it in the body, 'we and He is I', it is the divine principle, not the body, not the mind (He) is I'.
Everything is suffused with love (Prema). So we can unhesitatingly declare that the Supreme Lord is the form of love (prema-swarupa). In all living things, love manifests itself in various forms and is known through many names such as love for offspring, affection, devotion to God, desire (vaatsalya, anuraaga, bhakthi, ishtam) etc., based on the direction in which it is channelised. But whatever the form, the essence is the same. On the basis of this knowledge and experience, it is clear that the supreme Lord is the inner Atma of all created things (Sarva-butha-antar-atma).
Yesterday after the study circle there was a real good feeling. I didn't expect anything, went there with the attitude that he knows and not I, he is the doer and not I? So we will see what will happen and it feels like the clouds left and there was only sunshine.
It feels really like Baba's presence and it still does and it was totally effortless and without any stress or tension, it was perfect.
If I think I - I am in the body, even if I know that the 'I' on that level doesn't exist and that to find the real 'I' we have to transcend the body and the mind. So I am not the doer of the study circle, it is his doing, I am just the instrument, I copy the text and send it around and look at it with others, that is what I am doing. When I went there I wondered how it would be and there was less traffic and it was a surprisingly good experience and someone came and said thanks, she felt it was a great experience that study circle and I thanked her also for participating and I went home with a smile.
We just have to transcend the mind and the body, and you know how we transcend it and we just have to do it by getting aware that the universe is nothing but love. It is the only thing that does exist, we just have to get aware of it and how do we get aware of it, in transcending everything conceptual to find what is left … a state of pure love.
That which teaches the highest knowledge of this unity is known as nondualism (a-dvaitha); that which teaches the principle of the lover and the Loved is known as dualism (dvaita); that which teaches about all three, love, lover, and loved — or nature (prakriti), individual (jiva), and Brahman— is known as qualified nondualism (visishta-advaita). But these three are one.
We are with Baba and he teaches the highest knowledge of unity and we know it is non-dualism (advaita) and for us is the question how do we make that experience?
If we are the lover and he is the Loved we have two and that is dualism, we know that, but we also know that he teaches unity and that he is talking about nothing but unity and that we should get aware of it that the universe is nothing but love.
And we have that which teaches the three - love, lover and loved - what we maybe don't know is that these are nature, individual and Brahman … and that is called qualified no-dualism. But what Baba is telling us here that is very important that these three are one. We have first duality, we are aware of two, the lover and the loved and we want to experience unity and that is the state beyond the mind and the body and we have to transcend whatever is limited, both mind and body and all the created things on the objective level to get to a state of 'pure love' and there is nothing but that.
It was actually an amazing experience in the ashram with Baba getting aware that there was only love and nothing else and I went at that time back and wondered why that love was not also present. Imagine you have a state of 'pure love' and the universe is nothing but love and you land here in our Western place wherever that is and we wonder where it has gone.
That which teaches about all three, love, lover, and loved — or nature (prakriti), individual (jiva), and Brahman— is known as qualified nondualism (visishta-advaita). But these three are one.
If we think it over, we have the love and the loved, two and what happens between them is prakriti. I have a very clear idea about it, but when it is called 'prakriti', nature that is somehow confusing. We think it has to do with the Gunas and what happens between them, but most important is that there are two, love and lover and that is duality. What nature establishes is a relationship. That relationship is based on nature or the gunas and that means we have three different levels, sathva, purity, rajas, passion and tamas, darkness.
But we don't want to go too much into nature. We have love, lover and loved. And let's think that it is 'love' only and not what we will find in passion and darkness, we have 'love' only and that love is always the same 'love' even if the people change and 'you and I' are different people, it will still be 'we' and if it is love, it will be a love-relationship. What is always true are not the people, because they change, but what is always true is the situation and the relationship level. What Baba is telling us; 'you and I are we' it is always the same even if that are different people from different countries at different times in the interview room.
There is the lover, the loved and love. But if it is about unity we go a step further, as Baba tell us, 'we and He is I'. Who is He? That is the question. I mean the word he, not our imagination who 'He' is meant here. If Baba is part of the group in the room, who is He? It is also 'He' for him, it is 'He' for everybody without any change, 'He' is beyond the body and beyond the mind, 'He' is the divine principle, it is abstract and always true, it is what is left after we transcended body and mind, 'He' is the Atmic principle and if we are in a relationship with the divine what is left is 'I', if we enquire and listen and think over Baba's thought for the day he will be present in our dream as the man who is in our dream to awake us and he will tell in our dream, 'I am the One'.
That is the answer who He is and why he said 'I'. If we have that insight in the dream, we know there is only One and that one has an 'I' and that is the universal 'I' and that is about the ultimate truth, nothing can go beyond that reality.
That is how we experience the question, who is He?
But these three are one.
And we can see why he is telling us that they are one.
If we don't have 'you and I' first, we have no 'we' and we need to be 'we' first to get to the next level and to realize that 'we and He are One'.
That is self-realization.
We really should get aware of the universal state of 'pure love' to be able to enjoy it fully, we really should by all means realize the 'wealth of love' and the richness of the divine presence'.
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