The Inspiration, the Aim and the End

Prema (pure love) is filial piety when directed towards parents, companionship when it flows towards friends, love when it is felt towards the partner, respect when it is expressed to elders, and affection when you are drawn towards children. Bhakthi (devotion) affects your acts in three forms: first, you do some acts consciously in order to express your love or give shape to the Premathat animates you; second, you do acts as dedicated offerings to enhance the glory of the Lord, in a spirit of worshipful humility, as if you are offering at His feet all that you are and all that you are capable of; and third you do acts which are full of Prema towards all, as part of your mere existence, automatically, without any tinge of violence upsetting the perfume of the act. One dedicated act leads on to all activity being dedicated; the Aananda you experience makes you feel tThat your effort has been worthwhile. That is the end, the aim and the inspiration.

How do we get that experience of ‘pure love’? If we don't have the experience of it, we don't know it. As pure love is basic, the source of all love, it is the original form, as it cannot be transcended. It is eternal, non-changing and unlimited. 

The word piety I don’t know really, parents I saw as God, because it was easier than to find faults with them. 

They had to be God, that was their initial role like that ‘pure love’ is the basic state of love, even if manifested we have all different forms of it.

Friends that was present when ‘yogis are our friends’ and it was one of the best experiences and the worst, when instead of ‘courage, enthusiasm and joy’ there was only animosity and petty quarreling on a certain time and the leader was not there. 

The way Swami describes it, it was due to lack of ‘courage, enthusiasm and joy’, but as they thought they were invincible as well, they probably thought that everyting was okay and they were not humble and careful, but arrogant and careless and it turned into the opposite. 

In thinking over the divine words we get aware of it, how it had been and reading alone is not enough, it needs to be thought over to get the deeper meaning in it.

Respect to elders and people who are above like boss that is kind of normal and affection towards children is a daily experience if we have children.

Prema (pure love) is filial piety when directed towards parents, companionship when it flows towards friends, love when it is felt towards the partner, respect when it is expressed to elders, and affection when you are drawn towards children.

Pure love is different from all of it. And we recognize the three forms of it.
First we try to express our love and give shape to the love we feel. The offering is in form of puja or devotional sining and if I have go for the glory of the Lord, I go beyond the mind in focus on contemplation on the divine and we get aware that we are all the same, if I am in it or not, in the end it doesn’t matter. 

If we are all the same ‘I am that’ we only can offer what we are on his feet and all that we are capable of and there is nothing more than that, we give to him back what is already his. 

The third is the Prema towards all, it is part of our existence and it happens automatically, without any tinge of violence or perfume or color of the act. 

If we are one, we are One only and that is the only reality existing and if we are aware of it either it is appreciated and valued as the highest or it is not and if not it can get cheaper than rotten food as we experienced it already.

If we see those two sides, the animosity and petty quarreling is the mind level and as we experienced it when it broke into pieces it was the absence of ‘courage, enthusiasm and joy’, the absence of knowing right from wrong, the absence of yoga, the absence of Atma and friendship, of people knowing what they were doing and the absence of invincibility, that is why it broke into pieces and where only pieces are left, we cannot build on. 

It was not a good experience, nevertheless, it shows us that we have to be careful, alway be careful, ABC, as Swami said. 

And we get it and understand it in the light of his words, in our mind we don’t get it, because it is the difference between mind and Atma, the Atma is the sign and presence of         ‘courage, enthusiasm and joy’ and the mind is the absence of it and therefore, it was only animosity and petty quarreling, so how can the mind understand when it is only real on the Atma level?

Bhakthi (devotion) affects your acts in three forms: first, you do some acts consciously in order to express your love or give shape to the Prema that animates you; second, you do acts as dedicated offerings to enhance the glory of the Lord, in a spirit of worshipful humility, as if you are offering at His feet all that you are and all that you are capable of; and third you do acts which are full of Prema towards all, as part of your mere existence, automatically, without any tinge of violence upsetting the perfume of the act. 

And how do we understand that? One dedicated act leads on to all activity being dedicated and it is what we just talked about. There is one only and that is one dedicated act and focus on that oneness and so is contemplation about oneness and self-enquiry about oneness and either it is all there is and one only or it is not and then it is the mind. 

All activity is dedicated to that Oneness, either we are all one or not and only if we are all one, we merge and there can be that joy and ananda and that makes our effort worthwhile.

Every effort we make is the contemplation of the divine and there is nothing else but that, because it makes us all one, what else can there be done or achieved if we all are one?
That is the meaning, the end, the aim and the inspiration. 

The only thing is that love for the divine, it is the inspiration, why we are singing together, it is the aim, it is love only and it is love for the divine as it is pure love and it cannot be transcended and we are part of it and it is also what we look for fianlly in the end, and there is nothing more but that, there is one and only one.

One dedicated act leads on to all activity being dedicated; the Aananda you experience makes you feel that your effort has been worthwhile. That is the end, the aim and the inspiration.