Selfless Love is just One

Selfless Love is just one, in the same way Divinity (Brahman) is also not manifold. That is why scriptures state, "Ekam Eva Advitiyam Brahma"! That means, God is One and is the only One without a second. If we choose to understand the oneness in everything, we must seek to understand that oneness by recognizing the latent Divinity (Brahman) in different living beings that come into contact with us. Simply because you acquired a human form, you should not think that you are only human in nature. Your external form indicates that you are human. Never forget your inner self, the real aspect of Divine, who is firmly present in the depths of your heart. When God is firmly present within you, is it right for you to put up pretenses and false and inappropriate appearances? If under these circumstances, you begin to exhibit desires and show distortions, it will be doing injustice to this permanent aspect resident in your heart.

Selfless love is one only and we can ask why it is one. If there is selflessness it is beyond the body and the mind and that is for all the same selfless love. We experience that selfless love when we are sharing his divine words and we think it over or when we are singing as all sing for the same divinity, it is the same love and that is how we are able to melt in that feeling of love and it is a means for us to realize that there is only one love. As soon as there is no difference, as we know it from consciousness, when it is manifest we have lots of forms and names, when it is none-manifest or pure consciousness it is for all the same, there is no difference in our inner experience and that is why we merge in a state of oneness, only with meditation we don't get aware of it, it is just on the being level inside in silence, but it doesn't manifest as love and being one in love as it does when singing Bhajans.

It is none-conceptual, but not just on the being level, as we experienced it with meditation, but on the feeling level in the heart. It is easier to realize the non-conceptual reality on the being level, we just sit and meditate and go beyond the thoughts and in silence, that is easy, we don't need to realize that when we sit together and sing for the divine that there is one love for all, selfless and pure and therefore, there is only and without a second.

In silence we experience it as good, positive energy, but it is not the same as getting aware of the oneness when we are singing, when we merge all in a feeling of love we get aware of Swami's presence and divine love. During Bhajans we sing for the divine and we feel that love and when that love is there, there is also a feeling of oneness, but we need to be inside awake to get aware that all merge in that same love or oneness and that is the man coming in our dreams to awake us who takes care of that part, he makes us aware that we are one and how it is happening. If we see it because the man coming in our dream to awake us in our dream as, 'I am the One', we know that there is only one God and that there is no difference between the I and the One, but we have to listen again and again and again and we have to see it in our own life to get a feeling for it and to be able to understand it.  

There is only one and always the same one and the only one without a second.

Selfless Love is just one, in the same way Divinity (Brahman) is also not manifold. That is why scriptures state, "Ekam Eva Advitiyam Brahma"! That means, God is One and is the only One without a second.

Swami goes on explaining how we can understand the oneness in everything. We know how to understand oneness already from our meditation practice.

After he had asked a question it was possible to bring it to the point and by that it was possible to address the conflict and get aware that conflict had been there, but it was not seen as conflict, it was avoided and it expanded until it reached the master. 

If nobody is able to address the conflict or it is seen as something else and not conflict, he tells us that it will expand and that we should not allow this to happen. 

We were used to see things as natural law and in a scientific way and it does make sense, it is Dharma, the law of right action. 

If we get aware of a conflict and people get to the conclusion that it is also Swami, as it is called usually, it is true and not a right conclusion, he is perfect harmony, he is love, we have to deal with conflict as he is telling us, but he is not the conflict and if we don't listen, we don't get the message that is the biggest conflict. We have to bring it to the point in question to limit it to the people involved and it will not expand. 

If that is not done, it will expand and when it reaches the master it is a sign that people don't know how to deal with conflict. It is not only not properly done, it seems to be avoided.

If there is conflict and nobody takes care of it and they make it easy and tell that is also him, there is no discrimination really and in such a moment we have to know how to get to a right conclusion. There was a conflict during the study circle and as I had to take care of it, I tried to find a way to accept it and to bring it to the point. First it seemed  impossible to address it. We went on with the program as scheduled and it expanded.   

If conflict and we don't bring it to the point, it expands. 

It was the case when we went to India, there it was not at all present, coming back it was on the spot present again. We had to get the right insight and we had to get to a right conclusion. 

Swami was in my ex dream as the man coming in the dream to awake us, told him that I had to come to him to make peace with him. The conflict was about peace.

We went and it went on like that, the man coming in our dreams to awake us called it perverted and we had to get a divorce. It is not only conflict, it had turned into Tamas and as something perverted cannot be changed anymore and it is an obstacle on the spiritual path, it has to be given up. Tamas cannot be changed or transformed, it has to be given up. There was a lecturer he explained it, he said that sathva, purity, is the path, rajas, passion, must be transformed and tamas, inertia, has to be given up. Thus we knew now why it was not possible to just do an effort and to try to do something about it and to change it, but it had to be given up. 

It felt like a trap, there seemed to be no way out. It was seen as a Swami Lila and that had to be a lesson as well if it was a Swami Lila and that was just the lesson, there was no way out and it had turned into something heavy and ruin was in the air, it was really scary and unpleasant. As it is always about reality and accepting reality, we didn't even got to the idea that it could be just imagination, but it was. The focus was on reality and we didn't notice that it was all only in his imagination only what got us into it, but then we had to get aware of it that it was not what we thought it was. He made it look all different than it really was.   

If we choose to understand the oneness in everything, we must seek to understand that oneness by recognizing the latent Divinity (Brahman) in different living beings that come into contact with us.

If we get aware of oneness, we also listen to it when we listen to the devotional singing and we feel how people merge in that divine or selfless love. If we are awake or we have the man coming in our dreams to awake us, we can get aware of it. During Bhajans that heart melts with divine love, we can feel in it the divine presence and by thinking it over we get aware of it. The man coming in our dreams to awake us is present as insight, we may call it dream, no matter what it is, it needs to be realized in thinking it over and in his words we find the confirmation to our experience. In listening to his words we get the message. He is telling us what it is. 

Bhajans singing is a means of listening, we listen to the singers and melt with it if we notice that there is divine love. It is with the listening we get aware of oneness. 

Swami doesn't talk here only about devotional singing or the study circle, he talks about our life in general and with the study circle the ideal gets clarified and we get aware of the joy and the divine energy in it and the pure love, like we know it from a Darshan. 

The focused on his words only, does enlighten us and not on our own words. We cannot get the divine message if we think we know and the ideal gets purified, if we listen to his words and if we watch carefully what happens, we can see how everybody lightens up and joy is coming up when we feel his divine presence. We don't get it if we try to use our own words, we are in the mind. Only a self-realized authority is about to enlighten people. If we express it with our own words, we are thinking that we know and it cannot be right, we don't know that we don't know. If we don't know that it is not possible to know and we are not able to cognize it, we cannot get to a right conclusion, we don't get aware of what is needed to get there and we stay in that mind state that we don't know that we don't know.

Practice begins when we realize that we don't know. If we use his words, we do that also with our words, but the focus is on his words. 

'You and I are We' and 'We and He is I'. (Baba)

You and I are we seems for all of us clear, there is no you and no I, but only we. We and he is important, if we don't know that we don't know and we think we know, it is not 'we and He', but it is 'we and I' and that doesn't work, it will not result in a right conclusion, but it will result in something else, we strengthen our own ego and think we have to do this and that to get there, when in reality it is enough to just get to the 'I am I' that state of selfless love where everybody melts and we the joy of the ideal or enlightened being, the self-realized authority. 

We and He is I, if we do it right, we get to the right insight, we get to a right conclusion. 

If we don't know that we don't know and we therefore think we know, we are used to a not right conclusion and we get even to the feeling that it has to be like that. If we live on our word level, 'we and I', we for sure will not get to the right conclusion, but just a big ego. With his words we will experience what he calls the clarification of the ideal.

 Vedanta is listening, we have to do it  again and again, by doing it we are getting aware that we are not the doer, he is the doer, he is the knower. We use our words to describe it, but his words are the focus. It is a possess of knowing how to think it over. He is the knower, nevertheless, we find words to express it, but it is about his truth and in doing it we also get aware of it.  

Trying to bring it to the point if there is conflict, someone said I should participate at the office bearer meeting. It was my field and the challenge was about conflict, it seemed good to go for it and we will see what will happen. 

I had to bring it to the point and I didn't know how. How to address a conflict, when everybody else seems only to avoid it. Two ladies asked me to be part of it and it was about 'conflict management and leadership', but the right conclusion was not present during that meeting, but afterwards it came up again and again. It was a good focus on conflict management. 

Someone mentioned a book and I got it as e-book and read it, but it seemed to me too much work with imagination and as Baba is about accepting reality, it was not convincing and I said that I prefer it the Baba way. But who knows that way? It is like nobody knows what I am talking about, what is exactly the Baba way? Nobody seems to have any experience with listening again and again and again, it is like with meditation, we have to do it to practice. It is not done by just thinking about it, we had to sit down and do it. If we listen and think it over regularly we also just do it after all and it becomes a kind of habit doing it. 

We don't know there is resistance in listening and we don't want to do it, by thinking it over we get into it. It helps to be aware of it to just do it. It was an inner resistance felt when doing it at the beginnig, it was like with meditation, we had to just listen and make it a habit. 

It is shravana, to listen and manana, to think it over and nidhidysana is to absorb.  

We know the manana part, that is the question Swami asked, 'who am I?' it seems that part of it is easy as we like to do it, we think it over, but it should be done only once and we should get to the right and not a wrong conclusion, we should get aware of the 'I am that' and go beyond the body and the mind. The ego level is not a right answer, if we are in the body and the mind. We need to listen, it is Vedanta, three steps, to listen, to think it over and to absorb.

 Simply because you acquired a human form, you should not think that you are only human in nature.

We used different words, it was more focused on the mental potential to become better humans and using more of it and not only 5 to 10 percent of our mental potential, it cannot be called human. We used mediation to take care of it. The problem was the mind, the source of conflict and the solution was going beyond the mind into silence and mediation.  

Your external form indicates that you are human. Never forget your inner self, the real aspect of Divine, who is firmly present in the depths of your heart.

We should not forget the divine in the depths of our hearts. If we use more of the mental potential, we don't forget it, but he doesn't tell us how to get there.

He is present in the heart. And some wait to feel love and it begins with practice, we need to care first and then it will be there. Love needs to be put in practice, it lives from self-sacrifice.  

If the conflict is unfinished business, we have to finish it. It is about following the master, fighting to the end and finishing the game.   

 If there is conflict and we don't get it to the point, it will expand, that is what Swami said. We should not allow it to expand. 

If we ask for it again and again and don't get a response, it will expand. The normal reaction of a devotee would be to make a copy and send it, but whatever, he didn't do it. 

It was too far away to knock at the door and ask for it. And it was still in question if he would do it, when something is set in his mind there is nothing about changing it, nothing about taking it easy, but everything is heavy and complicated. 

So I had to go there and that situation made all types of nightmares and fears come up, but it needed to be done. The situation changed, now we don't need to ask for it anymore. 

The same was a conflict in the family, it was not brought to the point and addressed properly and it expanded and what we see now it the result of the expanded conflict. 

 When God is firmly present within you, is it right for you to put up pretenses and false and inappropriate appearances? If under these circumstances, you begin to exhibit desires and show distortions, it will be doing injustice to this permanent aspect resident in your heart.

If the relationship to the divine is in the heart, we get aware of  desire and when it shows distortions. It felt like injustice when it expanded before and when we get aware of it that we have to bring it to the point we also get aware why it feels like injustice. 

That is how we get to a right conclusion, we see the conflict, find a way getting it to the point and then it doesn't expand and by that we also get aware of it what was wrong and why most of situations seem to be about conflicts that were allowed to expand.