Ocean of Love

If you attach yourself to the Lord through the path of love (prema), it will be possible to realise Him. God’s love is like an infinite and endless ocean. Simply because God’s love is infinite and endless, you cannot carry all of it with you. What you can carry with you will depend on the size of the pot you take. So the first thing to do is to enlarge the size of your pot, and this can be done through spiritual practice (sadhana). The first step in Sadhana, is respect for your mother. The devotion towards the mother should be such that you recognise the great love and affection with which your mother has brought you up. You must return gratitude to your mother in the form of love or bhakti. The mother will also showbhakti in the form of vatsalya (affection of mother for child), in return to the love of the child.

In listening to his words we get actually away from the form as that is for some people as it seems still a big issue. Here Swami talks about the path of love and if we attach ourselves to the Lord through the past of love we will be able to get God realization. But the next sentence he talks already about the infinite ocean and that is beyond the form and the question for us is how much of it we can put our own vessel. And he explains how it is done, be spiritual practise, Sadhana, that is not only meditation, but all spiritual practises.

But how are we getting away from the form. That is actually easy if we know how to listen. If we listen to his words, we get with his words aways from the form and on an universal and infinite level. If people tell they have a problem with the form, it is not right. They don’t have a problem with the form, the have a problem with listening. If they would listen to his words, there would not be any problem with the form.

If you attach yourself to the Lord through the path of love (prema), it will be possible to realize Him.




We listen to every sentence and think it over and in every life it looks a bit different, so we have to see it in our own life to be able to integrate it, otherwise, we ill not be able to understand it. In his words is a great promise and if we get attached on God's love it is like an infinite and endless ocean. With those words he makes already a difference to form, in the infinite and endless ocean is no form. In our heart is the infinite endless ocean or the universe and that is different from the body which is limited and form only. I was once during a Darshan focused on his presence in the heart and it opened up and what was in the heart was the whole universe. I was kind of surprise to think of him and the form and to find the universe.

If we listen to his words by thinking it over we go beyond the form?
We look at the form, we look at our own body and there is the heart and we went beyond the form on an universal level if we get aware that we have in our heart the universe or better universal love or the infinite ocean of love. We get to the conclusion that we find in the heart the unlimited and endless ocean of love and the universe. There is no more form. We have transcended it.

We go beyond the form and if we listen to his words and think it over, we also know why, because he is telling us how to go from the form to the formless. What we find is the divine nectar in his words, all what needs to be done is listening and thinking it over to be able to absorb it in our own life in our own self to be able to understand it.

God’s love is like an infinite and endless ocean. Simply because God’s love is infinite and endless, you cannot carry all of it with you. What you can carry with you will depend on the size of the pot you take.


Swami talks here about the vessel or the pot we have and how much of the ocean has room in one pot only. We have the ocean in our heart, but it is in our heart only and everybody has the ocean in his heart, it is therefore an infinite realm of divine potential, we have to realize it and get aware of it in listening to his words.


So the first thing to do is to enlarge the size of your pot, and this can be done through spiritual practise (sadhana). The first step in Sadhana, is respect for your mother.


We should enlarge the size of the pot that we can put in more ocean water. How do we expand it with spiritual practise, sadhana. -
Swami talks about the mother and the devotion to the mother. One time I remembered the joy I had felt as a small child to listen to the voice of my mother and that has changed later and when I got aware of that joy I realized that it is the same joy I feel for my daughter and that is the mother. In that sense we can say all mothers are one, it is the mother in all mothers or the heart of all hearts and it will never get lost and it cannot die and it is not born, it is beyond the body and whatever problems we had with our mothers, it is gone. It is the mother principle of love.


The devotion towards the mother should be such that you recognize the great love and affection with which your mother has brought you up. You must return gratitude to your mother in the form of love or bhakti. The mother will also show bhakti in the form of vatsalya (affection of mother for child), in return to the love of the child.


In that love and affection for the mother we also recognize that in us is the same. For me it was a great insight to realize that it was the same motherly feeling towards my daughter and the joy in it was the same as I had felt before for my mother when I was a child.
That is part of self-realization, otherwise we cannot understand it. If we don't know the source, we cannot understand it.

Lots of things my mother said didn’t make sense to me and she died. And the man coming in our dreams to awaken was present as two Swamis, one was the insight and the other the following step.
But after an insight that the mother principle is always the same and universal in that sense, whatever was there we can see the reason why it was different and it doesn’t really matter when the divine principle is there. We see the mother just as mother and feel the joy we had as child listening to her voice.