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From the book "Morning Talks", by Sant Kirpal Singh, 30 January, 1968 Available as mp3 at www.audio.sant-kirpal-singh.org Love – many people say that they know love. We also repeat now and then that God is love, our soul is of the same essence as that of God, love is innate in our soul and the way back to God is also through love. Love is innate in our soul and it requires somebody to love and to be loved by somebody. This is a natural desire of everybody. Our soul is a conscious entity and it should have love for all Consciousness or God. Instead, it has been attached to worldly or material things. The result is, wherever you have love, there will you go. The soul should love God, who is the very Controlling Power in this temple of the manbody. It has been attached to the body and its environments, the outgoing faculties and enjoyments of all lusts outside. This is the reason why we have become enslaved. We are coming again and again to where we are attached. If our soul is attached to God, who is the Controlling Power within this manbody, who is eternal and even beyond eternity, it will become free and will not even be subject to bondage. So the difference between true love and lust is that true love cannot be broken even after leaving the body. This love is developed in the body but absorbed in the soul, not in the body and its environments. So this is called true love or charity. The other is called lust or attachment and there is a vast difference between the two. Love of God makes us free, makes us all joy, all happiness, all bliss. Lust or attachment enslaves us, it makes us very narrow minded. In the worldly way, if you love somebody, you will be envious if another person shares that love, but those who love God, will also be loved by you, because they love God. So the love of God gives you love for all the world over. Love of the outside things will only make you narrow minded, close fisted, and the result is, one lives for God, the other lives for the world. Ever since we left the Home of our Father, we have been attached to outside things, because our love has been misfitted to the worldly things, the physical body and outside environments. So what is the criterion of true love, or charity? It starts from the body but absorbs the attention into our soul and higher self. The other just keeps you attached to the physical body and outward environments. To meet with your own wishes is no love, in the true sense of the word. That love gives you bondage and slavery. Ever since we left the Home of our Father, we have been going around and around and have not yet found our way back. There is a story of one Majnu, who was a lover of Laila. Laila was a princess and she was everything to him. Among the Mohammedans, there is a title that is given to one who is most devoted to God. Once Majnu was asked to whom should this title be given. He said that the best suited person was Laila, whom he loved. He was so much devoted to her that once he was seen licking the feet of a dog that had been roaming in the street where his Laila lived. One lesson we can derive from this is that if we are devoted to God or to the God-in-man, then we must love each other. This is but natural. But any love which is coloured with your personal interest or selfish motives makes you narrow minded. You would like that the person whom you love should be loved by you and nobody else. But if you have true love for God, then naturally all who love God will be loved by you. This is the vast difference between the two. So when Majnu was told that Laila had died, he said, “No, she cannot die – how can she die?” When he was told that she was truly dead, he said, “Is it true then? That happens to every man who lives and why should I love a thing that is not lasting!” So he turned, you see, to the right way. So love is love, which is with God, all Consciousness. Even when you leave the body, that love won’t leave you. Love for the world, outer attachments, to meet with your own wishes or purposes is lust or attachment, not love. One prophet said that love is like a bridge to cross over the river underneath. It is only for the purpose of crossing, not to remain on the bridge. So your love for the God-in-man is for crossing the bridge, to be attuned by His company, where naturally the love of God is radiated. If you are receptive to it, then your love is true. If you are attached to the physical body and outward attachments, that is no love. Love is blessed if directed to the God overhead, all Consciousness. If it is directed to the physical body and its attachments, it is bondage, it is slavery, it is attachment. You come again and again to the world where you are attached. This is the difference between the two. Guru Amar Das said, “Let us love the God-in-man, because He is overflowing with the love and intoxication of God. In His company, you will have the radiation of the love of God”. That will give a boost to your soul and directs it towards God. It is the true criterion to find out whether you love the God-in-man’s body only for the God in Him. If you love the God in Him (His body is blessed of course), then that is the bridge to cross over the ocean of the world to our Beloved. So love is innate in our soul and we are conscious beings. If it is directed to all Consciousness, it is true love. That will give you freedom, all bliss and all joy. If it is attached to the worldly things, the physical body, its environments, the enjoyments of outward faculties, then that is bondage and a sure way of coming again and again to the world where you are attached. So love is good. Even poison is very good if you take it in small doses to help you. But if you misuse it, then you will die. True love, which will help you, should be directed to God or to the God-in-man, for the sake of the God in Him, not the physical body. Then you are saved, otherwise you are doomed, I would say. It is a very delicate subject. We should see where we stand, where we are going. These things are referred to in the books, though they are not very clearly put. So now, what is love should be clear to you. Love is innate in our own self but with all that, we are attached to the world because it has been misfitted. Instead of being attached to God, who is all Consciousness, it has been attached to the physical body and the world. Love is a bridge to cross over the ocean of life, from this physical world to all Consciousness. If this love is directed to the worldly things, you will be attached to the world. It should be directed to God or to the God-in-man, the human pole at which God is manifested. He is overflowing with the love of God and the intoxication of that love. By sitting near Him, you will have the radiation of that love and naturally you will begin to love God. If you go to a man, who sells perfume, and if he does not give you anything, you will still have the aroma of perfume, free of any cost. If he gives you a phial full of perfume, then…? So the society of a God-in-man gives you perfume, love of God, by radiation. He gives you a contact within your own self by directing your attention from outside to the God in you. He gives you a contact and what more is wanted? Love of the God-in-man for the sake of the God in Him is love of God. If you love the God-man for the sake of His physical body, that is still attachment. The love of the God-man is a bridge to cross over into the Beyond, mind that! It is a very delicate subject, as I told you before. We have to judge how we are proceeding. If every day our love for God grows more and more and becomes more dear as compared to anything else in the world, that is love for God. Even if you are loving God, and your worldly things are more dear to you than compared with God, then that is not, so far, love of God. One is attachment, bondage, slavery, and the other is freedom, all joy, all bliss. It is better to have the company of someone who is imbued with the love of God, rather then have the company of those who are imbued with the love of the worldly things. If you can’t get such a society, you can have the society of those who are after the love of God, not the love of the worldly things. If you can’t have that, then live in your Master speaking through books, that’s all. Live to your own self, just in the company of the Masters who came in the past and who are speaking through books. This will help you to go back to your true Home. But still, as God is unsaid, love is also unsaid, I would say. The more you go into it, the more it widens like God, who has no end. One poet has said, “Love is an Ocean, a limitless Ocean, without any shore”. You can dedicate your life to Him, to His mercy. Initiation, the Word of God, the Shabda or Naam Power, is within you and that is the true society of the Saint. A Saint is the Word made flesh. For the sake of the Word, you love Him. If you have developed that way in the manbody, you are fortunate, you have derived the full benefit of having the manbody. If otherwise, you have made your arrangement to come back again and again.
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From the book "Morning Talks", written by Sant Kirpal Singh, 23 January, 1968 Available as mp3 at audio.sant-kirpal-singh.org Ljubav – ovu riječ čujemo od svakoga. Ali što je ljubav? Bog je ljubav, i naša je duša od iste bîti kao i Bog. Mi smo također utjelovljena ljubav. Ljubav je urođena našoj duši. Ona zrači i trebala bi doći u kontakt sa Naddušom, koju još zovemo Bog ili Paramatma. Umjesto da našu dušu povežemo s Bogom, vezali smo je za tijela u kojima je duša, a to nazivamo vezanost. Ljubav je ono što nas preplavljuje iznutra i mi zaboravljamo sami sebe. To je kriterij po kojemu se ljubav razlikuje od vezanosti O toj se ljubavi govori u svetim knjigama. Dakle, neka nam bude pravilo da naša duša voli Boga. Bog stanuje u svakom srcu. On je kontrolirajuća Snaga u nama. Ako se se naša duša oslobodi uma, materije i vanjskih osjetila, otići će gore, do samog izvora iz kojeg je proizašla. Ako zapalite svijeću, plamen gori prema gore. Ako svijeću okrenete prema dolje, čak će i tada plamen gorjeti prema gore. Tako bi i ljubav duše trebala ići gore, do Nadduše. Ako ostane vezana za tijelo i vanjska osjetila, onda to nije ljubav već vezanost. U tome je razlika. Voljeti Boga kojega niste vidjeli nije moguće, osim ako se ne uzdignete do Njegovog nivoa. Dakle, što biste morali učiniti, ako želite voljeti Boga dok još boravite u tijelu? Trebate se uzdići iznad svijesti tijela ili doći u kontakt s onim u kojem je ta Božja Snaga očitovana, čija je duša ispunjena ljubavlju i opijenošću. Trebate uvijek gledati u oči Učitelja. Oči su prozori duše. Zračenje one boje kojom je obojana duša nekog čovjeka utjecati će na nas. Ako je duša prožeta Božjom ljubavlju i opijenošću, postati ćete receptivni prema toj duši, kroz oči. Tada ćete dobiti poticaj, zaboraviti ćete vaše tijelo. Ako vas ljubav drži u tijelu, ako vas veže za tijelo, tada to nije ljubav već vezanost. U tome je suptilna razlika između to dvoje. Duša je od iste bîti kao i Bog, kap Oceana Svesvijesti. Svi smo mi braća i sestre u Bogu. Ta ista kontrolirajuća Snaga prebiva u svakom srcu. Ako gledate sa tog nivoa, tada nema vezanosti. Upravo sam vam ispričao jednu priču koja govori o tome kako je Bog sreo Mojsija i rekao mu: „Mojsije, bio sam jako bolestan, ležao sam u krevetu, u vrućici, a ti nisi mario za mene.“ Mojsije je upitao: „Bože, kako ti možeš biti bolestan?“ „Da, bio sam bolestan. Onog čovjeka, koji me voli, nisi niti jednom posjetio ili ga pitao da li mu je nešto potrebno. Da me voliš, bio bi mu služio. Ljubav poznaje služenje i žrtvovanje i na taj način si mi mogao služiti.“ Bog je u svakom srcu, vidite. To što mi sada nazivamo ljubav nije ljubav, već vezanost. Ona je nastala iz sebičnih motiva ili kroz vanjska osjetila koja vas vuku prema vanjskim stvarima i drže u tijelu. Kada volite Boga, kontakt sa dušom onoga koji je ispunjen ljubavlju za Boga dati će vam poticaj. Ta ljubav povući će vas gore. Zaboraviti ćete vaše tijelo i okolinu. Učitelji kažu: „Uvijek kada vidim Učitelja, zaboravim sve – intelekt, tijelo i sve oko mene.“ Ona ljubav koju zovete ljubav, ali koja vas drži u tijelu, nije ljubav već vezanost. Kada gledate u oči onoga koji vas povlači gore i pomaže vam da zaboravite tijelo, to je znak, pokazatelj istinske ljubavi. Zbog toga uvijek savjetujem: „Ne gledajte u oči drugih osim u Učiteljeve.“ To je način na koji nas napada požuda. Ona se prenosi kroz oči. Ako gledate u oči onih koji su puni požude ili drugih nižih poriva, to isto će, zračenjem, utjecati na vas. Gledajte samo u oči čovjeka u kojemu je očitovan Bog i to će vam činiti dobro. Sjećam se jednog događaja iz epa „Ramayana“, kada je Ravana oteo Situ. Kada su je odnosili, na zemlju su pali ukrasi s njezine glave. Kada ih je Rama u potrazi za svojom ženom pronašao, upitao je svog mlađeg brata Laksmana koji je bio u njegovoj pratnji, da li prepoznaje Sitine ukrase. Laksman mu je odgovorio da može prepoznati samo one ukrase koje ona nosi na stopalima, ne na glavi. Pogledajte samo kako je to visok stupanj moralnosti! On je mogao prepoznati samo one ukrase koje je Ramina supruga nosila na svojim stopalima. Ovdje možemo naučiti jednu lekciju. Uvijek gledajte u stopala drugih i nikada vas neće napasti niži porivi. Ako već morate gledati u nečije oči, gledajte u oči Učitelja koje su prožete Božjom ljubavlju, inače će vas (niži impulsi) povući prema dolje. Ako gledate u Njegove oči i zaboravite na sve drugo, to je ljubav. Ako ste vezani za tijelo, uvijek postoji opasnost da padnete niže. Govorim vam o vrlo finoj razlici o kojoj se ne govori u knjigama. Dakle, ljubav je u vama i kada je koncentrirana, preplavljuje vas iznutra. Kada ona dođe u kontakt sa Naddušom ili Bogom, ona se poveća. To je poput cijevi na kojoj ima mnogo rupa; voda koja teče kroz cijev otjecati će iz nje kap po kap. Ako zatvorite sve rupe osim jedne, voda će šiknuti u mlazu. Sada je naša duša pod kontrolom uma i naša je ljubav podijeljena na mnogo strana: na naša tijela, našu djecu, naš novac, naš ugled. Ako povučete vašu pažnju od svih vanjskih stvari i usmjerite je na jedan izlaz, tj. na vrata koja se nalaze u pozadini očiju i još se nazivaju Deseta vrata, ili ako koncentracijom dođete u kontakt sa dušom onoga koji je ispunjen Božjom ljubavlju, dobiti ćete jedan velik poticaj. To je ljubav i vi uvijek možete upotrijebiti ovo mjerilo da biste vidjeli gdje stojite. Ljubav za Boga, koji stanuje u svakom srcu, jest ono što nam je potrebno. Njegova je esencija već tamo i On je kontrolirajuća Snaga koja ima ljubavi za cijelo čovječanstvo. Ako sve radite zbog te ljubavi, neće biti vezanosti. Tada gledate u lica drugih i uzdižete se prema gore, zaboravljate svijet. Kada sada gledate u njih, postajete vezani. To nije ljubav. Ljubav ne nastaje od jela i pića, ona je već urođena u našoj duši. Ako se koncentrirate, ta ljubav će vas preplaviti iznutra.To su vrlo osjetljive stvari koje u knjigama nisu tako detaljno objašnjene. Dakle, uvijek izbjegavajte gledati u oči drugih. Ako nekome morate gledati u oči, onda gledajte samo u Učiteljeve oči. To će vas štititiod opasnosti. Vi dolazite na Satsang zbog Učitelja, ne zbog drugih. To je jedna praktična škola u kojoj možete dobiti sve te stvari. Možete ih dobiti samo kada dođete u direktan kontakt sa dušom kroz koju one zrače. Njegova je duša prepuna Božje ljubavi i prirodno je da ćete biti obojani tom ljubavlju. Njom ćete biti opijeni. Dakle, ona ljubav je istinska ljubav kojom zaboravljate vaše tijelo i vanjska zadovoljstva. Kad vaša duša dođe u kontakt sa dušom onog koji je ispunjen Božjom ljubavlju, uzdići će se prema gore, poput plamena svijeće. Emerson je rekao da kada gleda u ljude, vidi Boga koji sjaji kroz njihove oči. Trebali bismo gledati sa tog nivoa, a ne sa nivoa vanjskih osjetila ili tijela. Samo kroz ljubav možemo spoznati Boga. Oni koji nemaju ljubavi, ne mogu spoznati Boga. To je ono što ljubav jest, no mi vezanost smatramo ljubavlju. Vezanost nije ljubav, to jelažnaljubav. Ljubav svjesnog bića trebala bi doći u kontakt sa svesvjesnim Bogom. Ako imate takvu ljubav, i u vašim vanjskim pokorama ili metodama štovanja, bit ćete spašeni. Inače ste u njima zarobljeni. Zato volite Boga, i jer Bog prebiva u svakom srcu, volite sve, ne zbog tijela, već zbog duše i kontrolirajuće Snage koja dušu drži u tijelu. Tada ste spašeni. Ako služite druge sa tog nivoa, tada je to služenje Bogu. Svi Učitelji to kažu. Deseti je Guru rekao: „Znajte, bilo da pripadate ovoj ili onoj religiji, samo oni koji u sebi imaju istinsku ljubav, mogu spoznati Boga.“ Bog je ljubav i jedino kroz ljubav možete spoznati Boga. To je vrlo osjetljivo pitanje i iako je spomenuto u knjigama, nije detaljno objašnjeno. Sada možete svakodnevno prosuđivati, s vašeg vlastitog nivoa, imate li zaista ljubavi. Takva ljubav dati će vam ljubavi za sve, ali neće vas vezati za njih. Ta ljubavpreplavljuje vas iznutrakada dođete u kontakt sa dušom koja je, rekao bih, opijena Božjom ljubavlju. Ta ljubav neće vas vezati za tijelo, već će učiniti da ga zaboravite.