Thoughts on LOVE
The commentary for the In LOVE Challenge has been quite great. People are sending me e-mails and signing them: “with love”.
I though I would share a few of the comments I saw on internet about LOVE that stood out at me:
Sri Pranji wrote on the 90 Days in LOVE page on facebook:
Love is unconditional, love for love sake, love is beyond religion, love is core of being, love is healing, all the miseries in this world can be solve by just be in prema(love). Just do this when you wake up in the morning, “Today i will see only love in all the people that i will meet, and all of them will see my love only”
I read a blog post called “What is a Guru?”
http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/news/motivational/spm_guru.asp
And look at what they say:
“Finally, a true guru has been embraced by love and realizes with every facet of his or her being that love is both the method and the destination. It is means and end. There is no way to achieve a state of love other than by loving. For God or Truth speaks to the heart. The mind cannot contain or apprehend Truth or God in its entirety. Truth is the ocean while the mind is like a teacup. And you cannot hold the ocean in a teacup. It is true that you can pour the contents of the teacup into the ocean and it becomes one with the ocean. But then the meditation ends and the ego-mind-personality – even the divine ones – are back in the body. Automatically, limitations of understanding take place because of the confines of the teacup.
It is astonishing that some of the towering great minds of the East including such persons as Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya, Madvacharya, The Buddha, and others do not agree on the finer points of what is Truth, what is Reality, what is the nature of the Self, and so on. They see different shafts of the same light, but none have the capacity to see it all. The first Sadguru, Dattatreya, was once asked to comment on the differences between Dwaita (dualism) and Advaita (Non-dualism), between Saguna Realization with a form involved (as in Rama or Krishna, etc.), or Nirguna Realization without any form involved. He looked kindly at the questioner and said, “If you are still concerned with such things, you still have a ways to go.” Most teachers and gurus agree that love will take you all the way to the goal of human existence. True gurus have a unique set of skills and tools to help the finite part of us merge in the infinite part of us. They have been specially sent on assignment to help us, in our identification with our ego-mind-personality, to move as expeditiously as possible into a state of being where we understand immortality because we have achieved it.”