Fw: Maharshi: surrender - [9]

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Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:37 AM

[MillionPaths] Maharshi: surrender - [9]

Question:

Swami, it is good to love God, is it not? Then why not follow the path of love?

Sri Ramana Maharshi:

Who said you couldn’t follow it? You can do so. But when you talk of love,

there is duality, is there not- the person who loves and the entity called God

who is loved? The individual is not separate from God. Hence love means one

has love towards one’s own Self.

Question:

That is why I am asking you whether God could be worshipped through

the path of love.

Sri Ramana Maharshi:

That is exactly what I have been saying. Love itself is the

actual form of God.

If by saying, ‘I do not love this, I do not love that’, you

reject all things, that which

remains is Swarupa, that is the real form of the Self. That is

pure bliss. Call it pure bliss,

God, Atma, or what you will. That is devotion, that is

realization and that is everything.

If you thus reject everything, what remains is the Self alone.

That is real love. One who

knows the secret of that love finds the world itself full of

universal love.

The experience of not forgetting consciousness, alone, is the

state of devotion (Bhakti),

which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the

real knowledge of Self, which

shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the

nature of love.

Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of

Self, will the strong

entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one attains the height

of love will liberation be attained.

Such is the heart of all religions. The experience of Self is

only love, which is seeing only love,

hearing only love, feeling only love, tasting only love and

smelling only love, which is

bliss.********************************************************************

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, "Gloria Lee" <glee@c...> wrote:

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi:

That is exactly what I have been saying. Love itself is the actual

form of God. If by saying, `I do not love this, I do not love that',

you reject all things, that which remains is Swarupa, that is the

real form of the Self. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss,

God, Atma, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization

and that is everything. If you thus reject everything, what remains

is the Self alone. That is real love. One who knows the secret of

that love finds the world itself full of universal love.

The experience of not forgetting consciousness, alone, is the state

of devotion (Bhakti),which is the relationship of unfading real love,

because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided

supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love.

Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of

Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one

attains the height of love will liberation be attained.

Such is the heart of all religions. The experience of Self is only

love, which is seeing only love, hearing only love, feeling only

love, tasting only love and smelling only love, which is bliss.

 

 

......Jai Ramana!

 

The Song of Love is Heard only by Love. It is the Loving Rhythm of

Love for and by Itself. Along with the little-known practice of

actually Loving, and Inquiry into the True Nature of the Lover, such

Hearing is more potent than any other so-called spiritual discipline,

until all such disciplines are recognized as only the Play of Love.

The Blessing Sound that Love bestows makes one who is ready

immediately open and empty to receive, devoid of any resistance.

Love's Real Nature is the OneHeart Itself. Only.

The ordinary person dreams in the brain, unaware of their True Home

in the Heart. The Lover lives in the Heart. The Lover is Lived by the

Heart, Awakening to constant Whisper of the Heart to Itself. For the

Lover, the True Devotee of Love, there is nothing but the Joyful

movement of the Formless Heart into all forms and relationships as

Song itself! The Lover has no will. No Choice. All such fantasies

have been consumed by the lovely Fire of Love. In the realm some

call "this world", the Lover knows that what they hear is not

separate from the OneHeart in Which all arises and dissolves, Which

they realize in the Heart as their own Self, Singing!

Love hears nothing as greater or lesser, higher or lower, better or

worse, more or less desirable. All is only Love to such ears. In the

state of Love the Lover hears nothing separate from the Beloved's

Voice – Radiance Divine rippling in every direction for the sheer

Magnification of Itself in Mysterious Symphonic Wonder.

For the Lover, Love alone IS, and nothing else.

By persisting in Communion with Love, the Lover sheds all recoil from

Love until such dry tunes drop away completely, revealing That Which

Is. In such Humility, Love, Which Is Truth, becomes the Sacrifice

Which returns as the Singing Smile, illuminating all that does not

Recognize Itself as Love. The Eternal, Immortal Beloved presses so

urgently down into mortality as the Musical Love Offering to that

which lingers in the forgetfulness of its own True Nature, and how

Happy is the Lover to fall into this slipstream of Loving's Bright

Song, that all may enjoy the Delight of Love's Homecoming to Itself,

the Self of All, the Treasure of the Living Light of Heart-broken

Surrender to the deepest Yearning of Being Itself! Jai to the

Inextinguishable, this Ever-living Flame, this HeartSong!

 

LoveAlways,

 

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