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For one who worships Me, giving up all his activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, who has fixed his mind upon Me, O son of Prtha, for him I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death GITA 12: 6-7 One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and engaged in devotional service, is very dear to Me. GITA 12: 18-19 The devotees of the Supreme Lord, or the persons who are in Krsna consciousness, are called santas, and they are always

in love with the Lord as it is described in the Brahma-samhita: premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti. "Love is also respecting yourself, because unless you have self-respect, unless you respect yourself, which means having a good self image, you will find it difficult to respect others. And unless you love and respect others, you will definitely have a hard time living in harmony with the world around you." Capil Sookdeo ---------------------- The Hope of the World Is LoveYour Saiva Siddhanta religion can be lived every minute of the day andallthrough the night. All you have to do is decide whether you are going toexpect anything back from anyone. All you have to decide is what part ofthe person you love. If you love the soul, you love the whole person, nomatter

who the person is, no matter what he does, what he says, whetheryou know him or whether you don't know him, because he is the lightof Siva, the energy of Siva, the love of Siva walking around in humanform. This is the kind of love that keeps you in harmony with everyone.Love is expressed in so many different ways. It is a force, a vibrationthat you have to work at to keep it flowing. Everyone has humanemotions,instinctive emotions. Love controls those emotions. Love isappreciation,which can be expressed through gratitude, kind words, and especiallythrough kind thoughts, because unkind thoughts create unkind words whichcreate unkind actions, and everything begins with a thought. Love isan inner happiness which you want to cultivate in someone else, and ifyou begin to work at cultivating an inner happiness in someone else,you will have it yourself. If you work to cultivate an inner happinessin yourself, it

doesn't work so well. That's a selfish approach, and youare likely to bring up instinctive emotions and memories of the past,especially of the bad things that happened in the past. In expressinglove, one has to be very careful to know that it is a buildingsituation,and be very careful not to indulge in unkind words, unkind thoughts andsarcasm. Sarcasm is the first breakdown in relationships. Trying tochangeanother person's character is also disastrous to a relationship. Youhave to accept everybody as they are. People change by the exampleof other people. Children learn first by the example people set forthem. They follow that example--they don't learn by mere words in thebeginning--and that carries out all through life. Everyone admires ahero; everyone needs a role model. So if you want to change someoneelse, be a role model for him. Then he will become like you eventually,but it takes time. Be forgiving, because

love is also forgiving. Andbe compassionate, for love is also compassionate, along with showinggratitude and expressing appreciation.Love says, "I'm sorry." Love says, "Thank you." Love is also generosity,because whomever you love you are generous toward. You have generosity;you give and you give and you give and you give. And according to thegreat law of karma, you can't give anything away but that it will comeback to you. If you give love, it comes back to you double, and thenyou don't know what to do with that, so you give that away, and thatcomes back double, and again you don't know what to do with that, soyou give that and it comes back double, and your whole family begins toflourish. The community begins to flourish.Out of all the philosophies, out of all the psychological maneuveringsand the psychiatric analyses, the hope of the world is love. It willbe a wonderful day when all of us see that the hope

of the world islove. You will discover ways yourself to express love. Love isdecoratingthe home, bringing flowers into the home, arranging flowers in thehome. It is cooking a wonderful meal and serving it properly. Love iscleaning and tidying up the home, bringing fresh air into the home sothat those who come into the home are uplifted simply by being in thehome. Love is taking care of the shrine room, bringing fresh water,fresh flowers and lighting incense, polishing the Deities, keeping thembright and shiny and dressing them in new clothing so that those who seeand receive the darshana are uplifted. There are many physical ways wecan express love. Love is bringing the whole family to the temple atauspicious times. Love is meeting with the family daily, solving allthe little problems, sharing and talking and understanding each other'sminds and where they are in their consciousness. Love is being patientwith

people who have problems until the problems go away by talking themthrough. Love is respecting the elders. Love is also respectingyourself,because unless you have self-respect, unless you respect yourself, whichmeans having a good self image, you will find it difficult to respectothers. And unless you love and respect others, you will definitely havea hard time living in harmony with the world around you.

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