Love is nothing but God, you and me

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Love is nothing but God, you and me

Love is euphoric, ecstatic, overwhelming joy. Why doesn't a newborn baby cry while in the mother's womb? Why does it start crying the moment it comes into this materialistic world?

A mother's womb for a baby is nothing less than a temple, for there is only love... of the mother. Love is euphoric, ecstatic, overwhelming joy. Enjoying life in such a sweet atmosphere, the baby feels safe in her mother's womb. Why then should not a place like this be called a temple? No one, but God resides in a temple. Thus a newborn is regarded as God incarnate. When born it is separated from the spiritual and holy world of freedom and so cries to express sorrow on arrival in a world of falsehood.

God has gifted every baby with the virtue of being loved and being lovable. It's we who tend to lose and make others too lose this precious gift. The innocence of a baby fills everybody's heart with happiness. Love does not expect. God loves us the most, and does not expect anything from us. It is up to us whether or not to offer prayers to God.

God's love is boundless and immeasurable. We pray to God because we are grateful. We have the power to understand His Creation. Why do we think then that God also gives us sorrows? We tend to forget God in times of happiness. That does not mean that God wants us to pray to Him; it is to learn again how to love because praying is loving, a part of loving mankind. We do not show kindness to others once we get happiness. Service is the best way to love God.

Kindness and courage are different dimensions of love. Kindness is the virtue of being compassionate and merciful towards others. Every living being is an image of God. It's also important to love ourselves and the life given to us by God.. The spirit of God within us is called the soul.

Problems come and go. Joys and sorrows are like day and night. But if a person keeps awake all night just to see the sun rise, he can never see it because when the sun rises he will fall asleep. Joy or sorrows... we must welcome every emotion that God wants us to experience, with courage.

Anything that brings us closer to God is love. The great classical dancers of our country worship God through their dance. A farmer worships God by toiling in his field, which is his first love. Similarly, people in other professions worship God by performing their duty sincerely and honestly. There are many who atheists are but if they perform the duties assigned to them by God their noble deeds bring them closer to Him and a person close to God is a loving person and a loving person is a happy person. So it fills their life with happiness and prosperity. This is one way of bringing ourselves closer to God.

All her life Meerabai loved Krishna, she worshipped him. She did not bother what the world would say. She just wished to be close to God, she just wished to be close to love. True love brings us closer to God and subsequently we become an image of love and finally an image of God in the true sense. Thus, God is love. You, too, can become love.