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It was a Sunday morning at

Prasanthi Nilayam. After finishing the morning 'interviews', Baba went to

the western side of the Mandir where the children from the Primary School

were seated. Baba does not like anybody, and certainly not the sweet little

ones, to sit in the hot sun! He made them all sit in the shade in the porch

very near the 'interview' room. The children beamed as they trooped in and

sat in an orderly fashion, followed by Baba who came behind them, glowing

with a big smile! He came to the first row and all of a sudden started

singing, 'Love is My Form! ...... ' He asked the children to join. All of

us who were fortunate to be present had this unexpected gift of Grace! (I

have found that Grace always comes unexpectedly!). Half way, He stopped and

asked the children, " What is love?' with a teasing smile. The children

were taken by surprise at this question and smiled, non-plussed! He

'minused' their bewilderment by obliging the answer!

" Love is Ice cream! " I

heard Baba say. He allowed the children's laughter and the adults' surprise

to die down, before He explained further. Baba, the ideal Teacher, is

Master of the technique of teaching. A startling question to evoke

attention, provoke curiosity and secure interested listening is the

master's method! All ears were now alert, awaiting Baba's explanation!

'Love is sweet, like ice cream; Love is joy, like ice cream; Love is cool,

like ice cream and Love is pure, like white ice cream!' Baba explained.

Apparently meant for the children, it was a gift from Baba to all of us,

this extra-ordinarily original definition of Love from Love Incarnate!

Images are sketched by poets to make the abstract concrete. Baba, the poet

of poets, gives images which have great spiritual depths, and uses the most

modern of them to make us understand what He wants to convey. In the

Krishna Avatar, it was milk, curds and butter; Sai Krishna uses the imagery

of Ice cream!

Who will not understand that

Love is sweet like ice cream? Baba had also said, Love is joy like ice

cream. We understand this best when Baba gives us a taste of what Love

really is.

 

 

 

The kind of Love that we

experience with Baba is sweetness itself. " Rasovai sah " 'He is

the very essence of sweetness, " says the Upanishad.

I remembered the imagery of a

cup of water with a spoonful of sugar added to it, given by Baba on another

occasion. Baba said: " There is sugar in the cup, but the water is

insipid, for you have not stirred it well. There is God in the world, and

by stirring the Divine well into every drop and atom thereof, you can make

the world a sweet thing to live by. " Life becomes sweet and joyful by

stirring the Divine, whose most potent expression is Love, into every

action of ours.

Baba said: 'Love is 'cool' like

ice-cream! " This is so very different from the commonly understood

meaning attached to the word love. We somehow think that love is 'hot'. Our

popular conception of 'love' is that of a heated passionate emotion. This

is what happens when people 'fall in love'! But Baba is talking of a kind

of love which belongs to a higher realm, more lasting and sustained than

the passion that fluctuates!

Ice cream makes people who taste

it by allowing it to melt slowly on the tongue, joyful and happy. The solid

block of ice cream loses its form by melting and finally disappearing,

fulfilling itself. Pure love springs from self-sacrifice; pure love is

fulfillment. It is in losing that one gains everything.

Like Ice cream, God also melts

when the heart of the devotee displays the warmth of Love towards Him. Sri

Ramakrishna compared the inactive snake curled up, as Nirguna Brahman,

while the same snake in motion is Saguna Brahman; both are the same

essentially. The block of Ice cream is Nirguna Brahman; when the Ice cream

melts giving ananda to the devotee, it is Saguna Brahman. The Avatar

incarnates for this very purpose. - by Dr. M.V.N.Murthy ...extracted from Sanathana Sarathi, May-June

1982

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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