Every Moment Ever Increasing Love - Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharan

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Every Moment Ever Increasing Love

 

God is infinite; therefore everything about God is Infinite - " Hari

anant, Hari katha ananta. " (Manasa Bal: 140:3). God's love is also

infinite. Rather, in true love there is infinite joy and sentiments.

The meaning of infinite joy is that, it is every moment, ever

increasing love (pratikshan vardhamaan prem). And, in this moment by

moment, ever increasing love, there is both a feeling of missing and

longing for the beloved and at the same time a

feeling of constant union. Without missing and longing for the

beloved, one cannot savor the nectar of union. And without union, one

cannot experience the true sentiments and joy of love.

 

In this world, neither the enjoyment of union remains, nor the

longing for the beloved who is away remains. This is because in this

world, only separation is constant; whereas with God, only union is

constant.

 

In the midst of constant separation in this world, we experience

moments of union and separation, whereas in the midst of constant

union with God, we experience occasional longing due to separation.

Rather in divine love, there is both a feeling union and separation

at the same time.

 

In union, the lover feels he is deficient in love. He feels that for

what God is, his love is not up to the mark. At the same time, in

separation, the lover is never oblivion of the beloved. Rather the

lover is forever engrossed in his beloved.

 

Both union and separation are given by God and both are in essence

God's divine nature. God creates the feeling of separation, so that

the beloved devotee may experience something missing in their love,

and in this feeling of incompleteness, in their inability to love

completely, the beloved's love is ever increasing. God also showers

the devotee with union, so that the devotee can experience the nectar

and joy of union.

 

Both union with and (longing due to) separation from God are eternal,

inexpressible in words and divine. Rather God's love is every moment,

ever increasing love.