Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

The Awakening of Love

 

That man who saddened by this life thinks that if only there was

someone that was mine, one who would take me in, one who would hug

me and snatch away my sorrow, my pain, my sins, this feeling of

separation, my fears, this feeling of no way out, etc etc... to that

one, God graces him with His devotion.

 

And that man who is only interested in becoming free from worldly

bondages, one who from dependency wants to attain freedom and

liberation, to that one, God grants salvation. On attaining

salvation, the person become established in " Swa " " Is-ness,

Existence, Self, innate " It is said in the Gita - " Samadukha Sukha

Swastha " (Gita 14:24).

 

On becoming established in " Swa " (Self, Is-ness), this natural

state, the subtle egoism, or feeling of individuality remains, and

this identification with I-ness (subtle egoism) gives him the

experience of immense joy. But the embodied soul being a part of

God, is ever magnetically attracted towards his " whole " (anshi).

Rather even after becoming established in the Self and having

attained salvation, there after as well, he feels something missing,

then at that time, from " Swa " (Is-ness) he moves and gravitates in

the direction of " Swakiya " (the one he belongs to, one's very own)

God.

 

Even though after salvation, there is end of sorrow and end of new

inquiry, but the longing for love never quite settles. The point

here is that without the awakening of love, the hunger of the Self

(swayam) is not totally wiped out. On gravitating towards

his " Swakiya " (his very own) - the Lord, i.e. on the awakening of

love, the immense joy changes into never ending, ever increasing joy

and the individuality (I-ness), of the sadhak ends (is completely

annihilated) once and for all.