VEDIC VALUES & DHARMAS

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PRIYA BHAGAVAT BANDUVULLARA!

 

NAMAHSUMANJALULU.

 

 

SADHANA OF LOVE: PART ONE

COURTESY: SRI SWAMINI MAYATITANANDA

 

When we live gently on the earth

And innocence and humility are in every action

When the joy of universal remembrances

Shines through us, we are love

And everything we touch becomes love

Our beauty inspires the beauty in everyone

In this collective love, we are one

We are free.

 

Love is the most essential dharma on earth. After twenty billion

years of universal existence, the human species was created. Every

fiber of collective memory from the beginning of the cosmos is

refined into the latent emergence of the human. We have walked the

surface of earth for less than four billion years. In our human

adolescence, we have dithered and gamboled with time and values.

Now we are on the verge of maturing and discovering our essential

nature to be the celebration of love.

 

The cosmos functions in stupendous dynamism. Continents meld and

vast oceans separate, stars collide with celestial brio and galaxies

exist in a constant state of attraction. The power of infinite

magnetism surrounds us. All life is born in the waters of love,

which are absorbed in our being and lived through our heart.

 

Love is not an emotion. It is our complete state of being human.

There is no wall love cannot tear down, no hate, which love, cannot

imbue with light, no obstacle love cannot overcome. We have been

miserly with love. Self-absorbed, we miss the very essence of who we

are. When we express love, it brings us the solutions to all

problems, the warmth and embrace and resolve of all things. When we

feel anger, we must sit in the self and observe this anger. All

things eventually dissolve if we remain aware.

 

The Sadhana to encourage love is to sit in stillness in the mornings

after your bath. Observe the thoughts, emotions and pressures that

arise without conversing with them. Allow them to be what they are

and just observe. Quietude in our lives is most essential to the

gathering of love. Stillness is the food of love. Every moment of

quiet nourishes love. The heart is the kitchen of love. When love

feasts there, the memories of universal joy ebb and flow through

it. When the heart is open it reflects all we need to know. It

gives light to the eternal self and we are able to transform the

banalities of this finite world into idyllic bliss.