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.