Once I experience Godliness everywhere
then automatically the next step would be to feel the presence everywhere
But if I start believing that God is in the cow
and God is in the rivers and God is in the mountains and God is in the sky
God is in another human being, without that experience,
then it will merely remain a belief, you remain satisfied with nonsense and can never evolve.
Love, as a child experiences
from father, from mother is unique.
Love that is expressed by the child towards the mother is also very unique.
Though both are love,
they cannot be compared. Romantic love for example
Romantic love for example between two individuals
however momentary, however limited it may be in space and time
because romantic love seems to get diluted over a period of time for whatever reasons,
that is also a different topic altogether. What I am trying to say is such love,
when it is focused on an individual, it requires efforts.
Very rarely it becomes effortless and natural. Love between a child and mother
there is interdependency
I think it is the only thing I see as an effortless aspect of love
Other loves are cultivated
association breeds some sort of familiarity, familiarity leading to liking,
liking leading to some sort of affection
affection leading to some sort of attraction and love
But these are all step-wise things developed or conditioned over a period of time
And once those conditions are de-recognized love starts falling
Love demands one thing for sure
that identity has to be lost. When a lover and the beloved are mingling.
At its highest level of expression of love,
if I still remain as an ’I’ and my beloved keeps on demanding things from me
because I love her so much,
then that is not love; it is going to fall apart
But if it goes on and on and on infinitely without demanding from each other but just for the sake of love
then both will somehow lose that individuality and what will remain in this relationship is pure love
When I declare myself that I see love everywhere
I feel Godly presence everywhere. And when a spiritual person feels this love
it is no longer focused on a boyfriend or a girlfriend,
on flowers, or it is not limited to creative arts
like painting, music, dance – things like that
When the love becomes universal because I love God so much and when I have realised that essence of God
then there is no longer effort, there is no more focused love on so and so
So the lover has dissolved and the beloved is also gone in such a relationship, and what only remains is love.
Next step of all this scenario, where in Hinduism for example
one of the finest religions in the world
When a Hindu starts thinking that God is everywhere but most of these people they
share these views logically or from borrowed knowledge that God is everywhere
and hence
they make themselves eligible to worship rivers and mountains and sun and clouds and space and what not.
But this is prematur
Once I experience Godliness everywhere
then automatically the next step would be to feel the presence everywhere
But if I start believing that God is in the cow
and God is in the rivers and God is in the mountains and God is in the sky
God is in another human being, without that experience,
then it will merely remain a belief, you remain satisfied with nonsense and can never evolve.
So this is a problem with Hinduism which is polytheistic in nature
Judaism, Christianity and Islam,
They are all monotheistic religions
and they being as such monotheistic, they have this pride and they have this ego
that no one is better than me no one is better than my religion
In fact, some religions will go to the extent that “mine is not only the best, you are the worst,
you are the sinners, and you have to be eradicated from this planet.”
So where is the love here?
When I say I have experienced that God is love and when in the name of God
in the name of the all-compassionate, I discharge hatred
I discharge terrorism
then you start begging from God,
“God you are all-compassionate being,you are all merciful.
That is why they add all these values so that they go on doing sins after sins after sins in the praise of God
This has to I think to be very well understood the psychology behind certain religious terrorism
certain aspects of creating their own individual islands of superiority
that Christianity is superior to other religion or Judaism or
Islam, for that example. These are monotheistic religions and they have this danger of considering themselves as
the superior religions.
Polytheistic approach of Hinduism is also equally bad
because they don’t think before they believe. Their thinking is
based on what they have learnt from parents and from books and traditions
So they remain happy with the belief system and this idea of experiencing Godliness
inside oneself simply finds a kind of a compromised position They don’t go
go beyond belief.
They are happy with believing God is everywhere, they are happy with believing in the worship of
trees and cows and all kinds of stuff. So it becomes mere religion
mere dogma, mere belief system and also unfortunately I would say, it is all
related to fear, “If I don’t, what will happen? Moses might shoot me”,
right? So the punishing God will come into the picture.
So love is a beautiful thing but one has to really, really, really experience it from within