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