Who are we and where are we? We are in a world that is around us. The world is made of love. This world is an extension of love. We are born into this world because of our love and we live in this world because of love. All this happens because of love. Trees love flowers. Flowers love flowering. Flowering emit fragrances and colours. Bees and bugs love flowers. Swirling rounds of birds around the garden. Seeds enter the womb of mother earth. Immortality of seed births again. This universe is in deep love with birds, animals, trees, water, air, blue sky, sun, moon, planets and you.
Man is also born of love. Man is the seed of love. Man lives on love. Without love, man has no existence. Love only makes him live. Love lends a feeling of his being. A feeling of being loved and not being neglected. Man lives in love. This earth is in deep love. Man who has touched new dimensions and fathomed deep seas of love does not drown in them.
This world is the fountain of love. Love springs out of this fountain of love. Love is what we call life. Life is the fountain of love. But man constantly works against love. He seizes to be a man to be a devil.
In this world, suffering and conflicts are caused in the absence of love. I am that I am which I am in deep love with myself with my being and being is in deep love with existence. And in this existence, the being of existence is the part of the being who exists as part of the existence. This being-ness of the being is the love between the two. This love is the oneness. This earth depends on the oneness of all. Disparities and divisions abound and they make the world loving and beautiful. Because in the gap of divisions, beauty is manifested.
The man continues to deny his being. He wants to be someone he is not. There he begins to sow seeds of hatred against his being. There he breeds regression and aggression. You don’t want to be that which you are but you want to be that which you think you should be. There he seeds a deep division. There he harvests desires and hopes to ensure continuity of pleasure derived from accumulated memories.
Memories that you have accumulated in the mind. You are the whole book of mankind’s history. You look at your life from rear glass vision i.e. memories to drive forward the motor car of your life. You become a bad driver. In the artificiality of the human mind, the whole history of mankind is reflected. Man’s mind is the accumulated history of mankind. If the story of mankind is to be read one can read it word by word through one’s mind. It is embedded there. You are the book of the history of mankind. All your senses are a reproduction of the history of mankind.
But love is a new direction. It has its direction. It does not come from the memories. It comes from the newness of your being. Any direction will land you into blindness. Love lends eyes to see. Your pleasures lend you to the direction of wars. Love lends you life. Therefore, love is so important. Love ends the hatred, war, miseries and conflicts. Love is directionless.
Loneliness or despair is bred in absence of love. You may be lost in the world. You may go after money, fame or power. But you are lost. Love brings you home.
You are bound to breed conflict. Because you are observing from behind the parameter of time. Chronological time and psychological time are like glancing through your present life from the chapters of history embedded in your mind. And projecting chapters of memories into the future of life. Destroying the present for a desire of an oasis in the desert of life to cash in the pleasures of memories.
To understand love remember that you have a state of your mind which has hatred, jealousy, fear and war that are synonyms of love. Mind is divided by history, cultures, ethnicities, religions, languages etc. Therefore, your love becomes religion, god, country, nationality, race, and ethnicity. Quite shamelessly, wars are also fought in the name of love.
When melancholy is associated with love it becomes self-pity. Self-pity is the person begging for love. Therefore you think that you love but you love your thought. You have a concern about yourself that you dub love.
Humanity is not prepared to look at life face to face. What is humanity? Humanity is the perception of the mind. Humanity is not ready to perceive the mind’s avoidance of reality. Avoiding reality is prolonging the sense of staring at reality face to face. Your mind breeds fears. Fears of insecurity, loneliness and being hurt. But in love, fears, insecurities, and loneliness disappear.
When you are face to face with the reality that you are, you will find yourself looking at yourself. As if the whole existence is looking at you and as if you are the existence and the existence is looking at you. That deep love will awaken your life and will flower your life to make you the flame of life.
The flame of love will be lit when you become the flower of love. You are the loving flower in the flowerbed of existence and you are to flower into the flowering of yourself into attaining the flowering of your being. You are already that which is flowered in you.
Your being is the ultimate source of love and joy. Your being is the fountain of love. Your being is a source of love that does not deplete. Hatred, aggression, and violence have covered up the source which is buried underneath them. That source of love is the source of life. Love is life. Rumi says love is light. Love is the ultimate treasure that you have that will give you happiness and joy worth more than all wealth and fame of the world.
What you love hurts you when you make love a possession. You make your beloved into a slave and commodity when you call him or her yours. He or she is not yours. Beloved is an independent source of love. What a beautiful thing when two independent sources of love come together and between them, something mystical happens. We denote that by the word love. In this mystical event, the two perish and a mystical union is born. God takes over. God loves you. In front of your eyes, God is already there. God is touching your whole body and you are in it already. This existence is loving you every moment. But you keep denying it by bringing up your hatred and violence by desiring. Love is the canvas on which hatred, violence, aggression and suffering happen by desiring.
Understand the sutra, when you will love the love then you become the love. You will not be there. The two cannot pass through the narrow alley of love. Two have to become one. You have to go to the ocean of love to drown in the ocean of love to be able to love and be afloat.
That which is love is the ultimate mystery and a driving force in this universe. Buddha’s compassion is love. By being with the beloved by sitting by his or her side you bring the God by your side that’s the beginning of love. Jesus says Love is God. Jesus is flowered out of love. Buddha is flowered out of love. Mahavira is flowered out of love. Krishna is flowered out of love. You are bound to become the flower of love. Inside you dawns the calmest and deep serenity submerged in deep love. Go there embrace it.
The author is a spiritual teacher. He can be reached at arunavlokitta@gmail.com