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Love Beautifies Everything

 

You will have his sweet remembrance. If you want to have love for somebody –remember Him sweetly. That will result in attachment of the mind and outgoing faculties.

 

When you get sweet perfume in the company of the Saints, it is like a man who sells perfumes; when you go into his shop, you enjoy perfume, even by radiation; and if he will give you a phial of perfume, then –what more do you want? This is the way the Saints develop that love within you. Your angle of vision will be altogether changed. The more you come in contact with the Light and sound principles within you, you'll have all that. These are elementary steps; to live what the Master says –obey Him commandments. The more you come in contact with the word Power within you, you will naturally overflow with all virtues. All virtues will come to you. Faults will leave you. You'll become the abode of all virtues. That requires sincerely and devotion. These are the things to be lived up to. They are developed in due course; not in one day. if you begin from day to day –like that –you'll find after some time –just heart to heart communication, naturally.

 

Love knows service and scarifies. Love does not want any taking. It is always giving; sacrificing for others. Serve and sacrifice for others; only if we love, you see. God is love and love is God. That is God. That is why all Saints laid a great stress on the truth.

 

The tenth Guru proclaimed, “Hear ye all! I tell you the truth. Those who love, they can know God.” only those who love can know God. you may belong to any social religion –that makes no difference. You're a man after all. These are only social bodies, the badges of which we are carrying.

 

And in the Bible, Christ says: “Love thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength,” and the second of the commandments: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” If we love God, and God reside in every heart, and you hate, then? Well, he says you are a liar. You see? So all Master have stressed love –laid stress on the term love. They say, “Without love you are nowhere –whether in this world or the other world.”

 

Love starts from the body but is absorbed in the soul. And that love which arises from within the body and is absorbed in the body –that is lust. That’s the different between the two. The first is called charity and thee other is called lust.

 

So Love is there. You are love and when you are attached anywhere, you forget all duality. When you have love for the Master then you will feel some day, “it is not I, but it is Christ living in Me.” that means to become a Gurumukh: the mouthpiece of the Master.

 

Put in one ounce of love in all your affairs, even the mundane affairs; you'll have your happiness. all these strive are going on for want of love. And the main thing is: love knows giving. Loves knows service. Love knows scarifies. If we learn that subject, everything comes in.

 

There's a parable in the Hindu scriptures: they say once that Lord Vishnu invited all angels, and Gods and men to a feast. Lord Vishnu stood up and said, “Look here, all this is for you. Eat to your full satisfaction. But there is one condition: do not bend your arm to put food into your mouth. Those who were worldly people said, “How can we get the food into our mouths unless we bend our arms?” they became angry and left the scene. And the other Gods who were there said: “this is something Lord Vishnu says: so there must be some secret in It.” they thought  over very gravely: “o , that’s all right. Why bend our elbows –we can give food to the other and he can feed me.”

 

You bend your learn to give, give, give, then where is the world trouble? If you won't let anybody remain hungry unclothed. If you make everybody happy –then? Generally we live for our own self –the whole trouble is there . we should learn to live for others. Then there will be happiness in the world; heaven will come  unto the earth!  It's all the feat of love. The whole trouble is we want to congeal within ourselves and have everything for our own selves. We are man; animal live for their own selves. They fight like anything to be the king of the other. We have to learn to live for others. The world is full with those who have love for themselves. Only he is a man who lives for others, not just himself. Then he has the right to be called a man.

 

He who is overflowing with love –only he is a man. he will have no attachments. All strives, all conflicts, all troubles go when you live for others. This is the main subject –the main teaching the Master give.

 

Guru Nanak said: “peace but unto all the world over, under thy will o Lord.” “Hear ye all, I tell you the truth. Whosoever loves God, he meets Him!” very strong words. God is  love and Love is God –and the way back to God is also through love. And that is already innate in you. You see, you don’t have to buy it from the shops or grow it in the fields –it is within you. That can have a boost when you come in contact with someone who is overflow with love and intoxication of God.

 

Chaitanya mahaprabhu was a great Saint in the Bengal area of India. He used to repeat the name of God: hari bole, hari bole. “speak the name of hari.” Words coming out of the Saints are changed, you see. He went to a place where all the washer men washed cloths and stood by one who was washing. “speak this: hari bole, hari bole!” the washer man thought: “some mendicant has come –he wants  some money.” So he said, “no I won't say it.” “You must say it!” then the washer man thought: “All right, he does not leave me, let me repeat it. then he will leave.” But when he repeated the word of hari bole, hari bole, hari bole!” and all the washer man began to shout: “Hari bole!” this is what you get in the company of the Saints, by radiation, direct. When the thought is pure that which you see goes to the heart; it goes to the heart. He speaks to the soul direct.

 

So that is why we want, and pray for the company of the Saints. “o God, let us have the  company of those who love you.” Every night we should pray: “o God let us come in contact with those who are overflowing with the love of God.”

 

You have to find no outer performance or outward this and that ting. What is the ultimate object of performing the outward rituals in this way or that way? It is to develop love for Him. Again I would say, it cannot be bought from the shops, nor grown in the fields. It is given from one who is radiating, overflowing with love. That is why they have stressed: “The company of Saints for an hour, for an hour only, will give you results which you could not have of your own self for years.”

 

Love is everything, you see. If we but love. Develop love; it is already within us. Put in ounce of love in your affairs –there is peace. Put it in all your reports, outward and inward, you're at peace. Put in love all your rapports, outward and inward, you're at peace. Put in love between religions, there will be peace. Put in an ounce of love between countries, there is peace.

 

So we should learn to live for others. That saves. That’s only the result of love. If you love you will learn to give. Love knows service and scarifies. You live for others, that’s all. That requires no special drawing inferences. Solid facts, you see. All your outward affairs will be beautified. They will become a source of joy and peace. This is the basic teaching of all Master who came in the past.

 

By radiation our souls are drawn to become one with the over soul. So love is everything. To keep the company of the Saints in sweet remembrance, and contact the God into expression Power, are the main things.

 

For whomsoever you develop love you also love those near to Him. Suppose I love you –if your children come to me, don’t you think I would love them also? Naturally. If we say we love the Father, but not his children, how can that be? That is why Christ said: “those who say they  love God but do not love God other men, are liars.” Where there's love there is peace, bliss, and joy. For want of love, all these troubles arise, whether it's the worldly way of any other way. Unfortunately, people say, “We love the Master,” but telling the truth? They say, “Love God,” and fight within themselves. Whereas the teaching?

 

The main thing is to come in contact with that God-into-expression  Power which is already within you. Fortunately you have got a contact with Naam. Come in contact –you will change, within a month or so. Spirituality is not difficult –but to become a man difficult, this I would say. God is after finding a man.

 

Baba jaimal Singh went about 200 miles from bees to find Baba Sawan Singh. Was there nobody else to give initiation? Saints know what is what. A man standing on the top of a hill knows where fires are burning. Kabir says: “I've become so purified within, that God is after me, calling: ‘Kabir, Kabir.’ “ so called God is seeking you –he is within you. We simply go astray. Direct your attention toward Him, you'll be attracted like anything. what you get by meditation you'll have all at once! That’s a step for going up. And how fortunate you'll have all at once! That’s a step for going up. And how fortunate you are, you have been given some contact to rise above body consciousness every day at your will, this is the ABC to start from –that’s not the end all.

 

So love is a great blessing you see. As I have already defined, love is not love, which begins in the physical body and ends in the physical body. Love is that love which begins in the body and gets absorb in the soul within. Then you forget everything. When you have love for somebody; you may be sitting in a gathering of two thousand people, but your whole attention is on the one for whom you have love. You are sitting amongst so many but still you not sitting amongst them. So those who have love for God –they live in the world.

 

Why should we love the Master? Once our Master told us, “Master has already love for God, he has no need of your love. We love him only so that all of the outward attachments are broken and come to one point.” He used to give an example of a pipe with so many holes in it –if the water  flows through each hole in the pipe, drop by drop will ooze out. if you close all the holes except for one, then the water will sprout forth –shoot forth.

 

To love the Master, the God in Him, is to direct all your attention to Him. That gives you a boost. To love the Master –what is it –viaragya, renunciation. True renunciation is to o God with the whole attention. Then naturally you are in the world yet out of it. boat is in the water and not water in the boat. That’s all. So love is a great blessing. So we should love the Master –the God in him. Master used to say: “Well, Master does not need love of you at all.” It's for our own purpose, we become over flowing with love of you at all.” It's for our own purpose, we become overflowing with love by coming in contact. If you are sitting by the side of a fountain, you'll be drench with water.

 

So love is a great blessing of course. Why do we pray for the company of the Saints? So that we may have some injection you might say, something to start with by radiation. And if he gives you the means to come in contact with God Power, which is, all love –then? That is the greatest blessing you can have.

 

If you have love –naturally you will have no I'll we for anybody else. No, when a child is besmeared with the filth, the mother washes him with love and leaps him to her breast she does not kill the child, hate the sin but love the sinner. This is within you all; we are brothers and sisters in God.

 

When we have love, it is great fortune. Such a one lives for others. We always think of the good of others –he lives for them. If it is necessary he will scarifies his everything for the sake of others. He is prepared even to give his own life. you know, the Master gives you the contact with the God Power, which is already within you. He is word made flesh, he gives his whole life to you people.

 

Take example of matchboxes. You may have dozen of matchboxes put under an oven but will they heat the water? But if you ignite one . . . . . the whole thing will be ignited . . . . .  then the water will become  hot. Do you follow what I mean to say? If a man is already initiated, and you come in contact with Him –you'll unite , you see? The fire is within us already and that will surround forth. That is why we need the company of a Saint. He is all the time conscious of that God Power within Him. Always different between himself and that. He says: I am the son of man and God is in me. Christ, in his life, too said this: son of man and the Father lives –talks to you –”Who have seen me have seen the Father.” So this is the truth given out by all Saints who came in the past. This is a digest in few words.

 

So ultimately, love knows what? Unification. All duality is gone. It cannot remain two. It becomes one: two in one, you see? Gurumukh means: he who has become the mouthpiece of the Guru. “Father and son take the same form,” as Guru Arjan said. St. Paul also said, “it is I, not know I, but Christ lived in Me.” see for you. Sometimes, when you are absorbed, you don’t know whether you are speaking or you Master is speaking –you don’t know whether you are speaking or your Master is speaking –you cannot differentiate. So that’s the ultimate end of a soul. Of course that cannot be developed in a day. it comes by regular devotion of time, and constant remembrance, and also coming in contact with that God Power which is already within you. You have not to buy anything from outside. It is already within you.

 

Great is man. all these things are given in scriptures and books. The very source of all this, what they gave out in the scriptures –you will have first hand contact. You will speak books. You will see books in rivulets and sermons in stones . so develops love please.

 

He is the greatest man who has love for God. and  his Power goes all around him in whom he is already exiting. It is just the controlling Power in you. He love the snakes, he love the birds. He loves all creation. As I recently mentioned: one day the talk was going on, when a cobra came up and Satguru in front of me. “Here is a cobra, don’t mind.” The talk was going on for an hour or more –all the time he was looking at me. when the talks were over he snared away they said: “Let us kill him.” “Why?” it is only love –that beautifies everything. Even the children , sometimes take the snake and put it in their mouths –they don’t bite them. When you see and think, “Oh, kill him,” –that very thought affect Him. He takes defensive measures. But he will not harm. The great men’s lives had many instances like that all through. Guru Nanak was lying in meditation in the filed, when the sun cam over his face. One cobra came up to give shade to save Him from the sun. when his sisters husband saw this he exclaimed, “Oh, nanak is dead.” But when he came closer the cobra went away and Nanak was all right. They will love you.

 

So love is a great blessing. We have developed love for our own self. Now help one another. If you live for others, only then, not otherwise can you be truly called a man –in the terminology of the Saint. Learn that lesson –we are everything. Love knows service and sacrifice.

 

All right, God bless you.