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76. March 16, 1971 How can I develop love for you, Master? Love for me, or
the God in me? For whom would you like? For the God in you. That’s all
right. That’s good. That is within you too. Then more you come in contact with
him, love will overflow. You see, love will overflow. Constant remembrance or
sweet remembrance also helps. The God in me is also the God in you. only here
is a little more, what do you say, exorbitant. Simply turns your face there;
you will find. The more you come in contact within, you will overflow with
love; and outwardly, have sweet remembrance. When you remain in contact with
the God-into-Expression Power within you – (that very Power which is
Word-made-flesh); Naturally love will flow. Outwardly have sweet remembrance,
you see. The dairy is for the purpose. Every time confession is there: Every
time you do “Oh,” you remember. So he is there, you true friend who will never
leave you until the end of the world. There should be some excuse to remember,
that’s all: may be in anyway. I told you the
other day that an old lady at the Ashram, who was unlearned also asked to keep,
maintain the dairy form, and every morning, bowed down. So after seven or eight
days, I asked, “How do you find?” She replied, “Master is within me, walking
with me.” So it is some excuse for sweet remembrance. May be anything. There was once
as Radha who was very fond of spirituality. Radha also loved Lord Krishna and
Lord Krishna also loved her. Once Krishna’s nail made a scratch on her hand.
After a year, Radha was keeping that alive; always scratching so that it may
not be healed, you see. When it healed a little, she would scratch it again. After a year, Krishna
asked her, “What is that?” “Oh, this is the remembrance of your scratch. I have
been keeping it alive.” Some, some excuse for remembrance. After a little year
– little scratch – ordinary thing. So some, some excuse for remembrance. Photos
are only for remembrance. When one
disciple meets with another disciple, that remembrance has a boost. Does it
not? When one disciple meet with another disciple, then his gurubhakti devotion
to the Master is developed, because both are of together, then? They remember
something. When two married women, who enjoy the worldly life, sit together, they
speak excitedly, in high tones, you see. Something like that, it is a bad
example of course but still . . . . .
When they sit together and have the sweet remembrance of the Master,
they talk of that sweetness, this and that thing. . . . . Love will overflow.
Do you follow? It is a matter
of the heart, not of the head, mind that. So spirituality is not of the head,
not of the intellect, although may be able to explain so many things. Years and
years ago I read the event just given of Lord Krishna’s life. That scratch was
an excuse for sweet remembrance. Once my Master gave me a Kashmiri cloak: a
very valuable cloak. He also gave some very good bedding: very well decorated.
Once he sent for me and called me into his room. When I was there, he wore the cloak
with me still. Then another time, he gave me very good bedding, very
ornamental. But before he gave them to me, he kept them over his head. These
are tokens of love, you see. Love know no laws. In Gandhi’s
time, people loved him. Once there was one handkerchief, a very ordinary
handkerchief. He said, “All right, who will have it?” At an auction that small
handkerchief sold for about, 5,000 rupees. So it was very costly handkerchief.
A token of love. |