Love. by: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1967)
"Love is the sweet expression of life. It is the supreme content of life.
Love is the force of life, powerful and sublime. The flower of life blooms in
love and radiates love all around. Life expresses itself through love. The
stream of life is a wave on the ocean of love. Life is expressed in the waves
of love, and the ocean of love flows in the waves of life. What a comfort love
brings to the heart. The heart tickles with the thought of love, and waves of
life begin to roll on the ocean of love. Every wave of life is full with the
ocean of love. Yes, such a life is worth living. Every wave of life, full with
the ocean of love. Such a life is life, such a life is worth living. And who
lives such a life of all love, of bliss, of power, and of peace? The fortunate
ones, and the fortune is open to all to design their destiny and begin to live
life in all love and joy. The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep
meditation, and probes deep into his heart,. Then the waves
of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love fills the heart and
fills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of
love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and
peace. The stream of life then flows on the tidal waves of bliss, and the ocean
of love permeates every wave of life. Love is highly sensitive. It is the most
delicate power of life. And life is a most dynamic expression of love. Love is
delicate, and at the same time, it is most vital and strong. A tiny, tender
wave of love rocks the boat of life. Love takes life from the pangs of
separation, to the bliss of eternal union. From the insurmountable pangs of
separation, to the unlimited joy of eternal union, swings a tiny, tender wave
of love. What a miracle God has created in love. Let us live it. Let us be in
love, and live in love with one another, and say to ourselves, quietly, let thy
will be done. A soft impulse of love is the sole life
of a melting heart. A tiny hope of love brings the light of dawn through the
darkness of the lengthy night. And love, even as a twinkling of the faintest
star, keeps the light at the altar shining. And in that faintest light of love,
someday the willivet (individual) finds his way, and creeps on in silence, in
quietness, drawn by the tiny, tiny love which kept the door open in the hope of
fulfillment. In the hope of fulfillment that someday, and sometime, the
darkness of the night would give way to the brightness of the midday sun in a
clear sky. The catch of love, though tender is firm and strong. The glory of
tenderness and strength is the glory of love. One wants to remain tender in the
strength of love. The strength of love makes one tender and firm. Makes one
weak in wrong, and powerful in right. Brings forgiveness in authority, and
grace in all fields of life. And this is the destiny of the fortunate. Love is
the fortune of the fortunate. Abundance of love is the
goal of all destiny. Fortunate are those whose hearts flows in love. A loving
heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life. And that,
when it flows in unbounded tidal waves of bliss, it is the glory of the
supreme, the blessing of mother divine, and the grace of God. A wave of love
flows over the whole range of life. It sweeps over the whole range of creation.
The power of love pilots the plane of life, here there and everywhere. Love
takes life from home to hill, from hill to hill, from home to home. Love is
desperately seeking. It keeps the path alive and warms the goal. The silent
force of love knows no barrier. It takes the life from the ruggedness of
mountains, to the roughness of the sea, and there, in silence of wilderness,
and even so in the noisy horizon of the sea, the vast expansion of the
unbounded love from a distance brings a breeze cool and fresh to cool the heart
and soothe the pangs of separation. The delicate and kind hand of love
takes life from the prick of thorns, to the softness and tenderness of a rose.
On the softness of the cradle of love, the life swings from the loneliness of a
desperate quest, to the rich planes of fulfillment. A tender spark of love
lights the light in loneliness. It burns alive the pangs of the bygone past,
and spreads the light of hope and joy and fulfillment. And a tiny spark of love
does it. Love is the most precious gift of God to us, let us use it for all
good. Let our life be full with love, let us love and be loving and spread
grace around us. Let not the din of the world, and the thick and thin of life
disturb the fullness of love in us. Let us be full of grace, and full of light.
And in the fullness of love, let us be up and awake to serve the will of God
and rise to be of real service to ourselves and to our fellow men. Let the
glory of the divine dawn in love. Let the bliss of the divine effulgence, and
the light of love permeate our life, and transform our
life to the eternal life of the divine being. Let lovingness spring as the
light of the divine. For, the divine is all love in its essential nature, and
love is all divine in its truthful expression. The divine is fullness of love,
and love is fullness of the divine. Love is the light of divinity. It presents
the divine in man. Love is the divine life in man. Love in our hearts is the
divine in heaven. The divinity of the heaven dwells in our hearts as love. Love
in the heart of man is the shrine of God on Earth. Blessed are those who carry
the shrine of God in fullness of love in their hearts. And when the drops of
love trickle down the melting heart, the angels in heaven run down to count and
keep a record. No drop of precious love is ever wasted. For every drop of love
flows the unbounded ocean of bliss. And the ocean of bliss unfolds the love
divine and fills the heart. Then the eyes lift to God, and God raises his arms
and extends his heart. And then the reality
dawns. The stream of man's love finds the ocean of God's love and flows into
it. And this is the glory of love. The man and God unite in the eternal ocean
of love. Let us bring to our life the glory of this love, which brings the
heavens in life on Earth. "Love of God", someone said, "is an abstract
concept". Yes it is abstract. It takes the experience of life to make it
concrete. Love of God is abstract in its infancy, but let us not forget that it
begins to be concrete from the very beginning of life and imperceptivity grows,
and grows to become concrete, and overtakes our life in full. In its most
infant state, love finds an expression on the lap of mother. In the sweetness
of the mother's eye. It grows in toys and playfields, in the sweetness of
friends and folks of society. It grows in the sweetness of husband and wife.
With age and experience, the tree of love grows. It grows with the growth of
life and evolution, and finds its fulfillment in the eternal love of the
omnipresent God, which fills the heart and overthrows the darkness of
ignorance. And then, in the illumination of universal love, the abstract love
of God finds concrete expression in everything. All becomes divine radiance of
eternal love. Life finds its meaning in the living presence of God. Every phase
of life then saturated with love breathes the living presence of God. Here,
there, and everywhere, in this, that, and everything. Nothing but love and
living presence of God. This is how, gradually, the personal love naturally
moves on to gain the status of universal love. And universal love moves on to
find its expression in personal love. There is time in life for everything.
Life is progressive on the steps of love. And there is a time significant for
every step in love. Every plane of love brings fulfillment to the corresponding
plane of evolution. All love, in every phase of every drop of it is significant
to life. Love is the supreme blessing of life. The sun
shines, and it shines forever in fullness. It may be that the clouds are
gathered. Let them come and go. They go as they come. Take no notice of their
coming. You go your way, make your way through the clouds, if they lie on the
way. Do not try to dispel them, do not be held by them, they will go the way
they have come. They are never found stationary. But, if you would like to
pause to see them wither away, wait for a whileÂ…the wind is blowing anyway. It
is to clear the clouds from your way. Just wait to see the clouds wither away,
and the sun, the same old sun of love will shine again in fullness of its
glory. When night comes, all appears to be dark, but darkness does not last.
The light of the dawn comes on and spreads the love and charm of life. So we
shall not mind if the darkness of the night sets in for a while. For the light
of love can, for certain, not be gone forever. So we live in love, and we wait
in love to grow in life, and gain fulfillment in love eternal.
Love as love is universal. Personal love is concentrated universal love. Ahh,
my heart flows when I say personal love is concentrated universal love. The
ocean of universal love flows in the stream of individual love. What a blessing
in life. The heart in whom the universal consciousness has dawned, is able to
have the force of the unbounded ocean of universal love even in the stream of
personal love. Those who are restricted in their ability to love. Those whose
love flows only in restricted channels of isolated objects or individuals.
Those who can only like this or that. Those who have no awareness of universal
consciousness in their hearts, are like small ponds where the love can flow
only as ripples and not as waves of the sea. Such is the love of most of us. We
love today, and rise to fight tomorrow. Let us not bring shame to love. Let us
rise to love forever more and more. When an ocean flows in love, it flows in
peace within. When a shallow pond moves to rise high
in waves of the ocean, it only stirs the mud at the bottom. And the whole
serenity of the pond is spoiled. When a heart, shallow as a pond, seeks to rise
high in waves of love, it creates a muddle and brings out the mud that was so
far gracefully hidden underneath. To enjoy the ocean of love, we have to
improve the magnitude of our hearts and gain the depth of an ocean,
unfathomable and full. Let us give this status of an ocean to our heart before
we let loose of our love to be tossed about by the blowing winds. And having
gained the status of the deep, let us open the heart for the ocean of love to
flow, and let it flow in fullness. The mighty waves of love will rise in grace
and hail the glory of the multiple creation with the bliss of the unity and
peace within. And how do we improve the depth of our heart? By probing deep
into the purity of our being. By exploring the finer regions of the impulse of
love that murmurs in the silent chamber of our heart. By diving deep
into the stillness of the unbounded, unfathomable ocean of love present within
our hearts. By a simple technique of self exploration, or by what is commonly
known as the transcendental deep meditation. It is easy for every one of us to
fathom the unfathomable magnitude of the ocean of love present within, and
forever enjoy the fullness of heart, in the fullness of life. Love is fullness.
It is all embracing. Love binds. It is the unifying force of life. It extends
us unity. It binds, yet binds in freedom. It holds together the bonds of
freedom. It knows no discord. Disunity is foreign to love. Discord is foreign
to love. Disharmony is foreign to love. Love is purity. Love is innocence. Love
is fullness, oneness and bliss. It brings fulfillment. Love unifies the
scattered ends of life, and brings them all together into an integrated whole.
Love is the symbol of life. Lack of love denotes lack of life content. And the
show of love without genuine love is a shame to life.
Simple, innocent, natural, normal state of love, without inhibitions, is a
divine quality, which is the natural quality of graceful life. The divine grace
lies in the fullness of infant love. And in the abundance of love lies the love
of God and love of God's creation. And when the lover of life finds himself in
the unbounded love of cosmic consciousness, he whispers to his God within
himself, "My Lord, in the temple of my heart, on the altar of thy glory, my
God, my love is full, and thy love is treasured safely. My love for thee is
safe, and full in freshness, and purity at the glory of thy altar. My Lord, thy
lordship is secured in the shrine of my heart. And when my love flows it
spreads the glory in thy creation." In love of God, the lover of life finds
expression of the inexpressible. Cosmic life gains expression in its activity;
the thought of cosmic life materialized in the process of thinking. His eyes
behold the purpose of creation. His ears hear the music of
cosmic life. His hands hold on to cosmic intentions. His feet set the cosmic
life in motion. He walks on Earth, yet walks in the destiny of heaven. Angels
enjoy his being on Earth. This is the glory of unity born of love. Let us be in
love with all around us. Let us be in love. Let us in love resolve to be in
love. For, love is life. And certainly we do not want to step out of life. So
let us in love resolve to remain in love, and let us never step out of the
boundaries of lovingness. For in love dwells the power of creation, wisdom of
life, and strength of all good. Certainly, our life has to be all in love. The
thread of love has woven the garment of our life. We shall keep it spotlessly
clean and pure. Life is a sacred gift of God to us in love. We shall not defy
love, and shall not spoil this sacred gift of life. Love shall be pure in our
life. It will help our evolution and cosmic purpose of creation. It will
maintain us on high levels of grace and glory of life. Love
shall save us from wrong, and guide our part in life. Love shall forever shine
on our way, and the light will guide our steps whether we go slow or fast. The
light of love shall forever be with us on our way. Love shall forever be the
anchor of our life. We shall be in love, and love shall be in us. We shall live
in love, shall grow in love, and shall find fulfillment in love eternal."
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