Introduction to Vedas and Vedanta - Part 7

Tree of Vedic Knowledge

“Embodiments of Love, Students!

Whatever you have learnt here, share it with others. It is not enough if you share it with others, you too should put your knowledge into practice and derive benefit therefrom. We prepare many delicious items at home and serve them to the guests. Is it not necessary that we should also partake of them?

Likewise, we should digest the Vedic knowledge we have acquired and also share it with others. All types of knowledge have originated from the Vēdas. That is why the Vēda is extolled as sarva vijñāna sampatti (the treasure chest of knowledge). But unfortunately, we are not making proper use of such a treasure. Share your knowledge to the extent you have acquired. Never forget what you have learnt. With sincere effort, you will certainly be able to attain sākṣhātkāra. Those of you who wish to have the vision of God should digest the Vedic wisdom you have acquired and share it with others.”

Bhagavān Sri Sathya Sai Baba – Discourse on 19 October 2004

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Dear All,

A poet wrote many years before , 

"Hum ne dekhi hain un aankho ki mahakti khushboo

Haath se chhuke ise rishto ka ilzaam na do

Pyaar ko pyar hi rahne do koyi naam na do

Sirf ehsaas hain ye ruh se mahsoos karo".

(I have seen the fragrance of love in those eyes, Let that not 

be touched and get bound by giving an identity of a relationship. Let Love just remain Love. Let no name be given to that Love. It is a (divine) feeling which can only be experienced by one's soul/SELF)

Is there any need to write any thing more after giving these lines? When we have been saying to each one who have walked into our life from child hood till today- our mother/father/then school friend/ then a friend in infatuation/ collage mate/  our spouse/ our children and if we are 70+ and still living, then to our grand children and so on, all these are known as " vatsalya" or " anuraag" in Hindi.  These are all attachments. We limit our otherwise unlimited divine Love, our darohar or our treasure of Love and we give that love a name, a form, an identity.  

Never can such love be unconditional or eternal. Only when we have identified that we are by essence, reservoir of Love /Ananda and that Love flows incessantly to each and every created being, without a reason or a season, without absolutely expectations ting any response in return, and when that Love does not expand or contract depending upon the worth of the other person ( worth which we perceive due to our own vasanas), then that Love, only that Love is TRUE LOVE. God is that Love and He commands us to be in and as THAT LOVE.

Love