Narada Bhakti Sutra - Post 8

Dear All,

In the last post, we dealt with the expression "Parama Prema", in 2nd sutra.

Bhagwan Baba explains this "Parama Prema" further, as under:-

"The Lord is Love, His Form is Love, All beings are Love, Love saves and serves, Through Love alone can Good arise.

Love reveals the God in all.

Love binds one person to another. Love attaches one thing to another. Without Love the Universe is naught. The highest Love makes us aware of the Lord in every one. The Lord is equally present in all. Life is Love; Love is Life. Without God, deprived of God, nothing and nobody can exist. We live on and through the Divine Will. 

It is His will that operates as Love, in each of us. It is He who prompts the prayer, "Let all the worlds be happy." For, He makes us aware that the God we adore, the God we love, the God we live by, is in every other being as Love. Thus Love expands and encompasses all creation.

Looking a little closer, we discover that life itself is Love. They are not two but one. Love is the very nature of life, as burning is the nature of fire, or wetness of water, or sweetness of sugar. 

We tend a plant only when the leaves are green; when they become dry and the plant becomes a life-less stick, we stop loving it. Love lasts as long as life exists. The mother is loved as long as there is life in her; when life departs, we bury her without the least compunction. 

Love is bound with life. In fact, Love is Life. The person with no Love to share is as bad as dead. This is the reason why love expands in an ever widening circle.

Love is the fruit of life. 

The fruit has three components

-the skin, 

-the juicy kernel and 

-the seed. 

Skin

To experience the fruit, we have first to remove the skin. The skin represents egoism, the 'I' feeling, the excluding, limiting, individualizing principle. 

(Author's note- This is the first Ego, the I feeling, associating ourselves with our body, mind and intellect)

Seed

The seed represents 'selfishness', the 'mine' feeling, the possessive, the greedy, desireful principle. This too has to be discarded. 

(Author's note- This is the result of the first ego, I. Since we have associated ourselves with our body, mind, intellect, the feeling of mine (all those things which glorify, which are favorable to our individual ego) and not mine (all those things which do not favor, which do not glorify our individual ego, our identity with our Body, mind and intellect)

Sweet Juice 

What remains is the sweet juice, the rasa, which the Upanishads describe as Divine, the Love Supreme. 

Parama prema is Jyothi, Amrutham, Brahma: "Aapo Jyotheeraso Amrutham Brahma." Everyone has the right to partake of this nectarine prema and to share it with others. 

No one is excluded on the basis of race, caste, creed or place of origin. The only condition is: “Have the skin and the seed been removed?" 

(Extract from Divine discourse delivered on 1981 Christmas Day)

(Author's note- Once the seed and the skin are removed, i.e, the identification with our body, mind and intellect and accordingly, segregating everything, every experience, every relationship as Mine and Not Mine, the juice is and was always there, which is supreme, unselfish, Pure Love for God/ Pure Love of God)

Love.