To experience divine
love there is no need to practise any kind of meditation, worship or rituals.
Selfless love (Prema)
can be obtained only by complete absorption in spirituality. It was for this
reason that Sri Krishna declared in the Gita: “Surrender unto Me, transcending
all rules (Sarva
Dharman Parityajya)".
Likewise, Jesus also
declared: "I am the Path." Buddha, conveying the same meaning,
declared, "Surrender everything" (Sarvam Sharanam Gachchami).
These
statements clearly convey that the essence of all religions, the root of all
scriptures, the goal of all virtues, is the experience of spiritual oneness and
unity (Sarvatmika Bhavam). The Gopikas
exemplified such a spirit of surrender and oneness. Gopikas symbolise thoughts.
Radha symbolises the
combination of all thoughts in the mind. So all our thoughts, desires and
aspirations and our mind should merge in Krishna, represented by Prajna in
a human being. Constant Integrated Awareness (Prajna) of the Divine is
the significance of the Vedantic declaration, ‘Prajnanam Brahma.’
(Divine Discourse, Aug 21, 1992.)
