Mata Amritanandamayi

Dear All,

The above Gospel has to be understood in the right perspective. 

Otherwise, we can just get off  by saying that " I am loving all equally. So, what more is required. I am already realized as per Amma's words"!!

This has been dealt elaborately in Surrender theme in the flow " Love God who is part from you, then love God within you and then the Love all is the culmination of finding the God within you, not for few minutes if few hours or even few years but eternally!

Start loving God in the picture/ portrait / as a deity installed in temple/ any place of worship first. This has to go on for several years in most of the cases.  This Love for God as One who is separate from you, focussing on such God intensely results in melting of your ego/ surrendering your Ego at the Lotus feet of Lord.

Then comes the ultimate stage in one's spiritual sadhana where, The duality between the devotee and the God is gone and the devotion for God transforms into supreme love for God which culminates into the devotee existing JUST AS LOVE, where, he is not there and the God is not there.

ONLY this discovering God within, existing as Love, can result in the EXPANSIVENESS referred by Amma in the above Quote.

Expansiveness is not expanding your heart deliberately and then giving your love deliberately to each one around you. 

Expansiveness is PREMA SAGARA. 

Expansiveness is your existence as supreme Love, which has no mine or thine, which has no boundary, which is not some thing you deliberately extend to others but IT IS THE STATE OF YOUR EXISTENCE AS LOVE.

It is only then, the last line in the quote- ' Loving each thing equally" actually comes true.

When you lose your ego and exist as Love ( Love is God) , you cannot differentiate between you the one who loves and the other being who receives your love.

So, it is not that you love things equally. All get your Love equally because, in your state of existence, there is no you, there is no few, there are no many, there are no all. You exist as God, the ocean of Love which has no beginning, no middle and no end. That is, you as Love, exist as God, enveloping / pervading the whole creation ( ISA VAASYAM IDAGM SARVAM)

Then, the some or many or all are within you, as you are all pervading Love. 

So, without your thinking/ deliberating/ doing any thing, by virtue of your existing as all pervading Love, it is but natural that all beings, the entire creation, living or non living beings - Must get drenched in the nectarine Love that you verily exist as!!

Love

Paramhansa Yogananda

Dear All,

Fear is one of the 5 Kleshas ( coloring of Ego)  dealt in detail in the posts under the theme MBCA ( Manas, Buddhi, Chitra and Ahankara ) in this blog.

Fear is actually  fear of change when a human being fears the uncertainty of outcome of a change in his  life- may it be in  his social or  career or spiritual front.

We are presently leading our life in a particular way, at our home dealing with relations and  at our office front, associated with certain people at peer level or at higher or lower level , some of them whom we know / think as good or bad !! However they are, they are predictable and we learn to live with their nature.

Also, in the context of spiritual path, we are presently following a routine path - attending weekly bhajan, praying for few minutes daily, attending some satsangh once in a while, undertaking pilgrimage once in a while and are happy and contended (!!) with our spiritual evolvement.

There comes a master or we listen to Divine discourses where in  we are commanded/ instructed/ advised  to take the spiritual path seriously with conviction that  “ God realization is the only purpose of  our life” 

Here, when we think on what that person has conveyed to us and when we sit and think of plunging into the spiritual path, FEAR sets in.

Why?

Because, we are embarking on an unknown territory in the spiritual path where we know the starting step but have no clue as to where we will land , what all sacrifices we have to make in our present way of life  if we take a serious plunge in the new found path !!!

Paramahamsa says “ Fearlessness is faith in God”. 

This is the initial, strong faith in God that once we take up the spiritual path with conviction and take one strong step, He will walk 100 steps towards us. He has promised us about His 100 steps. Hasn’t He??

The author ends with  indicating the ultimate stage of fearlessness after one attains Self- Realization where, there is no fear of any change to his very identity, even no fear of death or any future birth, to clear the so called  karmas !!!!

This is the stage of total fearlessness where, one transcends the ego and ignorance of identifying oneself to one’s limited body mind and intellect.

That is the stage like that of  janaka, seated before sage vasishta in acharya's Kutir, totally stilled . 

When rumour mongers run in panic on getting a rumour that Mithila ( kingdom of Janaka) is under fire and the king is asked as to why he is still seated where he is without the  FEAR of his kingdom getting ruined due to fire, the king who is a realized  seer, a videha mukhta, says “ when and if  mithila is burnt, nothing of mine is lost “.

What does that mean?? He had totally transcended his identity as a human, as King, as owning mithila, as a Jiva with any physical identity where , the “ mine” referred above is  the state of absolute freedom, of absolute fearlessness.

So, we have to start with fearlessness caused due to faith in God and  out spiritual journey must culminate in total fearlessness which is actually  total realization!!

The last trace of unknown subtlest fear within us is cut off/ transcended only when SELF REALIZATION dawns within!!

Hari Aum Tatsat 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba