Love
Divine Words of wisdom by Sathya Sai Baba - On Love
1. Never become a Lover, become Love: Beautiful Analogies
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Students can understand the interpretation of subtle aspects. One must never be a lover. A lover may love one or two. The lover is very low class. One must become love itself! When one becomes love, one can love any number of people. A lover can only love one or two. Hence one must never become a lover but must become love. When man becomes love, he is loved by everyone and then alone can one understand the feeling of the one Atma, of oneness. Love is uniform in everyone. Vedanta teaches this principle of love extensively. If love is not there in each and everything, then it is not possible to acquire it. So what sort of love must one have? It is not the love at the body or mind level. One must love God in every way and in every perspective. When one does so, the unnecessary things will vanish on their own accord. This is called as the doctrine of non-dualism. There is a sugar cane. It has many bends. A sugar cane may have many bends but the juice does not have any bends. One’s thoughts, too, may be haphazard, but one must seek to develop love within. The juice does not have any bends. That is “Raso Vai Saha”- the essence is Brahma; that is the principle of Brahman. That juice is the Divinity. God is in the form of ‘rasa’, the essence. It is not ‘Paadarasa’ the mercury but it is ‘Premarasa’ the juice of love. Mercury is called as ‘Padarasa’ in Telugu. Mercury when put on ground does not flow as one unit but breaks into small balls. But the ‘Premarasa’, the essence of love joins everything.
2. We should develop Love for God
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A being with faith is called human being but today there is no faith in human beings at all. It is useless to do anything without faith. Therefore one must develop faith. Nammakamanu rendu nayanambule leni Andhulairi nedu avani yandu!! Today people have become blind, having lost the eyes of faith!! One becomes blind when one loses the eyes called faith. Does man have faith in himself? One who has faith in oneself has faith in God. Therefore having faith in oneself and in God is the way to greatness. It is enough if one has faith in oneself. How can one trust others if one does not trust oneself? This is the downward trend of the modern education. It is no true education at all.