Within religions and spiritual paths there are many ways that people are instructed to come closer to their Lord, and to serve their Lord. There is the path of religious ritual, and people can take up as much time as they like, or can afford to give up for religious ritual. There is the path of service where people do work on behalf of others, selflessly. There is the path of knowledge, where people try to learn everything they can about their Lord, and become closer to Him that way.
It is said that the most direct path, and the path that is most successful for the average man is the path of love. The path of love brings us directly in contact with our Creator. Love by its very nature is able to overcome all of the lower forces and all of the lower inclinations, it is like a fire that wipes them away. Without love it is very difficult to subdue the fire of the lower forces. The intellect cannot subdue them, but love can subdue them. Each one of us should imagine times when love in us was very powerful, and the effect that it had on us. What we will remember is that all of the difficulties, or the things that bothered us, or the anxieties we had, when love is strong they fade away. There is no room for them. Love suppresses them. Love suppresses them, and then burns them up.
What we need to do is we need to meditate on love. We need to meditate on bringing love into our being. We need to think about how powerful God’s love is for us, and how this life force that we have has been given to us through love, and how love maintains and sustains us. If we understood for a second that if God lost His love for this creation, this creation would disappear, but this creation is held in place by God’s love. We need to try to comprehend that love, and return that love to our Creator.
It is in that love for our Creator that we can come in touch with reality because the string that attaches us to our Creator is love, and the string that attaches us to reality is love. When love is strong, illusion, maya, fades away because love is stronger than illusion, love is stronger than maya. Karma fades away because love is stronger than karma. We constantly have old attachments that we were born with, that came to us through our parents, and they influence our being. Everyone wants to know how we can rid ourselves of all of these influences. The way we rid ourselves of these influences is to be in the state of Divine Love.
God has no karma. His love has no karma. His love has no attachments. He is and He gives. He does not have favorites. He does not pick one over the other. He gives to everyone. The air is free. The water is free. The love that He gives is free. If we can find this love, and attach ourselves to this love we become free. It is in that freedom, through that love that we can begin to understand reality.
As maya fades, as karma fades, as this world fades from us, as its influence on us fades, we come closer to the truth. The truth is non-manifest, and this is a difficult concept to grasp, but when we are constantly using our senses as the way we find our way around the world, we come closer to maya and to karma. If we live our lives through our body, and through our body’s senses, through our eyes, nose, ears, touch, taste, we come closer to illusion. As we come closer to illusion, it seems real, it seems as if our sustenance is there. We miss the point of where our sustenance actually comes from, and it does not come from the world. Our sustenance is supplied to the world and to us by our Creator.
