Hazoor
Babaji teaches us that we should propagate love…….. But do
we fully understand what that love is?
Love has
become a four letter word that has been used and misused in
many languages. In one instance, love has signified
unconditional sacrifice, in another it has been translated
into selfish and earthly actions. While love has driven one
to forsake millions, it has also compelled another to take
someone’s life. What is real love?
We
experience love at the early stages of our lives. We
associate it with our feelings for our parents, our brothers
and sisters, our friends, and later on our spouses, our
children. We establish and develop relationships with this
circle around us. Sometimes these relationships are strong
and sometimes they are weak. Some moments are good and some
moments are bad. Sometimes there is love and sometimes
there is hate.
This is
our life. A life full of complex love and hate
relationships. But there is no escape. Since we live in a
society, we are bound by a complex norm of relationships
that we have to abide by.
But why
should there be so much tension in love? Why should love
turn into hate? They say true love is eternal. True love
is complete surrender.
When the
Mission advises us to surrender ourselves completely to
Hazoor Satguru, we dutifully acknowledge it. We recognize
that the materialistic world around us is only transient and
acquiring it is not our main goal. We should not be
disturbed if we should lose any part of it.
What
about people? Are we willing to surrender our loved ones
also? Are we to feel no remorse if we were to lose any one
of them? If we were to do so, people would say that we are
heartless.
What
then is love? Do we love with our hearts or our minds?
True love, from the heart, is timeless, it is real. The
only reality is now, the present. Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not come.
When we
love with our minds there is always comparison of the
present with the past or the future. The loss of a past
which does not exist anymore, or the fear of a future that
is only imaginary. The mind creates the sadness for a loss
that is not there and the fear of losing something that has
not happened.
The
tragedy is that we love with our minds and not our hearts.
The love
that Hazoor Baba Ji is advocating is beyond such social
comparisons of one’s background, status, nationality, caste,
etcetra. It emanates truly from the heart, with full
acceptance of another human being without strings attached.
A love that is nameless, timeless, without relationship. A
love that is not calculative. A love that emanates from the
heart and not the mind.
Let us
shut our minds and open our hearts.