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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 2, 15th July 2018

Just repeating the word ‘Love’ sincerely from want to love truly we have to live truly and
the depths of our heart can be enough. There vice versa. Love cannot be set apart from
is no set procedure for the heart; it opens as the rest of our living; it has to blossom in
spontaneously as a flower blooms. But it needs an atmosphere of Truth. But it’s not like
to be constantly nourished. With neglect it only one thing won’t come until the preceding
becomes withered and grey. It is such a good condition is fully reached. Many of us feel
place to live in! an aspiration to the path of Love rather than
the path of Knowledge or, for that matter,
For love to manifest fully in us, certain steps Works. It depends on our calling as well as
are required. The one essential is to align to the proclivities of our nature.
the Truth. The Mother has often stated that the
Truth needed consolidating first before Love By our exposure to Truth we start realising the
could pour into terrestrial existence. What is Love that we aspire for. A greater knowledge
evident on the cosmic level is certainly valid for starts to dawn and this knowledge enriches
the individual. The whole practice of saadhanaa our love. The knowledge spontaneously guides
concentrates on establishing a bridge with our us and we open more and more to the true
Truth inside. It can be a painstaking process. vibration of love. The Love we yearn for is
All those chinks in our nature need erasing not ephemeral. It is not physical gratification.
if we invite the Truth to step forward. For There is no sense of trade or expectation. Love
virtually all, this alignment is a lifetime’s work. in return is not sought because the essence
However as we align our well-being increases. of divine Love is unconditional. It is free of
The progress is cumulative and mounts as our all attachment. We start to understand that
true nature harmonises everything inside. Our attachment is merely an extension of ego.
joy expands as we get closer and closer to our In fact the overriding characteristic of all
core. And as the inside governs the outside human love is attachment. The moment it
our body starts to benefit too. The progress appropriates it diminishes into attachment.
is integral as we are calling a consciousness We realise that the ego must be shed for us
that brings order to the multiplicity of our to open fully to the radiance of love.
entire nature. Surely there can be no better
way of opening to the vibration of Love than In a very real sense we have to rise above
this. When the Truth fully radiates inside, our ourselves to reach out for this summit of Love.
human nature can finally be mastered. Love is We have to rise above our humanity. We have
unleashed and the joining is complete. to become this Love and to become it we
need to hold the ideal before us at all times.
So to realise true Love we need a solid grounding Its aspects are so sublime we are incapable
in the Truth. We walk a very perilous path of fully realising them. Something new has
without this understanding. After all, Truth is the to lift us up and without surrender it is an
soil from which Love grows. However they are impossible task. Occasionally we might even
not separate entities. They work together hand slide down to murkier depths but when that
in hand inside all of us. Each is intrinsically happens we must realign and climb again. We
contained in the other. Everything is one: Love hold onto our truth as we climb this mountain
is Truth and Truth is Love. Ultimately if we of Love.

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