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Namah Tapasya of Love — from human love to divine Love

our base. This human love, so full of a mixture Next one loves spontaneously…
of ego and its cravings, its attachments and That’s already a slightly more evolved humanity.
its continuing sufferings, is the base for us One feels love all of a sudden; one meets
to have a glimpse of divine Love, and to someone or something — ah! — and it comes.
chart the long and arduous journey towards Only…
pure Love. Love that just is, forever open, …but one wants to be loved in return.
forever available, forever accepting and One very much wants to be loved in return!
embracing. Love that has the power to turn Further on, one loves even if one is not loved…
devils into compassionate, and wise, soft-
hearted fellows. Love that has the power to Those are generally people who have reached
turn foes into friends. Love that never settles a fairly advanced yogic state.
with something yet to be refined and yet to
be purified. Love is a force of purification “…but one still wants one’s love to be accepted.
which transforms, changes, sanctifies, if we Yes, that’s an experience I personally had. There
allow it to do its work on us. It seems like all is a time when one is quite capable of loving
the pangs and sufferings coming from human without response, one is above the need to be
love are worth it, if we are able to learn our loved, but one still has… not positively a need,
lessons and take it in a way of saadhanaa, of but, at least, a wish that one’s love may be felt
yoga, and hence move towards more and and be effective.
more purified love, a love that gives itself Afterwards, it makes one smile.
without expectations and demands, because And finally one loves purely and simply without
it doesn’t really know how to be otherwise. any other need or joy than that of loving.
That, to me, according to my personal experience,
is really omnipotence.

It’s a power than can achieve anything —
anything at all. Nothing is impossible to it (1).”

If you have ever loved, you would know pretty
well about — ‘I love you, so why don’t
you love me too.’ In our ordinary state of
human consciousness, it comes by default,
Rungs of Love and the mixture as if ingrained in our fabric, this clinginess,
this demanding nature; owing to the sense
The Mother, the manifestation of divine Love of incompletion we feel in the egoistic
herself, identifies the Rungs of Love in her consciousness, we just keep on trying to fulfill
Agenda: the void by anything on the way, but alas,
no-thing can ever fulfil it. But it is not an easy
“At first one loves only when one is loved…. state to be, for demanding, expecting, etc.
That’s the usual state of human beings. Someone’s from others, drains our energies, weakens us.
vibration of love has to come to awaken love, And hence it clearly tells us that it is not really
otherwise they are inert. a natural state for us. No one has ever been

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