Page 47 - NAMAH-Jan-2024

Namah Sadhana Through Human Love
a
a

looking out in the forest for the source of Saint Kabir states that the mind ran, ran
it, while it is in his own very navel that the and ran in all the directions it could run,
fragrance comes from. Just like that Divine, and wanted to run, but when it got tired of
or Love, or Contentment or True happiness, that running, it found that the very thing
is in our own very body, but we don’t look it was seeking by running, was found right
within. here within the being.

Turning Within and Finding Love Within When we become our own best friend, things
begin to change. In all my moods and ups
and downs and day-to-day moments of life,
people may not be around, I may not get help
from someone I love, but I can always be by
my side, and provide assistance to my own
self. I can, by being friends with myself, go
through all the loneliness, the wanting, the
seeking, the turmoil; just by giving myself
a good company, a lofty company, always
utilising my time to uplift myself higher and
deeper. And then a change can come in the
way I love.

Changing the way I love

When, after running and wandering around
a lot, getting wounded and tormented, I
finally get convinced that what I am thirsty for
cannot be found outside in the accumulation
and possession of material things or persons.
And knowing that it is impossible to possess Earlier when I claimed, ‘I love you’ — it
a person, I can turn within myself, having mostly meant, I want this or that from you,
faith that there must be some truth in what please give me that fulfilment; and if you
the Mystics and Seers have said through the don’t, I get disappointed. Now, slowly,
ages. The happiness that we seek outside, as I become my own best friend, I know
the love that we seek outside, is not outside, that the fulfilment that I am seeking from
but within. relationships can never come with my older
ways. I know that just like I am begging, all
Daudat daudat daudiya, jeti mann ki daud, others are begging too. I don’t want to inflict
Daud thake mann sthir bhaya, to vastu thaur ki this torture in the name of love, and poison
thaur. the name of love. I say to myself, that I am

47