October 01, 2010; 08:10am
Q) How to love everything in the cosmos?
A) When we are enlightened, it automatically happens. When we realize our True Self, it happens. There is no effort. It is like we don’t get into a thought that we should love something. We just love everything. It is not the emotional love that generally one talk about love in the mundane world. It is the love where one recognizes its presence. It can be an individual, may be even a peeled off banana skin, may be a grain of cooked rice fallen on floor, or may be a speck of dust, we just recognize its presence. We recognize its presence and love it. We recognize the way it is. We don’t try to change it. We don’t hate it, we don’t dislike it. If it’s something like – let’s say, if we find a fallen food particle on the floor or petals of a flower, we may just lift it and gently place them gently in a dustbin. In this process we do not hate any of the process and we don't even think about the person who might have thrown them down. We just recognize those particles presence and gracefully put them into the dustbin and we will be in a satisfaction that we have made those particles reach their destination. It is with so much of a grace we do that as if we are handing over a new born baby to its mother. With so much of love and care we will do that.
Our gratitude towards everything in the cosmos increases and we handle every particle with so much of reverence.
Q) Why should we love everything in the cosmos?
A) Because everything that is outside is a reflection of our own-selves. Yat pinDe tat brahmAnDe.
