Masters are one with you, because they are one with Existence, and you are a part of Existence; only you see them as separate. And because they are one with you, they feel your pain in their heart. They don’t know any other way. And they have the capacity to accept the suffering that comes with it also.
Ordinary love gives birth to children while real love gives birth to your own real self. You give yourself a new birth - a transformation. Like how the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, man becomes a Realized Soul. You awaken to the Energizing love that laid dormant in you all along.
When Vivekananda says, Arise! Awake! does it mean that we are sleeping? Of course! We are sleeping even without knowing that we are sleeping. And we pass judgments while we are asleep. We criticize when we are asleep. We condemn when we are asleep. We think we are awake and we criticize. We think we know everything about everything including love. We think what we know is real love.
A small story:
A man had a wealthy old aunt whom he visited regularly.
He had one eye on her wealth and would go out of the way to please her.
She had two cats, which she was very fond of.
The man knew this and would look after the cats religiously hoping to win the lady over.
His secret wish was that she would make him a part of her will when she wrote it out.
He would come everyday, feed the cats with milk, play with them, spend a lot of time and go back.
The old lady was very pleased at the way he looked after the cats. She was very happy when she saw the whole thing.
Soon, she passed away. She left him the two cats.
(Laughter!)
She saw that he was so fond of the two cats that she left him the cats and died! You can imagine the disappointment in the man! He must have felt so terrible at having gone through all those months of affected love! He must have felt…? Cheated! He must have burned with anger and disappointment!
With ordinary love, there is every possibility that you will feel cheated. People love for wealth, for the favors that they get done, for the words of advice that they get when they are in trouble, for other people’s forgetful ways, which they can exploit… and what not. Love always comes with a reason. Love always comes with expectation.
But people will never accept this for a fact. They don’t accept it because they are deluded by their own ordinary love. They think that that is the way love will happen. And they think they are so loving and that I am simply bringing down their love.
Honestly, if you sit and think by yourself, you will understand what I am saying is nothing but the truth. Do an honest enquiry on yourself and see, you will know. Just sit down and try to visualize how you will react if your father or mother or sister behaved in a slightly different way towards you, that is enough. You will then understand what I am saying.
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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.
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