Words from the Master

Gratitude and love are closely related. When you experience gratitude at the bottom of your Being, there will be only love in you, nothing else. The first step towards feeling real love is feeling gratitude. As long as there is discontentment in your system, there cannot be real love. Gratitude and love go hand in hand. We will talk more about gratitude when we talk about the last chakra – the Sahasrara chakra.

When I tell people all these things, they tell me, “Swamiji, I love the whole world Swamiji. I don’t do harm even to a small ant…”

Why do you want to delude yourself by saying all these things? Can you even love your neighbor whole-heartedly? I tell you: It is easy for people to say things like they love the whole world because they don’t have to do anything tangible to prove it!
They can continue to say that they love the world and remain where they are! They don’t have to do anything special to show it. The world is after all an intangible entity; it is something abstract; it is not a clear representation.

But when you say that you love your neighbor, the problem starts! You have to see his face everyday. You have to do something tangible to prove your love for him! Then it becomes a problem!

And how can you feel great in not doing any harm to any ant? Is the ant capable of violating your property or person?! Is it capable of testing your love for it? It is not even visible to the eye and you talk about it to me. It sounds ridiculous, is it not? Claiming that you don’t think of harming even an ant! These are all ways to escape from the Truth.

Just try to understand one thing: Your inherent nature is love. Love is permanent. All other emotions simply come and go, that’s all. You are caught in thinking that all the other emotions are real and that they are destroying love. Love can never be destroyed. If love could be destroyed, it would have become extinct long ago.

Also, when you really love, the opposite emotions cannot enter into you. They will simply be excluded. When there is bright light in a room, can darkness be brought in? No! Only when you dim the lights, darkness can enter. In the same fashion, only when real love has not happened in you, the other emotions can take over. When you are brimming with love, there is no way another emotion can enter. And this chakra, the Anahata chakra, is supposed to make you brim with love, because it is overflowing, energizing, loving Energy.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.