Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 11

The Six Distortions of Love

• Love has six distortions:
• Expectation (can manifests in other forms like lust, desire)
• Anger
• Greed
• Arrogance
• Jealousy
• Pride
• Whenever any of these come we lose peace of mind, innocence, love and only stress and undesired action remain in life.
• The habit to hold on to something and to get angry when you lose that is quite natural. This happens with day today activities…your positions, fame.
• Pride brings misery, jealousy brings tears and anger makes whole body boil.
• Direct all above distortion to the divine, if you direct these to some human or other things they bounce back to you.
• Have lust for truth; get angry at ignorance, injustice; take pride only in divine, being devotee of God and in being humble….:); be jealous of generosity
• Offer all your actions to divine. Every action has got some imperfection, actions can only be partially perfect but actor can be totally perfect…how?…when he directs all his actions to divine
• Astrology was one way for this directing process.
• When are you perfect? When you are calm, peaceful, centered. But if any of these imperfections bug you, you won't remain perfect…so direct them toward divine.
• Two ways to express love
• Master servant relationship (respect)
• Companion relationship (love)
• When it is companion relationship, love lasts longer; there is respect in master servant relationship
• In divine love you will feel both a master servant relationship and companion relationship. You are here to server divine but also feel the closeness of companion relationship.
• Love which is beyond all the three (satvik, rajsik and tamsik) types is divine love.
• Sharing is the dynamism of existence. Sharing is the love in action.
• A devotee rejoices in being with himself; he doesn't look for partners/company. Not because you hate others but just because you love it. If you feel love in self you won't ever be lonely.
• If you are a fountain of joy, who would not want your company but if you are bore with yourself think how bore you would be for others…:)
• Devotion is your nature and it cannot be taken away from you. You don't need to cultivate you.
• Some things are done by doing and some are done by not doing…relaxing… love is one such thing.
• Meditation is spontaneous; when you are at ease with self, meditation automatically happens so it is very important for a devotee to rejoice in self/center.

Love, a hidden Secret

• You can hide thoughts. It is not difficult. You can hide feelings also but it is a little difficult from hiding thoughts. It shows up on face, in eyes.
• Feelings are subtler than thought so difficult to hide and even subtler is love so it cannot be hidden. The more you hide, the more it comes out.
• So the strange thing is that you cannot express it completely nor can you hide you…:)
• When you are in divine love, thrill manifests in action.
• One who attains the divine love, throat chocks and hair standup, tears flow down, thrill manifests in every action and they are unable to express anything properly. They blabber…words don't flow easily.
• Fewer are those you blabber in love, who shed tears in gratitude, out of love. They are lighthouses for this planet. They are purifiers for their family, society and for whole earth. You become mentor.
• It is not just negativity that spreads, love also spreads…if you sit & meditate or sing the vibrations spread and goes to many around you and act as purifier for all. Such moments make life worth living.
• Moments when you are overwhelmed with love, when you sing, when tears of gratitude roll out of your eyes are the one that purify your family and whole earth.
• Places where such people stay, becomes pilgrimage.
• Two kinds of people
• Who get the value by the things that they wear
• Who give value to the things
• Similarly what you say is not important but in what state of being you said that is important. What is said is immaterial but who said it is important
• Even scolding from a wise/devotee is invaluable but even immense praise from wicked carry no value.
• The words which don't carry feeling along, will have very little impact and value.
• You have to kindle the love that you are.
• Life is Holy Scripture and the key to that is divine love.
• Life is the expression of inexplicable.
• All those you have left this earth will rejoice with one who is filled with love. It gives them peace and they dance in ecstasy.
• When you don't experience anything after you meditate for some time, a portion of merits that you gain, goes to your ancestors…like clearing the debt by sharing what you earned.
• When you meditate/do sadhna, remember that you are not doing this for yourself. This will go to others.