Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 14

The ultimate truth

• Time has three dimensions: past, present and future. So is the truth. What was true yesterday is not true today; what is true today may not be true tomorrow.
• Similarly three states of our conciseness waking, sleeping and dreaming. (Fourth is aware and resting without any action i.e. meditative, Fifth is cosmic conciseness when we are aware and resting during all the actions)
• Only one thing which is in all the three dimensions is love. Love makes past feel present. So the essence of past is love.
• Don’t crave for attention. Attention cannot bring love so don't do show off.
• Love makes you feel complete though love is not complete in itself, love is infinite.
• Of all the truth in all three dimensions, love alone is supreme.
• If you can't feel oneness with this creation, that life is of no use. Love alone is the juice of life. Life moves towards love.
• Your source is love, goal is love and the path is also love..all three dimension
• What do be require to be on this path: Knowledge, action and devotion
• Love is not just an emotion; it is our very existence, our very nature.
• And by nature we all our 'great'.
• For love there is no comparison.
• Though divine love is only 'one' it manifests in 11 different forms/types.
• First: Expression of divine love is singing the glory, talking of wonderful qualities of divine. Just remembering the qualities uplifts us. Praising is not done to make them happy, praising uplifts us. We develop the same qualities within us. Love knows no 'buts' and 'ifs'.
• Second (Rupa sakti): Taking interest in the forms of divinity. Seeing HIM in all the forms. Every form in this universe reminds us of divinity. Form captivates us. It arrests us. We can relate with form but we can't relate with formless. That's why ancient rishis in Hindu tradition created as many forms. You chose whatever you want but see that in all other forms. The universe is filled with forms. And every form reminds us of our beloved, divine. When we adore the form, lust disappears. Lust is getting stuck to something. Think of divine in every part. Each part of body is sacred. We won't be aggressive when we adore all the forms on this universe. This will make us honor all the things.
• Third (Puja sakti): Puja. Puja means something born out of fullness. When you are so full, anything you do is puja. Replica of doing anything out of full gratitude is puja. Aarti means the total ecstasy. 'rati' means pleasure. Aarti signifies: Let no darkness around you. Let this light of me circle around you.
• Fourth (Samarna sakti): Remember. Remembering someone also kindles love. Memorizing the divine. Memory that is spontaneous.
• Fifth (Dasya sakti): Wanting to serve. Wanting to be servant of divine an instrument of divine. Love manifests as a desire to serve. There is difference between slave and servant. Slave is out of compulsion where as servant is someone who out of love wants to be part of master. Spiritual path cannot make you slave but it can propel you on the path to do the service towards all. Willingness to serve. And this willingness comes out of love not out of some want, desire.
• Sixth (Sakhya sakti): To be friend of the divine. Seeing God as your close friend. Someone whom you can fight with, you can share with, you can complain to. Treating the divine as your friend.
• Seventh (Vatsalya sakti): Mode of love in which you see God as a child. Treating God as your own child. Divinity is born out of humanity because first man wakes up and then man awakes divinity. So treat divinity as if it is born out of you; as if your own child.
• Eight (Kantya sakti): Making divine as your valentine. As if you are married to divine. How you care for your valentine. The spirit is male and the matter is female.
• Ninth (Aatma nivedana sakti): Dissolving the self in divine. Dissolving the self 'I' in the universal 'I'. ‘I’ (Myself) is all YOURS, what usually happen in meditation. Offering the self, feeling the self. Individual self 'I' dissolving in the whole universe.
• Tenth (Tanmaya sakti): Seeing the universal 'I', in individual 'I'. Seeing whole universe in you. One drop of water has all the characteristics of ocean. Capturing the Sun in a mirror. (Opposite to the above form of manifestation).
• Eleventh (Param virah sakti): Extreme longing, unbearable longing for divine. Crying for divine. 'Misery' out of longing for divine. 'Intense craving' for truth/ divine is also expression of love.
• Those who are fearless of others reactions, those who have unanimous opinion, the masters/teachers of devotion, those who profess love are the true sages.
• Intellect analyses but heart only synthesizes. Love joins all the fragmented pieces. It makes you whole.
• Teachers of devotion may have different opinion but people on the path of love have ‘one’ devotion. Words may vary but the essence is same.
• He who believes and have faith in these sutras of Narda (Narda has been an instrument for this) and which have come from Shiva, gets the love of God, attains his objective, attains his beloved God. One who understands these sutras is bound to rise. It is voice of your soul, call of your soul, language of your soul. You will rise in your life.