Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 9

Attaining Divine Love

• We project what we are from within.
• Like people form a group.
• What you feel is what you project outside…what you see, speak, think.
• Observe yourself, your thoughts. This will help shun negative things.
• Every phenomenon in this universe is an expression of love. Even hatred.
• See good intention behind every mistake. This will help you feel compassionate. The mistake doesn't stand when intention is right.
• There are three types of love: SATVIK (doesn't want anything in return), RAJSIC (feverishness and looking for something in return) and TAMSIK (love for destruction).
• Love that creates hatred or misery for you or for others is TAMSIK love.
• Love that brings great excitement and great depression is RAJSIC love. It brings feverishness and you are not able to contain the joy in this love. Short term joy and long term misery.
• Love that creates harmony, peace, a sense of belongingness is SATVIK love. The love that is unconditional.
• The goal of knowledge is to attain love.
• Four type of people who look for/ desire love
• People who are miserable, and want relief and hence are seeking love
• Seeking wealth
• Seeking some meaning or knowledge
• Who are knowledgeable and wise
• Knowledgeable is better than who are seeking love, who then are better than who are greedy and are seeking wealth and these are better than the miserable (because greedy will at least listen to you (you can at least motivate greedy people)whereas miserable one won't even listen to you.)
• Complex and simpler: life is complex and to understand it is even more complex. Sutra connects the inner abstract love to what we feel is the concrete existence (outer).

Love Needs No Proof

• There are two aspects in life
• To learn
• To like
• To learn we require time and effort but to like we don't require any of these. Be it music, food or anything else. One requires effort the other doesn't.
• To get knowledge you might require some effort.
• Love requires no time. An action requires more time than knowing or loving.
• What appears to be easy might not be easy. Note that, it is easy to accept people as they are because it brings comfort to you. Everyone likes to be comfort. So choose what is easy. Do whichever is the easiest… :)
• Life requires both: to learn as well as to love. And learning becomes easier if you love something. And without love, learning becoming difficult.
• To love something is the easiest things.
• The mind goes where the love is. So if you love divine you need not to do any effort to keep your mind on divine. Pray will automatically happen.
• Make the divine your valentine; mind will go to it, without efforts. Pray will happen automatically.
• The fact that you are thirsty or hungry is enough in self to know that. You don't require effort to know that.
• Love in itself is a proof. So where ever there is love, it is self evident.
• Feeling and experiencing needs no proof. Love needs no proof.
• One can hide hatred to some extent but you cannot hide love.
• Love spreads the peace, serenity and the bliss.
• Love is not just an emotion. It is your very existence.
• There is nothing wrong in being emotional but the higher form is what brings peace and contentment.
• Don't depend on the outer expressions of love. You have to experience love with heart not through emotions, eyes any other senses.