Monday, April 23, 2012

Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 9 (Part 1)


    Attaining Divine Love

    • Whatever we are that is what we project; if you feel good within, you find everything is good and if you are upset, you find that the whole world is upside down.
    • People with same tendency group together. A disgruntle person can not sit with a happy person. So when some one doesn't shake hand with your negativity, you feel that they don't understand you. And you project what you feel.
    • Attaining THAT (divine love) you see only THAT (divine love) , talk only THAT (divine love). What you have attained is what you see, what you speak and what you think.
    • Observe yourself, observe thoughts. Just wake up and see what have you been thinking, what have been dwelling upon.
    • As you see, so is your creation. You project yourself into this world; you project yourself into other people, other people's thoughts, mind.
    • Attaining divine love you see that divine love in everything. This creation loves you. Every phenomenon express that love.
    • Attaining love you thank even worst enemy because you see that he is bringing strength in you; he is bringing up virtues in you.
    • See good intention behind every mistake and you will see that mistake will not a botheration for you. When you see good intention behind others' mistake, you feel compassion. The mistake doesn't stand when intention is right.
    • There are three types of secondary love (non-divine love, as divine love is beyond all this):
      • Satvik: love that creates harmony; which brings peace, knowledge and belongingness . A love that is unconditional and doesn't look like business.
      • Rajsik: Love that brings great excitement and then great depression. This creates feverishness in activity and you are even unable to contain the joy in rajsik love. It brings momentary joy and then sorrow. Short term joy and long term misery - rajsik love.
      • Tamsik: Love that creates hatred or misery for oneself or for others. Eg. Terrorists; they love ideals but they don't love people. But such love creates hatred and misery.
    • There are four different types of people who seek love:
      • Those who are miserable
      • Those who are seeking some meaning in life - those who are seeking something higher in life they form a group
      • Those who are seeking wealth or comfort - those who are greedy they form a group
      • Those who are knowledgeable - those who are wise they form a group
    • The goal of knowledge is to attain love; what is the use of knowledge that doesn't bring peace, love, the juice in life.
    • Knowledgeable one is better than one who is seeking which indeed is better than the one who is greedy which in tern is better than the miserable one.
    • Miserable one doesn't listen. He has closed his door. He doesn't allow knowledge to flow and starts enjoying misery.
    • Knowledgeable one is much better than others because he is closest to the source.
    • Our entire life is an expression of love. Whether anger, greed, jealousy, frustration etc - these all are distortions of love.
    • Our entire life is an expression of love. Life is very complex but love is very simple. Understanding life is even more complex.
    • Sutra - a thread that keeps us grounded yet enables us to fly high in the sky. Thread between inner abstract of life and outer concrete of reality.

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