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“Love is not love that is the result of outward enjoyments. Everybody repeats that he loves God, that he loves somebody, but how many really know what love is? Love is the attraction of the heart to something. It is a question of heart and not of head. When the heart wishes something, there will be radiation and that will react to where the thoughts are directed.
So as I told you, it is a subject of the heart and not of the head. Whoever has got love knows service and sacrifice. There is no question of high or low, the king or the subject. Even kings are made to sit on the floor as a result of love. Love knows giving away everything, including your body and soul. It is a matter of surrender to somebody’s will, to whom you are attached at the heart.
Love is innate in our souls. God is love and our souls are the drops from the Ocean of all love, which is also love personified. But love knows attachment. The love of the soul which should be attached to the Oversoul, or God, has been attached to the physical things and outward enjoyments. That very love has been turned into attachment. You go where? Where you are attached. That thing within your mind is where you are attached, the love of which you have got in your heart. If you have got love for worldly things, naturally you will come again and again to the world.
If you have got love for God or the God-in-man, then where will you go? Where He will go. If he is not going round and round on the Wheel of Transmigration, how will you go! He comes from the Father and goes back to the Father. He comes with a commission to take souls back to God.
So love is love if it is directed to God, otherwise it is attachment. We have just to think deeply in our heart what we want, with whom we have got real love. Real love is not a business; mind that. It knows surrender and dedication of everything to Him. How is real love developed? If you love somebody, you will naturally have sweet remembrance in your heart. If you want to develop love then just have sweet remembrance of God all the day and night.
The most effective way is to sit by One who is overflowing with the love and intoxication of God. Their soul is intoxicated with the love of God. In whatever company you sit, you will have the same radiation. If you sit by a wrestler, you will develop a real love for strength. If you sit by a learned man, your love will grow for literary things. If you sit by somebody who is overflowing with the love of God, naturally you will have that same love by radiation.
The Koran of the Mohammedans says, ‘For every lover there should be some Beloved’. We are souls, conscious entities. Our beloved should be the Oversoul, who is All Consciousness, who is God. We have made the world our beloved and naturally we come again and again. So our love should be for God. It should be developed, but it can only be developed if you sit in the sweet company of someone who is immersed in God. Then naturally, you will have love by radiation. Your soul will be injected with love. Love knows service, not ego.”
(Kirpal Singh. “Morning Talks”. Ruhani Satsang 1970. Pp. 35-37)
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Michael
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