Let‘s talk about Love

So let's talk about love for a minute. It's difficult to talk about but, okay, in terms of love, most of the world thinks it is like need or grasping or desire. So clearly that is not love. We've spoken about that in the past. A deeper love is like a feeling of felt love, like "I'm feeling so much love, I feel love, I love you." The outpouring of that feeling of love—is that love? As you follow the fragrance of this felt love, it brings us to even deeper love.

It is like it can be compared, or maybe it is the same to say, that that dazzling darkness is not just truth and revelation and insight. It is also pure love. You see, from which the outpouring of this felt love comes, from which this tasting of this love is felt. But that, to the mind, seems so empty because it finds it emotionless. But this is not the emotion of love. This is the non-separation, the oneness of the heart. So love can be used both for that felt love and for that deeper place where we may even say that even the pure Nirguna Brahman is love itself.

It may sound strange because we are used to the tasting of the outpouring of this felt love, but really when we say God is love, it is in that way. So love, if it is working as a pointer to bring you there, is very good. Now if it brings you there, what would you mean by going further? All that is further is what He can pull us into. You see what happened there? We go through this process of actively offering up all our faculties to Him. And there comes a point that His grace will pull all of it in without any seeming effort from our side.

And the deeper and deeper we go, the more we merge into Him, the more we recognize our reality of oneness with Him. And strangely, at the same time, we deepen in our devotion and servitude to Him, although we recognize our oneness more and more. And this is something that our mental understanding can never do. You see, so if you just mentally understand "I am That," that will not help us to deepen in our servitude and devotion. It is only when we see the magnificence of Him, and therefore ourselves in the heart, we also deepen our devotional love and servitude to Him. This is the product of insight as opposed to the product of conceptual understanding.