Love Can Lead Us To God: A Loving Open and Empty (with subtitles)

So, love can lead us to Presence. Love can lead us to that vibrational quality of Being, the primordial vibration of Being. So, that love... That's why, as we were reading this book I said, "Oh, he's saying the same thing that I've been saying for a long time, but he's making the connection much more strongly." So, he's basically saying—and the author we don't know because it's anonymously written two centuries ago or something like that—so, I have been saying that what he or she is saying is a "loving open and empty." Which I love. It's just like: to let go of your conceptual knowledge, to let go of reliance on perception is "open and empty." But that is very confusing to most. So, give it an anchor of love. Like an unconditional love. And that can be a very potent way to look.

So, a loving "open and empty," I feel like, is a beautiful revelation that came to me as a trigger of reading this book. Because it's a very rare one, a very jaded one, that you would find who would say, "I have never unconditionally loved anyone or anything." So everyone can, I feel, somewhere find this: love which is independent of reason or intellect. Now, where does that love arise from? And if you were to use the same non-thinking, intuitive insight—same open and empty—to remain in that same open and empty, then I feel like the revelation of this Presence is possible for everyone.

Of course, it would be a million times more potent if somebody already experienced an unconditional love for God or Guru. Because then, inherently in that there is devotion, there is trust, there is faith, humility. All that is inherently there. Which we may not have inherently in our love for our children or love for a beloved or the love for parents; it may not inherently have so much faith and trust and devotion. But if somebody experienced a love like that—unconditional love for God or Guru—and just remained anchored in that, open and empty, empty in the head, full of love in the heart... that is to set a very, very potent table for inviting God to dinner.

We cannot still conclude that it is bound to happen. Although I would love to say, "It is already that way." But that would be a presumption on my part. So take it to be a blessing if I say that. But a loving open and empty, then, if by His grace, should reveal the primordial Presence, the primordial vibration of Being itself. So, we may call this the Presence of Being. And because we can say vibration, it's actually tasted, intuitively experienced. And then that shines light on that, where this comes from. What is the source of the primordial vibration? Is your Being limited or unlimited? So most of us will report, as we are empty, that it is unlimited. Has no boundary. It's boundless.

So that boundlessness is obviously never tasted. There's no vibrational taste which is boundless. Every taste is bounded in some way. But when we look at where that... what is the arising of that primordial, then that brings us to the Being. And it's so beautiful that when looked at it this way, there is absolutely zero distinction between Advaita Vedanta and Christianity. Because this vibration, the primordial vibration that I'm talking about, is your Atma. It's also called the Satguru Presence. It is also called the Holy Spirit. It's exactly the same. Exactly the same. The Being is unlimited, is the Paramatma. Is the Son of God. Is the Consciousness. Exactly the same.

And that which is aware even of the unlimited nature of Being, and yet by itself is not Being or not Being—is neither Being nor not Being—is attributeless. Even the attribute or the quality of Being it does not have. Is the Nirguna Brahman, is the Absolute, is the Self, is the Father, is God. And it is exactly the same in many ways in which the Buddhists also talk about it. So what you're realizing is that no matter what tradition, religion, culture we follow, if you truly do it with a full-hearted love for anything to start with, but preferably to come to a full-hearted love for God, then the same revelation happens. The terminology may differ. And the terminology is not real. The terminology is just a communication medium. But the insight is the same.

It's so beautiful that just to be open and empty in the head and anchored in love in the heart can lead to this whole thing being clarified. This whole reality being discovered. Intuitively. And the beauty is that, that love, which is not conditioned, which doesn't want, which is independent of time and space or location... that love is something that most of our brothers and sisters in the world can meet at some level. And that can then become the doorway to the presence of Being. And the presence of Being can lead to the insight of Being itself. And that Being itself is, as Maharaj said, the portal to the discovery of Awareness, when taken in that direction.

And it's not necessary that we come to these only in this way. But I would say that usually it happens in this way. Some can also just: "Are you aware now?" Boom! "Yeah, I am aware. Being is here." And Being, unconditional love, or the Presence of Being is tasted within the presence of my Being. There is love, there is peace, there is joy. There is the apparent creation of the world. It can happen that way. But I would say that in history and in Satsang that that would be quite rare. But it's possible; everything is possible. Good. It's so beautiful that I still feel like I'm a beginner. I was just starting on this thing. I can't believe that after 12 years, I'm expressing it like this. Whatever have I been doing for 12 years, God knows!