...and know God
I have heard of this statement "God is Love," but never did I realise the meaning of those words as I did today. What is God? It is nothing. But it is also everything. In the nothing, there is nothing to experience. But the Everything can be expressed and realised through the manifestations all around us. It is that Energy within, which we experience as rising and falling. Fundamentally, he is the force that binds the cells of this body to hold the experiencing self. Next he is that enjoying person who reaches out to the objects and situations of the world. Third, he becomes the same person who does not think of just him or herself and branches out to serve others.
Then comes his fourth manifestation, about which I realised today. In my experience of love of several kinds, I found that the common factor is the emotion called love and it is very much inside me. The objects and situations actually trigger that dormant emotion within called love. I recall reading sometime ago the words of Swami Vivekananda that God resides in the kiss of the man and the woman.
When the realisation dawns that experiencing love is to experience God, the whole Universe becomes a delightful experience of simply being in love with all the people I meet, all the scenes that I see, all the actions that I do. When it is not just confined to a few persons or objects, the same love transforms itself as compassion - yet another zone where I experience God.
From Compassion, I move on to the region of the mind where there is neither passion, love or compassion and that's yet another experience of God when all identities are lost. The rising wave of identity crashes back into the expanse of the ocean. The thin cloud, thins out further to be lost in the massive expanse of the sky. The individual human disappears to be lost in God.
This realisation happened from listening to my Guru on this famous Tirumandiram:
Anbum Shivamum Irandenbar Arivilar
Anbe Shivamavathu Yaarum Arigilar
AnbeShivamavathu Yaarum Arindapin
Anbe Shivamai Amardirundare.
The unrealised ones say Love and God are two different things
None realise that Love and God are one
And when they do realise that Love and God are one
They remain in Silence as God in the form of Love.
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11 comments:
After writing this post, I just chanced into Kaivalya's blog as I do often. I read the one on Breathe In Life into the fire of divinity within you. I just breathed in and I for a moment experienced in reality the God that I have been talking about all the time.
Hi
very good write up again..
"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith"
It might not be relevant to ur post but after reading i remembered this....Cant remeber who said.....
keep it coming
Prakash
beautiful swahilya
But tell me why should God be HE ?
Why not SHE ? :)
Just kidding
Its interesting even in our Vedas after a point there is complete silence.
You can only use adjectives to an extent esp. when describing about something that is beyond description.
'That' can be never contained by religion,words or by our limited sensory perceptions.
Beautiful verses and very true.
Sowmya
Swahilya !
The greatest of contemplations is thinking about love and self. I think (!) you are good at both...
Keep going
@ Prakash: Yes, where there is Love, there is Hope and where there is Hope there is Faith. I like the way your blog title chases around the screen!
@Ganesh: Actually She is better than He, because He is contained in She - he, s he.
But the truth is, it is neither she nor he nor it. It is nothing. It is Not. What is can be described in words and figures and has gender. What is not, is beyond words and gender.
"Nacha Sangatham Naiva Mukthir Na Meyaha - Chidananda Rupaha Shivoham Shivoham."
@go-ganesh: Anyone who is good at one, will be good at both. Because Anbu is Shivam!
@balasoumi: Good to see you so often here.
Good one. My first time to your blog. I was feeling low and after reading your post felt that, I should spend more time thinking about the meaning of your post.
thank you. your post made my day :)
take care
sukhanya
Swahilya:
I liked the way you said that god is neither he, she or it but nothing. Why discuss about nothing?:P. I thought you had stopped blogging because I was waiting a long time after your post on happiness... Now I see that you have added a lot more and it takes time to read and assimilate your stuff. I noticed that you have written about that intense emotion called love and compared feeling love to feeling god. I think I have had that experience, when I was in love I felt like I did not have anything to fear about, I was a free bird, my head always felt very light, the security my other partner gave me was immense. But, when she left me and married her parents choice all that love froze over and caused so much of pain, what resides in that pain? Is that still god?
Sukhanya: Great to see you here. Keep visiting and have fun. Swaha.
Robbie: Enga Romba Naala Kaanumennu Parthen! Glad to see you back with all your verve and zest! After the CD release and Tirumandiram lectures, I somehow felt very silent and couldn't blog that much. I am back after two days of holidays with more rest and silence.
*Why discuss about nothing?:P: "What does :P mean? Since Nothing is Everything our life here is made up of, we can't avoid discussing Nothing.
*But, when she left me and married her parents choice all that love froze over and caused so much of pain, what resides in that pain? Is that still god?: Yes Robbie. God ultimately is not just Love but all experiences. Every Experience happens inside you, whether it is love or pain. When Love happens, you are different. When Pain happens, you are different. The objects and situations outside just trigger that emotion within you through your five senses which function like windows. If one knows this, then he remains unmoved by pain or pleasure "Anbe Shivamai Amardirundare."
A love ending in failure is alright. But living with the burden of rejection all your life is a disaster, especially when there is no need for it. It is like carrying your baggage on your head and shoulders when you can keep it in the train!
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