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Love is the Inner awakening to Reality
away from reality. If we notice when we try to give importance to lower tendencies of mind they tend to leave us with a feeling of repulsion and grossness and gets more strengthened. Instead if we naturally keep our attention on divine we realize after some time that we came out of that weakness.
When it is said, “Love is the inner awakening to Reality”. Whom should we love? If we look at the sentences of the Master “Love Him who loves all”. “Seek the Being who is seeking you”. It will be clearly understood that God already loves us in true sense.
It is only the love and grace of God that provided opportunities for man to turn his attention towards God. And if that opportunity is firmly grasped with real intension a man will be guided to right path from there.
The following sentences of Master “Allegorically I may say that he was the only object of my love. As a matter of fact I was not a lover of freedom or any such thing but only of Him and Him alone”.
“I was so mad with love for Him that I had lost my power of vision for all things...”
Stress the importance of love in the path of spirituality.
The method suggested in PAM for developing love for Master is constant remembrance. Constant remembrance when practiced assiduously results in checking the distracting thoughts and develops deep attachment with Him and we start developing true love for Him. To the extent we developed love to that extent our selfish interest is lessened. Love removes the impediments and impurities on the path. When we love Master we do the sadhana more assiduously the way He
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