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in true love for Master during our progress just as remembrance itself a means for “constant remembrance”.
Love is very much important & relevant in sadhana. But for love, our sadhana would have been very dry. Love is very much related and connected to God, as it is intimately connected to feelings (the language of God) and heart (seat of God). Master has talked about love and devotion together most of the times. This is telling us that both are equally important and related. I felt that love is a precursor to devotion. Master has also indicated that love involves certain amount of affection while devotion does not. Devotion with the support of love helps us in strengthening the Master-serf relationship.
Master has advised, “remembrance” and “constant inward looking” as, means to develop love. He indicated that it is only through remembrance that an opportunity for love arises. He said that remembrance has the additional benefit of helping in cessation of samskara formation. In our system we have various avenues that we can utilize in endeavoring the “remembrance and inward looking”.
That brokenness in our love is evident because we generally feel that our love towards father, mother, wife, child, neighbor etc are not at equal standing. Intuitively we feel that “love” must be unity, yet we do feel the brokenness along with it. In the context of the trinity- self, Master and God, Master indicates that the path of love is too narrow even to fit a duo. The instruction that he gave towards eliminating this confusion is to “Love Him who loves all”.
We do not directly wake ourselves from deep sleep. The awakening happens through some other means –alarm clock, internal body clock, etc. Analogously, it is
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