THE TRUTH WITHIN
by Dadaji
edited by Ann Mills
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Part III
Enjoy Life with Him

"A vast field of activities is before you. Enjoy them with Him. How many days we can or do live is not important. How we lived or live is important."

35 Love is the Answer

36 Purpose of Life: Relish His Love, Enjoy His Play

Other than Love, what is? Nothing.

We have come here to make love to Him, to be bathed in His Love and to vibrate His Love through the actions that come our way.

Love is Beyond. Love is not that thing which a person thinks. Those who are feeling Something, a very excellent thing, that is called Prema (Divine Love).

Love is a very sweet thing, very sweet. Husband and wife love. That is also love, but that love is only in one thing. That is not ultimate Love. Understand? If I love, all right. Everything is you. Follow? Love is when you know only one thing, that is, I love you.

Even if this person I do not like, I want to avoid, but yet I love. Understand? That is called Supreme Male. That is not possible to know. That is one Love, His Love.

You love so many things. That's all right. But, if it's only for sex you want love, after a certain time, you don't know anything other than that love and it is very temporary. That is not permanent Love. Another Love is Something. Whatever you like, you do. Then it must be. That Love is all right, sweet.

You people are literate. You people are highly educated. There is the difference (between Dadaji and others). From when he (Dadaji) was young, in that time also he loves anybody. Each and everybody he loves, not only female, male same. He could sleep at the time he was young and always had no interest.

But, try to love, and automatically you will feel Something. Not of the body, understand?

Love is the only answer to everything. Love is the Divine Itself. Drowned in His Love, then all will become One. You will be carried away by Supreme Joy, as if by flood waters.

The definition of a person is Love.

His Love is the only language.

Love is the only language that He understands.

Even then, you cannot love Him. He only can love you, and that as ?Himself. You can only feel His Love, passively of course.

If one thinks, I will make an effort to love God, then one cannot reach Him.

The love that has awakened in you to offer Him yourself in extreme earnestness does not come about with one's own wish. It does not come to Sadhus, Yogis, Sannyasis, in spite of all their adopted practices, methods, rituals, stresses, strains and efforts. Yogis don't get it by Yoga. Common people do not feel His Love due to superstitions, blind illusions of Maya or mind, and deep attachments in the world of individual surroundings.

Human love is based in self-interest. His Love is Something.

Mental love is worth nothing, for the mind is fickle. Today it is after one thing and tomorrow after another. But, His Love is Infinite.

The Swabhava (natural state of Oneness) and surrender reveals Love Divine, the way of devotion. Love Divine is neither an object of the practices, nor of the prayers, inasmuch as the practices and prayers aim at the aspirations of one's wants. Moreover the hankering through prayer at the Lotus Feet of the Divine Being may yield an enjoyment of pleasures alone, it does not bestow Love Divine. So, resort to the Mahanam and become wide awake in the atmosphere of Love Divine to get rid of the fetters of fate, to develop intimacy with the Divine Being and endure the alluring forces of the body, mind and the material intellect.

The egoistic prayer and practices may bring certain realization commonly called Vibhuti (miraculous powers) of the Divine Being. But, Love Divine is revealed alone by entering the Vaishnava (state of devotion to God), in the bower of Vrindavan (playground of Divine Love within) or the Truth Absolute, and nowhere else.

Immersed in His Love, one is opened to the Light of His Nectarine World.

It is Prema (Divine Love) and Prema alone, that attuning Elixir of Life, that manifests Supreme Knowledge and the Divine. Your knowledge can never get a semblance of it.

No Prema, no Mahajnana (Supreme Knowledge).

Love alone can make both good and evil merge into values of One.

If one's own habitat is Sreeksetra (a consortium of love), then all is Love. If on the contrary, one's habitat be crooked, all appears crooked. The joy of love is Rasa (relishing Him). This being achieved, emotional abandon ensues.

If your eyes are not befogged, you will see the gleam of His Love everywhere. Love is the Essence of Truth. Submit to that resonant Love, be One with that Love and know thyself through it. You cannot know yourself but through the Love which is He.

Nobody can do Prema except He. For nobody else's perspective is absolutely innocuous.

Prana is Prema. (Life is Supreme Love.)

When love of a man or a woman is for that Prana, it is divinely beautiful because it is not a person's love, by fickle mind that ever fluctuates. His (Dadaji's) Love is not like the love in the world of mind.

In His Love there is no distinction between man and woman. He is within all as Prana (Life). You may call it Love or whatever you wish, It cannot be expressed in words. The moment you say, "I love my Supreme Husband," or he (Dadaji) expresses he specially loves a human body with mind the Love instantly becomes trivial and frail like waves of the fickle mind's love. His Love is beyond body and mind, a unique, inexplicable Love that keeps the heart full of Joy unknown to the nearest person.

The Lord is immediately available to you through Love.

If you can relish His Prema, that is all. Whether you have proper perspective or not is not a matter for consideration.

When your heart will be void of anything, then and then only, the Divine will fill your heart.

You will know Him and love Him, Who is your own and Nearest to you. How can another person come between?

Put your devotion or love to the Absolute and find Him through your Self.

Try to love Him. Try to love the public. Try to love those near to you. And, try to love yourself.

Make love to Him. Addiction to His Love will minimize slowly the vehemence of Prarabdha (destined unfolding process of life).

If you shed one tear out of love for Him, that is more than enough.

As love for Him gains ground, it becomes so deeply rooted and secret that even the next person does not know of it. Amidst hard blows of life and narrowness of people, this love remains unsullied, unlustful, be it in man or woman. This love for Him is inseparable, irremovable. No external influence, human opposition or distance can remove it. And, separation can't destroy it. It is so strong, nothing can weaken its Root. You will feel, year by year, in gradual steps, that He gives you extra Life Force, vitality in various manifestations.

When a person loves from the heart, He, Himself, thinks for that person. He worries, thinking always for their well-being. Still, somehow some sense of self-interest remains, no doubt. Because, even a mother, who is the world to her children, their greatest nurse and religious abode, is not free from self-interest. But remember, objectives which we cannot attain with utmost efforts and thoughts, which keep us worrying, at once get fulfilled with His mere touch or wish. That is the test of Supreme Guru. So leave all your hopes and yearnings to Him. He will get your things done. Do keep His remembrance. You will see how He has smoothly designed your way.

The safety-locket of Him you have tied in your heart will make your journey of life smooth. Wealth, fame, learning, love or lack of love, will not bother you, if you have tasted the Love of that Immortal He.

Don't you bother yourself with virtue and vice. They are all mental constructions and have nothing to do with Him...the Infinite ocean of Love. They are just actions and reactions ruling mental function. The entire world process is One. Only you take it in fragments.

You are a role set by the Great Designer. Play your part well, alive to the fact that you do whatever He chooses you to do. He is the pilot of your life and you have come here at His Will to taste of His overflowing Love. Flow with the stream of life without attempting to stem its tide. You are One with Him, and yet separate so that you may Love-play with Him. You can miss this Supreme Relish only if ego is allowed to wallow in self-importance. So, merge yourself into His all engrossing Love.

Always He is chanting inside of you. That is His Love. That's why I tell you, Love is the only answer.

Human beings are born in the body with Him, from His blissful World, to get real Ananda (Supreme Bliss) by the taste of His Love in this mortal and illusory world. But, our superstitious human involvements and irresponsible attitude toward Him, in ignorance do not allow us to come near to Him or to feel His Love for which weget the rare human birth. We ignore Him in pursuit of worldly, deceitful pleasures, profits and attachments, which please now and depress the very next moment. We waste the precious human births given to us. We cannot give up the superstitions of our egoistic living in the world and so we forget Him, the Truth. Even when He comes in our presence, we don't realize it. The Nectar Pot (He) is within, ever wakeful.
Dadaji in Boulder Colorado USA 1985

What's the use of this life? You are born. Why? It is to realize God or Self, whatever you may call it.

Realization of Truth is the object of life. This can be attained only through Mahanam from within.

You have sojourned here for relishing His Rasa (tasting His Love).

Through lecture it is not possible to understand anything. Lecture is question and answer. But, we do not know why we have come here to earth. That is the main thing. Why have we come and where will we go? Have we come here forever or not? If not forever, there is Something that is doing everything. Actually there is no difference between people. Everybody is the same. Nobody is holy or a saint. Everybody is holy, because other than that Power, nobody is alive. Everything is within. He also is within. Only try to love Him. Love is the answer. Nothing else. Follow or not?

Look, He has sent us to experience His Divine Play. That is why He is pronouncing Mahanam all the time in our heart.

To be born with human form in this mortal world has only one happy object. That is to relish the Joy of God's Love. Only it is the tendency of the human mind to run under the compulsion of innumerable allurements and attachments. But, even being involved in them, what a Supreme Blessing is this human birth. No other beings, Devas, Devis, Gandharavas, and Kinnaras, who live in another world created by Him, can ever taste this Love of Him until they are born as mortal human beings.

How ineffably is this world filled with beauty and flavor! We have come to taste it! But, we have become otherwise engaged.

Enjoy moderately, with Him in view. You will be in His lap.

Be of good cheer and enjoy! If you fail to enjoy yourself here, how dare you expect it after death?

But why do we come into this world at all? In the Integral Existence which was our Primal State, we could not relish the Joy of Love of the Absolute. All Creation is the manifestation of His Joyous Spate (outburst of His Love), and He has come here as many to have a taste of this Joy. This world is His Vraja Leela (Supreme Love Play).

But, the mind, without which no relish is possible, sunders us from the Infinite and makes of us so many individuals. The Rasa (taste of Divine Love) of the Absolute is thus screened and the stage is set for relishing the Rasa of (physical) Nature instead. Action and reaction now hold the stage and the mind conceives them into virtue and vice. The Shastras (scriptures) appear with an endless armory of taboos. All manner of spiritual practices grow like mushrooms to trap down the Infinite.

But the plain fact that whatever is, is within, does not appear to the egoistic gymnasts. No amount of penance, austerity, or mystic efforts can buy the Infinite for us. We are Infinite, all of us, and Mahanam can only dawn on us through love, through surrender and through complete effacement of ego and desires.

It should be born in mind that we are an essential part of this Creation. And, we should utilize this birth to bring about the peace of Soul and a flawless perfection of the imperfect human civilization.

One has nothing else to desire for other than His Grace, which makes one's life glorious and significant. Otherwise, one is just born to die without purpose. So seek His Grace, do not worry.

Be always with Nam. Then the objective with which you have come here will be realized.

Human birth is given, ultimately to get a fraction of the experience of Immortal Bliss. But, having been born with our forms and mind, the mind runs in various directions with unbridled passions for love and hate, loss and gain, and sundry allurements, so that there remains no scope for the taste of His Love.

If we have not understood the purpose of coming into this world, then the coming has been a waste.

Human life is meant to feel His Divine Play and thereby understand the nobility of the Creator. The mystery of birth will be unfolded only when the sweetness and beauty of the Divine Play which is the Eternal Truth is realized by turning the Consciousness inward.

This life is without any meaning unless we can realize His Divine Play.

We have come to enjoy His Play, remember Him with love, and remain in a natural state.