Love is the one miracle there may be. Love is the ladder from hell to heaven. Love discovered properly, you may have discovered all. Love missed, you missed your complete life. Individuals who ask about God will not be the truth is asking about God; relatively than asking, they’re declaring that they haven’t identified what love is. One who is aware of love has identified the Beloved: love is the perception into the Beloved. One who asks about mild, merely says that he’s blind. One who asks about God, merely says his coronary heart has not bloomed into love.
By no means ask about God. When you can’t see him that merely exhibits you don’t have eyes to see. When you can’t hear him that merely exhibits you might be deaf. When you can’t contact him that merely exhibits you might be with out palms — that you simply don’t have any sensitivity. God shouldn’t be the issue, God can’t be the issue. God shouldn’t be far-off, God is herenow. All that’s, is in God and is God — so how can God be the issue? God is to not be searched: the place will you search him? He’s in all places — you simply need to discover ways to open your eyes of affection. As soon as love has penetrated your coronary heart, God is there. Within the thrill of affection is the Beloved: within the imaginative and prescient of affection is the imaginative and prescient of God.
So God is the one actual interior alchemy: it transforms your materials life into the divine. It’s the solely alchemy, I say, as a result of it modifications the baser steel into gold. With out love, life is a boring affair, gray — with no colours, with no songs, with no celebrations. One can drag and one can hope just for demise: demise will come and relieve you of your dragging lengthy affair. Love brings shade: the gray all of a sudden turns into a rainbow, explodes right into a thousand and one colours, and the drab and the boring change into psychedelic. Love modifications the entire local weather of your interior being — and with that change the entire existence is modified. Nothing is modified on the surface — however as soon as you might be full of affection you may have a very completely different existence obtainable to you.
God and the world will not be two issues, it’s the one existence. There is just one existence: seen with out love, it appears materials; seen with out love, God appears just like the world — SANSARA. Seen with love, the world is reworked, transfigured… and the very world turns into divine.
Sure, then in sight there may be music. When love has dawned, then miracles occur — even in sight there may be music; in sound, a luminous silence. Love is magical. And Kabir’s complete educating is that of affection: he calls love “the divine melody.” The guts, pulsating in love, turns into a flute on the lips of God… and a music is born. That music is faith.
Faith has nothing to do with church buildings and temples and rituals: faith is born solely when any individual pulsates with love. Every particular person has to provide start to a faith — and except you may have given start to a faith in you, you aren’t spiritual. You can’t be part of a company and change into spiritual, bear in mind — faith shouldn’t be a company to belong to. To be spiritual you need to give start to faith in your innermost core, in your very core: when faith is born THERE, solely then are you spiritual. Not by changing into a Christian however by changing into a Christ, not by changing into a Buddhist however by changing into a Buddha, faith is born.
When you find yourself born in love, faith is born in you — after which your complete life is a melody, an attractive music. After which you’ll be shocked that nothing is incorrect: all suits collectively. Proper now, nothing suits collectively. Proper now, you’re a mess: proper now, you might be an anarchy. Proper now, you might be simply site visitors noise — speeding in all instructions, falling aside, disintegrating. Proper now, you might be nothing however anguish, agony. As soon as love is born, you may have a middle. As soon as love is born, you might be centered — and all the things falls in tune with the middle. You change into an orchestra, an attractive concord. It’s hidden in you: you may have introduced it into the world, it’s but unmanifest. Kabir says: Manifest it — let your love be manifested. In that manifestation will probably be your prayer.
A number of issues, very fundamental and elementary to know, earlier than we enter these stunning sutras — the final of the collection.
The Talmud has a tremendously stunning story to inform. A heathen got here to Hillel — an incredible Jewish mystic — and cynically requested him: “Educate me the entire Torah whereas I stand on one foot.” Now that is not possible; the Torah is a giant scripture — it actually takes years to know it. And this cynic, this skeptical particular person, says to Hillel: “In case you have understood the Torah then give me the gist, the abstract, the important. Whereas I stand on one foot, you inform me all that’s within the Torah.”
And this skeptic had been to different mystics additionally — however they have to not have been mystics; they have been nice theologians, philosophers, thinkers, pundits, students. All of them had refused. They mentioned, “That is not possible; the Torah wants years of research, a lifelong research. And the Torah can’t be condensed into a couple of sentences — that will probably be sacrilege. It’s not potential.” However Hillel agreed, and answered instantly: “Don’t unto others as you wouldn’t have others do unto you. That is the entire Torah — the remaining is commentary.”
Love is the entire Torah, the remaining is commentary. And what’s love? — don’t do unto others that which you wouldn’t prefer to be executed to you. That is the criterion of affection: do unto others that which you wish to be executed to you. By any means you ask for your self, enable that to others too. By any means you don’t wish to occur to you, don’t do it to others. Consider your self because the very middle of existence. In actual fact, don’t consider the opposite as the opposite: solely you might be. and within the different too, is similar life, the identical music ready to be uttered, the identical urge to rise to the divine, the identical searching for, the identical inquiry, the identical throbbing coronary heart, the identical agony, the identical ecstasy.
This love is ready in you. There is no such thing as a necessity; it might wait and you’ll die. Beginning is past you. You’re already born — no one had requested, your permission was not taken in any respect, you weren’t even requested the place you needed to be born and what you needed to change into. You at all times end up in the midst of life; you might be already right here. Beginning isn’t any alternative for you… neither is demise. Someday all of a sudden demise will come, with out even providing you with any warning. And never for a single second will demise wait. Beginning occurs, demise occurs — they’re past you; you can’t do something about them. Between start and demise there is just one factor you are able to do one thing about, and that’s love.
These are the three nice issues of life: life, love, demise. Life has already occurred. Loss of life goes to occur — it’s a certainty. In a manner, it has already occurred with start: you may have already taken one step into the grave. The day you might be born, half the journey is full; the remaining half will take some time… or slightly extra. With life, demise has additionally penetrated you: now just one factor stays to be executed that YOU can do, one thing that is dependent upon you, and that’s love. And since it is dependent upon you, there may be each risk that you could be miss it.
That’s the agony of affection: you’ll be able to miss it. When you don’t do one thing, for those who don’t change into alert, for those who don’t transfer in the direction of it consciously, intentionally, you might miss it. There may be each risk that you could be not be capable to unfold it — therefore the concern, the trembling, the anguish, the nervousness: will I be capable to make it? will I be capable to transfer into love? will I be capable to move into love? However aspect by aspect with this agony there may be an ecstasy — that one is free.
It’s due to freedom that the concern exists. If love was additionally predestined, as life and demise are, then there would have been no concern, however then there would have been no ecstasy both — as a result of ecstasy is feasible solely once you obtain one thing, when consciously you select one thing, when intentionally you arrive someplace, when it’s YOUR journey and you aren’t being dragged. That’s the fantastic thing about love and that’s the hazard too.
