In the path of spirituality LOVE & FAITH in God are the most important ingredients. We have all heard this “"God is Love"”. Is this only an offhand statement ? Is it a statement with out a deeper inner meaning ? What is Love actually ? Is it only an internal feeling of some chemical reaction in our brain as explained by scientists ? If so then what our Realized Souls said only defines a chemical reaction !!! But only those who have felt love to be something SOLID having a form but a form unlike any thing we can imagine in our world have told us that God is Love !!! Love has a form and “we are embodiments of love”. Love is in different forms. Within the family, towards friends, ones nation, ones profession....BUT all these have their varying degrees of selfishness how ever pure they may be. These are only feelings towards outer objects or attractions in other words NOT love itself. And amongst all these Love for god is the purest form. And not only the complete experiencing of this love BUT oneself being so much engrossed in it that one actually forgets oneself and becomes IT (love) leads to self realization. The realization that one is truly the deathless soul the eternal love form. It is easy to say that yes one is the soul but it has to be felt tangibly and unless one becomes the soul or love form one cannot perceive this state. Either there is light or darkness one cannot have both. For light (Knowledge of ones soul) to fill our consciousness we have to end this perpetual (darkness/ignorance of our real self) outward bound senses to go out into the world and seek pleasures. That is where Meditation comes to our help. Sitting in one position and stilling our senses is the initial requirement. It is only a practice session. But that is only 10 % of the job done. The most important and difficult aspect is the turning of the outward MIND into the inward direction and more importantly to fill it with love for god. In such a state of mind one feels the bliss which one has never experienced in the outer world what ever achievements one must have made in life !!! The total engrossment of the contemplating mind on love to such an extent that one forgets oneself and is fully filled and surrounded by love is meditation. Any feeling lower than that is only the mind playing the fool and winning the game over our intellect. At such a point with the Grace of God one is filled with god consciousness and then one knows ones real nature as the Pure one, the Deathless one, one can experience ones form as Love itself. This "IS" salvation. The transformation of ego consciousness into pure/god consciousness is salvation !!!
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ReplyDeleteArjun,
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that you are seriously in error.
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The love for God IS NOT THE PUREST FORM, this is foolishness at it's height. The love of God toward us, His creation, is the purest form. We are flawed and fallen beings who are not capable of purity regardless of how much time one spends in your so-called meditation.
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You speak of God as though He is ONLY love. This is human fantasy. God is much more than any single one of His attributes. God is love, it's true; but He is also wrath, judgment, omniscince, omnipotence and many other things as well. To make God a god of love only is to slander Him.
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Love is not salvation. Salvation is the gift of God's grace through the offering of Christ Jesus on the cross at Calvary. It is never popular to tell the truth but salvation is ONLY through Jesus. All roads DO NOT reach the same place.
If you would like to pursue this further, you are welcome to visit my blog, [thefundamentalist.info], to learn more about the connection between our eternal souls and God, His plan of salvation, and our need for Jesus Christ.
Your profile says that you enjoy reading spiritual books, I have, on my blog, my own book, "Truth and Metaphysics." I encourage you to read the excerpts and even download the entire text.
I welcome all to come to Jesus for there is no other name under Heaven by which we must be saved. Looking within only reveals the depraved fallen nature within all men, the only way help is found is when we begin to look up.
God Bless,
Fundamental Charlie