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Love is the Inner awakening to Reality
love, to sacrifice means to love. Without these three characteristics there is no point in talking about love. Love demands all these three. Surrender is very difficult to practice without learning the principles of love, devotion, faith and obedience”.
6. Sri M.S.Balachander
Pursuit of man is to realize God as He is. It is to comprehend Reality not through the aesthetic approach as religion beholds, not even through the intellectual approach as philosophy dictates, not through externalization or rationalization as commonly conceived, but through intuitive awareness, inner awakening and vision. The western philosopher Socrates holds a view that love is the hunger of human soul for divine beauty. Babuji places an emphasis on love as the efficacious instrument for the inner awakening of reality.
It is an expression of love of the Divine to share His delight with humanity that manifests in the classic Upanishadic statement of ‘Ekoham Bahusyam’; It is His enormous compassion that expresses itself when the center is yawning towards circumference. The great saint Thiruvalluvar says that love knows no bounds and it cannot be fettered. Love transcends the levels of social etiquette, rigid steal-frame –like orderliness and conformity with conventional patterns. as could be seen from the behavioral style of the great saint Sabari in her offerings to Lord Rama contravening all the accepted cannons of ‘athithi seva’. It is not the pomp of offering but the mental make-up of offering that is what is the crux of Athmanivedana. As Dr.KCV puts it, more often the words killeth the spirit, and the habit killeth the subtleness and freedom.
Love at the higher plane turns into Bakthi while at the operative level speaks of fraternity. We love others
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