RENDEZVOUS WITH HIM

COME LET'S HAVE A CANDLE LIGHT DINNER WITH GOD !!

:)

And any of us can do that. That's a birthright of every soul. But each one of us is so busy with our own worldly attachments that we have no idea about this open invitation from GOD/MASTER HIMSELF.

Imagine a ethereal ambiance. Imagine a seating arrangements floating in air. With ambrosia of many unusual colored lights, surrounding the atmosphere. Imagine the rivers of rainbows, and fountains of translucent lights. Imagine a divine melody intoxicating the soul, playing just for our benefit, Imagine HIM sitting just across, or beside. ( well choose ur own preference. :) i for one prefer across, since that grants better uninterrupted view. )  HIS loving presence and complete attention on just us. Who cares what is there to eat. :)  It's enough that HE is with me !! :)   

Not many of us can resist this temptation ... :) can we ??

Well, invitation is forever open, it's just on us, when will we avail the opportunity. In this birth, many more births after, in this year, another 30 or 40 years after, or just at this very present moment itself. :) Time is perception only for us. May be from HIS point of view, we are already having this dinner with HIM. Since from above.... time is a limitation in our dream zone.

Anyways. So how do we do it. How do we set about availing the invitation ?

BUILD A RELATIONSHIP :)

Well, agreed that only HE exists. Agreed that nothing else exists....

BULLA asaan thi wakh nahi, bin SHAH dooja kakh nahi...

As BULLEHSHAH ji says... we don't understand this much.. that apart from HIM nothing else exists. But since we don't have those eyes which can behold HIS glory, we are doomed to not only think ourselves apart from HIM, but feel the pain of HIS separation.

But at some point this duality becomes a blessing. For ages and aeons we have been facing this duality as separate existence. And facing it's dual energies in form of pain with happiness, death with birth, separation with unions, and so on....
But now with the last stage of separate existence this duality becomes a gift, where we can enjoy... a RENDEZVOUS with HIM....

It's said... JAAKI RAHI BAWNA JAISE PRABHU SURAT DEKHI TIN TAISE......

We can build any type of relation with HIM. It's what in the heart that matters. How ever we call HIM, HE responds in similar fashion. After all it's HIM who is enjoying these myriads of relations with HIMSELF. :)
So first take a pick....
There's a huge menu card of choices- Father, Mother, Brother,
Beloved, Friend, Sister, Lover, Spouse. You name it and you have it. :)

Just bring HIM closer. It is hard for a child to share each and every thing with Father, Mother, even siblings. But it's very easy to share each and every inner most feeling with a friend. With a surety, that we won't be judged and abandoned because of our weakness. And this eternal friend of our's already knows each and every innermost things within us.
As a friend- no point in hiding anything from this best friend- when HE already knows everything. :)
HE sure doesn't judge us. And with a friend there is so many liberties. :) If we want to be angry, be angry with HIM, chide our BELOVED our friend. Whom else can we so safely chide anyways ?? Mortal men will not patiently put up with our anger, our mood swings. HE on the other hand.... is forever ...... just there for us.
Then there is one more closer still... a BELOVED. A romance. HE is the BELOVED. Whom else can this heart love ? HE is the most beautiful, the most sublime. There is no one else more beautiful then HIM. So HE is the husband , the BELOVED.

But as SWAMI VIVEKANAND ji says....

The true spiritual lover does not rest even there. Even the love of husband and wife is not mad enough for him. A Bhakta, takes up the idea of illegitimate love , because it is so strong. The nature of this love is such, that the more obstructions there are for it's free play, the more passionate it becomes. In the love of husband and wife there are no obstructions. So they take up a idea of a girl who is in love with her BELOVED and her mother, father or even her husband objects to such love. and the more they obstructs her love, the more her love grows in strength. Human language can't describe how KRISHNA in groves of Vrindavan was madly loved by Gopis. Who rushed out to meet HIM... forgetting everything, world and it's ties, duties, it's joys and sorrows. Man, O man , u speak of divine love and at the same time are able to attend to all the vanities of this world ? are u sincere ??

What can be more consuming then this ?? For such soul even to talk about other then HIM becomes distasteful. As it's said in sanskrit- Anyaa waacho wimunchaya. { Think of HIM, think of HIM alone, and give up all other vain words }

Just don't put HIM on a pedestal.  HE is here near us, in human form, breathing in same air, walking on same earth, isn't HE ? HE is not here to be worshiped from afar. So we shud strive to bring HIM more closer. Not to put HIM somewhere above and worship HIM from below.

AND THAT'S ALL MEDITATION IS. TO AVAIL THE INVITATION OF RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM AND HIM ALONE... TO HAVE A CANDLE LIGHT DINNER WITH HIM..... AND HIM ALONE....  :)

To be mad in love and to overcome all the obstacles. To reach those ethereal realms, where we can be together.  Walk or fly or have lunch dinner and tea together. Forever and ever.

RUMI ji once said--- Give me the pain of YOUR love, nothing but the pain of YOUR love, and i will galdly give anything in return.

TERI YAAD DIL PAR JO CHAA GAYI,
TO IN AANSUO KA MAIN KYA KARU,
MUJHE DARD HE RAAS AA GAYA,
FIR KISI DAWA KE DUA MAIN KYA KARU ?

Rest in the next part....  :)
Hoping to be with all of you... HIS lovers.... soon.... 


PEACE AND BLISS TO ALL.....

Roohi

 

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

 "Life is sweet, because it thinks of the BELOVED. "

There definitely are some moments in everyone's life. When one asks oneself -- How much am i loved ? How much my loved one's love me ? Many times we satisfy ourselves, that yes, we are loved. Many times , in nearest relationship, we even put up the question , in words- How much do you love me ?

Many disciples go through this question in their spiritual "journey ". When heart whispers and craves for this one answer , coming straight from BELOVED's mouth ---  How much do YOU love me MASTER ???  How many times heart yearns to once listen from HIM---- yes, HE loves us.

Why ? Why ? do we need these words ??

May be through millions of lifetimes journey, we never encountered UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. May be through million of life's journey we never once were able to bestow- Unconditional Love. And so, none of us have faintest idea, what exactly is this Love without Conditions ?

We have been intellectually, trying , since ages , to define LOVE. Trying to bind this feeling in words. And yet, since ages, none of us is ever satisfied, that yes, we have finally managed, to completely catch the essence of Love in words. That , for once, the definition of Love is complete. It never happens. Since we have never yet encountered Love in it's full glory. Love Unconditionally.

Our love is bound with two chains- Expectations and Judgements.  Try as we mite. We can never let go of these two chains. If some lucky soul is lucky enough to let go one of these, one still remains. We expect and we judge. With expectations comes disappointments and complaints. And with judgement comes ego and yet again- complaints.

Nearest to unconditional love comes the one love of- Mother. And yet, with us humans even the love of a mother fells short. Even a mother can not give up expectation or judgement. Give the best of mother a child- who is fulfilling a complete definition of evil, and she is bound to feel bad about her child. She is bound to react. Unable to love a child who is immersed in filth of evil. Herself being the one who thru out her life shrank from anything , which , in her opinion is bad.  Nah, even she can't forgive.

So, as we have never really encountered , thru out our journey , unconditional love. Love that never expects , never judge,  eternally forgives, ever ready to embrace , even if we are completely soiled in filth. How then we recognize , when we receive or even see such love ? WE CAN'T . And so we keep asking. How much do you love me ??

And when HE comes in our life, when we finally encounter Unconditional Love, we are taken by surprise. Unable to accept , we feel the need of assurance, a need for security, a need to believe. A need to pinch ourselves and ask----- Is it true ?? And we rather ask- How much do YOU love me MASTER ??

HE will typically never answer- in those cherished three words. HE will always try to tell us all about GOD's love. But there is one assurance . HE understands our need for words.

Though HE is here to take us beyond words. Yet HE understands. That may be one reason, HE let us put this one question again and again. In heart, or even face to face. It's us, we can't yet fully accept or comprehend the enormity of thing called Unconditional Love.  We can not understand how does it feel... never to be judged. How does it feels never expecting anything in return, not even love, and yet being given love, or being LOVED.  Nor can we understand being forgiven again and again and again.... forgiven as many times, as it takes , for us to finally bent and mend our ways. Just because being forgiven everytime was tooo much for us. 

Thoreau said---

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

And MASTERS knows how to Love more and more and more. This is THEIR  only way to  attract us out of illusions that we persist to play in.

MARK TWAIN said, which stands true for us-- Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. This desire is inherent in all of us. This desire is actually the desire of soul. And in answer to this desire, HE HIMSELF comes and irresistibly desires us. This is HIS unconditional Love. HE limits HIMSELF in a body made of five elements. And suffers the self imposed limitations. What bigger example there can be of U.L. ? :)  The Limitless power limiting itself, just to woo us back , to our own home. To take us in HIS loving , comforting arms, HE limits HIMSELF, becomes our most trusted guide and friend. And COAX us to taste the samples of Unconditional Love.  HE wants us to live in this love, experience this love, and accept this love as our right. What better deal can we ever find in any relation ? NONE. 

There was once a great soul.... who feeling the enormity of this love said one sentence---- Who has even seen the sweet ocean itself, coming to quench the thirst of thirsty ?

We sin, and HE forgives, we again sin, and HE again forgives, we yet again dare to sin, and HE yet again forgives, till we can sin no more. We forget HIM, yet HE loves, we again forget HIM, HE yet again keeps loving and waiting, we yet again forget HIM and turn to world, HE still keeps waiting and loving us, till we can forget HIM no more. And thru all this, HE never once complain, judge, expects or become harsh with us. Coz HE knows the lethal depths and outcomes of HIS unconditional love. :)

So before , we again feel doubt, and yet again ask HIM- how much do YOU love me ? It will be better to remember---- HE is here for us, isn't HE ??? and that's enough. That's more then enough.  :)

In the end....

By Anthony De Mello...

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate: He who loves finds the door open.
When we try to meditate, we knock at HIS door... The day we fell in love with just being there with HIM.... we find the doors .....  open....

Let's us just pick one drop of HIS unconditional love and that will be enough for us to find the forever open , doors to HIS heart ---- open.. That's how much HE loves us. ......

So how much do YOU love me MASTER ??   :)

Peace and Bliss to all.....

Roohi