40 Day Meditation Retreat 2007 with Sri Vasudeva
"Be Wise in Action"
Day 30 - Tuesday April 24, 2007
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Today I want to continue on this path of love. I call it a path of love as it can lead you to freedom, in the same way that there is the intellectual path where you can just choose analysis, mental contemplation to get to a place of freedom. Love can also take you there.
Those who are involved in the intellectual path sometimes do not display emotion. Ultimately when they reach that state of freedom, emotions flow in a very pure and profound way. They become mellower, so to speak. They become more appreciative of the Universe when they touch the final centre. On the path itself they tend to be more detached, more aloof from the world, or elevated. They tend to be detached in the way of even letting go of the physical and relationships around them. But the path of love is different. It seeks to embrace that which is around. It seeks to energize the world around it. It seeks to use the world itself as a way of going deeper. The path of love is not an easy path. That's why intellectuals may seem to move away from it. It can be painful because it carries the lessons of conditional love.
When you choose the path of love, the love begins in a conditional way. You become attached to some object of love. And of course, any form of attachment is going to bring pain. So, when you get into the conditional love that has attachment and possession, pain is going to come and then those who are intellectual will say, "I don't want this pain; let me detach myself and let me go deeper to find myself."
However, there are those who say, "Let me feel the pain because I believe in the love", and pursue in a selfless way, wanting to give more than receive, wanting to feel the pain of love and be purified by it, to learn the lessons. They are going to come to a space of what we'll call "unconditional love." Love itself will become the teacher. Love itself will become the guide and it will also take them to that state of perfection.
This path brings a wonderful energy to the space around it. It does not seek to neglect; rather it seeks to embrace. So, for example, love allows you to build a relationship with your physical body. If you begin to think of your body as a community of tiny cells, and think of them as entities that serve you, when you begin to embrace them as a part of you, you want to take care of them. You want to be kind to them. You don't want them to feel pain. So your love begins to allow you to embrace the body and to create harmony, balance or well-being in the body. And apart from that, if you become detached, then you allow your body to suffer whatever it is, and say, "Well, the body is the body, it is material; it's going to perish. It's not worth the feeling of being attached to it."
But embracing the body and embracing the cells, you learn more about them and you are able to create harmony with them. Your conditional love may grow into unconditional love as you really extend love to them. When you extend love then you are not afraid of growing older. As the cells begin to grow older you tend to love them more, and when the body is about to die even if it has to or when it must, there is so much more love for the physical.
Love allows you to really appreciate and embrace your world. That's why love is such a powerful force in healing, because it seeks to embrace, to hold, to support.
Do you embrace the path of love?
Do you use it to energize the space around you and your physical body?
Or are you on the intellectual path, are you more detached from your body and everything around you?
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