The Essence of Love

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Taufkirchen, Germany, 19 July 1989 (Excerpt)

 



We always separate love from action. To us love means some sort of a mad behavior towards a person. It has no technical know-how, how to love. It works without any understanding. When we love somebody, we don’t know. What do we do? We think, “We love you.” Tomorrow we start saying, “I hate you.” So how can it be love? We love our own children, love our own family, love our own friends, which is so unreal. If it was real, it would never have failed. That, you cannot definitely say that, all right, today you’ll work for your son and be very selfish about your son. But, you can’t say tomorrow how he will treat you or you’ll treat him.

But Paramachaitanya knows. It knows how to express its love. Not only that, but it’s an eternal feeling of love, which may change its hue, color, but the concern of that love will be the same. The essence of love is concern. Even if, supposing, some­body does wrong, the concern of the Divine would be to correct that person. Concern. Or if we say as hitta, is the benevolence. So the concern for the benevolence will be all the time there, whether it may appear to be, sometimes cruel; might appear to be affectionate; might appear to be over-indulgent. Whatever it may take a form, like a wave. Whichever way it may look, but actually, it’s for your benevolence. It works for your benevolence. Not only your benevolence, but the collective benevolence. And it knows very well what is to be done, how it is to be worked out. It does not have to go and learn from anywhere, because the complete knowledge of all this know-how also is within itself. It’s such a storage of wisdom, knowledge, and love. So, it does not deviate.

Once you become a Sahaja Yogi, the concern for your benevolence is all the time there. Whether you are punished or not is a different point. Some people might get a job. Some people will not get a job. With some people it will work out this way. With some people it will not work out that way. Then one may say that, “How is it, this Paramachaitanya is behaving like this?” Is all for your correction. Is a big churning. Whatever works out for your correction and is for your benevolence. If you understand this point, then you’ll never be disappointed in your life.

And it has no concern of its own benevo­lence, because it is complete benevolence itself. It never thinks how it is going to be benevolent or helpful, because it has no botheration about it. A man, say, who has everything, worldly things, still may be concerned about getting more: the greed, there would be. But as it is the complete, purna, it has no greed. It’s fully satisfied with itself. And, because it is so powerful, so knowledgeable, it has no doubts, no doubts of any kind. And, because there’s nobody which can harm it, it has no fear. And you all have now felt that Paramachaitanya. It should give you a complete fearless life, a peaceful life, and a joyous life. Like a child who finds his mother, then he stops crying, no more, now he’s found his mother. In the same way you have found Paramachaitanya and the connection with it.

So you don’t have to worry for anything, don’t have to think about anything, you don’t have to plan about anything. Only thing is, you have to jump into it, just jump into it and know that you have become part and parcel of the reality.