Inner Unity – In Gita Verse 11.50 Sañjaya said to Dhṛtarāṣṭra: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, having spoken thus to Arjuna, displayed His real four-armed form and at last showed His two-armed form, thus encouraging the fearful Arjuna.
When you receive unexpected gifts from anyone, how joyful and loving you feel. You are nurtured with the love of the whole in that unexpected moment. Same is for Arjuna. Unexpectedly he got something, which was so huge it cannot be conceived by mind. So fearful and with that felt unconditional love, which is Truth.
All of us find the word ‘truth’ a little too dry and desert-like. We are not in much tune with the word ‘truth’ – it looks too logical, it looks too ‘heady.’ It gives you the feeling of philosophy, not of religion.
Unless we learn to love we cannot understand Truth.
Love is of the heart. Truth is partial, only your head is involved. In love you are involved as a totality – your body, your mind, your soul, all are involved.
Love makes you a unity – and not a union, remember, but a unity. Because in a union those who join together remain separate. In a unity they dissolve, they become one, they melt into each other. And that moment I call the moment of truth, when love has given you unity. First, love gives you unity in your innermost core. Then you are no more a body, no more a mind, no more a soul. You are simply one – unnamed, undefined, unclassified. No more determinate, definable, no more comprehensible. A mystery, a joy, a surprise, a jubilation, a great celebration.
First, love gives you an inner unity. And when the inner unity has happened the second happens on its own – you are not to do anything for it. Then you start falling in unity with the whole beyond you. Then the drop disappears in the ocean and the ocean disappears into the drop. That moment, that moment of orgasm between you and the whole, is where you become a Buddha. That moment is the moment Buddhahood is imparted to you. Or, better, revealed to you – you have always been that, unaware.
My way is love. So for me, everyone is beloved, I love you. and I would like you to fill the whole world with love. Let that be our religion. Not Christianity, not Hinduism, not Islam, not Jainism, not Buddhism, but love. Love without any adjective to it. Not Christian love – because how can love be Christian? It is so stupid. How can love be Hindu? It is ridiculous. Love is simply love. In love you can be a Christ, in love you can be a Buddha – but there is no Buddhist love and there is no Christian love.
In love you disappear, your mind disappears. In love you come to an utter relaxation. For me there is nothing higher than love.
Let me share with you all Hakuin’s Song of Meditation. It is a very small song, but a great gift. Hakuin is one of the greatest Zen masters. His song contains all: all the Bibles and all the Korans and all the Vedas. A small song of few lines, but it is like a seed – very small, but if you allow passage to it to your heart, it can become a great tree. It can become a Bodhi tree – it will have great foliage and much shade and thousands of people can sit and rest underneath it. It will have big branches and many birds can come and have their nests on it.
See: I have become a tree. You are the people who have come to make their nests on my tree. You can also become this. Everybody SHOULD become this – because unless you become this you will go on missing your fulfillment. Unless you become a great tree which has come to its foliage, flowers and fruits – which is fulfilled – you will remain in discontent. Anguish will go on gnawing in your heart, misery will linger around you. Bliss will be only a word, signifying nothing. God will be just gibberish.
When you have fulfillment then there is grace and then there is God. In your fulfillment you come to realize the benediction of existence.
This is a song of meditation. Hakuin has called it ‘song’ – yes, it is a song. If meditation is without a song, it is do and the dead – it does not beat, it does not breathe. It is a song and a dance: sing it and dance it. Just don’t think about it – then you will miss the messages and you will miss its content. You will find this song and its meaning only when you are singing and dancing. When the music of life has overtaken you, has possessed you.
Krishna gave Arjuna this Gift as unexpected. Because in the moment of the unexpected you become empty of everything. Only in those moments, you will be able to see the vastness of the Universe and Truth. In the moment of unexpected you will be so empty that you will feel Unconditional Love. In that Feeling Truth can be revealed. Definitely you will have fear of the unknown, but with that bliss of merging with the whole also will be there. You will undergo an experience of all the feelings like rollercoasters. Very fast and sudden.
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