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  • What is the effect of Love

    What is the effect of Love upon the various thoughts, feelings, desires, aversions, capacities, incapacities, and the tendencies or impulses found to be the main features of various personalities?

    Self-love and self-assertion, resisting and overcoming the efforts of other selves adversely disposed are basic urges for ensuring the safe maintenance and progress of the physico-psychical organism in the ordinary individual.

    But altruism or care for others, even (for) adverse individuals, to the detriment of one’s own material interests but in promotion of one’s higher or nobler side is also found.

    It may be weak in many but in the saint it gets quickly developed and overshadows or overpowers the earlier self-love and self-assertion of the brute or lower level. This altruism and active care for others form the important facets of Love.

    Love grows stronger by exercise, by Abhyasa and Vairagya. By constant altruism one becomes Sarva bhuta hite ratah BG 5(25), ie. interested in the welfare of all creatures; all creatures get to be identified with oneself.

    Thus Love unifies, synthesises and strengthens one’s self or moral nature, especially by the perception of unity of one’s self with other selves.

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  • How one have to Love Baba?

    The great question in the case of lovers of Baba is, how can we possibly describe the extent of love and its intensity.

    Love is not a thing measured by thermometer or by quantity of goods or sacrifices rendered, though all these do count. We may roughly begin a statement of how love works.

    When two persons are greatly attached to each other, we find that no other expression would describe the situation than love. Friendship, admiration, gratitude, loyalty, faithfulness, regard, worship, all these blend together in many a case.

  • Baba on lust; GOD is found in every creature

    Baba on lust; GOD is found in every creature

    Thought struck Nana, ‘Shall I have another opportunity of seeing this angelic face?” Baba at once slapped him on the thigh. Then the ladies departed.

    Baba asked him, ‘Do you know why I slapped you?” Nana admitted that his thoughts were low and unfit for one in Baba’s company. He asked, How is it that even when I am next to you, such low thoughts sway my mind?” (B.C.&S. 205).

    Baba replied, ‘You are a man after all, and the body being full of desires, these spring up as sense objects approach.

    Then Baba asked, ‘Are there not lovely temples with well coloured exterior? When we go there, do we admire the exterior beauty or the God within? When you are seeing God within, do you ever care for the outside beauty of the building? Similarly, remember God is not only in temples. He is found in every creature.

    Therefore when you see a beautiful face, remember that it is a temple and the image of the God within is the Jiva, a preeminent part of the Universal Soul. So, think at once of God-or the Universal Soul in every object, whether beauteous or ugly. These forms reveal the God within.

    There is nothing wrong in admiring beauty, but the thought must follow at once, “If this object is so beautiful, how much more beautiful and powerful must be the God who made this object and inhabits it?. Thinking thus, you will not get smitten by a woman beauteous face hereafter”.

    This was the upadesa given to Nana Baba had not to go further and stop him from any sinful acts due to lust, ( B. C. & S. 206)

  • Baba laid the foundations of future World Unity

    Love is a principle on which all religions must unite. That love gets identified with God and perfection in man.

    Baba achieved in himself that perfection, and therefore was able truly to declare that he had reached the highest Anandam Brahmeti Vyajanath. Baba showed that he was the Paramatma of all, that he was the Antaryami of all, and that he had in him perfect bliss, which we call Satchidananda.

    To Muslims Baba is the Sufi. Kabir panthis, being part of the contributors to Sufism recognised Baba as the perfect Sufi.

    Hindus including the most advanced in Bhakti and Jnana recognised him as the perfection of divinity or Satchidananda. Therefore believers in the principle of love as embodied in Godhood found it demonstrated in Baba. No doubt, success in this is not achieved in a day, but he has laid solid foundations for the edifice of inter-religious unity and, as time advances and as other world movements also advance, Baba’s pioneering efforts will be recognised and followed by the masses and also thinkers.

    This is imminent; one can see glimpses of it even at present. Let none think that Baba is gone and has ceased to work. See the latest lilas. That enables us to see that Baba is the emblem and cause of the unity of religions in India and the world.

    Regarding world unity, we are reminded of Abdul Bahai who attempted in 1830-40 to make people accept him as the Messiah of unity and to establish one religious, economic and social order into which all countries will fit in their systems harmoniously in accordance with his principles and directions. But history records the failure.

    Baba’s work was similar to Bahai’s, i.e. promoting love, cooperation and harmony. But Baba was preeminently practical and he saw with his wonderful prescience how limited the progress will be at the outset and for a considerable time; and Baba laid the foundations of future World Unity in all essential matters to the extent that was possible.