Swajan : What kind of changes we experience when love establishes in our nature?
Pujya Shree Mota : Generosity of the nature (ઉદાર માનસ) is only the first step towards love. It is just the beginning of love when you tolerate people of different nature. This is just the beginning of expression of love. Generosity of the nature means tolerating without responding to misunderstanding, sarcastic remarks, unreasonable behavior, arrogant or extremely dull nature, oppositional nature, false accusations and personal hurtful speech. But there is still built in tinge of unhappiness in this generosity of nature. True love does not have even this unhappiness. Love accepts physical and mental difficulties with peace and never sings to its own tune.
Love keeps silence about its sacrifice and at the same it is without ego. Ego and arrogance can never co exist with love. Infatuation and love are like darkness and light. More the attachment and infatuation less is the love. Infatuation is blind and yet love being the form of all pervading God has innumerable eyes. Love can appear to be very tough and yet it always has the welfare of the loved one in its mind. Love is not soft, weak sentimental emotion. It always keeps the welfare of the loved ones at the forefront in his behavior. It is not love to act to one's liking. That is either weakness or flattery. Some times the loved one may understand differently, get angry, or take revenge. Love may appear to take tough action and yet one's heart will always be soft and soaked with love. One with love will respond to blows and counter blows with deep love from the heart. He will happily accept all the troubles as the gift from God and understand that all these trouble are for his own good. As the tolerance develops hatred and malice gets converted into love. Eventually this behavior with love does not stay confined to one or more people but spreads to all creatures and it sublimates into God himself.
Pujya Shree Mota
Dampatya bhavna
Edition 5; pages 24 - 25.
Love keeps silence about its sacrifice and at the same it is without ego. Ego and arrogance can never co exist with love. Infatuation and love are like darkness and light. More the attachment and infatuation less is the love. Infatuation is blind and yet love being the form of all pervading God has innumerable eyes. Love can appear to be very tough and yet it always has the welfare of the loved one in its mind. Love is not soft, weak sentimental emotion. It always keeps the welfare of the loved ones at the forefront in his behavior. It is not love to act to one's liking. That is either weakness or flattery. Some times the loved one may understand differently, get angry, or take revenge. Love may appear to take tough action and yet one's heart will always be soft and soaked with love. One with love will respond to blows and counter blows with deep love from the heart. He will happily accept all the troubles as the gift from God and understand that all these trouble are for his own good. As the tolerance develops hatred and malice gets converted into love. Eventually this behavior with love does not stay confined to one or more people but spreads to all creatures and it sublimates into God himself.
Pujya Shree Mota
Dampatya bhavna
Edition 5; pages 24 - 25.
