DIVINE LOVE (1)

 Swajan: Mota, the element of love that is present in all beings as the desires for worldly pleasures. When that  can be considered transformed (sublimated) as divine love?

Pujya Shree Mota: It is a well accepted fact that human being carries the residue of the animal kingdom and seeds of the divinity. Ultimately the humans, animals and everything else will be merged with divine consciousness. If human being wants to expedite the speed of the evolution, so that he can avoid misery, worry and sorrow arising out of the karmas; he must sublimate this great element of the God (love). I would go the extent, that if one wants to serve humanity, one would need to sublimate this formidable element love. 

How can we say that love is sublimated? It is sublimated when all aspects of the love (dual and non dual) are expressed fully and in totality. Without the presence of two, there is no existence of this universe or love. Even the most sinful person loves his body and mind so much that he commits real bad karmas to please them. So knowingly or unknowingly he considers body, mind and nature (expression of Prakruti) separate from 'I'. Love can be present when there is lover and the person to be loved. There is a natural higher progress in love as it is a divine element. So there is a slow or fast progress in duality (with awareness or as per nature) towards the ideal of non duality, absorption and mixing together. All these are present in love in the concealed or manifested form. Thus love is a chain that connects and also a tool for realization. In fact true  love is such a chain, that it is the form of realization. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Daampatya Bhavna (Ideal of Matrimony)

Edition 1; Pages 5 - 6

NAAM-SMARAN AND ITS EFFECT

 Question: Mota, why does the effect of the Naam-Smaran is not manifested in life even if it is done for a long time?

Pujya Shree Mota; The tools like Japa will be effective only if we get to reduce love (attachment) and hate from our lives. If our nature is still sentient, Naam-Smaran  cannot be done for a long time and can not be maintained. Then how can it be there all the time? So while practicing any tool, one should work to cleanse the mind (ચિત્તશુધ્ધિ, reducing attachments and hate etc,).

Pujya Shree Mota

Shree Mota Sathe Vartalap

Edition 2; Page 157.

LOVE (ATTACHMENT) AND HATE - રાગદ્વેષ (3)

 The main aim of the aspirant is not to get rid of only  love and hate. He tries very hard to develop the strength and energy that is needed to fight off love and hate. He stays engaged in the practice of the tool to develop attraction towards consciousness becoming brighter and  courageous in his inner beings. He does this with knowledge and devotion. He also works to develop Bhavna, prayers and introspection. At this point he is convinced that it is not possible to defeat love and hate without the help of the divine energy. So as he develops this divine energy; whenever there is an inclination towards love-hate in the mind arise, he tries hard to increase the energy by deeply engaging in the tools and uses all his might and energy to defeat love-hate. Thus he does not get entangled in the currents of love-hate and let it pass by. He does not cooperate with it or takes part in it. This he does by keeping the aim of his life in front of him. He is always ready and eager to remove the root causes of love-hate. He has the inner understanding to remove the roots that provide the support to love-hate. He uses this inner understanding greatly for that purpose. Love and hate cannot be removed just by the strength of the intellect. Devotion towards the consciousness with Gnana must be cultivated. Such devotion has tremendous strength and energy. Only at such level of the aspirant, the energy is capable of removing the obstacles like love and hate. It is never possible to remove love and hate completely without the development of devotion and Bhakti in the intellect. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Love-hate (રાગદ્વેષ)

Edition 3. From Preface (writers few words),

LOVE (ATTACHMENT) AND HATE - રાગદ્વેષ - (2)

An aspirant for spiritual life is always a struggling soul. His struggle always continues constantly in various aspects and fields of the life. An intellect of the aspirant is subtle, sharp and is being established in consciousness. It is alert and aware to take care of the problems that confront him in the life. It is far more effective in taking care of the problems arising out of the confrontation with love-hate than the collective intelligence of the leaders fighting the war. An aspirant does not know to stay in safe environment. He only knows to keep changing all the aspects of the life constantly. From such confrontations he realizes that there is no way to progress further without fighting and defeating such a thief and robber like love-hate. The confidence and conviction out of this realization is unique and it does not stay without any further action. This confidence and conviction take the challenge to defeat love-hate, no matter how difficult it is to defeat them. He tries all his might to defeat them. Sometimes he negotiates and at times he uses other skills.  He continues to confront them with patience, care, courage, skill and with  perseverance. During this confrontation he gets to understand many aspects of love-hate. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Love-hate (રાગદ્વેષ)

Edition 3. From Preface (writers few words).