Love that Sustains - Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati

We should have love for all. The aim of our birth in the world is to have a loving nature. If love becomes full, there would be no affliction for us. For removing all afflictions, there should be complete love.

God sees all, moves all and preserves all. He shows to different people the ways that are suited to them. He is the substrate wherefrom all beings arise, and where into all beings return.

What serves as the substrate for the growth of trees is the earth. Even the trees that live for 50 years, or a 100 years, perish in the end. When they thus perish, it is the substrate, earth, that receives them back and reduces them to its own nature. For the growth of trees and their destruction as well, the substrate is earth. The trees arise from the earth, and perish in the earth. This earth too will be destroyed at a time; the sun will be destroyed; the whole universe will be destroyed. This being so, there must be a substrate reality which has the power to originate and destroy them. The reality must be eternal and immutable. Only then it can have the power to project the universe and re-absorb it.

© "Dilip" (July/Sept. 2003) published by Sudakshina Trust (Regd.) 126A, Dhuruwadi, AV Nagvekar Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai 400 025. Reprinted with permission.

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