Love and Devotion- Maharaj Charan Singh

Part I

Maharaj Ji, would you tell us what is love?

Love is losing your own identity and becoming another person. That is love. There’s no ego left. To become another being and to just lose your own identity; you don’t exist; only the other being exists. That craving to become another one and lose your own identity, to eliminate your ego and be in the will of another being, that is love. But how far we succeed is something different.

Master, wanting to love the Master, is that beginning to love him?

I don’t know what the difference is. How can you intellectually want to love?

Unless there is a feeling of love for the Master, the question of wanting to love doesn’t arise. You will not want to love unless there is love for the Master. You can say that you want to grow that love, but the seed is already there, otherwise you wouldn’t be wanting to grow the seed. Without having a seed, you can’t grow it. The seed is there. What you want is only to grow it, more and more. The more you love, the more it grows, and the more you want more. But for that seed, you wouldn’t have that feeling. So wanting to love can’t come without love.

Then we do have a tiny, little bit of love?

Yes, we have a little bit of love, no doubt. Otherwise, why should we think about the Father and meditate and try to conquer our sense if He has not given us that instinct of love. The fact that we are fighting to overcome our senses is proof that He has given us the instinct of love. But we should be more receptive to what He is giving us.

(To be continued in December, 2006 issue)

© "Die to Live" by Maharaj Charan Singh, published by Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Beas, Punjab 143 204. India. Reprinted with permission.

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