Fill Your Hearts With Love
Every Avatar comes for the purpose of spreading the message of love. Here’s what Swami says.
“When you fill your hearts with love, you will have no ill-will toward anyone. Cultivate the faith that the divine is in everyone. Surrender to the divine in a spirit of dedication. The symbolic meaning of the relationship between Krishna and the gopikas (cowmaids who played with Krishna) is this: the heart is the Brindavan (the name of the village where Krishna lived as a child) in everyone; one’s thoughts are the like the gopikas; the atma is Krishna. Bliss is the sport of Krishna. Everyone must convert his heart into Brindavan and consider the indwelling atma (soul) as Krishna. Every action should be regarded as a leela (play) of Krishna. … What you offer to God must be all embracing. This is the foremost message of the avatar.”
Sanathana Sarathi, October 1988, p. 257
“In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna taught the principle of love and the need to cultivate love to counter hatred, jealousy, anger and all other bad traits that cause so much harm to you.
Love knows no hatred.
Love is free from all selfishness.
Love is ever distant from anger.
Love will never take; it knows only giving.
Love is God.
If you want God, you will have to develop this sacred quality of love. Only through love will you be able to experience Him, who is love itself.”
Discourses on the Bhagavad Gita, pp. 30-31
“Love is the fruit of life. The fruit has three components: the skin, the juicy kernel and the seeds. To experience the fruit, we have to first remove the skin. The skin represents ego, the `I’ feeling, the excluding, limiting, individualizing principle. The seed represents selfishness, the mine feeling, the possessive, the greedy, desire principle. This, too, has to be discarded. What remains is the sweet juice, the rasa which the Upanishads describe as Divine, the love supreme. This is light; nectar; supreme reality. Everyone has the right to partake of this nectar, prema (divine love) and to share it with others. No one is excluded on the basis of race, caste, creed or place of origin. The only condition is—have the skin and the seed been removed? When the love principle is known and practiced, man will be free from anxiety and fear.”
Sanathana Sarathi, Vol. XI, pp. 222-223
