Revere Truth and Love

6 May 1985, Easwaramma Day

Professor Kasturi's English.

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True love will remain unaffected What, then, is true (love)? Pure, unselfish love towards all living beings, considered as embodiments of the Divine, with no expectation of reward, is true Love. "" ("Free from dislike, friendly and compassionate towards all beings"). With this attitude, when one regards divinity as present in all beings, only then he can have true love. Whatever be the vicissitudes one may face, whatever be the personal sorrows and privations one may undergo, true love will remain unaffected. Today, when any difficulty arises or when some trouble crops up, love turns into hatred. True love is the sweet fruit that grows out of the fragrant flower of good deeds. Love rules without recourse to the sword. It binds without laws.

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It should be understood that human birth is the progeny of Truth as father and Love as the mother. Even if one's natural parents are absent, one should nor forget the real parents - Truth and Love. When Truth and Love beget (Wisdom) as son, the true lineage of man is established.

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Ignorance is not the inherent characteristic of man. There is no room for aberrations in him. Egoism is out of place. He should revel in the ecstasy of (the consciousness of the Divine). His true form should be bliss. Discrimination should be natural to him. Today this true nature of man is being forgotten.

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It may be asked whether Truth and Love have begotten only a son ( - wisdom) and not a daughter. There is a daughter, who can be identified as (peace). Hence, wisdom should be the characteristic quality of men and peace and serenity should be the distinguishing quality of women.

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Students' duty to their parents Who are to be regarded as friends and relatives? The should be looked upon as friends and good qualities should be considered as true kinsmen. does not consist of meditation and austerities or various forms of breath-control. True is the mergence of the individual soul in the Omni-Self It is the withdrawal of the senses from external objects and turning them inwards. To allow the senses a free rein is not but (sensual enjoyment). Such indulgence will lead to (disease). implies self-control and renunciation, leading to the experiencing of (bliss).

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Develop unselfish, unbounded love To have the qualities and lead the life of a human being worth the name, one must develop pure, unselfish, unbounded love. Man delves many kinds of benefits from animals, birds, plants and trees. They do not confer these benefits out of any self-interest or the desire for reward. Man enjoys these benefits without displaying any sense of gratitude. Today man not only does not help others but even harms himself by his actions. He is thereby dehumanising himself. There is, therefore, a compelling need for youth to develop the. true spirit of love through the of (service) and sublimate their life. They should not fritter away their life-span in the pursuit of ephemeral pleasures and comforts. They make no effort to understand the basic purpose of human life, what is permanent and enduring. They are promoting dissensions and differences instead of cultivating unity and harmony. Selfishness is the root cause of these undesirable tendencies. Without abjuring selfishness there can be no true (selfconceit). (ostentation) is the son. Those who are filled with envy and ostentatiousness are really the children of conceit. The first requisite is to get rid of (egoistic conceit). All evil traits arise from this .

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Royal road to secure God's grace What is the basis for this conceit? If one is conceited, there must be something which justifies the feeling. If there is nothing in one which warrants his conceit, what is there to gloat over? You may be a scholar or a wealthy person, or very clever and intelligent. But all these do not help you to secure God's grace. Saint sang: "Oh ! I am not endowed with knowledge. I am incapable of performing and or doing severe penance. Here is one easy path that I know to win your grace. That is the path of Divine Love. It is the royal road that will lead me to the Presence of ." declared emphatically that cannot be realised by any other path except the path of love. This is the inner meaning of the statement: Love is God and God is Love.

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Hence, in this precious period of your youth, in this sacred golden time, you must cultivate sacred thoughts and holy attitudes. You must be filled with a sense of selfless dedication. This can come only through (service to others) in which there is no egoistic pride. You must revel in giving rather than receiving. When the Divine is there to give all that you need, why seek or receive anything from others?

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All your actions must be aimed at purifying your minds and hearts to experience the Divine. When the heart is pure, the light of wisdom shines. The illumined heart becomes the receptacle of pure love. Love is everything. A person without love is a living corpse. Love is not the relationship between man and man, or between man and other objects. It is inherent in every being. "" ("I am the Spirit immanent in all beings"). The Divine is present in all beings. The has no form. It is experienced as Love. If there is no Love, there is no Area. hence, love is our life-breath. Love is our soul. Love is our everything. It should be unchanging. Young people should cultivate unwavering love and a steady vision.

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and The basic things we should know are: is the root cause of our birth. The root cause of is sorrow. Ignorance is the cause of sorrow. Ignorance itself is the result of (the delusion which makes one regard the real as unreal and the unreal as real). And as long as persists, the cannot be recognised. When we are rid of this delusion, then sorrow will cease. When sorrow goes, ignorance disappears.

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(Love of God) and (fear of sin) are the two requisites for sanctifying our life. You have to strive constantly to please your parents. If you do not show your gratitude to the parents who have brought you up with so much love and labour, to whom else are you going to be grateful? You must cultivate a broad heart and develop love towards all beings as emblems of the Divine. You have to live up to the Upanishadic injunctions to regard your father, mother, and guest as God.

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