Passage 7

In English

Spontaneous Love

True love should be spontaneous. ’s was such love. Even when his wife was humiliated in the open court, he fixed his unwavering mind on . Even when slaughtered the innocent , he continued thinking of God with a steady, pure, and unagitated mind. was bound hand and foot and thrown into a river with venomous snakes. In such situations too maintained his equipoise. This was because he was able to transcend both joys and sorrows and attain the non-dual principle of Godhead. Thus it is only by the perception of the fundamental Truth that one develops a steady mind.