Love is not just in the feeling, but in the joy that feeling brings. Love brings joy into our life. From Joy we have come, in joy we have our being, and into that sacred joy we will one day meld again.
All the divine feelings, of love, compassion, courage, self-sacrifice, humility would be meaningless without joy. Joy means exhilaration, an expression of ultimate bliss.
The experience of joy originates in the subtle brain, the subtle center of God consciousness that the yogis call sahasrara, or the thousand petal lotus. Yet the actual feeling of joy is experienced in the heart or the anahata chakra. That joy comes from God’s bliss; an essential attribute of Spirit.
Though joy may be born in conjunction with outer conditions, it is not subject to conditions; it often manifests without any external cause. When sitting in silence of deep meditation, joy bubbles up from within, roused by no outer stimuli. Those who have not experienced joy in meditation, do seldom know what real joy is.
We feel happiness in the satisfaction of desire, but this happiness cannot be compared with the joy we feel in meditation which results in the contact with our soul.
In the universal sense, love is the divine power of attraction in creation that harmonizes and unites. It is opposed to the force of repulsion, which is the outgoing cosmic energy that materializes creation from the cosmic consciousness of God.
Repulsion keeps all forms in the manifest state through maya, the power of delusion that divides, differentiates and dis-harmonizes.
The attractive force of love counteracts cosmic repulsion to harmonize all creation and ultimately draws it back to God. Those who live in tune with the attracting force of love achieve harmony with nature and their fellow beings, and are attracted to blissful union with God.
This attraction is felt as a yearning for God, or God’s redeeming grace.
In this world, love presupposes duality; it springs from a mutual exchange or suggestion of feelings between two or more forms. Even in animals we observe a certain type of love for one another and for their offspring.
In humans, when the love passes through the heart of the lover, the consciousness of the lover gives that universal love still another quality. It is not the physical instrument, but the consciousness through which the lover moves that determines the quality of the love expressed. The higher the state of consciousness of the lover, the higher will be the expression of love.
Love gives without expecting anything in return. Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes as a gift from the heart of another.
The greatest love is felt in the communion with God in meditation. The love between soul and Spirit is the perfect love, the love all are seeking but often don’t know how to reach.
When we experience that divine love, we will see all people as being alike, beholding all as one human family, children of God. We will say to ourselves:’ God is my Father. I am part of His vast family.
True love is divine, and divine love is joy. The more we meditate, seeking God with burning desire, the more we will feel that love in our heart.
May I suggest, we commune in God through meditation.
‘Be still and know that I am God’ Psalm 46:10.
