Life 45 (Jan 23 - Aug 23)

[winston]

How can we expand our love to make it as pure as the Divine’s universal love?

The Divine’s love is like an infinite and endless ocean. Simply because His love is infinite and endless, you cannot carry all of it with you.

What you can carry with you will depend on the size of the pot that you take. So the first thing to do is to enlarge the size of your pot and this can be done by the practice of sadhana (spiritual practice).

In this sadhana, the first step is respect for your mother. The bhakti or love towards the mother should be such that you recognise the great love and affection with which your mother has brought you up.

You must return gratitude to your mother in the form of love or bhakti. The mother will also show bhakti in the form of vatsalya (affection of mother for child), in return, to the love of the son.

The mother will bathe, dress and cajole, the baby and put the baby to sleep. While doing all these, she will be attending to her daily duties.

In this way, the attachment and affection between the mother and the son can be promoted. If promoted properly, that itself can be shaped in the form of bhakti towards the Divine.

- Divine Discourse, Jun 03, 1976.

The sign of a wise person is possessing ever-widening love.

Source: radiosai.org