Why do we feel restlessness inside our heart sometimes, and happiness sometimes?
The bee hovers around the lotus, sits upon it, and drinks the nectar; while drinking sweet intoxicating honey, it is silent, steadfast, concentrated, and forgetful of all else.
Man too becomes like that when he is in the presence of the Divine. The hum of the bee ceases and is silent when drinking of the nectar begins.
Man too, sings, extols, argues, asserts, only until he discovers the sweet essence. That sweet essence is the sweet essence of love.
Where there is love, there can be no fear, no anxiety, no doubt, and no absence of peace.
When you are afflicted with the absence of peace, you can be sure that your love is restricted, your love has some ego mixed in it.
The senses are one's deadly foes; for they drag your attention away from the source of joy inside you, to objects outside you.
When you are convinced that they are at the bottom of this conspiracy to mislead you, you will certainly stop catering to them.
- Divine Discourse, Feb 26, 1968.
The experiencer of the prema (love) is the inner ‘I’, which is the reflection of the real I,
the Atma (soul). When senses are out of action, that ‘I’ will shine in its full glory.
Source: radiosai.org