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Pravin Kumar
Age: 60 Zodiac: 
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 Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:31 am |
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So the emotions which come from within, which don't pull you from outside, which cannot be pulled from the outside, are pure emotions. And the waves of emotion that the storms outside create within you are impure emotions. Emotions created by the outside will cause restlessness and worry inside you, and the ones that arise from within you will fill you with bliss.
So remember this first thing about pure and impure emotion: pure emotion is a state of being, impure emotion is a distortion of being, not a state. Impure emotion is the result of outside influence on being, pure emotion is an inner expansion of being. So think about this: do the emotions that move you come from within you, or do other people create them in you?
I am walking on the street and you insult me: if I get angry this is impure emotion because you have created it in me. I am walking on the street: you show me respect and I am pleased -- this is impure emotion because you have created it in me. But if my inner state remains the same as it was before the insult or the praise, whether you swear at me or you praise me, this is pure emotion because you did not create it in me, it is my own . That which is my own is pure and that which comes from the outside is impure. What comes from the outside is a reaction, an echo.
Recently I went to a place where you can hear echoes. If you make a sound there the mountains repeat it. I have said that most people only echo: if you say anything they will repeat it. They don't have anything of their own to say, they are like echo chambers. If you scream they scream back -- it is not theirs, you have created it. And what you gave was not yours, someone else created it in you. You are all echo chambers: you don't have any sound of your own, any life of your own. You don't have any feeling of your own, any life of your own. You don't have any feeling of your own. All your emotions are impure because they belong to others, they are borrowed.
So remember this first key: emotion should be your own. It should not be a reaction, it should be the state ofyour being.
I have divided this state of being into four parts. The first is friendliness. Friendliness has to be developed because there is a source of friendliness within you, but life gives very few opportunities for it to develop. It remains undeveloped, it remains like a seed in the soil of your being -- it cannot grow.
The seed of enmity is very developed. Why? There are natural reasons for this...because it also is needed. It may be needed, but it is not meant to be a lifelong companion. There are times when it is needed and there is also a time when letting go of it is needed.
When a child is born his first experience is not an experience of love. What a child experiences when he is born is fear. This is natural. The small child was very comfortable in his mother's womb where he had no problems, no worries about earning his living, eating -- no worries. He was resting in a very blissful sleep. When he comes out of the mother's womb the small child, weak in every way, his first experience is of fear. And if he gets a shock of fear he will not feel love towards the first person he sees, he will be afraid of that person. And if he is afraid of someone he will start to hate them.
Take this as a basic principle: feaer never creates love. If someone says that there can be no love without fear, their statement is completely wrong. If there is fear, there is no possibility of love. There can never be love with fear. Even if love is shown superficially there is no love inside.
Most of the love that we see in this world is based on fear. And a love that is based on fear is false. That's why on the surface there is love but hatred keeps slipping out from inside. You also hate the person you love. Love is on the surface and hatred is below because you are afraid of people. Remember this: a person who intimidates others is missing the opportunity to receive love. If the father is intimidating his son he will not be able to get his love. If a husband is intimidating his wife he will not be able to get her love. He will get a pretense of love but he won't get love because love grows only in fearlessness, it doesn't grow in fear.
As soon as a child is born he experiences fear -- and that's where the source of hatred is activiated. The energy source of love is not activated. Most people die without this source ever becoming activated because life doesn't give it a chance. You think you love someone: that is also not love, it is only lust. Even that is only lust, even that is not love. Love can grow only through meditation.
This is why the source of love and friendliness within you has to be developed. It has to be developed in spite of all the primitive instincts which don't give it a chance to develop. The life that you lead doesn't allow it to grow, only hatred is developed. And what you call friendliness is only hypocrisy and politeness. Your friendliness is only an arrangement to escape from hatred, to avoid it -- but it is not friendliness.
Friendliness is a completely different thing. How can you develop that source? How can feelings of friendliness begin to happen within you? You have to constantly create a milieu of frinedliness around yourself. A message of friendliness has to be conveyed to all the people who are around you. Waves of friendliness have to be sent. And inside yourself you have to give it energy, you have to activate that space of friendliness.
When you are sitting on the bank of a river, give love to the river. I am talking about the river because to give love to a person could be a little difficult. Give love to a tree -- I am talking about a tree because it may be hard to give love to a person. First of all, send love to nature. The anahat chakra, the heart center can flow more easiy towards nature because nature is not wounding you.
In the ancienet days people were amazing: they would send messages of love to the whole world. When the sun rose in the morning they would greet it with folded hands saying, "Glory to you. In your infinite compassion you give us light and radiance." And this worship was not pagan, it was not out of ignorance; it had meaning, it had great meaning. It would be impossible for someone who was filled with love for the sun, who just by calling the riiver his mother becomes filled with love, who calls the earth his mother and by remembering this is filled with love, to harbor a dislike for people for very long. It is not possible.
These were amazing people who gave messages of love to all of nature. They cultivated prayer, love and devotion everywhere. This is needed. If you want the seed of love inside you to sprout, the very first thing is to send a message of love to nature. But you are such strange people: the moon will be in the sky the whole night and you will be sitting and playing cards, and you will be calculating how much you have won or lost. The moon will be up there and a beautiful opportunity for love will be lost for nothing. The moon could have awakened that center of love within you. If you could sit with the moon for a few enchanted moments and convey a message of love, its rays could move something inside you, some essence, and you would be filled with love.
There are opportunities everywhere....there are opportunities everywhere. Existence is full of amazing things -- give love to them. Whenever you get any opportunity to love, don't let it pass, use it. For example, you are walking along the road and there is a stone on the road -- move it aside. This is an opportunity that comes completely free of charge, and it will transform your whole life. This work is very inexpensive. What could be a more inexpensive meditation than this? -- you are walking on the road and you see a stone; you pick it up and put it on the side of the road. Who knows who might be passing by, and who knows who might be injured by the stone? You have carried out an act of love. I am telling you this because very small things in life cultivate the seed of love within you, very small, small things.
A child is crying on the street and you just pass by -- can't you wait a few seconds and wipe the tears from his eyes?
Abraham Lincoln was in a Senate meeting when a pig got stuck in a gutter. He ran out of the meeting saying, "Hold the discussion for a minute, I'll be right back."
This was a very strang thing to do. The American parliament had probably never been stopped for such a thing. He ran out to free the pig. His clothes were all covered in mud. He took the pig out of the gutter and then went back inside. The people asked, "What was it? Why did you stop the meeting and run out so agitated?"
He answered. "A life was in danger."
This was such a simple act of love, but so amazing. And these small, small things ... And I see people who filter their water before drinking it so that no organism is killed, but there is no love inside them. Filtering the water has no value: it is a very mechanical habit to filter the water before drinking it. And they don't eat at night for fear that some organism will be killed, but there is no love in their hearts so this is just meaningless. It doesn't matter that they filter the water before drinking it or that they don't eat at night or that they don't eat meat -- none of this matters. A brahmin or a Jaina will not eat meat, but don't think that it is because he is full of love inside -- it is just a matter of habit. It is his conditioning, but he has no love inside him. Yes, if this develops through your love it will be an extraordinary thing.
Non-violence is the ultimate religion only when it has evolved through love. If it has been reached by reading scriptures or by following some tradition, then it is not religion. In life there are many small, small things, very smal things. And you have forgotten....
What I am saying to you is that if you put your hand on someone's shoulder, then send him all the love in your heart through your hand. Let all your life-energy, your whole heart gather in your hand and then let it all go out. You will be surprised, magic will happen. When you look into someone's eyes, pour your whole heart through your eyes and you will be surprised: your eyes will become magical and they will move something inside the other person. Not only will your love awaken, but it may happen that you become the medium, the cause for someone else's love to awaken. When a man loves rightly, love becomes active inside thousands of people.
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