Eternal Love

Eternal Love

What is born when the stone of hatred is removed from our system? 

The Upanishad hasn’t said that love is born then, because love is eternal, it is our nature. Neither is it born, nor does it die. For instance, when the rainy season has set in and the sky is covered with clouds, the sun is obscured. Now, can we say that the sun will be born when the clouds disappear? No, we can only say that the sun, which was always there, will be visible. When the clouds came, the sun was not destroyed, it was just obscured. It was no longer visible and was concealed behind the clouds. The clouds will disappear and the sun will shine again. Clouds are born and clouds die, but the sun is always there.

Love is the nature of life, so it has neither birth nor death. Clouds of hatred are born and die. Love is covered when those clouds are born; it manifests itself when they disappear. But love is eternal, so the Upanishad does not talk of the birth of love. It only says: hatred dies and disappears.

Mirror Image

But how? The sutra is not as easy as it appears. Many times it happens that the things which look difficult are not so, and similarly, those which appear easy are not easy. Mostly, there is great depth and intricacy hidden within easy matters. This sutra seems to be straightforward and easy. The whole statement is completed in two lines only. It says, the person who sees himself in all objects — animate and inanimate — and begins to see all objects in himself, will have his hatred destroyed. But to make all his mirror, or to be a mirror for all, is the greatest alchemy and art.

Om Namah Shivay.