Discover the various layers of your existense
Chapter 1 - A Bridge To The Divine
Day 3
The Rishi addresses all the 3 levels. Emotionally you get intoxicated, intellectually you are wonder-stuck and you repose in the self. The 3 layers of our existence are the spirit (self), the mind (intellect) and the emotions.
How does love have such a profound impact on all three layers? Cravings, desires and aversions arise in the heart. Curiosity, inquisitiveness, enquiry are in the intellect.
Joy comes out of intoxication. That is why many people get into intoxication or curiosity when they read all sorts of magazines or watch television.
Everything is for the intellect-to calm it down and satisfy the urge of the intellect to know. There is nothing so wonderful, so awesome, as this deep devotion.
Is this just an emotional exercise or will it take us further towards the ultimate reality, the truth to Self realisation? The Rishi says, “It takes you to the Self. Such is the glory of Bhakti.
Knowing which you become intoxicated, spellbound and you repose in the Self. There is nothing that can intoxicate you like love. And all the intoxication that people use is to be in that love, is in the search for that love.
But they are searching for love in the wrong place. It is the frustration, the ‘unfulfilment’ that makes one go for intoxicants, isn’t it so? What happens when you are intoxicated? The ‘two’ disappears, the ‘other’ vanishes.
When the other vanishes, then you are more at ease and love is that which gives you such ease, such comfort. Divine love intoxicates you. Just knowing Divine love, you get intoxicated, spellbound and wonder-struck.
When we are miserable, we ask many questions, “Why this, Why this?” When the questions turn into wonder, love arises. Love does not give rise to more questions-it is the answer for all the questions.
Love is not a path actually. Love is home. Love brings you back home. Love is not an act or an action. It is a result. Then the next question arises, “How can I have it? That's what I want.
Yes. What you are saying is right. How can I have it? I want to have it, I desire for it.