When it comes to love, our condition is like a person in the midst of an ocean. Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink. We have contaminated all the relationships to the point that there is not even an iota of uncontaminated love in almost all of them. The relationship between father and son should naturally have been full of love. But the father wants his son to take care of the business and marry someone whose family would help him promote it. The mother-son relationship should again be naturally full of love. However, the mother would want the son to bring a daughter-in-law whom she can demonstrate as a prized possession in her society. The relationships between the siblings should again be uncontaminated, but they will fight like cat and dog for a small piece of land. The relationship between husband and wife should again be naturally full of love because both give birth to their children. However, the whole of the world knows the reality of the relationship.
Why are we thirsty in the midst of the ocean? Probably because we have never tasted love in its purity. When we go to developed cities and see rivers, mountains, and clean roads, we are shocked and see a clean ecosystem as a possibility for the first time. We accept so many things from childhood as accepted behaviour. People throw wrappers on the road, spit out of their cars, place their garbage on the road, keep their colonies so dirty, and we do not raise our voice because we have seen all these things since our childhood and have got so used to the ecosystem that we do not feel anything in our hearts.
Similarly, we have become so used to staying in the midst of the salty water of the ocean that we have forgotten the bliss of staying on the bank of a river. The worst thing about a manipulative society is that people feel threatened, and their innocence is soon replaced by cunningness. The problem is that once somebody takes the first step towards cunningness, there is no going back. The more we try to ensure safety through tricks and manipulations, the more we feel threatened. It is because everybody else is also using the same tricks, and that's why you have to always be on your toes. Anybody can turn out to be the black horse, and therefore, one has to put in more and more energy to continue to be the winner. Moreover, once someone tastes winning, they never want to lose.
Where is the scope for love in a world full of manipulations? Probably that's the reason why people are having more and more pets at home. Pets have not yet been infected by the virus of manipulations and pretensions. That's why people feel happy when they get home and play with their pets, and it gives them huge relief from the negativity they face all day long. What a sad situation. We mix poison in the lake of fresh water, and then become dependent on the packaged water. Probably, we have not learned anything from people like Kabir and Meera. We just need to break free of illusion to get real. We just need to quickly realise that the ocean may have immense water, but that water is salty, and we are not going to get a drop to drink there. The moment we see this fact and see it clearly, why would we waste even a minute moving further into the sea? The first thing we will do is to find a way to come back. The moment we drop the ocean mentally, nobody can stop us from getting out of the same. The moment we realise the futility of the world's ways and means to taste that pure love, we don't carry them in our heads. A clear mind first falls in love with itself, the inner purity. He likes to stay connected to that inner purity at all times and create magic inspired by it. On the way, he meets many souls who have also come out of the ocean and remain connected to their inner purity. When two connected souls co-create, that works wonders for the whole of humanity. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are one of the most glaring examples of this.
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