Love as a divine state
Having committed myself to love as the standalone truth of my existence and the only permanent thing in my life, I found the process continued through the next day…. I apologize if I go deeper than usual and it proves taxing. Perhaps skip this one and go on to the next. I do note however how my writing has gotten deeper….
The process set in motion by the apparent loss of my precious ring continues.
Tonight, just before turning out the lights, I connected the committed stand I took in the midst of my tizzy yesterday as a prelude. It’s a prelude to now being ready to hear the teachings of Krishna, Sosan (The Book of Nothing), Ramakrishna, etc., on detachment.
In one fiery moment, I detached from everything impermanent. It was consistent with what W.H. Murray talked about when he said:
“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
“All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way.
““I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
““’Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.’” (1)
It took the apparent loss of the only possession of mine (OK, a few others) that I really value for me to take a stand on myself. That was the final straw. I was now really mad.
Add that to that the loss of two computers over the years, my shoulder bag, and the endless misplacement of objects, the constant searching, never mind staying one step ahead of scammer “Elon Reeve Musk” – and the result is that I am truly done with the Third/Fourth Dimension!
Enough already. Stop the world. I want to get off!
I reached the point where I’m ready to take Detachment 101. I’m ready to push away from the table that wants more impermanent wealth, more unsatisfying sex, and more transitory power.
I only want what’s permanent and, as the Mother said, the ultimate in permanent, standalone phenomena is love. It may be the only permanent, standalone phenomenon. And, we hear, it has made everything and made it from itself.
So, and Sri Ramakrishna says this repeatedly, not detachment from everything. Detach from the impermanent, but attach to the permanent. Attach to love.
Speaking as love incarnate, Krishna said:
“I am all that a man may desire
Without transgressing
The law of his nature.” (2)
The law is there to persuade us to align with and adhere to love. It channels everything into the one overarching intention – that God should meet God in a moment of our enlightenment. (3)
A comparable theme in Judeo-Christian literature is that which says, I thy Lord am a jealous god.
Substituting “Thy Love” for “Thy Lord,” we have: “I thy Love am a jealous god.”We know that love departs when we distract ourselves with … almost anything else really.
It’s a potent image to say “I, thy Love, am a jealous god.” We rebel upon hearing it. But it’s a matter of spiritual physics.
When we take our attention off anything, it recedes into the background. So does love, just a little more quickly than most other states of being; hence the use of the extreme word “jealous.” It both wakes us up and makes a valid point about love and distraction.
We are reminded that, as long as we’re in 3/4D, any distraction will cut us off from love. And that fits with so many sages saying that we have to be zealous in our pursuit and attachment to love … to what end? To ascend out of Third/Fourth Dimensionality, the so-called physical planes.
Once out ofn 3/4D, we will always thereafter be immersed in a love beyond words.
I so love Sosan’s The Book of Nothing. (4) But the last time I read it, it was still for informational reasons. I wanted to know what A Book of Nothing had to say.
Now I’m reading it as a book which, alongside Lao Tzu’s two books, (5) has something very valuable to offer me. It’s like a manual for life for me.
I’ve now detached from any attachments I have to impermanent objects or any other distractions from the permanent. I feel like a newborn. Eager and totally ignorant.
If love is all there is – the creative, preservative, and transformative agent of the material (matter, mater, Mother) world – then I ignore the pleadings of the ego and attach myself to love.
I’m not talking about romantic love, parental love, fraternal love, etc. I’m talking about a love so transformative and enveloping that desire for anything else evaporates from us for as long as we experience that love.
A love that we recognize as all we’ve ever wanted, in the face of which our desiring machine shuts itself off. Except for more love. Which in the ascended state flows freely and endlessly, permanently.
Footnotes
(1) W.H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(2) Sri Krishna, BG, 71.
(3) See Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-6.pdf
(4) Sosan, The Book of Nothing. A Song of Enlightenment. tr. Philip Dunn and Peter Jourdain. Kansas City: Andrews McNeel Publishing, 2002.
(5) Lao Tzu, The Way of Life. Tao Te Ching: A New Translation by R.B. Blakney. New York: New American Library, 1955 and Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu by Brian Walker. San Francisco: Harper, 1992.