One Christian missionary was asked to say the teaching of Jesus christ in a single sentence.He said-"Love your neighbor as yourself."But people don't love themselves,then how will they love their neighbor?They will not love their neighbor at all.Actually we don't know what love is.Love is such a great thing,that you can experience but can't define what it is.Like when a dumb person eats sweet,he can experience the sweetness but would not be able to say what sweetness is.Even we can't define what sweetness is.Can we?So we can't define Love.We don't even experience the real love.If the love is unconditional,then only it is real love.That love is rare.People,who are enlightened,who are calm inside,who have compassion for all the creature,they only know that love.You can also have the glimpses of that love.A single glimpse of that love will change you.You will not be the same again.To have the glimpses of love you will have to be calminside.Be meditative.In meditation you can feel the true love.When you feel that love,then you will be able to love yourself.When you love yourself then the fragrance of love come out of you.Whoever will come in your contact will have a different kind of pleasure.This is the way to love.Your love will be unselfish.
In Tantra there is a shloka-UTTAMO BRAHMA SADBHAV MADHYAMA DHYAN DHARANA,JAPASTUTISYADADHAMA MURTIPUJADHADHAMA.It literally means-feeling oneself as Brahman is best,meditating is mediocre,chanting and prayers are lower and idol worshiping is lowest in nature. As i understand this shloka,it just describes the four stages to God realisation.On spiritual path one starts with idol worshipping,then he starts chanting some mantra,then meditating and at last he feels that he/she has become God.That is Brahma sadbhav.One can't just leap to that stage. No stage is superior or inferior.They are just stages through which a seeker passes.Without going through the first stage,if one will just try to be in Samadhi, s/he won't get any real success.If you have not gone through idol worshiping you won't be able to realize the formlessness of God.You will just become a hypocrite.Like followers of some religions who say they don't believe in idol worshipin
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