The worldly mind cannot think of the true meaning of love and devotion. Normally, physical love and being attached to it is taken for love. Similar is the case of devotion to God, which we are doing materialistically. Thus, common man usually is mistaken about the true meaning of love and devotion.
Love first, understand afterwards
SP Sharma
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May 302005
Understanding the essence of love
SP Sharma
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May 302005
Love is where expectations are absent. Normally, our relations do not meet this requirement, because if we do something for someone it is in the expectation of return in some form. The expectation is the poison that, even in trace quantity, spoils the whole sweetness of our relations.
There is No Space
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May 272005
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55: 8-9) “For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that [...]
May 262005
Here’s the situation. We are spirit, and mind is our instrument to be active. This mind, in a moment of temporary insanity, dreams up a world of form separate from the one and only reality that is God. Separating from the all powerful One is a fearsome act, but by mental dissociation the mind escapes [...]
Insecurity – what remedy?
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May 232005
Most minds are infested with a sense of insecurity at some stage of life. It appears in uncountable forms and each one is so strong at a given time that it turns the mind mad. It results in a variety of ailments and moods. The effects of insecurity are not easily discernible or understandable, and [...]
Existence and immortality
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May 182005
We happen to be in this world unknowingly but started liking it for various reasons. Our liking develops to such an extent that we try to prolong our life as long as possible by all means. The moment we gain our senses we start considering our body as “I” and start seeking pleasure through our [...]
My Best Efforts Are Not Enough
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May 092005
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” (James 4: 7-8) In the presence of Love, human efforts are meaningless. As humans, we have our ideas of what Love is and what it means to act from a place of Love. All of that is made-up stuff [...]
Dreams coming true
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May 072005
Part I During the early 1950s, when I was between 5 and 8 years old, I was staying in a scarcely populated village and vast stretches of fields seemed to meet the sky at the horizon. In the evening the whole village used to drown in darkness as the only source of light was a [...]
Innocence is divine
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May 072005
In my neighborhood a girl of seven years old approached her mother with a new pencil brought from a nearby shop. Her mother asked her where she got the money to purchase it. She innocently replied, “Mummy, you only told me that the shopkeeper is ours.” This was the shop where they had an account [...]
What do we want least in our lives?
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May 072005
Tension, anxiety and fear, altogether called stress and strain of life, are not desirable emotions, but they exist in most people. We don’t know how they intrude into our life and they persist in spite of all our efforts to remove them. There are situations in which we can seek the guidance of wise people [...]