Excerpts from Gurudev’s discourse on the Narada Bhakti Sutras
When you go through all this paraphernalia of negative emotions, that is when you just want to forget everything. Then people want to drink and intoxicate themselves. But love is the best intoxicant available. Divine love is such an intoxication - knowing which you become drunk, you get intoxicated, spaced out.
What else will any of this excitement do to you? It brings you to a state of amazement, doesn’t it? “Ahh, wow!” This feeling arises in you. Love takes you to that state. Knowing which you become so stunned, smitten, completely awestruck! You become so still, you repose in yourself. You are in such deep rest, deep peace. You are rejoicing yourself and reposing in the Self. All these are the glories of love. “How can I have it now? I just want to have that, nothing more, finished with everything else - no job, no work. I will leave everything, I want just that. How can I have it.?”
This desire to have such an ultimate love, which has been painted into such a glorious picture, this feverishness if it arises in you, then Narada is there waiting with a stick, right in front of you. He says:
This story is from the August 2018 edition of Rishimukh.
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