"Everybody has there own part in the drama, and no part is better then any other part, they are just parts in the drama. Now the issue of love, Its important the distinction be made between the verb love which takes a object. And the being, the state of being which is love. Your afraid that if you don't try to be loving you'll be awful. But the fact is behind loving and awfulness we are. And where we are is love."
-Ram Dass-
This is what happens in personal relationships on the way of
love. At first there is just an opaque curtain between us and the one we love.The
Lord is there, but we cannot see him – in fact, at the beginning we scarcely
know what to look for. Gradually, however, our concentration deepens. Now we
sense that there really is someone behind the curtain, and every once in a
while we glimpse a silhouette. As vision becomes clearer, we seem to see the
beautiful eyes of Sri Krishna or Jesus or the Divine Mother behind our
partner’s eyes – and the more we see, the deeper is our desire to see more. In the
end, all our other desires merge in the immense longing to have no barrier
between us and our real Beloved. Only one veil remains, and it is so thin that
every morning we go to meditation knowing that this may be the day that we are
united with the Lord at last. We may wait like this for years, but finally,
without warning, the veil falls at last. Then, in the rapturous language of St.
John of the Cross, we merge in the Beloved and are transformed: “Amado con
amada, amada en el amado transformada." Most of us think of love as a
one-to-one relationship, which is all it can be on the physical level. But
there is no limit to our capacity to love. We can never be satisfied by loving
just one person here, another there. Our need is to love completely,
universally, without any reservations – in other words, to become love itself.
-Eknath Easwaren-
