LOVE IS JOYOUS,
CONSCIOUSNESS. THAT CONSCIOUSNESS
IS THE
CREATOR, AND IT IS OUT OF LOVE AND JOY THAT
HE CREATES.
FTER
THAT, VEDAVYAS WROTE THE FAMOUS
Srimad Bhagavatam on the Lord's play, and incorporated
the Rasa Leela1 of Sri Krishna into it, which we consider to be the heart of
the scripture. Writing about the Lord's leela brought Vedavyas back to where
he had begun his journeyLove Divineand once that was revealed in him quite
intuitively, he felt fulfilled, fully satisfied. He was soaked in Divine Love.
This was also the stage of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and other great souls such as
Krishna and Jesus and Buddha. You can begin with the path of dualism (the love
of God) and end with that path as non-dualism (Oneness with God or God within
everyone and everything) in a way that is very exalted, very revealed and Conscious.
That initial stepping-stone purifies the heart so that you can grow on the path.
You start with love, devotion, faith and trust, but when you end in Love, that
is paraprakriti, parabhakti and paragyan,2 the highest Wisdom. |
In our social, human
life, we often are unconscious of the basis from which we came, the
connecting factor. Something is inseparably joined between the center and
the circumference, the Spirit and creation. This has been explained in Yogic
science as Purusha and prakriti. Purusha is the Spirit, the Absolute;
prakriti is nature or the manifestation. God and the creation are
inextricably interwoven in each other. That highest manifestation of Love is
the relationship through which the center and circumference exist. |
1 Prabhushri Swamiji’s Satsang, Rasa Leela, is presented on page 26 of this issue
of LIGHT OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
2 Paraprakriti: supreme manifestation of nature; parabhakti:
supreme devotion; paragyan: supreme Wisdom