HERE ARE STEPS TO THIS REALIZATION: HUMILITY, self-purification exercises, washing off your sins, exhausting your karmas, coming to a certain trust and faith. But when you really reach that paraprema,⁴ parabhakti, you will not only weep but tears will come to you incessantly, without your even thinking to weep. And these tears carry joy with them, not only repentance and purification. What else could there be beyond that Love and joy? Therefore it fulfills. This is far beyond any philosophy of interconnectedness. You feel settled, interconnected not only with all of humanity but with everything.
      That Love itself is so original that neither pleasure nor pain will affect you. You will just quietly witness it and let go. You will no longer find a difference between the virtuous and the sinner, or at least it will not affect you. You will not react with negativity or positivity. Whatever the conditions, you will be released. You will have reached that beginning and end.

⁴ supreme Love

You will not see much difference between life and death. Old age or sickness will lose their hold on you. If then, at some stage, through old age or disease, you close your eyes to leave the body, you will not mind dying. There will be no pangs and pain or pathos. You will feel relaxed and take it easy. You will find that basis of connectedness, that Love, wherever you go, whatever you do.
      Why do the angels care for us? Because God sent them? Why would anyone care to help anyonejust to do good? Is it only because someone is suffering that we help him or her? That may be the outer explanation, but it is not the exact explanation. Why do we exist as families, friends or in any other relationships? If you go deeper you will find that the connecting cord is unconditional Love. If you reside into that Love, it takes away all your tiresomeness, your tensions, worries of any kind. You are washed off, purified in one moment, if you can touch that. But if you try to practice unconditional Love, you may not arrive at it. It is a matter of going deeper.