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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Maybe this could help from Meher Baba. I often post it.
God is love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved.
But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself.
And in order to love Himself, He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He
as the lover imagines He loves.
Beloved and lover implies separation.
And separation creates longing; and longing causes search.
And the wider and the more intense the search, the greater the separation and the more terrible the longing.
When longing is at its most intense, separation is complete, and the purpose of separation,
which was that love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved,
is fulfilled; and union follows.
And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved, whom he loved and desired union with;
and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself.
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are!
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Exactly!
It doesn't really help on a personal level
now, but it's a beautiful explanation of just what's been going on here...what happened to me and this whole process and 'thing' I've been struggling with for years!
The moment...the exact
microsecond I sorta went "know what? I'm going to stop reading the Vedas and go straight back to my old Shiva Purana because I just can't take this anymore"...it happened. I got over myself.
Now, I have often been told 'get over yourself'...when that's taken literally, you 'get over yourself'.
Thanks for posting it...it's beautiful!
Aum Namah Shivaya