29 Mar 2023
[Smt. Amudha Sambath asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, below questions arise in my mind based on couple of discourses (True essence of yoga; Pleasing the God searched result), unable to understand the core or depth meaning on it completely. Please help me in understanding the concept Swami.
How to change selfish love to unconditional love? Parents love their children because of blood relations and the love is pure and they would not be expecting anything in return from their children. But Swami only You the Lord love us unconditionally but as I out of my selfishness love you with some expectation in the form of protection or any other worldly benefits (whether we expect or not, You are always holding us Swami). But It's only selfish love when we expect something from the God.]
Swami replied:- This is the single unsolved problem in spiritual knowledge since the beginning of the creation of souls. All My speeches, answers and writings are related to this single problem only in one direction or the other. You cannot change anything into any other thing. You have to replace the item about which you want to change with another fresh item. Water cannot change into milk. You have to throw out the water and replace the vessel with fresh milk. Whether the place is world or God, only replacement is the way and not changing the water into milk by using some miraculous power. If God changes water into milk by using His miraculous power, He should do the same thing for every individual. If the answer to the question is supplied to every student writing an examination, what is the fun of conducting the very examination itself? The attachment to God must be spontaneous and not by a slow regular mechanism. The detachment from worldly bonds must not be isolated and it should be due to attachment to God only. You must develop your attraction to the divine personality of God and such attraction will be always without any aspiration for any fruit in return from God. I have given issue devotion and fan devotion as ideals where love is without any aspiration. This path is issue devotion in the initial stage and fan devotion in the final stage.
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