Poems on Love
Poems on Love
by Sri Chinmoy
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
~
Those who can live without love
Are not ready
For the world of aspiration.
The most effective medicine
Here on earth
Is love unconditional.
~
The hands of
Power
Are often destructive.
The hands of
Love
Are always creative.
Love the world
With your heart's dreams.
Serve the world
With your life's promises.
No remedy for black hate?
Who says?
Just love
And love more,
That's all.
No remedy for helpless fear?
Who says?
Just love
And love more,
That's all.
No remedy for blind darkness?
Who says?
Just love
And love more,
That's all.
No remedy for lengthy bondage?
Who says?
Just love
And love more,
That's all.
On Love
by Sri Chinmoy
Love is the inner bond, the inner connection, the inner link between man and God, between the finite and the infinite. We always have to approach God through love. Without love, we cannot become one with God. If we go through our journey with absolute love, we can never fail to reach God or fulfil Him, either in our own lives or in humanity.
Love is the secret key that allows a human being to open the Door of God. Where there is love, pure love, divine love, there is fulfilment. Where there is no love, it is all misery, frustration and death. The first step in our journey is love, the second step is devotion and the third step is surrender. First we have to love God. Then we have to devote ourselves to Him alone and finally we have to be at His Feet and fulfil ourselves.
What is love? If love means possessing someone or something then that is not real love; that is not pure love. If love means giving and becoming one with everything, with humanity and divinity, then that is real love. Real love is our total oneness with the object loved and with the possessor of love. Who is the possessor of love? God.
Excerpt from Service-Boat And Love-Boatman, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy.
Other Sources
- A Love Bathed Heart by Sri Chinmoy
- The Wings of Light by Sri Chinmoy
- Power and Love by Sri Chinmoy
- When God Love descends by Sri Chinmoy
- At Sri Chinmoy Library
photo credit: Richard Pettinger
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