Baba says, “Since your love for the Father cannot break, take the benefit of that love. Learn how to take this benefit.”

The love of God is a very great power. As soon as I came to Baba, that is, as soon as I took birth as a Brahmin, it was His love that gave me a new lease of life. Without His love, I become an orphan; with His love, I become the king of the world.

The power of God’s love makes hard work easy. No matter how big or hard a task might be, where there is love, it is as if there is no burden. It’s when I think I am alone that thoughts such as: “What can I do? I’m all alone! I have so much work to do!” make me feel heavy and I become tired. “Make Me your Companion“, He says, “use Me.” When I do, the same work feels light and even becomes a form of entertainment, it feels like a game. The One with a thousand arms comes to lift off my fears, my burdens and make me successful. The thousand arms refer to His children; when I take His support, He touches the intellects of one or another child that can offer me the needed help. Suddenly, I see people come forward to help me with my task- they have just the right expertise, the right ideas, they have the right temperament for the job and offer me their co-operation lovingly. One would think the whole thing was choreographed and indeed, it is, when God is my Companion.

The power of God’s love makes me forget bodies and the bodily world in a second. For half a cycle, I have only experienced selfish human love. I was used to being loved as long as people thought they stood to benefit from me. And when priorities changed or someone better came along, I was no longer needed. Love was business-like, a trade. I loved others the same way too. I expected my family members to make me the center of their life, to prop me up all the time by paying me compliments, by telling me I am okay, by being there for me no matter what. Love was attachment, love was neediness. God came and taught me true love through His own example. His love gave me back my self-respect because He refused to let me stay needy or dependent. His love is constant, it doesn’t want anything from me, it just is. By holding me in the highest vision, He compels me to see myself in the same way, as the child with rights, as a self-sovereign, a pure, most elevated soul. This is God’s love that makes me forget all the false love between bodies in a second.

The power of God’s love easily makes me surrender. Surrender means God is my one Strength and one Support. No matter how big the crisis, how unfavorable the circumstance, or how adverse the situation, rather than panic, or worry, I remain calm because I have complete faith that God is in control and that He will take care of things. I have faith that He will find a way where there is no way, that He can make the impossible, possible. God’s love thus makes me a carefree emperor. It gives me the power to do the unthinkable- to enjoy life even during the crisis, to keep a good attitude in the midst of the circumstance. When the situation comes, I don’t go knocking on doors hoping that so-and-so will help me, no. I wait on God, my Father, my Friend, my Companion. Sometimes, it’s not a situation but a dream that God has given me. It’s been a long time, now, it seems so close, I feel ready and yet, nothing seems to be happening. It is tempting to get impatient, feel frustrated and try to make things happen on my own. But when the dream is something God has given me, then He is the only One that can bring it to life, bring it to fruition. It may be that the time is not right yet or that while I think I am ready, according to God, more work remains to be done. I can either wait patiently and see Him do spectacular things in my life, at just the right time or I can try to make it on my own and fail spectacularly while becoming exhausted. To wait on Him takes surrender and I get to live as a carefree emperor.

The power of God’s love makes my stage unshakeable because I know victory is guaranteed in every action. Where there is love, there is obedience. I have the incredible fortune of having God Himself as my Guide, my Charioteer at this confluence age. He gives me shrimat at every step and all I have to do is simply follow it. As long as I follow His shirmat, everything becomes His responsibility and so I become light. I am not worried about the outcome, success or failure. I am already victorious, I am operating from a place of liberation-in-life.

The power of God’s love makes me experience a canopy of protection of the Father’s hand of blessings upon me. His shrimat is His canopy of protection. When I realize that His shrimat is there to protect me from Maya’s attacks, that following it ensures I don’t self-sabotage, then I will not view it as harsh, I will view it as His love and follow it accurately. In fact, accuracy comes from caring about something, from knowing it’s value. And when I realize the number of land mines, the number of pits, the number of accidents I avoid by following my Father’s directions, I value it and follow it. This is also what being a child means; to lovingly obey the Father, to hold on to His hand of shrimat at every step. When I do, I become the king of the world.

God’s love is unconditional. No matter what mistakes I may have made, God still loves me just the same. Unlike human beings, God does not love me based on my performance, He loves me because He is my Father, because He is love. Nothing I can do well can make Him love me any more than He does right at this moment. No mistake I make can make Him love me any less either. His love is not good, better or best like that of humans; it’s perfect. He corrects me, even disciplines me as a Father would, not so that He can make me worthy of His love but because He already loves me. He loves me too much to let me stay where I am, He wants me to reach my highest potential. So to feel condemned when I receive a signal to change, to shrink back in shame and guilt when I make a mistake is to demonstrate that I don’t really know His nature and to disrespect God’s love.

The attainments from God’s love are so great which is why Baba says repeatedly, keep God’s love in the emerged form always; don’t let it become merged. When I forget who and Whose I am, I become alone. Every single bodily relationship, by it’s very definition, changes with every birth – I receive a different physical father, mother, siblings, etc. But the one relationship that is constant throughout the cycle of time is that of God being my Father. That never changes. He was, is and will always be my eternal Father. And so that love is always present in the soul, it can never be removed. But the effort at this time is to emerge it and keep it at the forefront at all times. This bond, this love of the Father an child can never be broken, it is your right, He reminds me. Now, learn to use it.