LIVE TO LOVE BUT KEEP LOVE FREE
There is none on earth that ought to be beholden to you, for all are divine, all are free. You owe them service ; they owe none to you. Love all, free of expectation of return. That is the way to bliss. This body has come ; it will go one day. But in the interim is the chance to love and be free.
Be not attached to any in love, for attachment kills love by bringing in fleshly cravings, base bondage. Let your love flow for the ideal even as the springtime scented air drifts through the boughs making life youthful and honeyed for the while. Then the river will darken as shadows lengthen enveloping space and time. It will be time to depart to another realm but let the swan song be sung in melodic Marwa before the boat sails on the high seas of another world.
Let life on earth be not wasted before the hour is out. Here is the grand occasion, the golden opportunity to strike the fetters off with the very hands with which you hold them in tight self-bondage, in oblivion of your real Self. Come off now and break free without resorting to those vain assertions of your godhead which you cannot live up to. Live the life. Live up to your aspirations. Let bold deeds declare your bold intent, and not empty assertions. Be not deluded by the magic of words if you wish to break free of this mighty magic called Maya. Love your way through but be wary that none holds you like glue to the petty self. Let the Ganga of love course through unto the ocean of immortality which lies in wait for you. You were never born, never lived, nor will you ever die. These are grand words but need to be realised in life's thoroughfare through discrimination in the right way and not through vanity, however fair.
Vivekananda beckons you, Ramakrishna calls, Krishna draws you in to the woods with his ethereal notes. Let us rush to their inviting embrace ; let us bid each other Godspeed.
Written by Sugata Bose
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