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Lover and the Beloved

We all have questions like Who is god? What is god? Is god real? Is my religion god is the real god??

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 intensest, 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!

Now Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.

In the exact same way we are all like the waves. But the difference is we think we are different and seperate. Just because for a short span of time a big wave emerges doesnt mean its different from the ocean. The truth is we are both the ocean and the wave. Just like we are the lover and the beloved.But We fight within ourselves in the name of religion, country, gender, caste, race. Instead focus on what good you can try to do to others. Don't have to be a saint. But do the best possible you can to help others.I hope your life is filled with love and joy. Have a nice day.