Craving the
Ultimate
Marie Teresa
McDaid
Craving:
to long for; want greatly; to require; to need; to yearn for
The
Ultimate: the absolute: the concept of an unconditional reality which
transcends limited, conditional, everyday existence.
–thefreedictionary.com
Love
We
are making our way back home to the Beloved within all of us. The seeds of love
were sown in our hearts from the time of creation. God gave us free will when we
came to live these lives. We lived and experienced our lives in form and in the
exterior places that we have found hold little value, and now we are trying to
find our way back to the ultimate place within.
Throughout
my life I had felt a sense of separation, of something missing. Once I started
Heartfulness, I realised that what I was feeling was separation from inner
self; that I was missing my ultimate home. That is when my yatra (journey) started.
The
feeling of separation from our Beloved can be a difficult thing to put into
mere words. We yearn so deeply to be with Him. This yearning drives every
particle of our being to get closer to Him. It vibrates the pulse and radiates
from the heart. We long to feel the flow of His love pulling us towards Him.
Prayer
This
love is so subtle, it assists in taking us there, pulling from ahead and
pushing from behind. When this begins, there is no going back; what is there to
go back to? It becomes almost unbearable to be within this surge of separation
whilst journeying but how beautiful it is to bear!
We must keep moving forward and not slow down as we move
through the different points along the path. Once the momentum has begun, this
stream of love must be kept at a level to keep taking us to higher states of
infinite awareness. It is so beautiful to feel the love proliferate and all
around us benefit too.
To
remain in a condition of love is the key to moving forward continuously. Love
will attract love, so the lover and the Beloved will be drawn to each other.
Keep this condition not just in meditation but in the waking
and sleeping states. We can keep generating love through regular, pure
intention – prayer and constant remembrance.
Constant Remembrance
What
has helped me on this journey of love has been prayer and staying in constant remembrance.
The impetus for this was a talk given by Daaji, which I came across in 2015
when I had been a few months in this beautiful Heartfulness practice. In it he
suggested that we “think that everything surrounding us – the air particles, people,
the birds, the trees, the flowers, the ceiling, the wall, the paintings –
everything – is absorbed in Godly remembrance.”
I
seemed to absorb this within and it became part of my daily life.
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What is real love for
God?
“It is a state when the trinity
of the lover, the beloved and love itself disappear.”
