Growing into the Love of God and Love of Neighbour
By Br. John Martin Sahajananda
In IDM, the focus is on growing into the love of God and love of neighbour. «The Father and I are one» and «whatever you do for the least of my brothers and sisters that you do unto me» are the two pillars of this monotheism. One has to begin with the dualistic love of God and love of neighbour, and grow into the qualified non-dual love of God and love of neighbour and finally arrive at the non-dual love of God and love of neighbour.
In a dualistic love of God, a person says: ‘God is my creator, I am a creature and my neibhbour is another creature of God.’ In a qualified non-dual love, a person says: ‘God is my Father, I am a manifestation of God and my neighbour is also another manifestation of God.’ In a non-dual love of God, it is seen: ‘Only God is. My Real self is God (aham brahma asmi) and the Real self of my neigbour is also God (tatvamasi).’ — It is God loving God.
In the first level, our knowledge (jnana) of God is dualistic, our relationship (bhakthi) with God and neighbour is dualistic and our actions (karma) towards our neighbours are dualistic.
In the second level, our knowledge of God is of a qualified non-dualistic kind and our relationship with God and neighbour is qualified non-dualistic and actions towards our neighbours are qualified non-dualistic.
In the third level, our knowledge of God is non-dual and our relationship with God is non-dual and our actions towards our neighbours are non-dual.
Grounded in IDM, our life-experience arises not only from deep wisdom or jnana, but from loving devotion or bhakthi and selfless service or karma.
The purpose of our human existence is to awaken and grow in consciousness, thus to manifest holy love, energy and grace in all our relationships
Br. John Martin Sahajananda
.
Gracias por su visita
Para volver a la página de inicio haga clik en la siguiente imagen:
Sitio Oficial GICEM 
Deja una respuesta