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The Book of
Love
Part 1
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Table Of Contents
CHAPTER 1................................................................................................................................................................ 3
CHAPTER 2...............................................................................................................................................................12
CHAPTER 3...............................................................................................................................................................19
CHAPTER 4...............................................................................................................................................................24
CHAPTER 5...............................................................................................................................................................29
CHAPTER 6...............................................................................................................................................................33
CHAPTER 7...............................................................................................................................................................35
CHAPTER 8...............................................................................................................................................................38
CHAPTER 9...............................................................................................................................................................43
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Chapter 1
Why is it so difficult to sit down
and write the book of love,
because our love can never be enough?
Because there is not enough time to write?
Because it already exists?
Because the contents could be of no surprise to anyone?
Because were writing by candle light?Because there are so many things to do to survive
before we have the luxury of describing the glorious nature
of the Supreme transcendent reality?
It starts with life.
Life is about living, about surviving,
keeping body and soul together
on the sometimes hostile surface
of a basically benevolent planet.
Finding a place to stay,
or to run and shelter in,
when rain clouds, thunder and lightningor people around us become too much.
A quiet space we can call our own
to sink into, to close a door and feel more protected
or to say I need to be alone.
Space
is always at a premium on this planet
as well as it is in this universe and throughout
what we know as the material world.
The material worlds are made of time and space in essence
or these are inherent qualities of them
which do not exist in the vastly unlimited realms
of the spiritual world.
It is like a game of musical chairs,
one chair is removed
and when the music stops everyone rushes for a seat
but the last one has no place and is out of the game.
A harsh reality but this is our world.
The world of Goddess Maya
while so kindly providing space for everyone
someone is always squeezed out.
The illusion is that we being eternal beings
conceive that we have continued existence
and a place to call home,
which we do in the spiritual world, but not here.
Here the sands of time and space run through our fingers
as we become the oldest, the weakest, the most foolish or daring,
the youngest, the diseased and we no longer have the energy
to hover the air currents looking for a crag in the cliff side
where we can perch for a while to rest our weary limbs
or find food and comfort,
a momentary shelter to give us the whatever it is we need
to keep us pushing through the wheel of life after life.
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This book is called The Book of Love
because it is written while the world is sleeping
with tremendous effort by one
who even though aided and encouraged by powerful guides
would rather sleep along with the world
and fall into the extreme comfort of daily prayers at dawn.
Certainly this rising early every day and praying
to the teacher and God for engagement in the service of Krishna*is the most beneficial routine
or regimen any soul can aspire for.
Never the less this is The Book of Love
because it is born from going beyond the requirements
of a religious life style into life itself.
It has to stretch time, to steal hours from a quartz clock,
to arrive at morning prayers, bathed and in fresh cloth,
to work through the day to pay for food,
shelter and the needs of the body.
Some place to keep the flies down to a level of tolerance
through screens to raw suffering.
To buy pain killers in whatever form they may takeor just to secure a quiet place for prayer and fasting.
All this requires the work every day of our own hands.
No one can or should do this for us
unless we ourselves are but babes in care of mother.
We still have time to be distracted,
to search out entertainment
to go through life like were someone special
waiting for the door of opportunity to open just a little
so we can step through into the light
and find the golden egg
which will solve all our problems
never working in the here and now,always dreaming of the future and swimming in the past.
When a drop of pure love descends
quieter than a whisper over a few souls
under the shady branches of a pair of maple trees
somewhere in the middle of no time nowhere
we sleep and it floats right by.
There were distractions
or much needed rest from the labors of the day
which postponed the book of love
until the pain became too much.
And is not love the most painful experience?
Does it not demand that we go beyond our reason,
beyond our times for this and that,
beyond our commitments
to oceans of family, friends and truly dear ones?
Does it not demand that we squeeze the life out of life itself
and offer it at the feet of our beloved whether asked for or not?
It is the bloody sparrow carried to your feet
by your conditioned Cheshire cat.
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It is the moment we have already paid for or will pay for later.
It is a genuine attempt to share a moment of love shown to it.
To pass on the greatest family heirloom,
a treasure not to be appreciated on the open market,
but held in high esteem through generations
of family close and distant.
An almost secret,
a jumble of words that point to a moment
of falling from and climbing back to grace.
Grace that moment
when the one is dependent on the other,
the child and the mother.
When work and prayer are the same thing,
when you have to remind yourself to breathe in between
re-living that experience and drawing it out for the world.
It is definitely in some kind of illusion
if it thinks it can unlock the contents of even one heart,
yet it will race against time to try.
Big Sister, the material illusion is holding up a stick aloft.
Little brother is stretching thinking that he will catch it.He does catch it finally,
thinking that he caught it by his own stretch or strength.
Big Sister just lowered the stick a little
so he wouldnt give up and quit growing,
but keep growing and think he was getting somewhere by it.
Maybe one day hell grow up to be strong and protect her also.
Who knows why she teases him, but to make him strong
and bring him like a flower to the point of opening.
To bloom in amongst the next
for wherever we find one flower we may find several or many.
Illusions child, sick and forlorn, unloved and unremembered
save for clinging with all hands and feetblindly to whatever thread is dangled before it
not knowing if it can breathe once, and therefore forever.
If it cries, will its cries be understood
or heard by the ones she/he the soul wants,
and not by the wolves and bears that lurk in the deep forest?
It is a race against the coal mine
which has come so close to our village
that it threatens to wake us from sleep.
It is the roar of heavy machinery which cannot be heard above
even the flies or crickets or the sound of our hymns
the roar that is drowned out in the market place of daily survival.
That creeping, crawling, lurking, insidious, horrid stranger is deathor the inevitable crumbling of our village
into the cavernous chasms of the encroaching coal mine.
Who on Earth would not want to breathe clean air,
drink pure water and live free from the sirens and highways,
which leave no space silent in the world
for a soul in contemplation?
Your problem is now my problem.
I came here,
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I had no problem but the one I brought with me.
And now we live in Village Earth
together with those we love and dont,
but still the lack of silence brings me ever back
to the enemy without, tunneling beneath our feet.
Can we live without electricity
or afford to change over to solar panels?
Do we have the ecological cloutto demand action or help or change?
The miners are on the verge of strike,
this is optimistic but it is my prayer,
lets support them in their strike.
Look! maybe if it goes on long enough,
theyll get to like the silence
that once was in this little corner of the world,
and who knows, maybe that silence will creep back in
over the edge of mainstream civilization,
until it becomes a whisper around the world.
Do you want to know a secret?
Were all going to change the way we live,and we who pray to Vishnu
pray it will be for the better.
But if those coal mines stop,
can we live in peace in village Earth?
We need some cops.
We have interrupted this flow to bring you an important speech
delivered this evening to the union of Mine Workers International...
Dear brothers and sisters, well help you with your strike,
well give you food and clothes and build you houses in winterif you would please put down these noisy machines,
so that we can have just a few nights
sleeping soundly in silence like it used to be.
You might like it.
You might find that here we have everything in enough supply;
food, work, housing, clothes.
Turn off your TVs or watch the news in large groups only.
Lets find out where the twentieth century went wrong
and where it can come out right...
You all friends may know the author by now,
predictable as he is,
bound to point to Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatamas the illuminating guides for an Enlightened Theocracy.
Enlightened Theocracy which is truly humble
and guides human society from simple conditions.
Lives simply and shows to less enlightened power magnates
that knowledge is action for Bhagavan* for the good of all.
Actually, we humbly beg forgiveness
from the rulers of this world
if we have offended them,
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but beg to draw their attention
to a perfect system from the master plan
of the creator of all things.
There is a way for the world
to live in peace as one body,
working for the good of the whole,
which allows the needs of all limbs,
albeit with reasonable restrictions.
In the Book of Love
we want to go beyond politics,
or how the world can live in peace as one family
to deal with love itself.
But sadly,
even though it is love itself
that guides this pen,
love can not be dealt with here
amid the noise and backdrop of the mines
or can it...?
Love pauses to remind us of what we have to do
of that which we have already done.
Love is with us in the hot noisy attics of New York City.
Love is with us in the pain of natures decay,
as we perhaps begin to realize that we will not die.
We will not die, were all in this together
we may all be sharing our last breath together.
How long can Mother hold out for?
The scientists, please, what is your estimation?
If we carry on like this, how long can we last as a planet?
Or, if we change, how long can we make it last for?
This is all delivered jovially and with love,
to family, friends and loved ones,to brothers and sisters of our village.
But I mean it.
Do I have to scream it from this rusty van
by candle light on a mid summer night, if I could?
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you.
The cops, the robbers, the miners,
the carpenters, the blacksmiths, the farmers,
the ship builders, the nuclear factory workers,
the computer operators, the war head makers,
the shop assistants, the warehouse workers,
I love you all,
you are all my brothers and sisters.
Okay, language is a problem,
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some people dont understand it
when you say, I love you
because we dont all speak the same language.
So please learn fast or be blown to bits
by the heavy artillery of one or three shady superpowers.
This message reaches every soul in the world as a feeling.
Its a ripple, its a wave,
it says from the very within,worship the Supreme Lord for everything.
From the solution to our own
one man one woman problems in the world,
to the solutions for global peace.
Krishna says,
Catur varnyam maya srstam
guna karma vibagasah (B.Gita 4.13)
and it is still as relevant today
as it has been beyond time.
Ishwara* solves everyones individual problem
and the whole collective dilemma in one go.
This is an urgent request just prior to autumn
to the Collecting Information Agency
of this or any other participating nation
to please examine and make a study of the principles
of Srimad Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam.
As far as any other scripture is concerned,
Mohammed see a new religion is being formed
and they do not recognize it,
or the profoundly accurate dreams of St. John of Patmos
which tragically and joyfully are coming to pass.
I do not know.
These pages like so many pages,
lay details for life in the village to feed on,
but what the lives of the prophets
of the new teachings feed on,
is the thin iced air near the summit of silent mountains.
Moses climbs steadily a step at a time,
till one by one or in families,
the Israelites fall by the way side, or just hang around
where its a bit more comfortable until he gets back.
He leaves behind the land of cabins, candles and blankets
and the air slightly scented with wood smoke.
While the village sleeps,
Moses is lifting his open toed sandals
carefully by quarter moon light
so his feet will not be dashed upon a stone.
For unless he returns intact,
his sacrifice for the village will be somehow tainted.
But beyond this
in the airy ethereal realms of highest solitude,
Moses kneels and bows,
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sits and prays for the satisfaction of Jahovah.
All the holy books, the writings, the candles,
the incense, the pictures, the beads, the robes,
the speeches, the readings, are all somewhere else.
Just Moses and Yahweh, a little moonlight
a bit of thin air and the only water
that which he carries inside his body.
Beyond Moses,
meditating on the mountain
in the mists of this and other histories,
is where he himself was at.
May we be so bold as to
carefully lift the corners of time
and see into the heart of this,
or other of our great teachers lives,
to please know what drives one
to do the will of Paramatma*?
How can we also strive against
the creeping sleepfulness of comfortsto find that One to one meeting
with the Supreme Absolute Truth.
What came down on those slabs of stone
or what the book grew into over the years,
means nothing unless it leads to this.
There is a huge gap in history
and in his story, of his own,
your human race.
Moses was an alien...
he voluntarily became alienated from his tribe,
from his race, his family and his peopleto climb the rocky paths, less and less worn,
to reach the peak of pure communion with I AM.
And however long he was freed from man and his mines,
like a yogi, who in deep meditation,
forgets feelings of pleasure or pain arising from the body,
which is the temporary vehicle for the soul,
is something only God knows.
For Moses was surrendered unto His will,
as soft as the serpents which came from the staffs.
When he came back,
he had to change it, to turn it around,to make flexible his people
to survive the great leap forward.
For why is it so important if the rods became serpents
or the serpents became rods
all that El Adonai wanted to say was:
Here is a man
who has seen the truth
a man who speaks the truth
he is a brahmana
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if you do not understand him
listen to him anyway
because of his power
because all powerful things
are but a fragment of My power
I am the Alpha and the Omega
the beginning, the middle and the end
the Generator, the Operator, the Destroyer
the Son, the Father, the Holy GhostBrahma, Vishnu and Mahesh
I am all things
and here is My prophet.
I speak through him
to soul, village and world.
He writes another book,
the missing link in scripture
to tie Bible, Koran, Gita
and all Vedic supplements together.
And even if his clothes smell of sweat,
if he hasnt shaved for a while,
hes My man on your mountain,and there arent many left.
His message is short, sweet and powerful,
because it only serves to tie together
all incidents in universal history.
It only wants to point the way and say,
the Gita, the Bhagavatam.
My life is in those words,
sealed up for as long as the human race
needs them to understand.
Veda means knowledge.
This is Kali Yuga.
Get what light or love or lifeyou can together and pray
that when we leave this body behind,
this Earth, like a tired poisoned desert
that we clasp our hands in prayer.
Like diving into the chilly waters of an unknown lake,
we pray that we come up on the other side of the pool
and that our sweet Lord is there,
so we can once again be lost
in the ocean of His dreamy eyes.
All these moments of direct connection to Achintya*
for His word to come through, are what is the Book of Love.
From revelation to Revelation
and this much I know, all things are connected,
chief Seattle to Rupa Goswamis
The Nectar of Devotion.
Krishna, God, the Omnipotent,
the Great Spirit, Our Father,
His teachings are all the same.
Only the language changes but the message is the same.
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So He sends the prophets from fifteen minute media messiahs
to those who stand eternally in the lives of men in this universe.
But the message is the same, this time its in English.
The blessed Lord says, just surrender unto Me,
become My devotee, give up all varieties of dogma,
I will protect you from all reactions to sins
and free you for eternal life with Me. (B.Gita 18.66)
In mornings, noons and evenings,we are silent and pray for ourselves and for all.
It is our deepest wish,
that all the world will find a time, a space,
to give over to the Lord for this.
It is our wish for your children,
that peace fill this valley,
and spread from here to the world.
Amen Hare Krishna
Allahoo Akbar om Shalom.
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Chapter 2
Once more to the Book of Love
he comes, the writer, with she the soul,
this time not sure why but unable to sleep
and determined to use
this insomnia for the good of the world.
During the sleep,
which in painless times
is deep and ample,
there come many dreams.
We usually remember only the last one
which brings us to the point of waking,
our entry into the world of surface consciousness,
where one type of reality only is generally accepted.
How willingly the moth flies
to the flame of a candle
and is burnt and buried
in molten wax in moments.Its over like a breeze
causing the flame to flutter for a second.
The soul of this insignificant insect
leaves behind its vehicle body and goes on
perhaps to become a better
or more beautiful moth than before.
As long as it is moth bound however,
it will always follow light to its source
as does the soul,
bound or free,
always seek union with the light of Parameshwara*.
In one sense
Vasudeva* is separate from us,
in His kingdom very far away,
but that kingdom is with Him
present in our hearts.
The journey to Him
is inward first, and then outward,
if we wish to find Him now,
and not only in the here after.
There is a mystical meeting ground
where He relays messages to us
and to His greater prophets.But this realm is so subtle,
that many even advanced religions,
dismiss this aspect of communion entirely,
except when the medium itself
is clothed with familiar icons.
Paramatma speaks to the soul in dreams.
The Greater Being humbly whispers the lesson or next clue.
The Supersoul relates to the soul in this meeting ground
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because His nature is not to force Himself upon the devotee
and to evade the rationalist and dogmatist altogether.
So all can happily dismiss the experience
as unintelligible communication
or forget it ever happened, if aware at all.
Some religionists accept divine communication
when the holy teacher, guru or prophet comes bathed in light
with concise and accurate words,or shows some clear sign to us
rejecting other communications of an abstract nature.
In one sense,
the time it takes to decipher
and figure out what the message is,
in some jumble of images,
could be better spent praying for guidance,
but guidance is there always for those who recognize it.
In all scriptures,
the dream, the vision, and the revelation are respected
and if not directly engineered by Narayana* Himself,
are accredited to Angels and other guides.
Some people build a dream diary, a catalog of dreams,
by writing as much as they can remember
of the dream as possible upon awakening.
One advantage of this, is to begin to understand
that the reality we live in, is only one of many realities.
It is not our way to be fully immersed in one reality only.
Srimad Bhagavatam identifies three states of consciousness;
wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep.
We can progress and learn
from the waking and dream state
and rest in deep sleep.We can pray or talk to the Lord
and He can hear us,
He can talk to us and we can hear Him.
At every moment He speaks to us as Supersoul,
the voice and witness within
and through others to us in the same Supersoul feature.
Most of the time we are too busy
or too noisy and distracted
to pick up any of these messages,
unless we have been trained to listen for Him,
or we have opened our connection
to Him through Self Realization.
The dream
is just another of His ways
to help, to teach and nurture,
to guide, refresh and sustain.
Nightmares
are some kind of purification
and contain messages and warnings.
All He does for all of us
is for our ultimate benefit.
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It is His love for us
which makes Him whisper daily to the soul,
almost to the point of His allowing us to discover Him.
He is that kind.
The great thief in the night,
who wishes to remain hidden from rough eyes,
and anonymous to those without love,
who is prepared to reveal Himself gradually,or all at once to one who wants only that.
One who wants only to love Him,
will leave behind everything
the village and communities
throughout the universe hold dear,
for His sake.
He says,
You can have Me if thats ALL you want
and having Him who is everything,
there is no room for anything more.
The Book of Love is written here, now,because dreams have brought the pen holder
to this place, this sacred valley
and it is dreams of his and others which keep him here.
The Book of Love would have no basis
but for the vision of the soul granted by Govinda*
through service to guru.
Vision of the one God of all of us,
as He is for me eternally,
and as I am for Him.
Realization of Krishna
brings realization of ones own self also.
Revelation
is the daily if not momentary unfoldment
of more and more of the absolute truth in our lives.
We might like to taste one drop of salt water or even a few,
but none of us can drink the ocean.
We cannot even take a stomach full of it.
Absolute truth knowledge of Narayana
cannot be poured by the bucket load into our minds and brain.
We are like an ant who would drown and be lost.
The soul knows in full,
is full of light,could light a whole universe,
but is covered by matter.
The process of Self Realization
is to remove the covering of the soul,
a particle at a time.
God Himself directs the work
once we undertake it.
Now this particle, now that one
and He Himself removes the pieces too.
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They are building a tunnel
under the sea between two lands.
Tunneling goes on from both sides,
they will meet somewhere in the middle.
As we climb up to Him,
He comes down to us.
His reciprocation in this pathis proportionate to our endeavor.
He wants to reveal Himself to us,
but He would blow us away,
or we would blow Him away
and say not now,
or not this,
or is this the end of me?
We need to follow the path
to build the machinery,
to build the receiver
to pick up His message.
Then, He,
having established a way to get through to us,and us knowing that it is He were listening to,
begins to put us through our paces.
We must be strong to lift Giriraja*
and place Him in the core of our heart.
He makes us strong by the attempt to reach Him.
We must have love to bind the Great Beloved to us,
the relationship builds over a period of life times.
We go through struggles together.
We see how He does His share of the work.
Hes always there when we need Him.
We get to trust Him, to like Him
and finally after many battles fought and lost together and won,even quarrels between us, we emerge welded as one.
In whatever style of love you want Him.
If you dont know Him at all,
if you cant conceive of how youd love Him forever,
dont worry, He knows, He knows.
Only He knows where were at,
where we will be and where we once were.
Where we will be,
where were heading on the beautiful path,
is to where we once were.
We had a personal relationship with Him,who is also a person
and that is what we are trying to uncover,
to restore, re-institute, reinstate, revive,
the memory of which only He
in His love for us, has kept alive.
We left for our self exploration of the distractions of the abyss
while He was holding the baby of our cherished love.
He remembers what we all need to know
to become sane, to become who we are.
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Right now were living embodied,
enmeshed in a variety of complications
far from absolute reality.
This land, the family, the Earth village,
our body and brain with its number and name,
are not the eternal seat of the soul.
All the religious programsintroduced in the last 3,000 years,
have only been stepping stones or ladder rungs,
if they just teach us to be good and fear God.
God doesnt want us to fear Him.
He wants what we want, to be loved.
The paths that teach about the formlessness of God
are teaching us how to walk in light.
Next we become infatuated with the teacher
and shower him with affection
and assign remarkable attributes to him.
Finally after living in light,
and learning to submit to and love another being,we are ready for the final challenge
to our separatist ego centered world;
introduction to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The other paths must be gone through.
Theres a lot of learning,
a lot of becoming trained as a spiritual warrior,
to face the final showdown.
Some people go straight to Bhagavan,
the Personality of Godhead, or appear to.
Actually, this is the culmination of lifetimes
of fine tuning and spiritual events.You can go straight there
but it takes life times.
All the isms and ities are valid,
but are incomplete and therefore imperfect.
We do not wish to offend some of the Earths believers,
but facts must be spoken,
and as the body dies the soul lives on.
We do not advocate abolition of any path,
only placing God above it,
not Gods and priests and sacrificial lambs or perfect men.
They can slice off the topand say thats how it is
or was, or should be.
But were not buying that lie,
or the attitude that might is right,
and truth is decided
by the jack boot or the Howitzer.
Truth goes beyond this planet with H and A bombs.
Truth cannot be manufactured.
Truth is not the commonly held belief of masses.
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Absolute truth is the whole of God
including the impersonal, the Supersoul
and God Himself the Person,
it culminates, arrives and ends
at the beautiful stunningly attractive
feet of the Supreme Person Gopal*
He is not a member of the human race,
the human race is fashioned in His image.He does not have a material body.
The material body we have
is an intricate machine replica
housing Spiritual soul spark,
of which substance,
His entire being is composed.
The Book of Love asks
that even after the departure of this scribe,
even after the annihilation of nations,
all dying for adherence to truth,
that Absolute Truth be allowed to breathe on.
The perfect system is a by product of Absolute Truth.
Absolute Truth
eventually will surface triumphant,
because it is in fact the only reality
and all else will come and go
by its temporary nature.
But much time in misery can be avoided
by inviting it into the open
and providing it with a platform for broadcasting.
Absolute Truth is humble.
It does not demand adherence to its way as an alternative to death
or condemn avoidance of it to eternal damnation.
Rather it waits like a grand parentfor the child to grow old enough,
to be taught that useful and intricate skill,
which has kept the village alive all this time.
Grand parent knows how to live, how to give,
how to care for and receive,
how to love when no other can.
Has patience and will teach all knowledge
as long as attention span is there
and will let child play king of the castle,
in between lessons, at childs pace.
Young man strolls out boldly,will not listen to elders,
steals horse,
neck is broken by low bough.
If you dont have time to study all the ways,
the paths, the books,
take this advice.
We have studied hundreds of them.
They all say the same.
Some 1 degree and some 360 degrees.
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There is Ancient Wisdom.
Veda means knowledge.
Operators manual and hand book for planet Earth.
Live in peace they say.
There is a way, it can be done.
Broad minded, tolerant, benevolent,
merciful, practical, humble,
profound, ancient, moral,spiritual, mystical, complete,
natural, ecological, its all there.
Once again,
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavad Gita
are the refined essence of all Vedas easily available.
Our only problem, our only challenge, is our ego.
But it is go ego or we go.
There is no room in village Earth for both.
The meek shall inherit the Earth
for when all the ego maniacs
have wiped each other out,
the humble ancients will gently till the soil,
pause to thank the sun and pray to Keshava*for spiritual and material sustenance, and blessings for all.
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Chapter 3
The Book of Love
limps gently on by candle light,
this time from a log cabin near a garden,
where all creation and particularly the crickets
voice their thanks to Purushotam*
for an early evening down pourwhich broke the heat
and brought refreshment to all plants and trees.
The Book of Love
page by page, attempts to describe
what is already written, already known,
it is merely a sign post for those
with no time to read maps or those with no map.
It has faith in metaphysics, astrology, numerology
and other invisible sciences.
Astrology in particular is an accurate science
of studying planetary movements and their influencesupon people, places, time and all things under the sun.
Each different planet affects a different part of us.
The sun the general persona,
the moon the mind and inner desires,
mercury the intellect,
Venus the emotions and so on.
This is all broad generalization
and surface scanning of a great and deep science,
but look at the way the moon pulls water,
affects the monthly cycle of the female body
and affects the mind.
The moon is very powerful in a physically apparent way
and can clearly be observed.
Other planets may be further away,
do not affect us so dramatically,
but have workings on other parts of our beings.
Our own body comprised of
the eight separated material elements;
Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether,
Mind, Intellect and False Ego,
is a microcosm of the whole universe.
Whatever is present within our total being
is also present within the universe.
Everything we do is influenced by bodies billions of miles away,
and everything we do influences the whole universe ultimately.
We can see how the behavior of one person
can affect the destiny of the whole human race.
Some of them are prominent like Jesus,
Einstein or Hitler, and some of them unknown,
but all make a wave or ripple that has cosmic repercussions.
The Book of Love
like any other book demands a little of your precious time.
The time spent with the Book of Love
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is for improvement in knowledge and faith
of Bhagavan and His creation, material and spiritual,
and in due course of time, will help in your journey towards Him.
The ultimate goal of life is to be with the Lord once again,
to remember Him always, so that at the time of death
we can remember Him, and thus be transported
to association with Him.
This is the natural existence of the soul,and any other state is merely a stop gap measure
of temporarily seeking some distraction to avoid ultimate reality.
We are here.
He is There and here.
We can find Him here and There,
There being the spiritual world.
When we find Him here,
we see this place differently
and work under different laws
than the other seekers and sleepers.
When we find Him There, we find ourselves also
and how we are for all eternity in relation to Him.
Once having reached that spiritual peak
of seeing Him here, There, and everywhere,
in every atom and in our heart,
then we have changed, we have reached,
we have understood and surrendered.
All of the books, the prayers, the fasting,
the hymns and sermons, chantings and meditations,
the various yogas or selling magazines on the street
are about building us up,
building our spiritual muscles
so that when the moment comes we can catch it.
We are not crushed or confused, baffled or amazed,just open to the core enlightenment of the Supreme Being
as he reveals Himself to us
at his own discretion by His own sweet will.
We can climb the bean stalk ,
we can wait patiently,
we can tear down mountains, walls, veils,
scream His name from deep within,
but He alone reveals Himself
as He chooses when He wants,
when we are truly ready,
when our destiny, karma,love, need, faith, surrender
are all ready for it.
When we freeze and burn,
give sweat blood and tears
for the service of our guru.
Yes thats the bottom line.
Ultimately,
you can say or think that some old brahmana*
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has written in scripture that the guru is served
so he and his descendants
can become served by starry eyed aspirants,
but in fact, Mukunda* works through the guru
and without this willingness to surrender to him,
you cant make it.
Guru breaks down conditioning.
He breaks down the limitationswe place upon our own possibilities.
He acts on behalf of Govinda
to engage us in His work,
to build us up, to stretch
and hammer us into warriors
fit for the ultimate quest.
And when were ready
when were baked, fried, fired, forged,
when weve gone beyond material desires,
Krishna comes through to us directly.
We have our own relationship with Him,
we always have,
but Gurudeva woke us up from sleep,saved us from Hell,
took our karma and suffered for us,
so we could make a clean break
for the border to the other world.
He is lying there wounded and saying,
Its okay, Ive got it covered,
now is your chance, go for it.
He carries the luggage of our past karma,
so we can walk without being over burdened
or interrupted by some catastrophe,
that was supposed to happen
and would otherwise haveput an end to the quest for this lifetime.
He tells us all we need to know,
gives us weapons and armor
and supplicates the Supreme Lord on our behalf.
He connects us to Bhagavan,
Hes our man with the direct connection
and he is as powerful as our faith in him is.
Even Jesus said
you are cured not by Me but by your faith in Me.
You empower your guru to free you and Krishna does the rest.
He is our lawyer, doorman, teacher, sergeant major,mother, father, priest and favorite speaker.
He or she may be a simple person or a great person,
with one disciple or millions
but whoever it is, you empower him to free you
and Ishwara sticks to the deal.
He may be Self Realized or just one step ahead,
You look, you choose, and stick with it.
It is like getting married,
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only there is no divorce,
then its failed,
you couldnt maintain your faith.
Guru speaks through anyone and everyone.
Through a cat, a dog, a mouse,
a cockroach, a drop of rain on a window,
through a distant voice or through the heart.
God is the guru in the heartsaying the same as the guru outside.
The person outside who takes that role
helps you to hear the Lord within,
then you are becoming Self Realized
and one day will be in full contact with Krishna directly,
but even then, you never lose the feeling of gratitude
for the one who made the impossible possible for you.
So many people helped us in this way or that,
but there was one who gave the key to the door of illumination,
and that person stays always for us
as the outstanding influence of our lives.
If we go to the palace of the king
to receive some reward or honor,
many people help to get us there.
The river boat man, the driver,
the one who gives us nourishment for the journey,
but the king is giving our gift so he stands out.
He is only as great as your faith,
he may be Jesus or Mohammed
or some bearded fellow you met on a trip to India,
but you follow him and advance.
You pick guru according to where you are at.
If you have a long way to go,you will pick a guru with a long way
and follow him/her life after life till you all get there.
If it is his last life in this world,
then you may be getting very close
to the spiritual world yourself,
and soon you will be guru for someone.
Guru is also learning from disciple
and service goes both ways,
but on the surface it is like he is the master
and we are the humble servants.
That is how it needs to be for the mystical process to work.
That is how Krishna made it and wants it.
There are exceptions to every rule,
but one thing is for sure,
we all need someone to help us.
If we surrender to that,
Ananta deva* sees we can be humble
before another human being,
and then He knows
we can easily be humble before Him.
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If we want to make it out there
into eternal light love and life,
we have to do like that.
It is a source of joy and strength
to depend on, learn from
and respect our teacher, our Guru Maharaja.
Purusha* throws all the switches,
pulls all the punches,but He uses the guru as His ambassador
or extension in the physical and astral realm.
It is important.
That is why the Book goes on about it for so long,
and could go on for much longer,
but time is short and you will know
by your own experience if you are sincere.
Its all there in the Bhagavad Gita
and Srimad Bhagavatam.
Love and faith set the ball rolling,
perseverance and patience keep it going.
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Chapter 4
The book of love rolls reluctantly on
in the aftermath of severe thunder and lightning.
We were not expecting to be here,
now, doing this, but strange dreams
whose recall brings tears to tired eyes immediately,
and the sheer volume of thunder clapshave taken us out of sleep
and once again into the service of humanity.
Like a mother,
who must leave her comfortable bed
when her baby cries at night
just to see everything is okay
or to try and soothe her child,
so our beloved guide guru and friend
has woken me with help of mighty phenomena,
to call me in dark of night to this humble work.
Time once again is being found whence it is not.This body must be there for early morning meditation,
prayers and songs and then for a mornings work
weeding and digging in the garden,
then to our afternoon of making candles
and an evening of short worship
followed by practice of music for edutainment of others.
God is Time who develops and devours all.
We are all born with some years months, days,
hours, minutes and seconds stamped on our palms
and thats the lot, all we get.
We fought so hard,
played tactical games,
to be the one or few
who in the body of a sperm
swam through the hostile environment
of our mothers womb to reach the golden egg.
Our prize for this one in 5 billion success story;
the human form.
The human form so rare amongst the other eight million or so
other forms which inhabit our world universe.
Each of them like us is spiritual, encased, embodied,
embroiled in matter as if inextricably bound up together.
This is an illusion of wholenesswe fall prey to growing,
seeing, learning, feeling and being
through the mind and senses of this body.
The actual fact is that the physical body
can be reduced to a complex combination of five elements
Earth, Water, Fire, Air
and Ether which is both physical and non physical
simultaneously like sound.
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Pervading this gross body is an astral mental body
comprised of mind, intelligence and false ego
which loosens from the gross physical during sleep,
and can be used as a transport or vehicle
for souls expert in astral projection,
and is known to Sufis and Yogis by different names.
This mystic ability can give great freedom
and power to the soul,yet does not constitute total freedom.
Only when the soul is extricated from the firm attachment
to mind, intelligence and false ego,
can it be said to be truly liberated.
We accept or fight for a gross body,
keep it for these days up to a hundred years,
and leave it when it no longer serves
any purpose for our progressive journey.
The gross vehicle or chariot of the body,
is destined to last only so long and then decay and perish
and merge back again into the atoms of the universe.
The conscious yogis separately offerthe earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and ego
back into the universal sum of these elements
when choosing a perfect moment to leave the body.
All the elements we borrowed from material nature
are used and then returned to Her
as the soul, liberated, moves on,
maybe on up to the spiritual kingdom.
The astral body of three elements
stays with the soul over millions of life times,
being refined, developed and enhanced
by experience after experiencewhich is noted and stored only by the Supersoul
who accompanies the soul.
The Supersoul
is a splinter of the one Great God
who travels with us directing our efforts
and witnessing all our activities.
He supplies life to the soul,
memory, knowledge and forgetfulness
and does not change or leave us
over our almost unlimited voyage.
He is the source of all knowledge,
and the purpose of all endeavor is,to come to the point of full open contact with Him.
He whispers to us often,
but we cannot hear Him
unless we find the silence in our being.
He gives us the freedom
that as long as there is one thing
we would rather hear
or contemplate other than Him,
He stays in the background unnoticed.
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We can talk to Him any time.
Even a child addresses prayers to Him,
the Lord of the Heart in the Heart of our being,
the very life of our own soul.
All that we think and feel,
the pleasure and pain we experience is known to Him
and experienced by Him.
He shares our trauma, our guilt and our breakfast
but unlike us remains totally unaffected by themknowing as the Most Ancient Being
the temporary nature of material highs and lows.
He is the source of love
and as we are born through family after family
or from mother to mother,
only He is the constant companion,
our true love, our real friend and parent.
He is waiting only for us to turn to Him,
to speak to Him, to offer Him everything
and to listen and be guided in return.
He is the same Supreme Being
in the hearts of every other being
and is the Guru who can teach us,help us, from within any being.
The soul enters the material world
from the spiritual world, or from the body of Maha Vishnu*
like we enter the world of dreams when sleeping.
The soul may be bound up for countless lifetimes
as we experience many changes of scene in a dream,
but this all takes place in only a moment of eternity.
We are in the spiritual world,
dozing for a moment,
we dream the dream,
wake up and we are back.That is sort of how
the time-eternity thing works.
It is not able to be fully measured
or comprehended by mind and intellect.
You have to experience
an ocean in a drop of water,
or just experience beyond timeness
to know roughly what it is like.
We arrive and travel through the demigod forms,
humans, animals, birds, plants, insects, aquatics
and reptiles down to an amoebae
learning always somethingto add to our complete evolution,
then back up again to the human form.
This form is the most useful
of all forms known on this planet,
due to power of reason
and ability to seek out the Supreme
when food and shelter chores are done.
From this form we can springboard
to almost anywhere in the universe
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and even out of the universe altogether,
back to our real nature in the eternal world,
if we have done our time.
We have to live so many years in a body
and quit it, either when it is no longer useful
or when it can not help us further
in evolutionary development.
In the same way,we have so many life times
to do in this universe
until it is our turn to leave.
There is a flow of souls going both ways
like negative and positive electrons in an electric cable
and all are moving up and going one way or the other.
They can not jump over the one in front,
they just get in line, do their time
and arrive exactly when supposed to.
The animals and lower species
have some way to go before becoming human
where liberation, stepping in line, work can begin.So also some humans have been at this work for life times
and are almost ready for higher evolution
or journey back home,
and others having just achieved human form,
want to experience all the thrills
of owning such a useful vehicle.
Even amongst spiritual and metaphysical paths,
some paths are for newcomers.
And some are for those
who have worked through all existing forms,
finding the ultimate,
before becoming once again reinstated in eternity.
We can see those further ahead
and those behind us on the path
and should see equally knowing
that well get to where they are,
and theyll get to where we are,
but externally we act as students and guides.
If we blow this valuable opportunity
for ultimate attainment
by spending our allotted time
in gratifying the body and mind,
it is clear that we have not been aroundthe human form long enough
to know its real worth
and must endure further waiting
and various pains of death and birth
before we become spiritual warriors.
Anyone who lives with the Book of Love
and previous versions of it in different covers
with other names existent since time immemorial
will know what needs to be done
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in terms of using the higher nature of our being
to control the lower nature
and engage in practice of Self Realization.
We must close the gap in the hearts of all
between us and Gopal in the spiritual world.
In one sense it will all happen in time
but actually we progress at the speed
of our dedication and determination.
The jewel in the lotus is ours.
Enlightenment waits for every soul.
It is almost totally impossible
but we will all achieve it.
We will all be Buddha, Christ and Mohammed.
We will all be perfected children, perfect souls.
Once we have started on the supermost path,
time becomes our dear friend
and the prize of love is very, very close.
Giving up our own selfish desires
for the satisfaction of the Supreme Self
will be all that is neededto bring about our great awakening.
The path is clear
if we have our Book,
our teacher and some brothers and sisters
with which to share the work.
There are no impediments,
what seems like an obstacle
is placed there by God,
so we can become strong by lifting it,
bypassing it or cutting through it.
With the arrival of our teacher into our life,the work begins a pace
and this is the beginning
of the end of suffering,
lamentation, anxiety and material desire.
It is in our view, the quest for a treasure,
greater than millions of Earthly kingdoms,
to find pure love within
and feel that brimming over,
it is what we wanted all along.
The buried treasure waiting with our name on it.
Time to dig
and light up the somewhere special mine.Time to dig love.
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Chapter 5
The Book of Love continues
and wants to speak about how it too, naturally,
contains contradictions
in its own unforced natural way.
Many writingsand especially those we are concerned with,
the scriptures,
contain these contradictions.
Any book can reveal a fragment of the truth
and even various scriptures
only contain as much of it,
as words can hold.
It is like going to the ocean
with a group of people all carrying buckets.
We fill our buckets and carry off the water
as much as we can take,
but even if we spent our whole life time
trying to empty the ocean, we could not.
So it is with Truth.
We can only absorb a little of it
while God lives in every drop,
conscious of every atom in every ocean.
There are many contradictions we can address
and since we are concerned with Absolute Truth,
as opposed to relative truth,
contradictions will naturally occur
due to its all encompassing nature.
In the Mahabharat
there is a war between the good and the bad
and eventually Krishna lends Himself to the good side
but still supplies soldiers to the bad.
Even in amongst the selfish
and evil motivated camp,
there are great, pious and enlightened heroes.
Nothing is completely bad or completely good,
all things hold a mixture of the two.
Yin and Yang.
Parabrahman* Himself,
while He is the light
which dispels all darkness,
is also in control of darkness.
It is not that He has a secret life
as Lord of darkness in His spare time.
But He controls all existence directly or indirectly
and creates life in matter by His glance.
He can illumine every place, every heart,
but in His infinite kindness and wisdom,
does not force His way into peoples lives,
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who wish to hide from Him in forgetfulness.
This is the dilemma of the Book,
while desiring to bring love and light into this world,
it also loves those who wish to remain in darkness
and does not wish to disturb them.
It will not charge them with swords
and say the empire of ignorance
and darkness is shrinking,turn to the light now, or be slain,
because it is all loving.
It cannot force the soul to love God.
God does not force us to love Him,
for love is voluntary and natural,
a growing awareness,
an awakening,
an unfoldment into the warm rays of light.
This love in harmony
with the one Supreme Godhead
exists throughout the spiritual world,
which is unlimited in any way by size,
whereas this material worldcomprised of almost unlimited universes
is contained within a part of the spiritual sky.
The kingdom of light is most of what is,
and so why does God or His servant or His Book
need to expand that light into the dark little corner
of our worlds down here.
He doesnt need to,
but He throws us a line to save us from drowning.
He simply lets us know that He is there,
He cares, and we can find
a better life in a perfect environment
suited to our inner being,the permanent spiritual soul.
This spiritual body,
is not subject to decay and death,
but exists eternally in love with the Supreme Lord,
who appears to us in the form
that we can love perfectly forever.
He produces a different manifestation for every soul
and shows a different part of Himself to each soul.
This material world
is the world of Maya or illusion
or that which is notwhat it appears to be on the surface.
Just like no matter how beautiful
someones skin seems to us,
beneath that 1% layer is 99% of blood,
bone, marrow, sinew and fat,
none of which could attract us.
In the spiritual world everything is 100% pure
ecstatic spirit through and through,
yet there exists a type of illusion
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known as Maha Maya.
This does not overtake everyone,
but for some souls Krishna appears as a child,
a lover, a king or a friend.
While loving Him purely
and being lost in intense loving thought of Him,
sometimes they forget that He is God
and believe Him to be their own friend,
child, father, lover or king.While aware that He is special in every way,
they are also unaware of His extensive potency
and supreme dominion over all that be.
So the Book
would like to direct people to the spiritual world,
for their own benefit and pleasure,
and would like to see a righteous
spiritually centered civilization on Earth
but it feels not like screaming
or raving or condemning to urge this.
It only wants to add a little push
to this change for the better
that is already happeningand will happen with or without the Book.
You can take it or leave it,
you dont have to believe it
but from where we stand,
looking through the eyes of scripture
with eyes wet with love,
it is our fragment of the Absolute Truth
and while it is merely a particle
of spiritual gold dust,
it is 24 carat or 100% in itself.
While the Book would like
everyone to experience pure love,it does not want to force another religion
down everybodys neck.
And knowing
that all souls present here are in evolution
to the highest state of human existence,
knows that they will in due course of time,
in this life or the next,
seek and find
the topmost realization of Love of God.
So preach we will,
but in whispers like the Lord in the heart.
Looking patiently for those who are ready,as the careful gardener looks over rows of trees,
to find and pick those which have become ripe.
In the beginning of the season,
the ripened fruit is hard to find
and it is a special event.
But when all the mature fruits start to appear,
the gardener has no time even for watering,
as he tries to collect the harvest.
At the time of writing,
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this time 1993 c.e
we understand the souls
are ready en masse for this highest truth
and many workers will be needed
to bring this harvest safely in.
The fruit of thousands of years
of climbing by the souls
and thousands of yearsof teaching by the masters,
is coming to be now
and will continue to increase for much time.
It is now for us to abandon our comforts,
and help the gardener,
who in turn will supply us
with nourishment through the winter.
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Chapter 6
When Lord Brahma* gave man intelligence,
He should have said, Use it or lose it!
It is not that we should become skeptics
or use our intelligence to rationalize
our way out of belief in the Supreme Being.
We should, by use of purified intelligence,see how only by the hand of Sri Hari*,
could the visible and invisible worlds
exist in such an amazing way.
The phenomena we see in Nature,
the permanently sustainable ecosystems,
the ultra complex workings of our own bodies
and the bodies of all beings.
Youd have to be real short on the stuff up top
not to believe somebody is behind this miracle somewhere.
What we are complaining about
is being sold a lie
being asked to believe a heap of hogwash.We must use our brain to understand
who is saying what to us and why?
Are we working like dogs
to give all our money and adoration
to callous, selfish people,
whose only interest in our existence,
is for us to maintain them in the lap of luxury,
while we sweat daily in return
for a roof and some oat water.
What is being said and by who?
What is being fed to us through media channels
that make us believe
in the power of bureaucrats over our lives?
What is being said that makes us believe
that we cannot speak to and serve God directly?
We need teachers, guides, gurus, politicians,
presidents and press men to maintain a civilization.
We need people between us and God
or between us and chaos
until we become in control of our own lives
or have developed our relationship with God personally.
These people are constantly bringing others
to a level of social acceptability
or to God consciousness
and once they have established that,we are ever grateful,
but they cannot stand always
in front of the light
and claim to be its source.
They must be humble
and do the work ascribed to them.
If a teacher becomes a businessman
then he is no longer a teacher,
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he is a businessman.
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Chapter 7
The Book of Love hobbles on
an almost lame book
without momentum or drive
like a de-vitalized human
from the late 20th century.
Mercury in its mouth,lethargic in the spiritual quest,
too busy working for the survival of the physical,
to receive and give the wondrous gifts of spirit..
But from time to time,
energized in transcendental bliss
or apparently somewhat lack luster,
still the Book must comment
even criticize or judge.
For it is not only the sound of the mine
that eats at the peace of the Earth,
and friendly souls, but things like waste.
Wasted food, wasted water
but nothing wasted at the slaughter.
Every scrap ground up to feed your cat
and while its sleeping
you can feed some poison to the rat..
Wasted food, wasted water
what sort of teaching
do you give to your daughter?
People dying of hunger and thirst
all the rest putting number one first.
Half of us dont know any better
the other half too conditioned
by life habits up to now
and it seems like
were not going to survive
but I know we will somehow.
Ah,
personally Im a little depressed
by the diminishing return law,
intrinsically linked to material existence
especially apparent on this Earth.
Once there was
a seemingly unlimited quantity
of trees covering the planet,but as the consuming masses of mankind
expanded all over Her surface,
they broke free from perfectional cycles
because of desires and fear.
Living in Eves garden
a lush semi-jungle
where theres always a tree somewhere
laden with the perfect fruit
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for that very moment.
Water springs from shaded rocks
creating fertility and flowers
wherever it flows.
The main activities for hu-mans
are collecting ripened fruits,
creating palm and bamboo cottages
and meditating.
Most things are done in silence or in song
where nervous birds and animals like deer
approach the hu-men to seek protection
from carnivorous balance keepers
like tigers and wolves.
All good things come to an end
and fade for a time,
like the sunlight at the end of day,
and so hu-man expanded
and needed more materials
to keep the expansions happy.
The womb, the cradle, was warm,no real need for clothing
or thick walls between hu-man and the cold
but it seemed back then a little crowded,
so he crossed the mountains,
cut a forest, built a house,
made fire, burnt wood.
He crossed the ocean in wooden ships
and cut forests near and far.
People with differences reside elsewhere
and nature supplied the materials to wage war.
The mountains were stripped bare
when the rains came,there was no more sponge to soak up the water
and release it later.
Top soil washed away,
flood and drought were created simultaneously.
He was unable to flow
any more with the perfect creation,
which had been for so long,
and was now showing deterioration
due to the imbalance of hu-man.
The demi gods had visited
to give pure knowledge of all thingsincluding perpetual harmony and ecology,
but hu-mans lower nature is a manifestation
of a seemingly insignificant spiritual deviation.
Independent desire
from the will of the Supreme
by forgetting souls,
created a situation where once embodied,
they were unable to exist
in perfect harmony with anyone
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or anything anymore.
The fall of man,
the fall of the soul,
the decline of nature,
the approach of winter,
all imitate some pattern
created by the Supreme Lord.
Much for these reasons
we desire permanent residence
in the all perfect spiritual world
in love and harmony
with their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Govinda
and all other souls.
Om..
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Chapter 8
The Book of Love continues from the hut
not knowing whether to write this down
or speak it into a tape recorder.
There is a tape recorder that works,
and has batteries with a charge in them
but were living in a hut with no electricity,and thought one day you could be too.
Were not trying to wish anything upon you,
that youd consider good or bad,
but feel you might like this type of situation
more than some others
you may have experienced previously.
The hut is basically warm and dry,
and is equipped with a cellular telephone,
futon bed, wheat grass juicer,
wheat grass, a very efficient barrel (oil drum) stove,
a wood supply, food, clothing,
water and other necessitiesas well as rechargeable flash lights,
scripture, deities, bhajan and other tapes
such as Srimad Bhagavatam
translated by Srila Prabhupada
read by Amala Bhakta Dasa.
Also there are beeswax
and other candles in all kinds of shapes
that we have made ourselves.
There are several attractive rugs and wall hangings
and plenty of light coming through the skylights.
Deer wander through the field
where the hut is located,
but they live in fear of hunters
and keep their distance.
We grow our own vegetables, fruits and grains,
keep cows and bees and have a couple of cats
who come and go as they please.
Sometimes the sun beats down
and we are hot and thirsty.
Sometimes, theres three feet of snow
or packed ice and wind chill temperatures
of minus twenty degrees.
Sometimes its rainy
and we slip and slide through the mud
as we struggle to carry water, wood and food.
How did we come to be here,
in the Tee Pee Hut,
in West Virginia, USA
thinking about this book
and wanting nothing material
except for perhaps,
a solar panel, water wheel
and windmill to give us Earth-friendly energy.
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We wanted to live like this
but can take or leave most opportunities,
whatever the Lord wants
suits me fine most of the time.
So it was with the vivid dream
of about five years ago
that I seized a possibility
being offered to me by the Supreme Lord.
The dream was of a kind of tee pee
in an area inhabited by deer.
I was living in it
with a cellular telephone
hanging on the tee pee wall.
The outside of the tee pee
was covered in sticks and small branches,
so I knew how simple Krishna wanted it to be.
One time driving by the city center
of Manchester, England,
I saw a bill board
at the edge of a piece of waste landwith bold letters black on white saying,
If you can dream it, You can do it.
It stuck with me
and we began to try manifesting our dreams.
Not too long after that,
a shopping mall appeared in that location
so peoples dreams vary in outcome
but manifestation begins with a vision.
In one sense
as I pick up the pen once again
I feel like these are the last words of a dying man.
Its not that I believe I am just about to die,but that I am aware how fragile
the existence of the gross material body is.
It would be foolishness on my part
to assume there is a life time
of activities lying ahead of me,
when I can experience from the world around me,
that countless people leave their physical bodies
in the middle of working towards some goal,
short term or long term.
Neither do we cease to make a plan
like planting fruit treeswhich will take years of care
before the first fruits arrive,
but we act in the very moment,
in the here and now.
It is only when our work
becomes an offering for the Supreme
that we can give our full effort
in each moment
and remain free from the desires
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to see the end of the project,
or to achieve the results of the actions
for our own purpose.
If we act in full consciousness of each moment
rendering service to the Supreme Lord,
and other living beings,
and we are aware
of how we can be removedfrom the situation at any time,
we can truly remain detached.
In such a state
there is no reaction due to the law of karma,
and we can be set free
to associate with the spiritual energy
instead of being bound and covered by matter.
Knowledge,
material or spiritual,
can be gained by studying
and learning from books,
but it can not be realized
without ones being connectedto a teacher or guru.
In Bhagavad Gita,
knowledge is described
as jnana which is learnt,
and vijnana which is realized.
We can pick up the books of any teaching,
and spend years assimilating them
on an intellectual or devotional level,
but until we come in touch with a master
who has realized that philosophy,
we ourselves are unlikely to be able to realize it.
In this life,
which is short and without meaning
unless dedicated to the pursuit of Absolute Truth,
there is no purpose
in acquiring knowledge of any subject
unless that knowledge
is living truth which can set us free.
For example,
one can pick up a book on hatha yoga
and begin to perform the postures
described and illustrated within it,
but even after much practice,if one goes to an advanced teacher,
one will be awakened
to the deficiencies of ones practice.
The guru pushes us
past our own self imposed limits,
past the point where we feel discomfort
and are prepared to stop.
We can read The Book,
but only by the grace of our gurus,
can we ever hope to live the book.
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You can disagree with me if you need to.
Coming down from transcendence
into duality of good,
so as not to bewilder those in duality.
The Book is essentially a teaching,
and there are, I knowseemingly endless numbers of teachings,
why is there any need for more?
Well, thats a really good question.
The reason is that almost all of them
have neglected a significant part
of the Absolute Truth.
Those that havent,
those who have the whole picture
basically are speaking in a different language,
or are giving such intense details
that the whole picture can only be understood
when the quest for knowledge
is accompanied by some great endeavor or sacrifice.
The knowledge
cannot be simply learned from a book.
The knowledge is in The Book,
because it is not mundane
but pure and transcendental,
it is revealed in levels
after one begins to satisfy the conditions
laid out in The Book
mostly when we say The Book,
we are specifically referring to this book,
but in this case
we are referring to Bhagavad Gita,
which is the ultimate source of this book.
What was realized 5,000 years ago by Arjuna*
when Krishna spoke His Book to him,
is the same as realized 500 years ago,
the same as realized 500 billion years ago,
or just recently in our century.
Arjuna is one of us,
a soul, an individual spiritual being.
This spirit is currently locked
into the physical plane which is temporary
and constantly flowing through dualities,
beginning with creation and ending in destruction.
When we transcend these dualities,
we are situated in an unconditioned state
where there is no right or wrong,
just everything flowing in the loving energy of God.
Thats okay to be There,
and in the spiritual world everyone is There,
but down here no one is.
At least most of the time,
or if one is at that level of evolution,
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it cannot be shown
to the masses of conditioned souls,
for they will surely fail to understand,
and try to place a label on transcendence,
using vocabulary drawn from duality.
Transcendental language is here in this world
along with stories, songs and prayers,
all imported from the spiritual world.Like dreams,
some people can wake up out of a dream
and remember all of it,
some can remember fragments,
and others remember nothing at all.
Yet science tells us that we all dream.
Similarly,
all of us have a past and future reality,
with the Supreme Being
in one of His three features
as Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan.
In fact, all these aspects of the Lord
can be experienced right where we are now
although it is much like a dream in thatwe can only access the Supreme in a limited way.
Great souls,
known in Buddhism as Boddhisattvas,
are those who know the Absolute Truth
and have no need to be here
but stay on this Earthly plane
for the exclusive benefit of others.
They may be eligible for life
in a heavenly realm within this universe
or may be on their way
to or from the spiritual sky.
The spiritual sky is full of planets
and there are spiritual forms
beyond the formless effulgence or brahman,
who emanates from the Personality of Godhead.
Accepting the personal form of the Lord
is the most challenging thing for our false ego,
the part of us that keeps us thinking,
we are temporary beings
material bodies
either physical or astral.
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Chapter 9
The Book of Love expands
by half moon light in the desert.
Its such a serious book,
full of philosophy and so on,
that it sometimes feels sillyto fill it with trivia and songs.
However, it is what it is and will carry on.
The problem is this...
Its a question of time
What shall we do with it?
Obviously we spend a lot of it
working, to buy food and pay rent
but we get to skim off a little for ourselves
and may wonder what to do with it.
I had a gazillion things I wanted to do.
I could have settled for any one of them.
I saw the half moon sitting just above a peak,
and it really looked like,
if I could have got up that hill,
I could have held it in my arms
or at least easily have stretched out and touched it.
Part of me was knowing that it was rapidly about to disappear,
and saying, lets run and get the telescope
its as close as its ever been or may ever be again.
These ants are a hassle.
I am a vegetarian,
but I reserve the right to brush them off me
when Im at home in the van.
It gets to the point where they are felt all over the body,
and if you look at that part, youll see one crawling.
Anyway I lost my flow, Ill cut the story short,
because theres things I need to be doing.
In the end, I didnt see the moon real close up.
I was glad I wasnt an outlaw
when the cops pulled me over just outside of Kearny, AZ.
No guns, no drugs, I havent been drinking.
No restrictions, the lady said over the radio,
and the cop who seemed very nice let me know.
Nothing in the car that I should know about? he asked.I said no, but The Book, The tape,
I wonder if he should know about those.
One day he will.
One day he will know all about it and so much more.
One day that bright eyed soul,
so sincere and gentlemanly,
will become a self realized Buddha, a Brahma, a Mahatma*.
No doubt about this. One day he will know.
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Im writing as usual by candle light
and if I hold the candle nearby,
hundreds of moths keep flying all over my arm.
I cant begin to count the number of insects
plunged to death in molten wax as we write.
Again to the central theme about time and the use of it
So much to do, so why do I write this down?For myself?
Why should I worry about you, Buddha to be
youll be there with or without me,
with or without The Book.
So many, many things to do,
but instead I write for you in The Book,
The whole purpose of The Book
really is to lay a trail to this...
To dig a garden for the flower of flowers
briefly to say Hare Krishna.
Thank you Lord,
may we all be reunited in the spiritual worldwhen were finally done,
and Krishna knows when that will be.
Coming back after a week away,
everything was exactly how it was the moment I left,
except for a few new letters on the desk.
I was thinking on the way back
how Id like to use some of my time
to help you out in some way.
I guess thats why Im here working on The Book
and not staring at the disappearing moon.
I know how precious your time is
and I hope you understand this
and how deep it is with meanings and interpretations
its close to Spirit and getting closer
as the voices of the world and the barking of dogs cease
leaving only the hum of water pumps
and the soundscape of nature dominated it seems by crickets.
They all rise up to tell me
you are not through
the great day is yet to come.
But Im miles behind in this work
which I can only blame myself foror the lazy and confused sub-being
which covers my pure soul.
Of course without that covering
you couldnt see or hear me
even as you cannot see or hear the Lord.
The inertia stems clearly from confusion
so many golden doorways of opportunity
to relay this globally important message
and how do we get it out there without being detected
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because the truth about everything is what we would like to say
and that wouldnt go down too well with almost everyone.
Your own cool will be tested by The Book
because its almost like a super addictive substance.
If you allow Supreme Consciousness
to access your logical thought space
and your heart is searching for that highest manifestation of love
you could get into this and dedicate a whole life to it.
People who currently surround you may say you have lost itor you have been sucked into some kind of cult
but in actuality you know fully the value of the teaching
and can see through the un-focused and radical approach
we have used to find Spirit who is directly behind all of this.
Music, poetry, novels, movies, temples,
drawings, cartoons, sculptures, paintings,
displays and drawings in the sand that are now gone
all contain the Supreme Truth hidden in there
if we know how to look.
So much contact with the vessel
but that vessel unless it is pure and clean
will cloud the essence it serves to carry.
I am working for the Supreme Lord
even though I am working for my own self too
and of course working for Him is by the nature
of the universal harmony it creates
the same as working for the benefit of all living beings.
Better than that even because working for the benefit
of all living beings is only a theory when separated from God
because we would be in an eternity of servitude
to endless beings whereas the Supreme Spirit
can give to all simultaneously
and when we give to Him
he can take that and pass it on to all
its just love with Him thats all he wantsthats what He gives thats all we need
to feel in a state of ecstatic rapture
far beyond a lesser condition
gained with great difficulty
and known as happiness.
I dont really spend much time on The Book
but I hope it will be of use to someone.
Theres nothing much to say,
in reality I want to be in Vrindavan, the spiritual world,
with my loved ones.
Everyone is evolving towards perfection,
and if I include the holy names herethat will speed things up.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare.
Thats all that really needs to be said
and read Bhagavad Gita The Book of Love
the SONG of God.
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So many things to do with our time.
I wanted to use some of it to help you guys out,
so theres The Book and the book is all padding,
my lifes all padding around the moments
it spends with the Holy names.
In the name of God and the Goddess
goodnight, speak to you later,love Govardhana Dasa Jagat Prabhu,
om om om...
Father Son Holy Spirit
Vishnu Brahma Shiva
All divine trinities
are but the different
expansions of the
one Godhead
Sri Sri Radha Krishna
also known by other Names...
Loving God,
I love you
om..