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The subject of today's discourse will be divine love.
You know, this entire universe is made of one substance, and one substance alone. There is no second. It is one element, one fundamental expression from which this entire universe has come to exist and that one substance which is the base of all expression is love. It is the pure
essential essence, the awareness of the supreme cognitive expression and this awareness, this fundamental substance which is the base of all expression may also be called love. For when it is experienced by a living being, there is the dissolution of boundaries, the dissolution of separate
identity and the immersion in the ocean from which all has its origin and in this immersion there is one experience and that experience is love. It is an all encompassing attraction, a dissolution of boundaries and an opening of self. In that there is the realization that all I have known
as separate existence is but an expression of that fundamental ocean of divine love. It has grown from love, existed in love and dissolves in love. All else has been but false coverings, false perceptions of the nature of existence. There is nothing here but one substance, one being, one
expression one divinity, one infinite ocean of divine love that has no beginning and no end, no boundaries. It has always been and it will always be.
There is nothing outside of this infinite expression of divine love, divine awareness, divine consciousness, the deep well from which all creation has sprung. It is the mother and the father of all being. It is
the ocean in which all creation is craddled, in which it grows and develops, in which it is nurtured and unto which all return. There are some who come to think this is a cruel universe where there is so much pain and suffering and injustice done, but all of that pain, all of that suffering, all of that injustice is but a deception.
Beneath it lies a much deeper truth, a much deeper reality and in that truth, in that reality there is beauty which can not be spoken in words, there is love which cannot be told. There is joy which brings tears to the eyes. In this, truth alone exists and all else becomes merely shadows. It is a shadow world, that which was once seen by one engaged in external reality as bright and colorful, filled with excitement and pain and suffering, becomes as a shadow for it is a shadow reality and that which is beneath it, that of which it is composed in essence is a true reality, let it become bright in your mind. For this truth surpasses all else and in this ocean, this well, the love of the divine becomes the shelter of all beings. It is the only shelter in the storm of life. There is no other shelter which will protect you as this shelter. It is the only shelter for a human being. In this shelter all sorrow smay be resolved, all suffering brought to an end. In this shelter the divine compassion of the divine mother, of the divine father exists without bounds. In this shelter, all which has been wounded will be healed. There is no other shelter which can provide this healing. All other shelters are but the small reflections. In this ocean of love, in the compassion of the divine you will find shelter from the
woes of life. You will find shelter from troubles and difficulties. You will find shelter from all that has caused you pain, for in the fundamental core of your suffering lies your separation from the great.
This separate experience, this experience of individuality of separation from divinity is the fundamental cause of all agony, all suffering for once you have identified with individuality, with a small piece of the infinite consciousness, once you make the false assumption that you are this little person, then you become susceptible to so many weels and woes, because a little person cut off from the great is bound to suffer many humiliations and difficulties, so much pain and sorrow because a little person is very small and very vulnerable. So a little person acquires so many wounds, so much suffering, so much pain and at the same time they are always seeking that which they remember deep in the core of their being and so at the same time they are searching, searching endlessly hungry and not knowing what they are searching for, forgetting their divine origins. They search in the wrong places and they compound their suffering attempting to build castles on sand. All that they build is destroyed, all that they love comes to an end and so the little person acrews more and more suffering.
There is only one solution to this suffering. It is to dissolve the fundamental experience of separation from the great.,to
recognize in ones own awareness ones own fundamental nature and identify not with this little sense of self, this little sense of 'I', but to become identified with the ocean of divine awareness with the ocean of love, the underground ocean of one's existence, the fundamental substance of one's existence for if one identifies with that divinity within one's self, one becomes freed from the fetters of duality. The little person identifying with the great dissolves into the ocean of blessedness and no longer do they think I am this little person residing in this body. They think, there is a body here, it resides in what appears to be a world of differring forms. But all of these forms are only the rising crests or waves of the divine ocean of divinity and my existence lies in that ocean, I exists in all of this manifest universe and that which is the wave beneath and through of which all of this is composed. There is infinite peace in this, for all comings and goings become resolved. They are only the surface movements of the waves upon the ocean, residing in the depths of the ocean. These are but the surface of your existence and you may witness them from the depths of love for love is the substance of which all existence is composed, it is the closest concept to that which is the fundamental essence of all.
Fear is bound to duality, resolve duality and you will resolve
fear for what is there to fear once you have attained unity. Nothing
lies outside of you, nothing can harm you for you exist in the
very fabric of the universe. And this universe is a beautiful
play of love, it is a dance of love. Only this misidentification
gives rise to fear, hatred, greed, recklessness, desire and ultimately
suffering. It is all due to misidentification, misunderstanding
of the nature of ones own existence. Resolve this misunderstanding
and live in blessedness and love for all eternity. This is your
right, oh human beings!