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CHAPTER 10. SPIRITUALISM, RELIGION AND POLITICS
work on the battlefield, Krishna personally takes them to the river and gives them a good bath and
massage. This man possesses all the attributes of God, because he bathes horses with the same
devotion as a devotee would give a bath to the idol of God himself. There is no risk in accepting him
as God. If he was arrogant about being God he would not have agreed to be Arjuna’s charioteer.
Instead, he would have asked Arjuna to be his charioteer, because he was God and Arjuna was only
a devotee. Ask any one of those who claim to be God to take a seat below you, and you will know
their arrogance.
The journey should begin with being a devotee, and it will complete itself with God.
Question 11
QUESTIONER: WHAT IS THE TEST OF ONE’S HIGHEST DEVOTION TO KRISHNA?
As I said, there is no discipline of devotion, and there is no test for love. Love is enough unto itself;
why bother about testing it? You think of testing it only when love is not there. Care for love, not for
its test. Why do you need a test? You think of testing only when there is no love.
So be concerned with love. Be loving. And when there is love, it is always true love. There is nothing
like false love; it is a wrong term. Love is or it is not; the question of test does not arise. There is
a test for gold because there is false gold too. Love is never false; it is or it is not. And when love
is, you know it the way you know when the shoe pinches. It is painful when the shoe pinches, pain
is the test of the pinch. There is no other test. Do you have a test for pain? Pain is its own test;
you know when it hurts and when it does not. In the same way you know it when love happens and
when it does not. Watch yourself and you will have no trouble knowing whether there is love or is
not. What will a test do when there is no love? Love has nothing to do with a test. So care for love,
your love.
But we are afraid to turn in and watch our selves. We are afraid because we know there is no love
in there. Instead we always look to others for love; we are anxious to know if they are loving toward
us. Rarely one wants to know if he is loving toward others. Day in and day out couples have been
quarreling over love. A wife is always complaining that her husband does not love her as much as
she loves him. And a husband in his turn is complaining that his wife is not as loving to him. A
son is full of resentment that his father does not love him. And a father in his turn grumbles equally.
Everybody is complain ing, but no one asks if he himself is loving or not.
We are not loving; we really don’t have love. We don’t feel any love for living human beings who
surround us from everywhere. We don’t love plants and flowers that are visible everywhere. We
don’t love the hills and mountains and stars who are all members of the visible world. And when we
don’t love the seen, the tangible, how can we love that which is unseen, invisible?
Let us begin with the visible world – the tangible. Love should begin at home. And you will find that
one who loves the visible soon begins to feel the presence of the invisible that is hidden just behind.
You love a rock and the rock turns into God. You love a flower, and you will come in contact with the
elan vital that is throbbing inside the flower’s heart. You love a person and soon the body disappears
and the spirit becomes visible. Love is the alchemy which can turn the visible into the invisible, the
subtle. Love is the door to the unknown, the unknowable. So just be concerned with love and don’t
worry about testing it.
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