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Love for all - humility
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By Sant Kirpal Singh, from "The Teachings of Kirpal Singh", Vol. II, page 55 - 59

Love is the panacea for most of the ills of the world. It is the core of all other virtues. Where there is love, there is peace. Love, and all the blessings shall be added unto thee, is the central idea of the teachings of Christ. Loving and selfless service to humanity is the cornerstone of all religious philosophies and no man can make any progress on the spiritual path without cultivating love within him. The seed of spirituality that the Master so lovingly sows in the arid soil of our hearts, has to be nurtured with the waters of love, if quick results are desired. We must transform the desert of our heart into a veritable garden of love full of lovely blossoms and luscious fruits. From our heart should spring an eternal fountain of love, so that whosoever comes in contact with it is drenched with love to the very core of his heart.

One can accept pride as being the basis of all sins, for it turns into I-hood. False pride of worldly possession or pelf, assumed superiority because of spiritual knowledge or intellectual attainments, vanity of earthly things and status may turn astray the mind of the spiritual aspirant, yet in course of time all these vanish into thin air. On the other hand, a heart full of reverential humility is a fit receptacle for His Grace, a receptacle which, when filled to overflowing, runneth over on its own to others. For a humble person no sacrifice is too great in the large interests of spiritual development, whereas a proud person would endlessly await and even miss the chance when offered. Time and tide wait for no man. Human birth is a priceless asset granted by providence in the ascending scale of evolution and its highest object is spiritual perfection, for which all of us are here.

Love is that which overflows within and you forget yourself. This is a criterion to differentiate love from attachment. If love keeps you in the body, attached to the body, that is no love, but is called attachment. This is the very fine difference between the two.

So the difference between true love and lust is that true love cannot be broken even after leaving the body. This love is developed in the body but absorbed in the soul, not in the body and its environments. So this is called true love or charity. The other is called lust or attachment and there is a vast difference between the two. Love of God makes us free, makes us all joy, all happiness, all bliss. Lust or attachment enslaves us, it makes us very narrow-minded. In the worldly way, if you love somebody, you will be envious if another person shares that love, but those who love God will also be loved by you, because they love God. So the love of God gives you love for all the world over. Love of the outside things will only make you narrow-minded, close-fisted, and the result is, one lives for God, the other lives for the world.

Love one another for the sake of the Master. If you love for the sake of the man concerned, this will stand in the way of your love for the Master. So love God and as God resides in every heart, love all for the sake of the soul and the controlling Power that keeps the soul in the body, not the body itself. Then you are saved. If you serve others from the same level, then that is the service of God.

One lesson we can derive from this is that, if we are devoted to God or to the God-in-man, then we must love each other. This is but natural. But any love which is coloured with your personal interest or selfish motives makes you narrow minded. You would like that the person whom you love should be loved by you and nobody else. But if you have true love for God, then naturally all who love God will be loved by you. This is the vast difference between the two.

While we are walking on the path of righteousness, we discover that we are far from being perfect. Perfection comes slowly and requires the hand of time. It does not matter to what faith one belongs, so long as we love God and our fellow-men, for our passport to the kingdom of God is the love we have in our hearts. If we are students of psychology or metaphysics and are well versed in the laws of mind, and lack love and compassion for our fellow-men, we are outside the kingdom of God. It is what we are that opens the door of our soul to God and makes us His channel of blessing to help others.

There is only one remedy for all discord and inharmony and that is love. He who has not mastered its secret, can never hope to be received in the court of the Lord. It is the beginning and the end of spirituality. He who understands love and its true nature and who lives and moves by its light, shall, as two added to two make four, attain the Lord.

Some people hope for a heaven in far distant skies, but heaven is a state of consciousness in this life. If we aspire to live and love divinely, we are already citizens of the heaven to come in the hereafter. For the kingdom of God is a state of consciousness wherein we worship God with all our heart, and with all our mind and with all our strength and love our neighbour as ourselves. Religion is, therefore, a matter between soul and God, and all other forms of worship and religious observations are in vain unless we enthrone divine love in our hearts. It is the temple of the heart in which we always keep the light of truth and love burning.

We have been put on the way to God because of our love for God. Learn ye, therefore, to love all creatures as yourself. Live in and for the love of all and the Lord of Love shall reward you manifold in return for the sake of His own divine love. That is His law, eternal and immutable. Try to cultivate a loving and a living faith in His goodness and nothing shall stand in your way on the path.