Divine love is not an object of desire

In the next sutra he says: Yad gyatva, matto bhavati. Knowing which one is intoxicated! When you go through all this paraphernalia of negative emotions, that is when you just want to forget everything. Then people just want to drink and intoxicate themselves. But love is the best intoxicant available. Divine love is such an intoxication. Yat gyatva, matto bhavati - knowing which you become drunk, you get intoxicated, spaced out.

Stabdho bhavati - what else will any of this excitement do to you? It brings you to a state of amazement, doesn’t it? “Ahh, wow!” This feeling arises in you. Love takes you to that state. Knowing which you become so stunned, smitten, completely awestruck! Atmaramo bhavati - you become so still, you repose in yourself. You are in such deep rest, deep peace. You are  rejoicing yourself and - atmoramo bhavati - reposing in the Self.

All these are the glories of love. “How can I have it now? I just want to have that, nothing more, finished with everything else - no job, no work. I will leave everything, I want just that. How can I have it...?”

This desire to have such an ultimate love, which has been painted into such a glorious picture, this feverishness, if it arises in you, then Narada is there waiting with a stick, right in front of you. He says: Sa na kamyamana, nirodha rupatvat. It is not an object of desire, stop wanting it. You know, when you want to sit for meditation, the more you want that thoughts should not come, the more they come. The mind works on a completely different set of laws.

Sometimes people say, “I want nothing, I just want liberation.” This desire for liberation or desire for the ultimate sometimes makes them go around in circles. When it comes to knowledge, you must have a little desire for liberation to be free. But when it comes to Divine love, he says, it is not an object of desire.

Love is not an object of desire. Love is what you are. So nirodha rupatvaptvat — settle down, calm down, quiet down. It is like you are wanting to rest, but you keep running from room to room saying, “Oh, I want to sleep. I want to sleep.” All that you want is to relax, but you are running.

How can you relax if you are running? If you can relax here, you can relax there also. If you can relax in your living room, you can relax in your bedroom. If you cannot relax in your bedroom, running around the house cannot bring you relaxation.

Whether it is on the street or under a tree in the park or at home or on the bus, anywhere, wherever you are, you can relax. Isn’t that so?