Cultivating Love for God: The Core of Spirituality

Let me ask you, what did you study? CA? So when you started your first year B.Com or BS Finance or whatever the degree was, then did you say first day, 'I'll write the CA exam'? No. Slowly, slowly we get to that point. So unfortunately in the modern marketing of spirituality, we've come into this belief that we can just instantly get this. So that is very rare, you see, that is very, very rare. And here, even to this point, if I was not to pray or inquire, then I feel like I would be trapped by Maya in a single day. You see, so it's very important for us to keep at it and as much as possible deepen in your faith and deepen in your love for God.

You see, now what you have to do... I may give the instruction, but you may say, 'So how do I deepen my faith and deepen in my love for God?' It is just like: keep the intention to love Him more, and that intention will grow into a flowering of that love in your heart. But if your intention is to only do the practice better or make your life better because of the practice, you see, then that seems to be more of a struggle. You see, so it's almost an unfollowable instruction. But something may get seeded in your heart by remembering this: that it is about loving God more. It is not about a godless spirituality which is very popular in today's world.

Let's make God into some electromagnetic sort of construct, force field. You see, but if you start to love God as your Beloved, or as Father, or as Mother, or as sister, or as Master, or as best friend, then that adds a lot of strength to our spirituality. Because you will see that as you take one step in that relationship of love towards Him, God's response comes with a hundred times that strength. You see, and it's only in the modern world that we have made God into like nature or some field or some unified field, and not someone who we can love and receive love back from. So it's so ironic that in the world today all of us are searching for love basically, and trying to find every mechanism to experience this love, but the very source of love we have created a distance from.