4. Love Deeply To Heal

Love is a strange experience. The deeper we express our love the miraculous are its returns.

When we express our love deeply, we find that the Universe or existence responds to us. It reciprocates our investment many times over- until our coffers are overflowing.

Love not only makes keeps alive, it can also awaken a stone. With love we can give life and meaning to whole universe. If we think love is a sentiment, it is an extremely powerful and potent sentiment. Using this sentiment alone, it is possible to make the whole world come alive. Whatever we see, feel, experience, becomes a joyful thing. This is the state enlightened Masters live in.

A small story:

A great saint named Sadasiva Brahmendra lived in Andhra Pradesh, Bharat. An incident from his life shows the power of love. Sadasiva Brahmendra, lived in deep content and was happy just like a child. He even went around naked in his deep bliss. One day he was walking in deep ecstasy when the Nawab, the Muslim ruler of that territory, went riding by. The saint was in such deep ecstasy that he neither noticed nor paid respects to the Nawab. To punish the saint's insolence, the incensed Nawab cut off the saint's hand with his sword! Sadasiva Brahmendra continued to walk in deep ecstasy. He hardly noticed the absence of his hand.

But one of his devotees started to weep, 'O Master! You have lost your hand! This is simply for not showing courtesy to the Nawab.' The saint was surprised at this. When he looked-indeed his hands were cut off! He asked the devotee to bring the severed hand. He then placed them where they should be. It became whole again. The devotee was dumbstruck when she saw this. She wondered about the miracle.

'The miracle,' the saint explained, 'is your love for Master. The Nawab's hatred destroyed my hand; your love healed it!'

Ramana Maharishi, another Enlightened Master, used to say, 'It is the love of the devotees which keeps me in the body.'

Every enlightened Master lives in his body just for the sake of the love of the devotees. Masters as such have no karma- they have nothing to achieve, nothing to gain.

They don't have anything to enjoy. Then why should they be in the body? It is only for the love of the devotees.

Love has a deep power of healing. When we love it heals us and the others around us.