From creation to Creator

If you love the Creator, you hold Him as the highest, you hold Him above creation. He is the Creator. Seeing Him, being with Him would be the highest. But if you have no trust in Him, then you talk in terms of existence, of no-mind and all these things.

The moment there is no trust, the whole issue becomes terribly complicated. Then you have to split hairs to do things, simply because love is missing. Trust means unconditional love. It is that kind of love where the other side need not respond. You simply love.

You must have loved like this when you were in school and college. You went on loving though the other side was not responding. Once a young boy in college went to his professor and said, “I need your help.” The professor said, “Sure, I am here to help you.” The boy said, “No, it is not academic, it is something else.”

So the professor said, “Tell me.” So the boy named the college beauty and said, “I am in love with her and I am 50 per cent successful. For the other 50 per cent, you have to help.” The professor asked, “What do you mean 50 per cent successful.”

The boy replied, “Well, I am madly in love with her, but she hasn’t responded!” When a person has that kind of love that he does not expect the other side to even respond, it is okay. If God doesn’t respond, it is okay. You have firm faith that He is there.

Now look at this and see, we always love those who are not here. With most people it is so, they always love the dead when they are not here anymore. When they were living, you could not look them in the face, you were not even on talking terms, but once they are dead you love them.

You always love those who are not here, and it is the same thing with God. If He was here with you, if you had to share your food with Him, if you had to share your life with Him, then you would have had enormous problems with Him; but because He is not here now, or at least not in your experience, it is easy to love Him.

Love is not a joy, it is a deep wonderful pain. It is a very deep, tearing, wonderful pain. Something within you should tear, not just something, everything within you should tear. Only then you know what love is. If it feels pleasant, that is not love, it is just convenience. Maybe you felt a little affection.