KARMIC SPACES AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

How does fear keep us from knowing and giving unconditional love?

I have been teaching about these karmic spaces for many, many, many years. They cover, each one covers, a person’s whole lifetime. It’s not all negative and it’s not all positive. It is what you learn from the moment and the moment becomes the moment of the heart.

If you allow yourself to think from the heart, this is called heart-thinking. If you allow yourself to love from the heart, heart-loving. If you allow yourself to give from your heart, heart-giving, then you will understand unconditional love.

Unconditional love can only be given if there is no judgment and if you never look back to see who is taking.

I remember my Baba saying, “Give everything,” and I would say “To everybody? To anybody?” and he would say, and not would say but still says, “But if you keep back even one thing then you are carrying a suitcase into the next step you are taking and therefore it will force you to look back to see what it is you are carrying.”

At first it didn’t make sense, but perhaps I didn’t give everything that I wanted to give. Perhaps I saw a person’s jealousy coming at me or anger or their pride opening up like an over-ripened melon and the stench was too much. There! I am carrying judgment. But if I just loved them and if I just held them close, not even thinking that this person is not worthy of my love and I just gave it to them, whether they took it or not, that’s unconditional love.

Fear that you have, the fear that runs through you like ice in your veins…is that if I accept this person’s or that person’s love – now listen closely – they will unlove. That is what you fear, that you can be controlled or owned by another person.

But, if you are given unconditional love soon you will realize this is heart-love, heart-thinking, and heart-actions, and that you do not have to fear it but you have to be open to it. Unconditional love is given like snow. It’s given like snow in the winter. It belongs there. It’s given like the breeze in springtime. It belongs there. And if snow comes in the spring or summer, that’s okay too because you are wide open to receive everything. You are covered by the gods and goddesses of time and change.

So what if something happens to you that shouldn’t happen. You can take it. Now the fact is, what is the sense of taking unconditional love if you cannot give it? How wonderful it is to see a child and have that child’s arms wrapped around you and that child says “I love you.” Not “I love you IF”, for that is the big word that severs another person’s love from you. It severs; it cuts it off. I will love you IF. How about, “I love you.” See if you mean it. See if you are just riding on the wind and its going to blow away or if truly I love you.

If you say to yourself, “What is this love? I don’t understand it.” Then it is certainly not unconditional love. Because, unconditional love does not have to be understood, it has to be felt. And even if it’s not felt, it just has to be accepted. And even if it’s not accepted, then make space. You know how to stretch time. Stretch your time with your breath. As you breathe in, and breathe in deeply, you fill up. On what? You fill up on the love that there is to give you.

Unconditional love should never be taken for granted, for you never know when that person who is giving it to you, when their life stops and they go on.

Ma Jaya

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