FULLER AND FREER EXPRESSION OF LOVE
Meher Baba
Love becomes consciously infinite in being as well as in expression when the individual mind is transcended. Such love is rightly called divine, because it is characteristic of the God state in which all duality is finally overcome. In divine love, lust has completely disappeared. It does not exist even in latent form. Divine love is unlimited in essence and expression because it is experienced by the soul through the Soul itself.
In the gross, subtle, and mental spheres, the lover is conscious of being separated from God, the Beloved; but when all these spheres are transcended, the lover is conscious of his unity with the Beloved. The lover loses himself in the being of the Beloved and knows that he is one with the Beloved. Divine love is entirely free from the thralldom of desires or the limited self. In this state of Infinity the lover has no being apart from the beloved: he is the Beloved Himself.
One thus has God, as infinite Love, first limiting Himself in the forms of creation and then recovering his infinity through the different stages of creation. All the stages of God's experience of being a finite lover ultimately culminate in His experiencing Himself as the sole Beloved.
The sojourn of the soul is a thrilling divine romance in which the lover -- who in the beginning is conscious of nothing but emptiness, frustration, superficiality, and the gnawing chains of bondage -- gradually attains an increasingly fuller and freer expression of love. And ultimately the lover disappears and merges in the divine Beloved to realize the unity of the lover and the Beloved in the supreme and eternal fact of God as infinite Love.
DISCOURSES, 7th ed, pp. 402-403
Copyright 1987 AMBPP
爱的表达更充分更自由
美赫巴巴
当个人的思想被超越时，爱就会如同无限存在一样有意识地表达出来。这种爱被正确地称为神性，因为它是上帝状态的特征，在其中所有的二元性最终被克服。在神圣的爱中，淫欲已经完全消失，它甚至不存在于潜在的形式中。神爱在本质上和表达上都是无限的，因为灵魂通过灵魂本身体验到它。
在浊、精和心领域，爱者意识到与上帝，至爱的分离。但当所有这些领域都被超越时，爱者意识到与至爱的合一。爱者丢失在至爱里，并知道自己与至爱为一。神爱完全不受欲望的支配或自我所限。在这样的无限状态，爱者与至爱没有任何分离：他就是至爱本身。
这样一个上帝，起初把自己限制在造物的形体中，然后通过造物的不同阶段来恢复他自身的无限。上帝以一个有限爱者经历的所有阶段最终结束在他自身作为唯一至爱的体验中。
灵魂的逗留是一段令人激动的神圣浪漫，在其中爱者——他在一开始只知道空虚、沮丧、肤浅和受限枷锁的折磨——逐渐地，他得到更充分、更自由的爱的表达，并最终作为无限的爱，在上帝至高无上和永恒的事实中，消失并融合于神圣至爱，以实现爱者与至爱的合一。
《语录》，第7版，第402 - 403页，版权1987，阿瓦塔美赫巴巴公共永久慈善信托
