Gratitude And Love

Gratitude and love are closely related. When you experience gratitude at the bottom of your Being, there will be only love in you, nothing else. The first step towards feeling real love is feeling gratitude. As long as there is discontentment in your system, there cannot be real love. Gratitude and love go hand in hand. We will talk more about gratitude when we talk about the last chakra – the Sahasrara chakra.

When I tell people all these things, they tell me, "Swamiji, I love the whole world Swamiji. I don't do harm even to a small ant…"

Why do you want to delude yourself by saying all these things? Can you even love your neighbor whole-heartedly? I tell you: It is easy for people to say things like they love the whole world because they don't have to do anything tangible to prove it!

They can continue to say that they love the world and remain where they are! They don't have to do anything special to show it. The world is after all an intangible entity; it is something abstract; it is not a clear representation.

But when you say that you love your neighbor, the problem starts! You have to see his face everyday. You have to do something tangible to prove your love for him! Then it becomes a problem!

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