Love is God

MESSAGE OF THE SAMPRADAYA

In human Society different stages of Love - from completely selfish love totally selfless love of god - are seen. Truly speaking, love which does not look to the happiness of the 'Loved one' is not worth its name. In Radha Vallabh Sampradaya, manifestation of love in which the happiness of the other is dominant is known as 'Hit' or the benevolent love.

Love is the basis of world peace, happiness and all round progress:

Formation and stability of human society would have been impossible without man looking to the happiness of others. So 'Hit' (benevolent love) forms the basis of peace and happiness in the world. Whenever mutual goodwill and compassion is decreased and self-aggrandizement increases in human beings, when man's thinking and his actions are limited to his self-interest, when he ceases to contribute towards the happiness of others and when he no more respects their sentiments, he is scorched by the flames of dreadful wars resulting in the blockade of his progress. Radha Vallabh Sampradaya, therefore, calls upon people to be true lovers if they really want their own as well as the welfare of the people at large.

There is no other sentiment so good as generous Love. When love dawns in man's heart, narrow mindedness vanishes. Undoubtedly it is narrow mindedness that has created dividing walls between man and man. One should therefore try to become generous so that narrow mindedness does not come in to play any destructive role.

Love serves as a magic potion for curring all ills:

Narrow mindedness breeds intolerance which is of many kinds. For example, a man maybe envious of another person or may get angry with him for the reason that the latter happens to posses more wealth or his views differ from those of the former. Another manifestation of intolerance is seen when he gets agitated by pain or he upset due to loss in business or as a result of unfavorable decision in any court case. Generous nature of love protects a person from all such painful eventualities and keeps him ever happy. As such one has to become a true lover if he or she wants to be happy in life.

Every body acts with a desire to be happy. He feels miserable when happiness evades him best efforts. But this kind of distressing experience is unknown to a generous lover whose mind and actions are directed towards providing happiness to others and who feels happy in their happiness. So, a man must inculcate in himself a strong sense of selfless service to all for getting everlasting happiness.

Like generosity and tolerance, humility is also an innate quality of love. When love is generated in the heart, humbleness also sprouts along with generosity and tolerance. Every religious system is active to keep under control the unbounded ego inherent in man because unrestrained ego has always proved to be destructive for human society. Reorganization of human society deranged by ego has been possible by only love. Accordingly another message of Radha Vallabh Samppradaya is that at if we want to be true lovers, we must shun pride because love and pride can never co-exist just as two swords cannot be shared by a single sheath.

Another innate quality of love is simplicity combined with righteousness. Deceitfulness and righteousness do not go together. People who really love are always upright and simple. Radha Vallabh Sampradaya therefore emphasis the need for human beings to be through simple and upright in their speech and as well as in their deeds by adopting the way of love of god since there is complete simplicity and uprightness where love of god exists. A person whose mind is disturbed and always self-centered, never makes any progress spiritually. This fact is also underlined in the teaching of this Sampradaya. To summarise, a person can not be called a true lover of god unless all the aforesaid qualities of love exist in him. Saint Dhruv Das says that if the attachment to worldly objects is not completely removed from man's heart, he can not be considered a true lover of god in the same way as with the rise of the sun if darkness is not removed, we cannot call it a sun-rise.