"Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things."
—Rumi
"The Path to Love is our spiritual destiny."
—Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra seamlessly dovetails forms of understanding that only the unenlightened heart would view as divergent. The Sage speaks of Buddhist, Christian, Judaic, and Vedic laws as separate pieces of the same cosmic jigsaw.
What is love? Deepak manages to convince even the most algid entity that love is a religion in-and-of-itself. It is the elixir of the soul. The experiential cascade postulates that love is rapture. Simultaneously, Love establishes itself as the quintessence of all things relating to Liberty & Life.
“...Love knows that you exist and cares for your existence.
Timeless spirit can touch you in this world of time.
With a new birth of the heart, you will see a new world.
Love is never old but renews itself with each lover...
All people are innocent in the light of love….”
"The ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear."
—Deepak Chopra
How does [true] amour express itself in the throes of a relationship: romantic, companionate, or otherwise? Deepak outlines the key differences between psychological love & spiritual love; the former? Transitory, illusory, excited, attached, biochemical, in-substantive in forming a lasting Unity, and prone to begetting infantile regression. The latter? Timeless, Aeonic, Aeonian, Transcendent, Placid, Liberating, Soul & Spirit-based, substantive in forming lasting Unity, & spurring an existential evolution.
"What happens when we have truly attained the height, width, breadth, and depth of our Odyssey? We will become a vessel of sanctity, a living, breathing song that reverberates all-encompassing Virtue. To love means more than doing good, it signifies walking in The Aeonic Light of The Empyrean One forevermore." —Sanders Maurice Foulke III, AAS
What happens when we have truly attained the height, width, breadth, and depth of our Odyssey? We will become a vessel of sanctity, a living, breathing song that reverberates all-encompassing Virtue. To love means more than doing good, it signifies walking in The Aeonic Light of The Empyrean One forevermore.
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The Life-Bearing Dictum:
(I) "In our culture we are not taught to see falling in love as a spiritual event, yet for centuries that was the accepted interpretation. When the question 'Where does love come from?' was asked, the universal answer was God. According to the New Testament,
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
The lives of saints of every religion have demonstrated love in its spiritual dimension; at the same time the humblest person who fell in love also realized he was treading on sacred ground. Over the centuries, particularly in the West, the divine connection was lost, however, and romantic love became a more earthly matter, more centered in the entrancing charms of another individual ('How do I love thee, let me count the ways').
In spiritual terms falling in love is an opening, an opportunity to step into the timeless and stay there, to learn ways of spirit and...
Bring them down to earth. All openings are temporary —this is not a limitation specific to falling in love. The real question is, What should we do with the opening? The highest spiritual qualities — those of truth, faith, trust, and compassion — grow from the tiniest seeds of daily experience. Their first sproutings are exceedingly vulnerable, and there is no guarantee they will not wither and die. How can we tend this fragile opening of the heart, nurture it until it develops into more substantial stages of growth?
To do that we must examine romance, the first stage in love's journey, as part of a timeless cycle that brings greater and greater knowledge of spiritual reality. The insights of this first stage are, naturally enough, those relating to a new birth.”
—Deepak Chopra, from ‘The Path To Love: Renewing The Power Of Spirit In Your Life’ [Pg. 62 & 63]
(II) “The spiritual equivalent of attachment is bondage. Bondage is whatever ties you to the illusion of separation; without it, you would automatically see yourself in unity. The root of bondage is Karma, which in Sanskrit simply means ‘action.’ Any action in creation －from nature’s actions, such as rainfall or the rotation of the earth on its axis, to the highly personal actions of human beings dealing with their complex lives －comes under the heading of karma.
Karma forms an endless chain of cause and effect, action and reaction. You cannot fall in love at first sight without rejoining a karmic dance whose steps began deep in the past. The fact that you cannot remember this past does not wipe out karmic memory…
Karma thus has a double effect: it ties us to the old desires and future ones at the same time….”
－Deepak Chopra, from ‘The Path To Love: Renewing The Power Of Spirit In Your Life’ [Pg. 193]
(III) "...Isn't it love when you share your world with someone else? Shouldn't intimate relationships be exclusive in just this way? The answer is surprising, for if you look deeper you will see that love and attachment are not the same...
—Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
—Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "make me feel whole."
—Love expands beyond the limits of two people. ...Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people...
The proof of karma doesn't lie in rewards and punishments handed out by a cosmic judge. When people refer to 'good karma' or 'bad karma,' they are confusing karma with reward and punishment, but the working of karma is much more profound.
Spirit would not be love if there was such a thing as good and bad karma, ... they apply only to the condition of separation. Spirit is not in separation, and neither is God. The divine never punishes, for what would it be punishing but itself? Nothing else exists...
Our karma throws us into the roles of saint and sinner, man and woman, king and peasant, but these roles are temporary and shifting. None of them is really us. Spirit uses these roles the way a dramatist uses actors... The saint is just the sinner in another guise, and the sinner only has to wait to assume the saint's robes. Why do we play these roles? For experience, for growth, to find our way back to God. Ultimately all karma serves two purposes: either it is a sign of love from spirit or it is a lesson meant in love.
In the Vedic scriptures the word most often applied to karma is 'unfathomable.' Only if you understood every action in your life, no matter how minute, could you clear away all karmic debts. This isn't a fatalistic statement; it merely points to the real source of freedom, which is within."
－Deepak Chopra, from ‘The Path To Love: Renewing The Power Of Spirit In Your Life’ [Pg. 195]
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"The Path to Love is our spiritual destiny."
—Deepak Chopra
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