Late Night Chat with Jeff: Impeding the flow of Love, June 9, 2024, live on Baba Zoom

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Dear folks of Baba,

From time to time, Darwin Shaw would say that we are embodiments of Baba’s Divine Love in every moment, and we are meant to flow with that love. It is our living potential and our destiny. Unfortunately, our reactions to others, to ourselves and to the world repeatedly impede the flow of Baba’s love emanating through us. One of the major obstructions to this flow is our mind with its notions of right and wrong, good and bad, appropriate and inappropriate, loving and unloving. We release or withhold this love according to what our mind deems worthy. As Baba says, for many people, certain conditions have to be met before there is a release of love. We require that the object of our love must be deserving. Our love is rarely unconditional, even sometimes with parents for their kids. We let our reactions block the flow of love, even though it is possible to react negatively to someone or to some circumstance and simultaneously send love. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

I witnessed Dr. Harry Kenmore, one of the mandali, react powerfully many times to others, even seemingly in a negative way, and yet a powerful flow of love was emanating from him at the same time. I used to say, he could flow through the Himalayas, so powerful was the flow of his love. Obstacles were simply blown away in its current. On an overcast day, the sun is still radiating its light; it is the cloudy weather condition that is resisting the sun’s rays. Likewise, Baba’s Divine Love is always emanating from us in every moment, but it is the many veils of the ego that are continually diffusing its radiance.

Darwin would talk about this love as an invisible current emanating at the heart level in each of us. For most people, he would say that this invisible current flows toward themselves, toward “I, my, me and mine,” and often stops there. This current needs to be reversed so that it simultaneously flows out to the world and to Baba within. It is a fusion of our love and vitality, a vibrational flow, that emanates from the heart center, and not from the head with all its thinking. Another way of putting it, this flow might be described as the natural generosity of the spirit. If we let this current flow toward Baba, which is the best thing we can do, it is His joy to return it transformed and, as Darwin has said, “it flows back into us where it can be expressed in the world of forms as a giving energy.”

How do we know that there is such a current? Suppose you are in an expansive mood among friends when someone enters the room with whom you’ve had a very painful past experience. Suddenly, the expansive current stops; the heart pulls back and constricts in a tangible way. From this, it is clear, then, that there had been a flowing and expansive current before the person entered the room. Darwin would say that this is where the internal work begins: in this moment, by tuning into Baba’s warm expansiveness and then flowing out toward that person at an inner level in spite of our initial negative reaction, it is possible to flow through the reaction. Love is on a different and higher track altogether. And when we don’t flow toward a particular person or situation, we diminish ourselves by that much. We become smaller. For example, if I find children noisy and unruly, very demanding, I may unwittingly block the flow to a profound part of my inner life, the child in me. The same is so true with many things we reject: we shut down.

This is not to say that this flowing current must always be expressed outwardly. Sometimes it is wise to let the flow remain invisible, with no outer expression, such as in cases where someone might respond to your warmth the wrong way and take advantage of you. Sometimes we have to love from a distance, while still remaining in a flowing state.

Do your reactions sometimes make it impossible for you to respond at the same time with the flow of love? What type of emotional reactions most often tend to break your flow of love? Are you able to experience that the flow of love is on a higher and different track in you than the lower emotional or desire track? Do you experience substantial fluctuations of expansiveness in your response to others and the situations in your life? Can you feel that blocking the flow of your love leaves you feeling diminished in a subtle way?

In His love, Jeff

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