Love and Remembrance

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND ATTITUDES FOR MODERN LIVING

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DAAJI is in conversation with APOORVA PATEL about Constant Remembrance and love, how they are both expressions of each other, and the role they play in our spiritual evolution.

Q: Can you share with us the relationship between remembrance and love? What is their context in our spiritual practice?

Well, I think love is the guiding force behind remembering someone. Even when it is not love, even if you hate someone, you remember that person so often! Now, the remembrance of the Beloved carries a different level of vibration in your heart. It’s almost like you are in a state of absorbency while thinking of that person. I’m deliberately using this word “thinking,” though there is a vast difference between thinking and remembering. Where thinking is about your head, your mind especially, remembrance is from the heart. When you think about a particular sloka from the Bhagavad Gita, you are ruminating on it. What does Lord Krishna mean to say by, “Sarva-dharman parityajya, mam ekam sarva-dharm vraja? [Abandon all varieties of dharma and surrender to me alone. I shall liberate you from all sinful reactions; do not fear.]” You keep thinking, contemplating... what is he trying to convey to me? There is the mind’s involvement. But when you go into a different dimension, when you remember Krishna or this verse, it is felt in your heart.

Q: Feeling it rather than analyzing it.

Yes. You