Don't Let me Down

Naturally, we are in a state of pure love, however by our tendency to become greedy and lusty for material things, this love is covered, but not destroyed (how could you destroy something that is eternal). The nature of saintly people is to give the best of what they have to others solely for the benefit of others. Those of us who have been in a loving relationship have experienced this as well, we act, speak dress, in certain ways only because we want to please the object of our affection. Thus one can define love as putting someone else's needs before their own. When a baby is first born it is quite a burden to the mother, it requires care all day and even at night when it wakes up at all hours crying and screaming. Yet despite all of this calamity, the mother out of love for her child caters to each of it's needs even if it costs her sleep and relaxation. The mother is not thinking "what about my needs, what about my well being" she is simply engaged in loving service. Because our nature is to love and be loved, the mind can be compared to a room with many attractive seemingly fulfilling objects. In order to return to our natural state, we simply have to remove the objects that we have decided belong there through our desire to be in control and receive benediction from others. Our natural state is all wise, eternal and blissful, we don't need these things to feel happy, we are naturally and genuinely happy by giving and receiving love. On top of that if we try to satisfy ourselves with these sense objects and do not account for our true needs, everything we do onto others and ourselves will be superficial and ultimately void of satisfaction.The Gita says, "Beyond the dualities that arise from doubts, whose minds are engaged within who are always busy working for the welfare of all living beings and who are free from all sins attain liberation" 5.25. If one instead chooses to rejoice without instead of taking into consideration the needs of his true being, that person is forced to be in a constant state of frantic swimming against the current and simultaneously submits himself to the manipulative forces of material nature, if one at some point does not take initiative to make a change, he will eventually find himself at the bottom of the river. But one who actively performs service in the spirit of satisfying others, whose mind is fixed in loving exchange gradually free themself from all bondages and become glorious. I've decided to extend my trip and will be exploring some more holy places of India under the guidance of the spiritual master who arranged my stay here in the first place, I owe all my learning and experience to him and offer my humble and respectful obeisances. I've been engaged in eye opening classes on some of the ancient Vedic scriptures for 6 hours a day for about the past 2 weeks and am learning more than I ever could have imagined under the teaching of persons who I do not deserve to even be in the same room with at this point in my spiritual growth. I'm very grateful to all those who have helped me on my journey thus far and look forward to what lies ahead. Hare Krishna