The word
"Trinity" stands out as a Holy name in two of the major Faiths of the
world - Hinduism and Christianity.
Hinduism evolved the
term of Holy Trinity as the three faces of One God- (i) God The Creator,
Brahma, (ii) God the Preserver, Vishnu, and (iii) God the Destroyer,(Mahesh.
Thus God creates when
He gives birth to the Universe and also to man, then He preserves His
Creation,as he regulates the stars and galaxies and the Universe, and the life
of man, answering the prayers of man and putting the instinct of love, faith
and service into him and finally He destroys His Creation when He comes as
Death, and in the end when he brings about a cataclysmic catastrophe signalling
the end of the Universe.
Christianity has the
three well known faces of the Trinity, God, the Father, Jesus Christ the son,
and the Holy Spirit.
with which all of us
are already familiar.
I have my own Holy
Trinity, My Father, My Mother, and my Grandfather!
Yet there exists a
Holy Trinity which we see around us all the time but are never conscious of.
It is the Holy
Trinity of Love. Here are its three ingredients.
(i) There is the
Lover (ii) And there is his beloved (iii) and there is that invisible force
called Love.
When the intensity of
Love is very great the Lover asks nothing of his Beloved except the Beloved!!
And the Beloved asks nothing of the Lover except the Lover!
Have you ever heard
of a lover asking for material things from his beloved? Have you ever heard of
a lover asking for peace and prosperity from his beloved, or wealth or status
or good health?
Or a life filled with
joy and happiness?
No. The lover asks
nothing of the beloved except the beloved. If he gains the beloved he has
everything that he wants and he wants nothing else. The same is true of the
Beloved who wants the lover and nothing else.
But the devotees of
God, those who claim to love God, are always selfishly asking for hundreds of
things from God, solutions to their problems, health, wealth, material
prosperity, and just about anything else they can get from him. Many desire God
because they want heaven and salvation from him.
Is there any devotee
of God who wants God just for the sake of God and for nothing else, not even
for heaven and salvation and eternal peace and eternal bliss?
Lets face facts there
is an element of selfishness in what we call the worship of God - because we
are always asking for things from God.
The real love for God
would be exhibited when someone were to say:
"O God! I want
nothing from you, not even heaven and salvation and eternal peace and
happiness-- all I want is YOU!"
This is what a lover
would say to his beloved or a beloved would say to the lover.
There is a legend
that the famous lover, Majnu had gone insane in his love for his beloved Laila
and would wander around the streets in tatters calling upon her name.
God was so pleased
with Majnu that he sent word through his angel that he would like to come to
meet Majnu.
Majnu responded:
"If God wishes
to come and meet me, then tell him to come as Laila! Otherwise I dont wish to
meet him!
Everyone in the world
should examine his or her own heart to find out how intense is his or her love
for God, and whether the intensity has reached such a level that he or she is
willing to forego even heaven and salvation for the sake of God.
Legend goes, that
when Majnu died he went to heaven for his genuine love for Laila. While he was
in heaven he was told that Laila had been sent to hell for her sins in the
world.
Majnu screamed till
his cries shook the skies and said out loud to God:
"O God! Thy
heaven is worse than a hell for me without Laila! Send me to the hell where you
have sent Laila-- that will be my Heaven. My heaven is to be with Laila no
matter whether it be the earth, hell or heaven!"
This is Real Love.
Those who can boast of having such a love for God are truly very advanced and
enlightened souls and I must take my hats off to them.
For the rest, I would
say, go and study the lives of lovers, they may tell us the real meaning of
love.
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