{"id":29686,"date":"2020-11-02T19:16:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=29686"},"modified":"2020-11-02T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:16:43","slug":"ideal-love-sri-sri-paramahansa-yoganandaji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/kriyayogaguru-yogananda\/ideal-love-sri-sri-paramahansa-yoganandaji","title":{"rendered":"Ideal Love. Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ideal Love<\/p>\n

\"\"In one of my classes there were two beautiful young married persons. They were ideal lovers, the envy of all the class. I said to them: ”I am very fond of you both, but I do not envy you, though your youth, beauty, and love are the envy of most people. Some day you will envy me.” Whenever they sat talking with me, being swayed by the breeze of love, they would bring their faces together, like two half-opening roses, whispering fragrance and beauty under the spell of the gentle breeze. The boy was dreamy, well formed, beautiful, and so was the girl.
\nIt was a perfect match. He said: ”If only I could get a job, we would be supremely happy. Please pray for me.” And I answered, feeling that my prayer was heard: ”You shall have a job, but at the end of a year I shall visit you and see if that is all you need to make you happy. I will compare my love with my Beloved Omnipresence, who sings to me through stars, atoms, and nightingales, with your limited human love.” A baby was about to come.
\nOne year later, God took me to them. The boy came out of a grocery store. His back was bent, his brow was wrinkled, and he said with a bedraggled smile: ”I got a job all right, but it is such hard work. However, I still believe in God.” Then I saw his wife. Another baby was coming. All her smiles were gone. She greeted me with a tired, worried face, and said: ”I never see my husband any more. He is in the store from eight in the morning until eight in the evening. The baby cries all the time. We hardly have time to meditate, and when we do, our thoughts run riot, and they chase us all over Creation away from God.” Then I said: ”Look at my serene face. My love for my Eternal Beloved has deepened and ripened. My eyes are more filled with joy than yours ever were. Wake up, without God\u2019s love, your love, which is His reflection, will fade away. Feed your love with the ever-flowing power of His love, or it will wither into nothingness.
\nOld age will mar all beautiful faces. Death will destroy all the buds of youth, and cataclysms will demolish the beauties of this earth, but nothing can destroy the beauties of the Astral Cosmos. These assume wonderful forms at the mere command of your imagination, and disappear when you don\u2019t want them. They wake again, in ever new garb of beauty, at the command of your fancy.
\nThe ego loves to hear sweet words of prevaricating flattery, and the evanescent, fickle praises of world-wide fame, and the promise of everlasting love from the ”must-die” lips of youth. The sweet voice of mothers, and the words of lovers will be buried in the grave of oblivion unless in their echo you hear the Divine Lover\u2019s voice, and recognize His presence.<\/p>\n

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji
\nThe Bhagavad Gita commentary,
\nSRF magazine December 1932.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ideal Love In one of my classes there were two beautiful young married persons. They were ideal lovers, the envy of all the class. I said to them: ”I am very fond of you both, but I do not envy you, though your youth, beauty, and love are the envy of most people. Some day you will envy me.” Whenever they sat talking with me, being swayed by the breeze of love, they would bring their faces together, like two half-opening roses, whispering fragrance and beauty under the spell of the gentle breeze. The boy was dreamy, well formed, beautiful, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kriyayogaguru-yogananda","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}