“DD” THE HEART
(The Bhagavad Gita) Those who find the Way are those who have love and forgiveness in their hearts.
The organ known for pumping blood throughout the body is the heart. The etheric organ known for pumping love and forgiveness throughout the soul is the heart. Both uses of the word heart are useful when looking at the quote above and working our logic around how each operate independently of one another.
The heart of God is what each of us can connect with regularly once we let go of our attachments to the body being the thing that gives merit to life. We are all spiritual beings having a human experience. Not the other way around. We’re not the brain. We’re not the mind. We’re not the body. We’re not anything the eyes can see and the body can feel.
Many don’t know this, but the body is incapable of feeling pain or pleasure. The nervous system regulates the baseline of physicality, with the mind being subject to illness and imbalance just like its thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
Physically, as with the body, no one can have love and forgiveness in their heart, only soft tissue and blood. The heart of God however, stretches out past the physical body and makes its way across the time-space continuum – not bound by time or space.
Like training the body to perform better and reach higher levels of health, and creating a heart more capable of working effortlessly without added strain, the same can be said for getting out of the way of forgiveness and love, for those seeking the Way, to find God existing experientially in their inner most being the entire time.
Two, subjectively knowable characteristics of God we can practice for ourselves are love and forgiveness. To recognize anything or anyone cognitively, we have to know some features first, with those features being on display in some way we can experience. God does not have form in the sense that anyone recognizes God upon normal sight. God is known through the subjective awareness of the proximity of God’s characteristics, namely love and forgiveness.
All you have to do to find the Way, in the most basic sense, is follow love and forgiveness all the way to God. It’s that simple. The problem is, humans don’t like simple. In fact, we like complicated explanations more than simple ones because we all share a mind that wants to hold onto the belief that it is in fact God – the mind and complication/confusion are bedfellows. The more complicated the answer the better, for when you have to track down complicated ends, things must be more correct because it’s complicated.
The Way is not complicated. It is straightforward. Narrow. Without confusion.
Love and Forgiveness, chosen again and again, all the time, without end, forever and ever, is about as simple as it gets. Do yourself a favor and don’t choose to overcomplicate it.