“God says;
“Whomsoever you love more than Me,
I will take away from you.”
And He adds;
“Do not say; “I cannot live without him/her.”
I will make you live without him/her.”
And the season passes.
The branches of tree providing shade become dry.
Patience runs out.
The person whom you think as a part of you turns out to be a stranger.
Your mind startles.
Even your friend turns out to be your enemy, your enemy turns out to be your friend.
The person whom you love more than your life betrays you.
Such a strange world!
Whenever you think, “It never occurs”
It occurs.
You say, “I do not fall.” Yet you fall.
You say, “I do not get amazed.”
Yet you get amazed.
The most weird thing is this;
You keep on saying, “I died.”
Yet you live..
~ Rumi“
Mevlana Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
This verse attributed to Mevlana came to me through the author of the article “The Awakening of Kundalini and Love” – Tsvete. She wrote that through it she received an answer to her question of how to deal with the activated sexual energy in the second chakra (where the container of human desire is located). In a less poetic but very precise way, Enodia Judith gives an answer to the same question in her book “Chakras: Wheels of Life.”
“The love we experience at the level of the heart chakra is entirely different from the sexual and passionate love of the second chakra…
In the fourth chakra, love is no longer dependent on an object – the love we experience is toward everything we encounter, because we experience it within ourselves as a state of being.
In the heart, love is no longer the love of need and desire…
Love in the heart chakra is a love of joyful acceptance of our place among all other things, of deep peace that arises from the absence of need and from the radiant quality that is the result of harmony within the self.
Unlike the changing nature of the second chakra with its transient passion, the love of the heart is lasting, eternal, and constant.” (p. 267)
In my own experience, more than once I have witnessed the fact that the transition from “love-as-desire” to “love-as-a-state” is usually activated through long and painful periods of frustration, when the object of our desire is inaccessible. As if God truly fulfills the warning of taking away from our lives the things that are more important to us than discovering what remains when everything else falls apart.
But if we, like Tsvete, are able to hear the answer, the loss acquires meaning. And from that point on, everything changes.
Kameliya Hadzhiyska
Note: The quotations are translated from Bulgarian and are not presented as verbatim citations.
