Love and Illusion...

ILLUSION HAS COME INTO BEING FOR A SIGNIFICANT PURPOSE

Meher Baba

"It is for love that the whole universe sprang into
existence, and it is for the sake of love that it is
kept going.

"God descends into the realm of Illusion because the
apparent duality of the Beloved and the lover is
eventually contributory to His conscious enjoyment of
His own divinity.

"The development of love is conditioned and sustained
by the tension of duality. God has to suffer apparent
differentiation into a multiplicity of souls in order
to carry on the game of love. They are His own forms,
and in relation to them He at once assumes the roles
of the divine Lover and the divine Beloved. As the
Beloved, He is the real and the ultimate object of
their appreciation. As the divine Lover, He is their
real and ultimate savior, drawing them back to
Himself.

"Thus, though the whole world of duality is only an
illusion, that illusion has come into being for a
significant purpose.

"Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of
duality. It constitutes the entire significance of
creation.

"If love were excluded from life, all the souls in the
world would assume complete externality to each other;
and the only possible relations and contacts in such a
loveless world would be superficial and mechanical. It
is because of love that the contacts and relations
between individual souls become significant.

"It is love that gives meaning and value to all the
happenings in the world of duality. But while love
gives meaning to the world of duality, it is at the
same time a standing challenge to duality.

"As love gathers strength, it generates creative
restlessness and becomes the main driving power of
that spiritual dynamic which ultimately succeeds in
restoring to consciousness the original unity of
Being."


Meher Baba
_DISCOURSES_
Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Foundation, 7th rev. ed.,
1987, pp. 115-116.
Copyright 1987 AMBPPCT


"God and love are identical, and one who has divine
love has received God."

Meher Baba
_Sparks from Meher Baba_
Myrtle Beach, SC: Meher Spiritual Center, n.d., p. 16


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