LOVE: God's Superglue

We have learnt that the Soul, the child of God, has three aspects - Light, Love and Power, represented by three devas: BrahmA, VishnU and Maheshwara, or A…U…M… AUM, the sacred sound.

Om, written in the Indian Devanagiri
script. The word is constructed
as a compound of three
sounds: Aah, Ooh and Mmm.

The word GOD itself is described as an acronym - generator, operator, destroyer.

The three aspects are thus three kinds of energy that the soul uses to manifest its world. To build its life, literally.

For building something, you need a plan. This is the Light aspect.

You need building blocks and something to cement things together. This is the Love energy.

And you need something to reshape, modify, cut, break and refashion your building blocks. This is Power. Think power tools.

The basic building blocks are what are called “deva matter” - tiny sparks of light that form the individual cells.

The energy that holds them together, the glue or the cement, is the Love energy. The energy that takes them apart is called Power. And the pattern that they follow, the life plan, is called Light.

The life plan has already been created - proof, we are alive. All that the consciousness now does is to navigate through this plan. Since the plan is already in place, there is a (mistaken) notion that the light aspect of god is no longer relevant. This is likely to be the basis, for instance, on which Lord Brahma is not worshipped in Hinduism. However, a plan is often referred to, and is modified as well, hence the light aspect is still relevant. Light is very much needed to take correct decisions while navigating life, otherwise one falls into traps and takes wrong decisions.

A painting that portrays Lord Vishnu reclining on the serpent

Anantha amid the Ksheera Sagara, with Lord Brahma seated 

on a lotus arising from his navel

The Great Invocation, as revealed by Holy Master DK through Alice Bailey, has a line that is important in this connection: “May the plan of light and love work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells.”

According to the teacher, the energies of love and light have already been synthesised. In Hindu pictography, this is represented by Lord Brahma seated on a lotus that is arising from the navel of Lord Vishnu, who is reclining on the celestial serpent Anantha floating on the Ksheera Sagara, the ocean of milk.

Ergo, we no longer chant Aum, we now chant Om. 

Essentially, any decision we make that is based on love, is bound to be correct. Sadly, that is precisely where most of humanity is going off the rails.Power, the preoccupation of mankind, has the capacity to overrun everything, so a person on a seat of power gets completely corrupted — unless there is a balancing “powerful” presence of love within the person. Examples of such corruption can be seen all around us.

The next task for humanity is the synthesis of Power and Love, so that "Light, Love and Power can restore the plan on earth" (Great Invocation). Man must learn to yoke Power and Love and work with them as a team to plough the earth. This is symbolised, for instance, by Lord Ayyappa, the deity of the Sabarimala temple.

So (some of) our challenges or tasks as human beings, in present and coming times, may be something like this: 

1. Find our humanity. This is the key. This is a challenge because we are highly emotional creatures at present, which clouds our vision and we are yet to comprehend that we are still in the process of becoming human.
2. Differentiate between love and attachment. Love is the energy of god that passes through us. Attachment is something into which we transform this energy. This happens because the Ego is running the show in the personality - not the soul.
   The Ego looks at everything in relation to itself, and thus develops a relationship with the world in this light - like/dislike, attachment/detachment, love/hate, need/indifference and so on… To rise above this, the individual has to achieve the blessing of Vishnu and slay the lower nature.
   This is the power aspect of love (Krishna slaying Kansa and Shishupala, for instance).
3. Experience, rather than understand. The heart is the key, but it will not switch on by itself. Just knowing that the heart is the key is not sufficient. The student has to turn the key in the keyhole - by practising. The person has to keep doing it again and again till the key turns in the (rusty) lock, and it opens, This is what changes the person from a student into a disciple, a vidyarthi into a shishya. 
   When the person experiences the heart and the concept of being centred - that is when s/he becomes an actual human being.
4. Combining love and power. The love energy has a power aspect, and vice versa. Love has the capacity to dissolve obstacles, slay inner demons, move mountains if needed (Hanuman carrying the Dronagiri, Lord Krishna lifting the Govardhan… mythology is replete with examples). These are acts of destruction in a way, but this destruction results in the emancipation of the destroyed.
5. Power has the capacity to reshape things. Bring new things into existence. This is its love aspect. There is no black or white, just grey areas.

Lord Krishna expounding
the Bhagavad Gita to
Arjuna on the battlefield
of Kurukshetra

Made in the image of god, Man has to discover the God within himself. This is the single most important thing in his life, virtually the purpose of his existence. 

Love is one aspect of this pilgrimage. But it not just any aspect, but is the key, the one that will serve as his vehicle as he navigates the ocean of existence, the samsara sagara or the lower counterpoint of the ksheera sagara. 

Love is the aspect of God that played charioteer to Arjuna (who symbolises the Ego or the personality - the you and I - and revealed the laws of the Universe to his friend and disciple in the Bhagavad Gita. 

Love is the aspect of god that the scriptures say will incarnate as Kalki and slay all evil in the current age, the Kali Yuga — when the evil is no longer external, but abides within the heart of Man.

Love is Samsara (life, manifestation, existence). Power is Samhara (death, dissolution, destruction).

And none of this really exists. Everything is an illusion.

(The images are from the Internet.)