Messages on Philosophy, Life and Love

My Dear,

Philosophy is love of wisdom or striving for wisdom. It is a moral and intellectual science which tries to explain the reality behind appearances by reducing the phenomena of the universe to ultimate causes, through the application of reason and law. Philosophy is the methodical work of the intellect which eternally exists. Philosophy, to the westerner, is conceptual and to the easterner, factual.

Life is an experience, meant to train the individual for a higher, deeper and more expanded state of existence, through the experience of the results of actions. The aim of everybody’s life is the attainment of complete perfection in the spiritual absolute. This is the aim of life.

Love is the subjective mental condition consequent upon attachment which a subject develops towards an object. In other words, love is the experience of the flow of self-consciousness towards an object, i.e. the act of surrendering the self to the mercy of the object, or superimposing selfhood on the object. Physical love is blind in the sense that where this relationship exists, the subject entirely forgets all the defects, imperfections and shortcomings of the object. But the love of a devotee for God or the universal love which a sage has is not blind, for it is pure and spiritual. 

With blessings,

Baba.