Love the entire creation without rejecting or hating anything & anybody

Imagine that you are a servant of the producer and director of a film. You have accompanied him to see the film along with him. You appreciate each scene of the film and by this, he is also pleased with you. You are deeply immersed in the cinema and suddenly he wants to leave the hall along with you. You must leave the entire film and should accompany him proving your unchallenged love and loyalty to him. You are proving here that your bond with him is beyond your bond to the entire cinema. This is a specific occasion in which your boss is competing with his own creation. In this situation, you are rejecting the entire creation. This is test of God for you. You need not bring the philosophy of this situation while you are enjoying the cinema with him. Therefore, love the entire creation without rejecting or hating anything and anybody. The reason for your love to the entire creation is your love to the creator. You are seeing the creator everywhere in the creation and therefore, you love the entire creation. You love the creation not for the sake of yourself.

But, once the creator enters into the competition (Datta Pariksha), you are rejecting everything and everybody for the sake of the Lord to prove that He is the highest for you as said in the Veda (Na tat samah …). It is in this context that Jesus told that unless one hates everything and everybody, one can not become the disciple of God. You should not extend this context throughout your life and be rejecting everything and everybody for the sake of God. You should prove your attachment to God and detachment to the world when the context comes.

Your bond with creation should be strong so that you can prove that you can break even the strong bond for the sake of the God. The strength of your bond to the world is a measure of your love to God, which is proved in the context. The strength of your bond to an item of the world should be just diverted to God. The strong bond remains as such and you have to simply replace the object of the bond. Therefore, the strong bond is appreciable

. Bilhana was so much immersed in the love of his darling, Yamini Purnatilaka that He was unable to sense even the feeling that his leg touched a sage during his walk. The sage became very angry and shouted to curse him. But, Bilhana asked the sage that how the sage immersed in the God, could sense the touch of his leg, while the same was not felt by him. The sage appreciated the strength of the bond of Bilhana and realized that the same strength was not in his bond to God.

The sage preached about the eternal beauty of Lord Krishna and replaced his darling by Lord Krishna. In the case of Bilhana, the same strong bond continued for God also and he got salvation. Therefore, whatever may be the object of the world, if your bond is intensified with it, there is nothing wrong. If you simply replace the object by God, you will be blessed by the God.

Hence, do not mock the people having strong worldly bonds. A time may come and they may replace the objects of their bonds by God. In such case, they will reach God faster than you. A person is running well in the opposite direction. You are just walking in the right direction. If that person is turned to the right direction by the guidance of some guide, he will cross you in no time!