Love for no reason
With meditation, one strange thing you will start experiencing is Love!
People are prepared for all kinds of miracles. They are ready to receive visions to have the darshan of their favourite deities and what not. But they are least prepared for the miracle of love!
You will be amazed to find how much love arises and floods your being when you enter into meditation. Through meditation, you will experience some awakening, some level of your being that you haven't touched before. You will want to share your joy with everyone you meet! This joy will overflow from you as love.
And just like freedom, this love is different from any love you have ever experienced before.
All our lives, we have been giving and taking our selfish little love. All our life, we have loved and been loved for a reason. Either consciously or unconsciously, you love for a reason. Even in the most intimate relationships, even between husband and wife, between parents and children, there are hidden reasons for loving. All our love is tainted, destroyed by jealousy and possessiveness.
With meditation, for the first time you will understand what it means to love for no reason. For the first time, you will not be giving in order to receive. You give love simply because you have so much to give! You shower love upon the world in the same way that a rain cloud showers upon the earth, or a flower spreads its fragrance all around.
You love because you can't help it!
Joy unlimited
With meditation, life becomes a joy that you cannot find a reason for.
When joy happens for a reason, it is sure to bring pain sooner or later.
If you are happy because you have just had a good meal, you are going to become miserable when you get hungry again – that's all! If you are happy because you have fallen in love, you are going to be sad when the first fight happens. And don't think it won't happen to you! It happens to everybody. That is the rule of life.
All happiness leads to pain when it ceases. That is why, in ancient Bharat, they had only one word to denote both happiness and pain: the word Pain!
But the joy you experience with meditation is undisturbed, undisturbable. You may be healthy, you may be ill – the joy will remain the same. It may be cold, warm, raining, snowing – the joy remains. Neither your own condition nor external circumstances can make a difference. When you experience lasting joy that no external circumstance can alter, it means that you are moving deeply inwards.