True yogis are here on Earth to love they always stay in that loving state

Meditation Yoga

Chapter 6, Verse 9

suhṛn mitrāry-udāsīna

madhyastha dveṣya bandhuṣu

sādhuṣv-api ca pāpeṣu

sama-buddhir viśiṣyate

He who is equal and impartial in action to a friend, an enemy and to a neutral person, also to a sinner and a saint, he excels.

A self-controlled person who is centred in God finds no difference anywhere. Once one has perceived the Divine within one’s own Self, one doesn’t judge anyone, since one is fully absorbed in the service of God, and finding Him everywhere.

Someone who truly loves, doesn’t see any differences. This happens to people in daily life. When you are freshly in love with someone, even if it is the worst person in the world, everything is perfect! All is good! You are in seventh heaven – I would not say in the seventh heaven, but on the seventh cloud – and there you are so intoxicated with this love, that you don’t see any of the differences between you, so you don’t have any judgements. But when you fall out in love, when you fall down from the seventh cloud, then you see everything completely differently. Then the worldly diversity starts to reveal itself, you become aware of the outer reality and then you suffer. However, it is important to note that it was you who put yourself in such a state, because you let yourself fall into that love. Your suffering is not due to the other person. You didn’t know what was inside the other person, even if the person had said, “I love you!” You didn’t know whether the person truly loved you or not. Words, words! So you can’t just accuse the other person and say, “You are the cause of my misery.” If you looked within, your soul would tell you, “How stupid is this mind! It was listening to mere words and disregarding what the person was doing. How blind!”

Lord Krishna says that for a true yogi, it doesn’t matter. True yogis are here on Earth to love: they always stay in that loving state and in that loving state, there is no judgement. It’s not like human love, where you put someone high up on a pedestal, and then the moment you hear or see something that you don’t like about the person you think you love, then you become aggressive, and depressive – you become all the ‘sives’ – expansive, expressive, oppressive, and possessive. All kinds of ‘sives’ start ‘to sive’ you. Whereas the ones who excel are above all this, as they look at everything equally and rejoice in God Consciousness. They see that it is God who is doing this multitude of activities through His creation. It is God who has manifested Himself and is enjoying Himself while He is doing everything. Here Bhagavan Krishna says of the one who was in God Consciousness, “He is not a saint! He is not a yogi! He is greater than that! He excels!” These ones perceive the Divine within their own Self. They don’t only perceive the Divine when they are sitting and praying. No! At all times, wherever they go, whoever they meet, they see only God. Whatever they do, it’s only to serve Him. So there is not a moment when the mind is far away from Him.

Bhagavad Gita