"Love cannot be done; love happens."

(from "Living with My Himalayan Master: Sri Sri Bhajan Brahmachari")

Thakur Bhajan Brahmachari gradually revealed the infinite wealth of the divine that he brought with him from birth and his arduous sadhana in the Himalayas to the many who had been waiting for him to come into their lives. 

It is important to understand that the Guru is none other than the embodiment of divinity. Divinity, ultimately, is beyond human comprehension. It is beyond the realms of the mind. But we humans can experience it. The Guru has wholly merged with divinity, and has utterly surrendered the ego, the body, mind, and soul to the divine. As the living embodiment of the divine, the Guru comes to those souls who are ready to reach out to the next levels of mystical experience. 

Beyond the peripheral, the external reality we perceive through our human eyes and the filter of our mind is a unified field of being from which all of Creation arises. Its subtle vibration and its infinite grace surround and abide within each soul. That is who we are. But human beings are blind. We see ourselves and the world through the ego-centric lens of the illusion of separation. We believe, think, and respond to others, to the world, to the divine as separate. No one can fully pierce those veils of illusion until the Guru comes. Until wisdom dawns from the inside, we cannot see through the haze to realize the unity at the heart of all existence. 

When the bud opens a blossoming flower, the flower does not work or do anything to spread its fragrance. The blossoming itself sends out a sweet aroma. This is nature. This is the law of the universe. When the flower blossoms, the fragrance spreads. The fragrance is the invitation to the bees, who come to sit on the flowers and drink the nectar. The flower does not give. The nectar is simply there, ready to be taken. The bee knows how to take it! The fies do not know. The flower never says 'yes' to bees and 'no' to flies. 

This is true with the living Buddha as well. Thakur was no longer giving. He was not distributing the nectar or the infinite wealth that he was here to distribute. He was simply available to all who came to drink from the well of his blossomed being. He became the fragrant flower whose bud of divinity has flowered. 

That is what Buddhahood is all about. When the seed of divinity flowers in anyone, he or she becomes a living Buddha, the enlightened Master. The is no effort involved. All efforts die with the death of the ego. It is the death of the false reality that gives birth to eternal light and eternal love. Thakur had become that light and love which he embodied. 

Like honey-loving bees, people seeking happiness and higher truth came to him. Like iron filings to a powerful magnet, they came. His love for men, women and children, his love for all animals, were like the soothing dewdrops of early dawn. The process is silent, yet vast, all-encompassing. Those touched by his quiet spiritual aura were enchanted by the call from that subtle world of the infinite vibrating at the core of each soul. Thakur came like a magician. A mere look or a touch acted as a magic wand, creating incredible miracles. People came and sat near him, feeling something first-hand about which they had read in the scriptures or heard from their ancestors. Thakur talked, smiled, and did very simple things, but his every movement, his every word, his every song conveyed unspeakable joy and ecstasy. 

...One day I told him, "Thakur, you are so kind; you love so much." He replied, "No, I don't love." I was kind of taken aback. I was young, fresh to the ashram as a renunciate monk. I said, "If you do not love, then what do you do?" With a smile on his face, Thakur taught me the greatest lesson of my life, one that would change the entire course of my thoughts and philosophy of life in later years. He simply said, "Love cannot be done; love happens."

This was a revelation. Suddenly, I felt as if a curtain was lifted, that a cataract had been removed from my eyes. I could see the ways of the world of light more clearly. I realized that true realization shows us that there is no difference between nature and us. Everything in nature is flowing. Live is flowing. An enlightened Master does nothing but live in the flow of everything moving in its own time-space dimension. That is why there is no credit or discredit. No failure, no success. No gain and, of course, no loss either. He had revealed to me the basic flow of all existence and the falseness of your human perception of "doer-ship."