The Threshold of Love

It was TiruNeelakantar’s wife who led him to enlightenment. It was Karaikal Ammaiyar’s husband who led her to enlightenment.

So think of your spouse as a form of God, and serve as you will serve God. When you learn to think of each one of your relations — be it parents or spouse or children or anyone — as a form of God and serve them as you will serve God, then you have gone beyond attachment and are in the threshold of Love.

The best approach to life is looking upon everyone as mirror images of God and identifying the various situations you face in life as tests that God deals to you. By various methods, He ascertains whether you are a karma yogi (one who concentrates on an action without getting attached to the results) or not, whether you are playing the role He has assigned you to perfection, etc.

Just hold on to God like a child holds on to its mother. Will any mother want her child to wither? So would God want your destruction? His only wish is our perfection