Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

You see, it is so strange. Everyone, all over the
world seeks love, the love of another or of God. This
is the way the human race is set up, seeking love for
and from another. This is what makes the human race
persist. This is why we want money and possessions
and power, to get love.
This is the way the game is set up: so I say, why not
use that “fact” to facilitate Self-Realization?
The terrible, burning, desirous mad love for
“another” also summons the Self to show itself to you,
to yourself, once you realize that that mad love is
really the Self, loving itself through fixation on the Self
in another. For many people, this is the way to Self-
Realization and Self-love, by first feeling it, by
perceiving the Self in another.
So very many people write to me saying they have
read Robert Adams or Ramana and having been
practicing one year, two years, or ten years and
sometimes much longer and they feel stuck. I tell
them to add the bliss of chanting along with sacred
music, and sometimes that helps for a while, but often
they still complain about being stuck.
So, I tell them to go out for a while and see if they
can fall in love with another: a guru, a man or a
woman, hopefully of spiritual bent. Love them totally,
worship them, surrender to them: but all the while