The stream of love has not yet surfaced

1. The stream of love has not yet surfaced in man. And we attribute this to man himself. We say it isbecause man is spoiled that love has not evolved, that there is no current of love in our lives. Weblame it on the mind; we say the mind is poisonous. The mind is not poison.The stream of love has not yet surfaced in man. And we attribute this to man himself. We say it isbecause man is spoiled that love has not evolved, that there is no current of love in our lives. Weblame it on the mind; we say the mind is poisonous. The mind is not poison. Those who degrade themind have poisoned love; they have not allowed the growth of love. Nothing in this world is poison.Nothing is bad in God’s whole creation; everything is nectar. It is man alone who has transformedthis full cup of nectar into poison. And the major culprits are the so-called teachers, the so-calledholy men and saints, the politicians.Reflect upon this in detail. If this sickness is not understood immediately, if it is not straightened outright away, there is no possibility – now or in the future – of love in man’s life.The ironical thing is that we have blindly accepted the reasons for this from the very same sourcesthat are to blame for love’s not dawning on the human horizon in the first place. If misleadingprinciples are repeated and reiterated down the centuries we fail to see the basic fallacies behind theoriginal principles. And then chaos is created, because man is intrinsically incapable of becomingwhat these unnatural rules say he should become. We simply accept that man is wrong.In ancient times, I have heard, a hawker of hand-fans used to pass by the palace of the king everyday. He used to brag about the unique and wonderful fans he sold. No one, he claimed, had everseen such fans before.The king had a collection of all sorts of fans from every corner of the world and so he was curious.He leaned over his balcony one day to have a look at this seller of unique and wonderful fans. Tohim the fans looked ordinary, hardly worth a penny, but he called the man upstairs anyway. The kingasked, ”What is the uniqueness of those fans? And what is their price?”The hawker replied, ”Your Majesty, they don’t cost much. Considering the quality of these fans, theprice is very low: one hundred rupees a fan.”The king was amazed. ”One hundred rupees! This paisa-fan, this penny-fan, is available anywherein the market. And you ask a hundred rupees! What is so special about these fans?”The man said, ”The quality! Each fan is guaranteed to last one hundred years. Even in one hundredyears, it won’t spoil.””From the look of it, it seems impossible it can even last a week. Are you trying to cheat me? Is thisoutright fraud? And with the king, too?”The vendor answered, ”My Lord, would I dare? You know very well, sir, that I walk under yourbalcony daily, selling my fans. The price is one hundred rupees a fan, and I am responsible if itdoesn’t last one hundred years. Every day I am available in the street. And, above all, you are theruler of this land. How can I be safe if I cheat you?”The fan was purchased at the asking price. Although the king did not trust the hawker, he wasdying of curiosity to know what grounds the man had for making such a statement. The vendor wasordered to present himself again on the seventh day.The central stick came out in three days, and the fan disintegrated before the week was out.Love hasn’t failed — we’ve been misled about why
2. The text says love hasn’t flowed freely in human life, but instead of questioning the systems that shaped us, we blame:
3. the mind
4. human nature
5. “people are bad”
6. But the author argues: 👉 Nothing in creation is bad or poisonous by itself
7. 👉 It’s human conditioning — especially by false teachers, religious leaders, and power-holders — that twisted what was natural and beautiful.
8. In other words: Love didn’t die because humans are broken.
9. Love was suppressed, distorted, and replaced with unnatural rules.
10. 🧠 Why the problem continues
11. We’ve accepted explanations from the very sources that caused the damage.
12. When harmful ideas are repeated for generations, they start to feel like truth.
13. So when people fail to live up to impossible moral standards, we conclude:
14. “Humans are wrong.”
15. Instead of asking: “Were the rules wrong to begin with?”
16. 🪭 The fan story — the hidden meaning
17. The cheap fan that was “guaranteed for 100 years” represents false teachings and false promises.
18. It looks ordinary.
19. It sounds convincing.
20. Authority makes it seem trustworthy.
21. But reality exposes it quickly.
22. Just like many moral, religious, and social systems:
23. They promise perfection
24. They collapse in real human life
25. Yet people keep buying them because of tradition and authority
26. ✅ The deeper lesson
27. Love doesn’t fail because humans are incapable.
28. Love fails when:
29. life is forced into unnatural rules
30. desire is turned into guilt
31. thinking is turned into obedience
32. and authority replaces understanding