Love An Intensity Of Inclusiveness
One of the most abused and O misunderstood four-letter words in the human lexicon is 'love'. There is nothing intrinsically wrongwith t. It is not without reason that the poets nave eulogised it over centuries. But we mave distorted it to mean something hat it is not.The result is struggle, disenchantment and frustration. Love, for most people, is a means of fulfilling various needs. For an infant who turns to its mother for nourishment and protection, the relationship is a matter of physical survival. For children and adolescents who turn to their peers for friendship, the relationship is often a matter of social survival. For professionals who build relationships with business partners and colleagues, the relationship is invariably related to economic survival. For those who invest their lives in romantic relationships, the issues at stake are often of sexual or psychological survival. People may claim that all these are founded on love. However, most are fundamentally transactional, governed by vested interests. The moment certain expectations are not fulfilled, love evaporates! Indeed, it is often replaced by burning hate or bitter disillusionment. The fundamental problem is that human beings have based their lives on the fallacy that love involves another. Based on this limited understanding, they create a plethora of relationships. And so you have parental love, romantic love, friend love, God love-even dog love! There is nothing wrong with any of these. It is just that inallof them, cooperation from outside forces is an essential prerequisite. This may be a working arrangement for domestic purposes. Butforthose who seek a more abiding well-being and freedom, this is a highly limited and impoverished idea of love. In actual fact, love has nothing to do with anyone else. Love is just the way you are. It needs no external stimulus; it is entirely self-propelled. Love is simply state of emotion-a state of indiscriminate involvement with existence. If you decorate it with fairy-tale associations, and inflate it into some exalted mystical condition, you will suffer. But if you playthe game consciously, it can be a beautiful game. When you have achieveda sweetness of emotion within, you have the choice to be involved with any aspect of existence without fear of entanglement. This is not hormonally hijacked compulsiveness masquerading as love! This is love as freedom. For you now have the freedom to turn this inner sweetness into love,joy, blissfulness or ecstasy The choice is yours. Relationships are inevitable in the social world. Those whose emotions are sweet can enter into graceful and harmonious relationships when necessary, transforming simple needa beautiful process as a conscious chHowever, the compulsive naturepeople's desires makes them fetishislove andfreeze it into a set of limitedcalculated, conditional transactionsthen extol the virtues of 'unconditiolove'is a gross travesty! The reason why Eastern culturespoke of the guru-shishya relationsas sacred is because it is reasonablyunconditional (at least from one endmother's love comes next. Similarlylove is high on many people's lists, bat least from one side, it is unconditiHowever, once you experience laway of being, you are not limited bysingle definition.When you know ecstasy of entering into an emotion of union with anything-atree, abifull moon, even a no moon-your lovempowered to become a tool of transcendence. The life you now leaan exhilarating intensity of inclusi
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The views expressed in the Article above are Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Speaking Tree , Times of India
Love An Intensity Of Inclusiveness
One of the most abused and O misunderstood four-letter words in the human lexicon is 'love'. There is nothing intrinsically wrongwith t. It is not without reason that the poets nave eulogised it over centuries. But we mave distorted it to mean something hat it is not.The result is struggle, disenchantment and frustration. Love, for most people, is a means of fulfilling various needs. For an infant who turns to its mother for nourishment and protection, the relationship is a matter of physical survival. For children and adolescents who turn to their peers for friendship, the relationship is often a matter of social survival. For professionals who build relationships with business partners and colleagues, the relationship is invariably related to economic survival. For those who invest their lives in romantic relationships, the issues at stake are often of sexual or psychological survival. People may claim that all these are founded on love. However, most are fundamentally transactional, governed by vested interests. The moment certain expectations are not fulfilled, love evaporates! Indeed, it is often replaced by burning hate or bitter disillusionment. The fundamental problem is that human beings have based their lives on the fallacy that love involves another. Based on this limited understanding, they create a plethora of relationships. And so you have parental love, romantic love, friend love, God love-even dog love! There is nothing wrong with any of these. It is just that inallof them, cooperation from outside forces is an essential prerequisite. This may be a working arrangement for domestic purposes. Butforthose who seek a more abiding well-being and freedom, this is a highly limited and impoverished idea of love. In actual fact, love has nothing to do with anyone else. Love is just the way you are. It needs no external stimulus; it is entirely self-propelled. Love is simply state of emotion-a state of indiscriminate involvement with existence. If you decorate it with fairy-tale associations, and inflate it into some exalted mystical condition, you will suffer. But if you playthe game consciously, it can be a beautiful game. When you have achieveda sweetness of emotion within, you have the choice to be involved with any aspect of existence without fear of entanglement. This is not hormonally hijacked compulsiveness masquerading as love! This is love as freedom. For you now have the freedom to turn this inner sweetness into love,joy, blissfulness or ecstasy The choice is yours. Relationships are inevitable in the social world. Those whose emotions are sweet can enter into graceful and harmonious relationships when necessary, transforming simple needa beautiful process as a conscious chHowever, the compulsive naturepeople's desires makes them fetishislove andfreeze it into a set of limitedcalculated, conditional transactionsthen extol the virtues of 'unconditiolove'is a gross travesty! The reason why Eastern culturespoke of the guru-shishya relationsas sacred is because it is reasonablyunconditional (at least from one endmother's love comes next. Similarlylove is high on many people's lists, bat least from one side, it is unconditiHowever, once you experience laway of being, you are not limited bysingle definition.When you know ecstasy of entering into an emotion of union with anything-atree, abifull moon, even a no moon-your lovempowered to become a tool of transcendence. The life you now leaan exhilarating intensity of inclusi
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Speaking Tree , Times of India