LOVE

 

I think this word and the meaning behind it is the most misunderstood in our world. And every one of us has a unique definition of this word.

The way we describe love is in terms of its effects on our world. Like relationships, connections, acts of kindness, romance and even attachments.

The closest we have come to feel love is in emotions. Emotions of depending on someone, emotion of not able to live without someone, emotion of liking someone or something very much, emotion of sensual pleasure, emotion of attachment to someone or something. These are all emotions. That is not love!

And the thing with emotions is that they are always shifting. They are not constant. They have opposites too. Like the love in our world very easily gets converted to hate. Similarly like to dislike, attachment to detachment …so on and so forth.

The ‘Love’ that I am talking about is not an emotion. It is a state of being. A state of knowing WHO YOU ARE! It is the realisation that you are connected to the whole of this existence! And with the realisation, the LOVE which is intrinsic to you starts vibrating and flowing from your heart. It is the energy that you feel when you have disconnected from all of your bondages and are connected to your truth.

The LOVE can get translated into human emotions of compassion, kindness, understanding, attention, respect, affection etc. However, in this case, these emotions can never be reversed to its opposites.

The LOVE can be felt, without actually being with another person or a thing. It is felt just inside of you. However when you feel it, you are not the little person you think you are , you are expanded to the whole and so the LOVE is felt for one and all.

You might think, it is impossible to feel what I am talking about. Such a thing may not even exist. You are right to doubt it. The reason is, we all have always learned and sharpened our minds (intellectual energy) but the heart (love energy) is not paid much attention. It is always either suppressed, ignored or overlooked. Thousands of years of this kind of treatment, throughout our generations has made the heart energy dormant within all of us and now we don’t even know it exists!

But believe me, we all have experienced it numerous times. In the smallest fractions of time, we have been in a state of complete LOVE arising from our hearts. Recall the times when you saw the face of your new born baby or the huge crashing waves of the ocean on the beach or the grandeur of snow peaked mountains, the beauty of lush green forests or little rain drops balancing on a leaf,  the huge valleys that connected with your own depth, the tiniest of ants making huge anthills or even the simple wagging of the tail of your dog!

The human body itself is beyond the wonder! The most complex machine on earth, equipped with all that it ever needs and powered by LOVE! Everything in our world, when observed through pure state of awareness is felt inside as LOVE.

The LOVE is always all around us. In little moments, in little things. It ranges from the smallest microcosm of single celled animals to the largest macrocosm of galaxies and universes.

It is the constant that we experience in every wonder we ever felt in watching this beautiful existence.

Love is the ultimate power of observing this universe, giving it attention and space; and realising that it is who we are! It is a simple connection with the WHOLE!

The only time we lose touch with the grandness of this love is when we think about ourselves or our lives, we communicate with other human beings or get immersed in the human world of concepts, ideas, opinions, rights, wrongs, good and the bad! Our mind then starts triggering infinite number of thoughts, judgments, memories, emotions which block our flow of love.

It creates a distance between us and the rest of existence. It creates the illusion of Separation from the WHOLE!