Monday 29 June 2015

What exactly is love?

Dear Friend,

To understand ‘Love’, you will need to firstly rid yourself of all the ‘knowledge’ you have so far had about love.

  • You have been told that care, attachment, concern, togetherness, sameness, sacrifice etc. are what constitutes love.
  • You have also been told that love is what happens ‘between’ two human beings, or ‘between’ a human being and something else.
  • You have also been told that love is usually to be found in ‘relationships’ like mother-daughter, husband-wife etc.
  • You have been told that when you are in love you miss your beloved.
  • You have also been told that love is a nice-nice thing.

All this is Wrong. False. Criminal.

Love is not nice-nice. Love is Death. Utter death.

Love does not happen between two people. When you are no more, you become love. It is an internal event, purely independent of any external being.

Love does not require a beloved. When you are love, the whole existence is the Beloved. 

You can never miss the Beloved. You become the Beloved.

Love can never be found in relationships. The day a relationship occurs, the possibility of love dies. A man can possibly be in love, but no husband can ever love. A woman can be in love, but no wife can ever love her son.

All this that you see in the name of love: care, concern, mamtaa, sacrifice – this is all false. Totally false. 

Love is a wild flower. It grows in the fullness and deepness of dangerous jungles. 

Love cannot be found in a decent garden of a decent house maintained by a decent family.
  • Love is a not a decently dressed woman.
  • Love is not a manicured hand.
  • Love is not a well-lit room.
  • Love is not a beautiful bouquet.
  • Love is not a nice smile.
  • Love is not a romantic evening.
  • Love is not the rainbow on the roof.
  • Love is not the climax of life.
  • Love is not your ordinary life.
  • Love is not comfortable.
  • Love is not a seductive glance.
  • Love is not a beautiful song.
  • Love is not the garden butterfly either.

Rubbish. All Rubbish. Can you please first clean up?

Wisdom does not come without fearlessness. Love comes along with courage.

If you do not have courage, then do not say that you have love. Just know clearly that if you don’t have courage, then you also don’t have love.

Neither do we have courage nor do we have love. All that we have is our terrified self that would act ‘normal’. Courage would mean that you receive that call. Love would mean that receive that call and also counsel that man.

You can be loving towards the world, only when you first you have love for the One. 

The one who does not have love for the One, how can he be loving towards the world? One comes first. Love Him first. Get your power from Him. When you will love Him, then you will find that you are choiceless in loving everybody. You will need not to act, you will need not choose, and you will need not decide whether or not to love. Now love will overflow. It will radiate. In fact you will find it impossible to hate. You will find it impossible to shirk away from your responsibility.

Love is a great responsibility. Love is not pleasure. Love demands dedicated action. 

Most of us are incapable of that action. Most of us do not have the energy, patience and the fire to do justice to love. Love is not for dead and cold people.

SB...

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