Love

                                                                          

                            There is a heart  to heart connection with our respective mothers from the moment we are  in  the embryonic stage in our mother’s womb. The first person we learn to love in the entire world is our mother. After we are born the close bond and love that we have for our mother magnifies to our nearest kin, to our relatives, friends, teachers, soulmate, man-made Gods, saints, Mother Nature and in exceptional cases, the entire manifested Universe. The power of love has the capacity to heal the deepest wound, make peace with our enemy, spark off a relationship with your soulmate, spread Universal vibes of Brotherhood or to express that one of a kind of especially captured affection to the most Supreme Godhead.

                              Human bondage thrives on love. If human beings were not empowered by God to get endowed with this special quality called love, our precious human race and civilisation would long have vanished from the face of planet earth. The ability of the entire human race to have evoluted from the stone age upto the present information\knowledge worker age and still to have survived has depended on only one factor,the love we have for each other. Love is that special magical spark we need to keep our human civilization intact until that moment of the final consciousness revolution when mankind, due to God’s Grace, will be lucky enough to reach the Golden Age.

                        Love can be expressed from the human and spiritual levels. Love exercised through the human brain and expressed through the human heart is not something that will keep the beats beating on a steady level. Human love depends on conditions and often needs to meet certain criterias to be expressed. In other words, human love which is an external medium and not something internal and everlasting like the soul’s love medium is not permanently equipped with the qualities of unconditional, selfless, true and pure love. On the other hand, the fourth spiritual centre or the Anahat chakra, is such a centre which if transcended by a spiritual being does not depend on conditions and is not mandatory for it to meet criterias to express abundant love. We start loving each and every inhabitant on planet earth, that too without a cause or reason. Since this kind of love no longer depends on the individual self but rather emanates from the depth of the untouched and virgin, Pure Soul, it is without any conditions and criterias attached. After we establish ourselves as Self-Realised beings the magic spark of love ignites into a flame when we start loving each other without any attachment. Love without any attachment is the only criteria for the conditions of unconditional, selfless, true and pure love.

                      The kind of love that emanates from the Anahat has the powers to radiate a blaze of  love  not only to your friends but even to  your most hated foe. Why wouldn’t you start loving your enemy on par with everbody when you are only a step toward’s realizing that we are not the doer or we are not the roles we play. The ability to make peace with your adversary and the superhuman ability of the Anahat to not to deny love to a single inhabitant on planet earth is the first  quantum leap of the soul in establishing ourselves as messengers of love, missionaries of the most Supreme Godhead. The forbearance and endurance of Christ when he was hammered onto the cross is one living example of this kind of love we are talking about.

                           “Love has no reasons” may be the norm why people think they love each other. Lovers who think they love each other without a reason may be amuzed to the bones when it is disclosed that they have personal reasons for loving each other. I have even heard that sex enriches the bond lovers have for each other whereas in fact it is the ever growing addiction for sex and the physical body which substitutes the love they think they have for each other. It is next to impossible to express love from the very core of your  heart to your soulmate unless and until your’e not  someone who has exercised his spiritual abilities to transcend the Anahat chakra. True and pure love can emanate only after one has transcended the Anahat chakra. Physical attraction is the main cause of the spark of relationships and intimate affairs can only remain wholeheartedly genuine only after the human senses have been transcended. Otherwise you would only be trading your partner for the passion and libido she ignites you with. Spiritual wisdom says that sex and love are not interconnected but that love and sex are two opposite polarities. Soul connection should be the reason to fall in love and sex is only a part of love but sex should not be the reason you should attach yourself to love. "So what is the criteria for you to find true love?" It is in spiritually exercising and awakening the Anahat for spiritual partners and for the singles, it is in chancing to find a soulmate who is going to love you true and blue right from the very core of their Anahat. If you are in search of an unconditional, selfless, true and pure love finding a spiritually advanced partner is the right option for you.

 

                           Many may not be aware about it but the most genuine and the greatest form of love one has for in the entire world is  the affection one has towards God. There is such an overpowering impact of God in our lives before the state of Self-Realisation that you see God smiling at you from the Bougainvillea flowers in your garden, you see God peeping at you from the heavy dark clouds and experience God’s presence in the rain that falls gently down these majestic sky hangings, you feel God’s Divinity radiantly blazing among the crimson clouds just before sunset and all these spiritual awakenings makes you surmise that the greatest, overpowering and the most overwhelming feelings of love one has for in the entire world is towards God. This love that develops towards God is the only permanent kind of affection one has for in the entire world because God is the only presence that is real and permanent, everything else is unreal and temporary.

                          There is a plane above the fifth where we get to realize love not only for the living things but for the non-living things as well. The non-living things will start to be loved on equal footing with the living things. The non-living things which were till date unalive and static to us suddenly starts putting on the nature of gentleness and tenderness to it. Would we ever restrain ourselves from loving the non-living things which gradually  starts putting on a vibrant, alive and gentle aspect to it? The non-living things are now taken care of properly, treated well and loved to the very extreme as you loved your plastic toys  during childhood.

                            The philosophy of an Advaitin or the non-dual man is that of Universal Brotherhood. He sees no distinction between class, caste, genders, religion, human race and the various countries. No matter what classes of distinction may separate the human race from each other he has the added insight to see in all, only one essence. He sees everybody as a concentration of the Universal Spirit and all the countries in the world as one  unison singing one united melody of Universal Brotherhood. What do you think are the qualities that generate such a Universal philosophy? It is  love  in the first place, added more by compassion, the heights and extremeties of love.

                              My dear readers by now must have figured out what great a role love plays on the establishment of peace  on the individual, society and the entire world and what great a tool love is in uniting the human race and all the countries in one Divine harmony. It may not take long for the wise to realize that the genuine love and the authentic compassion to be generated to make planet earth a most beautiful place to live in is only possible through the spiritual growth process. Heaven is not some distant realm in specifically designated places in the Cosmos but we can create paradise right here on earth with a willing ear and being responsive  to our individual demand to squash human suffering, start our eternal quest and add that magic to turn planet earth into a miracle.
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