If there is something that cuts across all cultures, languages, all living beings and even non-living things (I will explain below why even non-living is included here), that is love. If it does not follow the step by step path of attraction, love and being grateful, it definitely hurts. As much as we long for love, it is also the very reason for all the negative emotional roller coaster that we go through including anger, jealousy, greed, lust, disinterest, hate, fear, sadness, etc. This may sound crazy at first. But love for perfection results in anger when things are not perfect. Loving only things/beings that belong to you makes you jealous when that/those which does not belong to you is doing better. Love for holding things beyond what one can handle make one greedy. Love that does not see beyond the object of love becomes lust. Love that does not have any direction becomes disinterest. Love in the opposite direction becomes hate. Love standing upside down is fear. Repeated thought of love for something makes you sad.
Having said all the above, why is still love being longed for and why people even die for love? Because everything in this creation is made up of love. Just like how protein is made up of amino acids, this entire creation is made up of a substance called love. Love is just not an emotion. It is the same force of love that binds all the planets to the Sun as the force that binds all the electrons to the nucleus. It is the glue that binds everything in this creation. And the feeling of longing is not necessarily bad. In fact it is the longing that makes love infinite. At any point if the longing dies, love also dies with it. Why does the love hurt then? Because we try to hold love that is infinite. In an effort to hold love, we constrict the expression of love causing suffocation. Putting a boundary to the expression of love in an effort to possess love is the cause of the hurt. Also demanding love destroys love. Love flows unlimited outward because each of us is a source of infinite love. Hence allowing it to find its expression in every manner makes one feel abundant and blissful. But the moment we look for getting love, possess love, hold love it completely destroys it. This is the biggest lesson of life. If there is just one thing that is worth realising in life it is this. That is the reason every religion in the world says Joy is in giving love and not in taking love.
At first this knowledge may sound impractical because we tend to naturally want to hold love. But on the other hand we also have practically seen that every time we have experienced some hurt it was because we were trying to posses love. What is the way out? This is where ancient practices of Pranayama (breathing techniques) and meditation comes handy. I will explain how. As a child, it has been so easy for us to give love without any inhibition. For an innocent child even non-living things exhibit life. Even Sun, Moon and stars are its friends and relatives! Because there is nothing stopping the flow of love from within and child remains the source of unlimited love. But over the years we started accumulating enormous toxins in the body and an enormous amount of emotional garbage in our mind. In the process of becoming intelligent, we started kissing our innocence. But we have remained ignorant of any method that can reverse this process and make us once again innocent in spite of our intelligence. The answer is Breathing techniques. It is a scientific fact that 80-90% of body toxins go out through breath. But it is also scientifically known that gradually out lung capacity has reduced to just 30% on an average. The only way out of this is to once again maximize the lung capacity. And Pranayama is most well known method for it. Also how to get rid of the emotional garbage? Again it can be done using breath. Because breath is the connecting link between our inner world of peace and outer world of dynamic expression. You might have noticed that every emotion we go through has a corresponding pattern of breath. But this has remained unidirectional. We feel a certain emotion and breath automatically changes. But it is also true that by changing the pattern of breath, one can have a greater hold on emotion. The world famous breathing technique called Sudarshan Kriya exactly works on this principle. This rhythmic breathing technique not only works on the level of emotion, it also affects and leaves a long lasting positive effect on all the levels of our existence - Body, Breath, Mind, Intellect, Memory, Ego and the Self. It thoroughly cleanses all the levels and thereby bringing back the child like innocence back to our life allowing the infinite love within us to find its expression in all possible ways it can. We become a perfect divine instrument to the expression of love. There is no question of any kind of distortion of love exhibiting itself nor of any kind of hurt!!! We become ever so grateful for the Love we have received and We become the True flawless Love itself!!!
Having said all the above, why is still love being longed for and why people even die for love? Because everything in this creation is made up of love. Just like how protein is made up of amino acids, this entire creation is made up of a substance called love. Love is just not an emotion. It is the same force of love that binds all the planets to the Sun as the force that binds all the electrons to the nucleus. It is the glue that binds everything in this creation. And the feeling of longing is not necessarily bad. In fact it is the longing that makes love infinite. At any point if the longing dies, love also dies with it. Why does the love hurt then? Because we try to hold love that is infinite. In an effort to hold love, we constrict the expression of love causing suffocation. Putting a boundary to the expression of love in an effort to possess love is the cause of the hurt. Also demanding love destroys love. Love flows unlimited outward because each of us is a source of infinite love. Hence allowing it to find its expression in every manner makes one feel abundant and blissful. But the moment we look for getting love, possess love, hold love it completely destroys it. This is the biggest lesson of life. If there is just one thing that is worth realising in life it is this. That is the reason every religion in the world says Joy is in giving love and not in taking love.
At first this knowledge may sound impractical because we tend to naturally want to hold love. But on the other hand we also have practically seen that every time we have experienced some hurt it was because we were trying to posses love. What is the way out? This is where ancient practices of Pranayama (breathing techniques) and meditation comes handy. I will explain how. As a child, it has been so easy for us to give love without any inhibition. For an innocent child even non-living things exhibit life. Even Sun, Moon and stars are its friends and relatives! Because there is nothing stopping the flow of love from within and child remains the source of unlimited love. But over the years we started accumulating enormous toxins in the body and an enormous amount of emotional garbage in our mind. In the process of becoming intelligent, we started kissing our innocence. But we have remained ignorant of any method that can reverse this process and make us once again innocent in spite of our intelligence. The answer is Breathing techniques. It is a scientific fact that 80-90% of body toxins go out through breath. But it is also scientifically known that gradually out lung capacity has reduced to just 30% on an average. The only way out of this is to once again maximize the lung capacity. And Pranayama is most well known method for it. Also how to get rid of the emotional garbage? Again it can be done using breath. Because breath is the connecting link between our inner world of peace and outer world of dynamic expression. You might have noticed that every emotion we go through has a corresponding pattern of breath. But this has remained unidirectional. We feel a certain emotion and breath automatically changes. But it is also true that by changing the pattern of breath, one can have a greater hold on emotion. The world famous breathing technique called Sudarshan Kriya exactly works on this principle. This rhythmic breathing technique not only works on the level of emotion, it also affects and leaves a long lasting positive effect on all the levels of our existence - Body, Breath, Mind, Intellect, Memory, Ego and the Self. It thoroughly cleanses all the levels and thereby bringing back the child like innocence back to our life allowing the infinite love within us to find its expression in all possible ways it can. We become a perfect divine instrument to the expression of love. There is no question of any kind of distortion of love exhibiting itself nor of any kind of hurt!!! We become ever so grateful for the Love we have received and We become the True flawless Love itself!!!
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