By Vasant Lad
The
word love is a lovely word. Everyone can literally
become
mesmerized, deeply touched, or burst
into tears from the word love.
If someone says the words, “I love you” to us, we are emotionally
affected. The whole
world is hungry for love. Why is there so much
power, so much purity, and so much
sacredness with the word love?
Even so, the word love is misused, abused, and overused
by our
parents, lovers, and even by friends. So what is love?
To
reach an understanding
of love, we have to find out what love is
not. Then you can reach a positive state of love.
This is
self-inquiry. Is love attachment? No, attachment is not love. Is love
mere memory? Is love only pleasure? Or temptation? Is love power,
control, and manipulation? Love is none of
these. When we turn away
from the aspects that are not love, then we reach a positive
state
of love. Love is freedom, compassion, care, intimacy, trust, and
divine faith. These profound qualities are the qualities of life. We
could say that love is the law of life.
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| O amor é cego - irmãos Ginja (Estremoz) |
Love is clarity. Clarity
breeds compassion
and compassion again flowers into love. Love is
not blind; it has its own intelligence. In this
way, love keeps
everything in its proper place. What is our right place in life? What
is our
right place in relationship? No one knows. Perhaps what we
think is our right place is but the projection of desire. However,
when we are not in our right place or position, we
feel unhappy,
miserable.
Love
is surrender. In that surrender, you become humble and simple, and do
not crave
power, prestige, or position. This state of mind—humble,
simple, surrendering with
great trust—is very close to the love.
When love flowers in one’s life, there is joy, beauty,
and peace.
Once you surrender to love, you surrender to god. Surrender opens the
door.
Surrender is a journey towards the heart and the heart is the
seat of love. When you
surrender, it opens the doors of the heart
into the profound abyss of love.
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