Love is a reality and not a mere sentiment, our soul is love
which is eternal and universal, love is pure consciousness. Love cannot be
found in duality, it is just oneness thus it can never be found in other or any
relationship but within yourself, in your mind, though elusive. One and only
thing above all of us is love, highest experience anybody can imagine- the
ultimate truth.
In literal and practical world most of us consider and
experience it as intense
feeling of affection, great interest or liking, sexual act, beloved one, friendship,
sweetheart, fondness, admire or cherish, pleasure, enjoy, passion and
compassion. We do get happiness out of these acts of love & relationships,
but these are temporary, as they come from external source thus bringing with
it the fear of loss while any disillusionment can also lead to hatred and
despair.
In order to
understand in simple and easy way, the difference in practice of love as per
above two perspectives, I am taking liberty of broadly dividing these two practices
in four categories, two each of seekers and spreaders of love and also apply
the 80:20 rule to see which category each one of us belong to and what can we
do to reach higher levels of pure love as follows-:
Seekers
1.Those who seek love in others, relationships and worldly
things like food, wealth, career, profession, entertainment, drugs, liquor, possessions,
power, name and fame.80% of the humanity belongs to this category, few of us do
long and try to get in higher category but quite often oscillate between the
seeker and spreader due to lack of conscious efforts and meditation.
2.Those who seek love in their passion of things like
artists, sportsmen, professionals,
scientists & spiritualists.15%
belong to this category who do spread love to others while seeking it, the best
examples are Sachin Tendulkar, Roger Federer, Dr A P J Kalam, Ratan Tata,
Narayan Murthy, Lata Mangeshkar and many more in their respective fields.
Spreaders
3.Those who are compassionate towards
others, care for their wellbeing, treat all equally and consciously work
towards alleviation of their sufferings. 4% belong to this category whose life
is dedicated and devoted for humanity, best examples are Baba Amte, Florence
Nightingale, swami Vivekananda and many more who are the torch bearers of Love
in any society.
4.Those who transcend all above, enlightened to have
witnessed pure love the “ultimate truth”.1% belong to this category who
experience true and infinite love, and then share, teach and bless the whole
humanity with their wisdom, best examples are Dalai Lama, Sadhguru and many
more honorable saints and sages of our glorious civilization.
In short, all
of us have the ability to practice pure love but 80% of us remain entangled in
seeking love from other while 20% are able to do better because they consciously
respect their abilities, understand the fallacy of temporary love thus consciously
work hard to taste the ecstasy of permanent love ,experience it , share it and
keep evolving as loving human beings.
The temptations,
emotions and the wavering mind are natural distractions thus we all normally
end up in first two categories and seek love. The journey of unconditional love
is painful but is also the most joyous, like that of a mother giving a birth to
a child. Our own journey from a seeker to a Spreader, to total surrender for
oneness, may not take us to the higher levels but surely help us in leading an
effective, joyful and a balanced life.
Satish Shitut
Jai Bharat
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