|
Un-Conditional
Love
Love is the highest power or fundamental force operating in this
Universe. Love is the word often used in our daily lives and like other
words used without the awareness what it means. Love is un-conditional.
We experience first Love , Unconditional love through our mother. Why is it
un-conditional, because a mother forgets her body, pleasure, pains and
sacrifices her energy and time for the child without expecting anything in
return. This is why Mother's love is considered the highest.
In
most of the human relations, love is for give and take business policy. The
word “love” is used to someone only if there is a reciprocating benefit.
This
benefit-based-love is the opposite of Compassion or un-conditional love.
Unfortunately the business-love is mistaken for un-conditional-love . Each
member in such a business-relation-love begs for each other’s love.
Love is no more for love sake. It is only for benefits.
We so called "lovingly" take care off a cow because of
our business attitude that it will give milk. The moment it stops giving
milk, we give it for butchering. This is the worldly love based on
expectation. People love to have pets because they fail in "expectations"
from other human beings. Pets are innocent, that they show expected actions
of human beings.
There is frictions in human relations when our
expectations do not get fulfilled. We expect others to behave in a
certain way that is soothing to our mind. If others behavior does not meet
our expectations then we are agitated and feel no love or brand others that
they do not love us. This is no love, this is conditional or business love.
Through conditional love we experience short transient happiness when it
fulfills our expectations. No one can always fulfils our expectations. This
fulfillment we experience as happiness which is transient for time being.
But through Unconditional love one experience eternal "Bliss" , this
is what is symbolized as
"Radha and Krishna"
and the great legendary
"Kannagi".
In Love , which is unconditional, one has no
expectations, there is only acceptance. One accepts the other person as he
or she is. This attitude becomes the first stepping stone in inner growth.
Marriage and family life is a wonderful field to practice
un-conditional Love. This is why in Santana Dharma,
Marriage
is considered divine, because it is the easiest way to practice and
experience unconditional Love.
If we accept situations in life as they are, then it is
called Bhakthi or devotion. Again acceptance can be easily be mis-understood.
Acceptance does not mean "dont-care" or "give-up" or "non-trying" or "Lazy"
attitude. Giving up attitude when taken as acceptance gives
way to laziness and inner weakens. We do all actions but accept the results as it is. This is the
attitude of showing Unconditional love to the Cosmic laws which indirectly
represents God. This is Bhakthi.
By the unconditional attitude one can transcend Ego and
is one of the spiritual method for God realization. Ego blocks God
realization and transcending Ego is the only way to realize God.
Here is the Logic: Ego does not like acceptance and only has
expectations. So overcoming expectations and
living in Acceptance,
we weaken the Ego and transcending Ego, the doorway to God Realization.
If one wants to understand the deepest meaning for transcending
"Conditions" for God-realization is because ,
Consciousness is Unconditional, and
we exists as Awareness which is nothing but un-conditional Consciousness
conditioned in space and time.
Click here to continue reading
Ayurveda c here/p>
|
