True Love

                                    True love

Love is not when you look at each other. Love is when you look at the same goal together…

When you see each other, at first you may see the good things in others and appreciate them but over some time, you find faults in others and then start criticizing.
This is because of our superficial vision. Considering ourselves and others as one only BMI( body-mind intellect complex. )

No one is perfect in this world. It is said that karma (good and bad) gives rise to its respective fruit/ result. When papa & Punya account ( results of bad and good deeds in the previous lives) reaches at 50% – 50 %…then only one gets the manushya Janma. Anything less or more than this would give lower or higher Janma.
Human birth is said to be the rarest of the rare and blessed birth/janma as only Human beings are endowed with the Viveka ( power of discrimination between Self and not-Self/ सदसदविवेकबुद्धी) to get the opportunity of getting moksha/liberation.

So one thing is clear that we are here to exhaust our prarabdha…I.e. to enjoy the sukham (the result of Punya) & to suffer from sorrows ( results of papa) without complaining as these are the results of our own previous karmas and to achieve the very purpose of human life- the moksha/ liberation.
If we apply this knowledge in our routine life, our frequency of complaining and blaming will reduce for sure.

The partners whose goal is the one…The Truth….can help each other in their common path to achieve IT. This togetherness is the real companionship.  True love takes one towards the Truth. Anything which stagnates you only in the worldly matters is the asakti / आसक्ती/ attachment…True love always wishes for the good of others. And doing good is to take others towards Truth…by hook or crook. This does not mean that your life will be of a recluse but it will be more joyful.

A father is taking his son to school. On the way, the son wishes to buy toffee from the shop, chase after a dog, and ride one round on the swing in the garden. Father doesn’t resist him but he doesn’t allow him to spend more time in that either. Son also understands that they have to reach the school.  This is the way they enjoy the journey without forgetting the destination/goal.

But if the son insists father to allow him to engage in these secondary activities only, ignoring the school, the father will scold him and drag him towards the school.
Father is determined to take his son to school. Although the son gets distracted from the aim, the father reminds him, in fact, that he becomes rude and harsh towards the son just for the sake of his good.

True love is not the mushy always.  True love should take the other one towards the truth/ ultimate Good.
Along with enjoying the worldly goals ( dharma, Arth, kaam), True love never let other forget the ultimate goal…

During the spiritual journey,  one may be a fast walker and another one slower, because of their different tendencies. Their worldly goals may be different but if their common goal is the truth….they will enjoy the journey…this is the real companionship.
The jnana, dhyana, and bhakti completely change their vision and thus instead of seeing each other as just the BMI complex…they see the divinity within…beyond BMI.

            Hari Om!