It there is anything in this universe that cannot be defined, it is love,
If you can describe love, then it is far from the truth. You give flowers,
you hug, you prostrate, you offer but still something remains unexpressed.
Once Rama asked Hanuman: “Tell me how much you love me?”
Hanuman said, “My Lord, I cannot expressed my love for you, you want
to see? I will tear open my heart and show you”.
Even your whole life you try to express how deep your love is, you
cannot express it fully. You can only find a little expression, just a glimpse of it.
There are three types of love satvik, rajsik, and tamsik. Satvik
love is that which does not expect anything in return. Rajsik
love is love combined with feverishness and desire to get something back.
Tamsik love is just to destroy things. But divine love is free from all these three.
Wordly love can be alike an ocean, yet even an ocean has a bottom.
Divine love is like the sky which is limitless (means top of the heart)
infinite. From the bottom of the ocean, soar into the vast sky.
when you love somebody, what do you love in them? Do you love their qualities
(Kahi pein nigahen kahi pein nishana), attributes (Smile, Voice) or the
person (looking damn sexy)? Often love diminishes. A child love its mother
as the child gets older,the love for mother recedes as the focus is now on friends, (girl friend ;))
then spouse and then children. Divine love, however, grows every moment…
You can never be bored being with a wise person, a saint. Every day
you spend, you feel the depth is getting even more. Every moment you
spend with a saint you feel the relationship is growing deeper and deeper.
This kind of love never breaks down; it never diminishes.
Divine love is so refined and so subtle, it cannot be expressed;
it can only be experienced.
Mysteries cannot be understood; they cannot be explained,
but can be lived. ‘Sukshmataram Anubhavarupam’, it’s a form of experience.
You can live it, you can be it, you can shed tears of gratitude, but you cannot
express it. You cannot fully share it with anyone.
This love is so unconditional; it does not depend on the behavior of
the other person. It does not depend on the attributes of the other
person. Does not depend upon what they do to you and what they don’t
do to you. You are in love because you can’t be but in love. You have no
choice as it is your very nature. Like the sun has no other choice than
just shine. The sun is anyway shining beyond the clouds.
Nothing can stop the sun from shining. Even when an eclipse happens,
those shadows are so far away from the sun. It does not touch the sun.
Similarly, the entire seeming disturbance in love, in your life,
does not take away your nature, which is pure love, unconditional love.
The ability to receive genuine love comes with the ability to give love.
That’s why often you do not know how to respond when someone
shows a lot of love. The more you are centered and know by experience that
you are love, the more you feel at home with any amount of love expressed
in any manner. Deep inside, you know that love is not an emotion;
it is your very existence.
Source: Times of India, the Speaking Tree, Feb 8, 2011
Discourse: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you can describe love, then it is far from the truth. You give flowers,
you hug, you prostrate, you offer but still something remains unexpressed.
Once Rama asked Hanuman: “Tell me how much you love me?”
Hanuman said, “My Lord, I cannot expressed my love for you, you want
to see? I will tear open my heart and show you”.
Even your whole life you try to express how deep your love is, you
cannot express it fully. You can only find a little expression, just a glimpse of it.
There are three types of love satvik, rajsik, and tamsik. Satvik
love is that which does not expect anything in return. Rajsik
love is love combined with feverishness and desire to get something back.
Tamsik love is just to destroy things. But divine love is free from all these three.
Wordly love can be alike an ocean, yet even an ocean has a bottom.
Divine love is like the sky which is limitless (means top of the heart)
infinite. From the bottom of the ocean, soar into the vast sky.
when you love somebody, what do you love in them? Do you love their qualities
(Kahi pein nigahen kahi pein nishana), attributes (Smile, Voice) or the
person (looking damn sexy)? Often love diminishes. A child love its mother
as the child gets older,the love for mother recedes as the focus is now on friends, (girl friend ;))
then spouse and then children. Divine love, however, grows every moment…
You can never be bored being with a wise person, a saint. Every day
you spend, you feel the depth is getting even more. Every moment you
spend with a saint you feel the relationship is growing deeper and deeper.
This kind of love never breaks down; it never diminishes.
Divine love is so refined and so subtle, it cannot be expressed;
it can only be experienced.
Mysteries cannot be understood; they cannot be explained,
but can be lived. ‘Sukshmataram Anubhavarupam’, it’s a form of experience.
You can live it, you can be it, you can shed tears of gratitude, but you cannot
express it. You cannot fully share it with anyone.
This love is so unconditional; it does not depend on the behavior of
the other person. It does not depend on the attributes of the other
person. Does not depend upon what they do to you and what they don’t
do to you. You are in love because you can’t be but in love. You have no
choice as it is your very nature. Like the sun has no other choice than
just shine. The sun is anyway shining beyond the clouds.
Nothing can stop the sun from shining. Even when an eclipse happens,
those shadows are so far away from the sun. It does not touch the sun.
Similarly, the entire seeming disturbance in love, in your life,
does not take away your nature, which is pure love, unconditional love.
The ability to receive genuine love comes with the ability to give love.
That’s why often you do not know how to respond when someone
shows a lot of love. The more you are centered and know by experience that
you are love, the more you feel at home with any amount of love expressed
in any manner. Deep inside, you know that love is not an emotion;
it is your very existence.
Source: Times of India, the Speaking Tree, Feb 8, 2011
Discourse: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
