Tag: god

All is One, One is All

All humans need the same things and yet we have managed complicating our lifestyles so much. When we live in an ashram with the same dress code, dietary restrictions and a bed/mattress to sleep on, we realise that we can live simply but we choose not to, for our own complicated reasons.

We fill our homes with more things than we can use in lifetimes, we chase tasty food, drink, bodily comfort and sensual pleasures and begin to tell ourselves this is life, which is far from truth.

This is all due to the misconception that you are different from others and you spend a lifetime trying to enhance the difference instead of dissolving it. Life actually begins when you accept and realise that we are all the same…

All is One, One is All…

Love – as an emotion or state?

Love is just a word, the meaning you assign to it is up to you. Love, as commonly understood in today’s age, is an emotion that is used for interpersonal relations – it is an emotion. It changes from time to time, person to person, place to place, thing to thing. Many “I love you” end up in marriages and very soon in divorces…

The emotion of “love” that you give/receive to/from a parent, sibling, friend, spouse, children, etc is different and changes from time to time; parents (especially mothers) love is perhaps the only love that more or less remains constant for their child/ren over their lifetime since the child/ren are just an extension of “I/Me/Mine” for the parents…

Generally, the more you care about the feelings of others(being sensitive), the more loving you are considered and vice-versa, but ultimately it’s emotional and transactional…

Then there is another kind of love that is experienced by Self Realised souls wherein when your individuality/ego has dissolved and you are in a state of love, you love everything and everyone. This is a state of love that emerges when “I/Me/Mine” has dissolved. 

Whether you want to continue experiencing love as an ever changing emotion or take up the opportunity to experience it as a permanent state of being by dissolving “I/Me/Mine”, well that is up to you.