“I love my husband a lot but I can’t stand my
mother-in-law” says a young woman. With such a thought, will there be peace and
harmony in a family. Will the young woman’s husband be happy to be with a
person having such thinking? How can a person love a person and can’t stand
another unless he is infatuated by the person whom he thinks he loves. It is
like saying I love that red rose but I don’t like the thorn. One has to admit
that the love for the red rose is only because the thorns in it did not allow
the cattle to gulp the flower. Can there be a rose without thorns? Yes rose is
good but that flower would not be without the plant and the plant would not be
without the soil.
All aspects of love can coexist with the personality.
With that personality the identity is maintained. There is one aspect of love
where the personality and identity loses its ground that is called Universal Love
or Divine Love. When our being-ness manifests as Universal Love the identity
vanishes and there is no personality. It is this love that spiritual gurus
refer to when they say that as long as there is ego, there is no love. They are
talking about the Universal Love.
Love is a universal feel it is an expression of the
harmony of the totality. Nothing is excluded as everything is in harmony with
everything else. It is a unification of all aspects of the essence. When I
experience Universal Love I do understand the action of love as well. Love in
action is when I am gentle when gentleness is required or compassionate when
being compassionate is the need of the minute or to yield when yielding becomes
necessary. In total whatever emotions are required it is present and most
importantly in correct balance depending on the situation. That is Sama Bhava
(Balanced Emotion).
Off late we have seen a few political leaders
talking about serving their community and pleading their life for the
up-liftment of their particular community. With the lack of Universal Love we
have confined to colonisation and the unity of my country has received a blow. My
country was practicing Sama Bhava there was never “divide and rule” policy here.
We had the thought of Sarva Dharma Sama Bhav (Equal respect to all Religion). We
had no differences even though our ideologies and philosophies had difference
in opinion. Earlier a family was united and the neighbourhood was united and
the locality was united and the region was united and province was united and
the whole nation stood united.
Unfortunately now there is no unity in a family and
the talk on Universal Love is too big if there is no love among the family
members……What say???
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