"To love someone whom you like is insignificant. To love someone because they love you is of no consequence To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life. To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living..." ----- His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankarji
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Love And Renunciation
Only one who has renounced can truly love. To the degree you have renounced, to that degree you have the ability to love.
Often
people think those who renounce cannot love, and those who love cannot
renounce. This is because so-called renunciants do not seem to be in
love, and so-called lovers are very possessive and are in need.
True
love is non-possessive and brings freedom, and renunciation is nothing
but freedom. Only in freedom can love fully blossom. When in love you
say, "I want nothing, I just want this." Renunciation is, " I don't want
anything. I am free." In love there is no other need. Renunciation is
having no need. Love and renunciation, although appearing to be
opposites, are two sides of the same coin.
McQueen said -- They are the same side of the same coin. (laughter)
Tara asked -- Does this mean the lover renounces his beloved?
Guruji responded -- You renounce the attachment, the possessiveness. Renunciation doesn't diminish love; it enhances it.
Only
renunciation can sustain love and joy. Without renunciation love turns
into misery, possessiveness, jealousy and anger. Renunciation brings
contentment and contentment sustains love. Without renunciation one gets
discontented, frustrated, sad, fearful, suspicious, analytical. And the
whole soap opera begins. And this is what we find in society , don't
we?
The so-called renunciants have run away from life frustrated
and disappointed. Real renunciation is born out of knowledge and wisdom,
knowledge of life in the background of time and space and in the
context of this magnanimous universe.
- Sri Sri
Jai Gurudev
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