"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&Lust
Doubt cannot come where there is a sense of closeness. Doubt needs a
distance to appear. You never doubt something that is dear to you, close
to you.
In love even an object gains life. Stones speak to you,
trees speak to you, the sun, the moon and the whole creation becomes
alive, Divine. In lust even a living being becomes a mere object. You
want to use even people like objects. Here are some salient attributes
of love and lust. They are so different yet so close! If you find more
you may add to the list.
- Lust brings tension. ~ Love brings relaxation.
- Lust focuses on the part. ~ Love focuses on the whole.
- Lust brings violence. ~ Love brings sacrifice.
- In lust you want to grab and ~ In love you want to give and
possess. surrender.
- Lust says all I want you to have ~ Love says I want you to have
is what I want. what you want.
- In lust there is effort. ~ Love is effortless.
- Lust causes feverishness and ~ Love causes longing and
frustration. pain.
- Lust imprisons and destroys. ~ Love liberates and sets you free.
- Lust demands. ~ Love commands.
- Lust gets you mixed up and ~ In love you are focused
confused. and spaced out!!
- Lust is only dark and monotonous. ~ Love has many modes and
colours.
If
someone's lust is interrupted they get angry and start hating. Hatred
in the world today is not out of love, it is out of lust.
Love is
playfulness and in lust there is cunningness and manipulation. Shiva,
the embodiment of innocence and love was meditating. His meditation was
disturbed by an arrow of flowers from the lord of lust. As soon as Shiva
woke up he opened his third eye and the lord of lust, Manmatha (one who
churns the mind) was reduced to ashes. Everybody celebrated by throwing
colors on each other realising that life is full of colours.
We
play many roles in our life. If all the roles get mixed up it becomes
dark, like when you mix all the colours. The wise play each role
distinctively side by side, like colors displayed side by side form a
rainbow.
- Sri Sri
|| Jai Guru Dev ||
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