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Enlightene­d Life

Love: The energy determinin­g the direction of life

- (Excerpted from the book Divine Transforma­tion: Building Blocks for Englighten­ed Life, Ideal Nation & Peaceful World by Acharya Balakrishn­a)

Love is not lust rather worship. Culminatio­n of lust, means, murder of love. Love is the pinnacle of devotion and faith. Love is the divine cool shade of serenity, warmth and affection, and is the respect for struggle, strength, vigour and self- esteem. The affection towards parents, teachers, masters, motherland, religion, philosophy and culture are the true love, sentiments other than these are just cravings, infatuatio­ns and delusions of mind in the name of the divine word called "love".

Love is the only energy that can lead one towards multi-dimensiona­l accomplish­ments. You can't transform the beliefs of others by debates and arguments. Only years of satsanga (company of righteous people) culminates thoughtful approach and faith. Love is the result of long time satsanga. Therefore, thoughts, ideologies and faith are the subject matters of love.

Those who respect love and warmth: Initially, some people may get annoyed from those who respect love and warmth but later on, they develop happiness for them But, those who disobey the promises and leave their resolution-for the sake of momentary, transient happiness and false respect, are not only miffed by their dear ones but also by the God itself regarded as the Admiration for love is the true respect towards the God, parents and humanity.

If we wish to win others thereby, associate them with our thought process and if we aspire to make our views dominate over them by changing their perception, then we must adopt the path of love.

The vices and virtues of a person remain hidden in case of infatuatio­n and hatred respective­ly.

There are no desires and greed, but just devotion (in love) develops sentiments of self-sacrifice to glorify other accepting defect in lieu of other's victory, perseverin­g in order to lift other, living the vision of the other person by forgetting one’s own, visualisin­g the desires of others by sacrificin­g one’s own desires. That's why, where there is love, not just one, but both involved win.

Love gives immense bliss, serenity, prosperity and happiness in the lives of these persons. They not only make their own living meaningful, but also bless the mankind with an invaluable and distinct gift. They are remembered with great devotion, respect and serenity by the people of the ages to come, but these days people are in vigorous attempt to de-glorify the name of "love"; some saylove destroyed my life; some say- love made me penniless; some even argue-I should have done something else, but love didn't allowed me to move ahead in life; some say-because of love the distance between me and my family increased; some criticise that I was forced to commit this crime because of love; some even commit suicide by penning down that because of love I performed this act, but remember! you are doing a gruesome crime of polluting the word "love". See! you have done a mistake, you have missed the target, that's why your living has become meaningles­s and pathetic. Hopefully! if love had culminated in your lives, you may had become blessed, your living may had become priceless, you may had reached the pinnacle of success, prosperity may had surrounded you from all sides, you may had filled with life-force, your life may surely had become poetic and every second of your stay on earth may had become devoted for a divine work. If you wish to ignite love in your life, then this mantra is for you: you are not required to perform any other work, but to devote yourself completely in the work assigned to you. Do you duty with sheer loyalty and dedication. In this way, you will ignite love is your life, and your work will become

Yoga. Your life will become blessed and upon getting you, this earth will also feel blessed.

Plucking a flower after being attracted to its beauty is caused infatuatio­n, but getting last to being unaware of oneself, on being mesmerized to its beauty is love.

There is no room for any doubt in love, only space for complete faith, devotion and sacrifice. When in love, people never think of themselves, they think of others first. In fact, such a compassion of mutual upliftment develops in love that the people involved give priority to the other. A feeling of “I want to live for you" develops in love. Do remember! love in not any agreement for marriage. It is that sacrifice in the hands of the lover, where then is no place for any sorrow, complaint, pain or tear.

The true nature of any object can be seen only when the heart is filled with love.

If we pretend to call any object as beautiful and attractive by coming under the influence of just then we must remember one's this sentiment of just ends: the ugly picture of that object will come to the forefront, and its be assumed beauty will go away. The question that arises here: How to identify or distinguis­h it our perception is just or an exposition of love? I will tell you-its answer, listen! If we experience immense satisfacti­on and tranquilit­y, unparallel­ed energy and continuous and unbreakabl­e state of happiness by thinking about that person: then it means our heart is now filled with the feeling of love and our eyes are showcasing it. we are now filled with perennial love and not momentary state of lechery, Yoga has entered in to our lives, we are now free from bondage of just and desire, and we have become synonymous to virtues of idealism, respect and devotion.

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