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The approach of Valentine's day made me contemplate on what love really is. I keep coming back to the answer: Love Is
This emotion called love is eternal, endless, ever-flowing, without a beginning and without an end. In the language of nine emotions (Nava rasa), it is called. Shringara. It means one that beautifies, adorns, soaks one in the mantrika vibrations of Shreem.
It is considered the mother of all emotions and is a primary, innate outpouring comprising of verbal and non verbal modes of communication. It is the purest of thought, emotions and sensation that one can possibly experience at any level of awareness. The more we try to comprehend, cognize and define, we limit it and take away the essence.
Is it possible for love to be too much and how to know?
Love is the strongest force but when this strength becomes weakness then it is too much.
Love brings a sense of comfort, grounding and security but when it stirs up and makes one anxious and insecure then it is too much.
Love is an inspiration and it conspires action for growth to achieve the maximum potential but when it causes depression then it is too much.
Love is freedom but when it limits, binds, attaches itself and becomes a bondage then it is too much.
Possession, obsession and compulsion are not names or forms of love, they are abuse.
Love empowers one to be themselves but when one tries to overpower the other then it is too much.
Love allows room for forming and storming and is not a set of rules to follow.
Love is a force, use it in the right direction and it will never be too much but if you play with it, it becomes a Karma.
Love is eternal yet ever changing. The love component of it is eternal but its expression is ever changing.
My expression about love is limited by my experiences, there is more to explore about this most ancient traveler.
Love is a liberator. Love is surrender. It is the purification of the heart by establishing undivided, pure, unconditional love towards everyone. This is one of the most important step towards understanding what is Yoga, Ananda, Moksha and Samadhi.
Expressions of Love:
Priya: What we expereince in our heart, body, mind and breath when we are in the company of someone we love, is Priya.
Moda: When the love that we express is acknowleged and received, the feeling of delight in the heart is Moda.
Pramoda: When we feel the lover, the love itself and the loved ones unite in the cave of the heart as one, even in the absence of the lover, it is Pramoda.
Vatsalya: The motherly, caring, protecting, overflowing emotion that a person experiences towards a baby is Vatsalya. Its only purpose is to nurture.
Virah: The experience of pain, suffering, speration, isolation, melancholy and longing during the period of separation of the lovers is Virah.
Bhakti: When love becomes devotion, dedication, selflessness, all giving, soaking in the divine ambrosia of surrender towards divinity itself, it becomes Bhakti.
Prema: The pure relationship of a sadhaka to their sadhana, to their Guru lineage, wisdom of cosmos for the spiritual pursuit without any selfish desire for material gains, is Prema.
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