“Love is not an emotion; it is your very existence”

Being associated with Art of Living since last 4 years, I have heard the above line a lot of times from the master. “Love is not an emotion; it is your very existence”. I never really thought about what is the hidden meaning behind this or what it actually feels to be Love.

For me Love was an emotion which I felt with people close to me, my family, friends…. So I really could never understand how Love is the very existence and how it is more than just an emotion.

But being in HIS presence, meeting HIM several times I have really understood much more than I initially thought it to be.

If you have been to Ashram, you would know that it is a beautiful paradise. If heaven exists, it is like the Art of Living International Centre in Bangalore. And when Guruji is there, it is like heaven with God J I was at Ashram this year for the beautiful Shivratri Celebrations.

Believe me Shivratri is a day when you cannot afford to be anywhere except where Guruji is. It’s a huge celebration at Ashram, people from across the globe are there to experience the infinite energy, the union of seen and unseen, the Divine Consciousness which we all are made of.

When you are there, you actually realize that you don’t need any reason to be happy. You feel that Love is in the air. You feel so content that you really have no desires unfulfilled. You really don’t want anything to be totally happy, peaceful and centered. You attend the amazing pujas which are good enough for you to be drunken in joy and intoxicated in bliss. In no time you find yourself immersed in deep meditation, a journey to the blissful world, a journey where you realize who you really are. And in no time you find yourself dancing, being one with the music to the beats of Shiva bhajans.

You realize that you really don’t need anyone to be in love with. You realize that you are so complete and so full of love that everyone who comes across is nothing but just love, just made up of the same substance as you. The very same thing, there is no difference.

Like the wood that the door is made up of is no different than the wood the table is made up of. There is no actual difference between what you are made up of and what the other person is made up of. And a realization dawns that nothing but Love exists, we just need to realize that. You are my dear made up of Love. You are Love.

And still if that has not dawned, just look in to the eyes of the Master; just one glance from him is enough to make you realize that the entire creation is just love, nothing else. Everything else is just a distortion of love. So nothing except love really exists. And the realization gets a flood of love within you and you get totally immersed in it.

“I am You, You are Me is the slogan of love” becomes an experience than, much more than just a mere concept you have heard of.

I remember a story told by one of my teacher. Once someone said to Guruji, “I love you” And he replied why are you saying the same word thrice? “I” “Love” & “You” are actually all same. It’s all Love. Now I know how it actually means the same.

“You are made up of a substance called Love” seems so beautifully true now.

It is amazing how the deepest truths of life are really expressed and taught on this path with so much ease and it’s all so effortless.

It is said that if you are extremely lucky you get a human birth. If you are luckier you have a thirst for knowledge. If you are even luckier you have a chance to be on this path and if you are the luckiest (extreme possible luck) you have a living master. Truly blessed we are to be on this path.

Very few are blessed to be one among the lucky blessed souls. Just be grateful – Great and full to be able to be here.  

And all you can do is feel Blessed to be able to experience this.

Know and Remember for a fact that “YOU ARE LOVE”