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.
