16. Is This Love?

Everyone, from a teenager to a senior citizen, asks this question although the contexts are different.

The meaning of the word Love is contaminated, corrupted, and loaded with many different meanings, interpretations, and commentaries. Our normal feelings of love are at its best filled with possessiveness, anger and jealousy. This kind of love, although not the best, does a lot of good to our mind.

A small story:

The other day THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM was reading a survey report in a magazine. The title said, 'Live Forever.' It gave eleven techniques, important instructions to extend our life, by at least 20 years, supported by standard statistics and survey reports. All the eleven were related to love! The article said even caring for a pet animal releases a hormone which allows us to live at ease with our body. If caring for our pet animal does so much, surely caring for our husband or for our wife will do a lot more!

Another fact mentioned in the survey is that single or widowers died early. The survey showed how life is extended, how there is a low chance of cancer and depression if we are caring for or being cared for by somebody. Even this ordinary love, simple infatuation, can do miracles for our body and mind. It gives you a deep feeling of healing, of well being.

Let us not underestimate the effect of this love. This love, say that we care for a pet, or play with children, helps us to avoid heart attacks or postpone any fatal diseases. Any mental restlessness can be just healed by love. Pets help us release tension. They do not talk back to us. They just listen and express love. Their energy heals us.

Four feelings: Love, intelligence, energy and bliss, are four sides of the same pillar. When we express a feeling through our head, it is intelligence. When we express through our heart, it is love. When we express through our being, it is energy. When our being just relaxes without knowing why, without any reason, it is bliss. All the four are the same phenomena, expressed by four different names.

So, whenever we express love, we express energy also. Love is concentrated, caring energy. Naturally, whenever we express love we become a channel for energy. When we are a channel for energy, we not only help but we are also helped.

Love has a deep power of healing. Let us remember that in all our interactions today.