LOVE WITHOUT PURPOSE IS REAL LOVE
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VOLUME 5
THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
LOVE
WITHOUT
PURPOSE iS
REAL LOVE
© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved
© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam
All Rights Reserved
Source: Nithyanandapedia
INTRODUCTION:
LOVE If the cosmos is a grand ocean, we are all part of it. We are one with the ocean, not individual drops in the ocean. When we think of ourselves as individual drops, we feel separate in our boundary and in our feelings. This is what is called ego. We become driven by feelings of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. As long as this separation remains, we never experience the energy of the ocean that is love, we can never experience that causeless and surging love. As long as we remain a drop in the ocean, we say ‘no’ to life. We neither love nor trust. We don’t feel blissful either because bliss is possible only for those who know how to love and trust. It happens only to those who know how to feel part of the ocean. Bliss is possible only when our heart says ‘yes’, when the ‘no’ completely disappears from our being. ‘No’ is darkness, ‘yes’ is light. ‘No’ is ego, ‘yes’ is egolessness. ‘No’ is the way of the unconscious person. ‘Yes’ is the way of the awakened one. All the conflict, all the suffering in our life is because of our saying ‘no’. ‘No’ is a fight, a war with Existence. ‘Yes’ is love, peace with Existence. ‘Yes’ is deep accord with the totality of who we are the ocean.
Bliss is another name for that accord, that harmony. The way to be in bliss is to dissolve into the ocean, not to be a drop but to merge with the ocean. To be a drop is to be with ego. The ego is the root of all misery. When the ego is absent, bliss reaches us from every nook and corner of the ocean of existence, as if it were just waiting for the ego to disappear. Ego is a closed state of consciousness. All the windows and doors are closed. Life itself becomes insulated and encapsulated. Our ego surrounds us like a capsule. Our ego is like a sealed capsule; there is not even a small gap to allow anything to enter. It closes itself due to fear and shrinks into itself. That is how we create misery for ourselves.
Love without purpose is real love. Love without any condition, causeless love, unconditional love is real love. Love opens our inner space, gives us unity, tremendous courage and energy. Love can makes us finally available to ourselves. Ego is like frozen ice and love is like liquid water. Consciousness can do two things. It can create ego, or it can create egoless. If it creates ego we live in hell, if it creates egoless we live in paradise.
GOALS:
To make them aware of the topic of ego, I, mine, how ego closes inner space and Love opens us to the energy of Love. Cause them to choose to live egoless way and experience paradise.
ASSESSMENT:
- What are the things you love to do?
- What is ego? Which part of us is ego?
- Do babies have ego?
- When do we have full attention?
- Which is the close state of consciousness?
- Which is the opposite of love?
- What do you feel when you feel you are powerful?
- Whom do you want to be your friend, a person who has ego or a person who is open and without ego?
- How does one's ego affect a person's inner space?
- How does consciousness create ego/ egoless state? What would be the outcome in both?
- Can love be created?
- Can love be made to happen by our logical decision?
- Can love be conditional?
- Why is love unconditional?
- What is causeless love?
CONCLUSION:
Follow the path of love and be courageous and lovable.
ART OF THE DAY -
GLOBAL PEACE
Materials Needed:
- Paper
- Pencil or Sketch or Pen
Procedure:
Ask the children to think about global peace and ask them to draw what they understand by global peace. Every one can imagine a picture about global peace and draw that picture.
ACTIVITY -
SPONGE, STONE, WATER
Material required:
1 sponge per child 1 large stone Tub Water
Preparation:
Fill up the tub halfway with water and have the children gather in a circle for this activity.
Discussion:
Take the large sponge and show it to the class. Ask everyone what it is. Can it absorb water? What does the water represent? Answer: Love If we are an open person, able to give and receive love we are able to be filled with love...just like the sponge. Demonstrate how the sponge absorbs the water and is filled to overflowing. The sponge is able to float on the water and also absorb at the same time. Like the sponge, we need to be open, living life as an open and beautiful person who is also able to be full of love and happily live life. But the stone is hard and closed with no love. It is neither able to absorb love nor live life happily. Demonstrate how it is not able to absorb the water of love. You can pour water over it but the water only runs down with no effect. Also when it is dropped into the water, it only sinks! What do you want to be? The sponge or the stone? Give each of them a sponge and let them all have their sponges absorb the water, and show how they can be open and filled with love.
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