18. It's All About Love
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A small story:
The other day, Nithyananda was reading a magazine. The title said, ‘Live Forever.’ It gave eleven techniques, or important instructions to extend our life span. These techniques would extend our lifespan by at least 20 years. It has been supported by standard statistics and survey.
The surprising conclusion by the experts was the same as the advice given by ancient sages, all the eleven techniques listed were related to love!
The survey showed that people die early if they are single or widowers. It showed how life is extended when there is some one to care and share -even caring for a pet animal gives much healing. If caring for a pet animal does so much, surely caring for your spouse will do a lot more.
Another thing was that the chances of getting cancer or depression are low, especially if we are caring for or being cared for by somebody. The people who gave the survey were ordinary people. Their love, the feeling of affection that they shared in normal day to day life has elements of possessiveness, jealousy, and anger. Even this ordinary love or simple infatuation can create miracles for our body!
The simple or practical love or affection for another person can develop due to some reasons. It could be that they support us socially or that person will stand up for us when we face difficult times or the person supports us mentally, emotionally, or psychologically. It could also be that you might want to get a good certificate or name from him or her. These are the usual reasons that we show love. Even this kind of love has powers to heal. This simple feeling has great powers.
Love can heal restlessness. According to the Tantra, an arm of Hindu Philosophy, there is five types of restlessness we suffer from. These five cause a lot of damage to our body or mind. All these restlessness can be healed by ordinary, simple, everyday, human love. The feeling that we care for someone, and we care for each other, that alone is enough to heal and cure.
There are higher expressions of love, the spiritual love, exemplified in the devotion or bhakthi method. The practitioners of this method have achieved selfless love. They see the entire world as God. Do not underestimate and under value the love we exchange in our daily interactions. We heal, we
grow, and we achieve something due to love. Love, in any form, is a powerful tool.
