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WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT REAL LOvE?

PROLOUGE

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Portrait of Nithyananda
Illustration of deity in yellow turban and ornaments

Love is an intense experience in
one’s inner space. Love is one of
the most beautiful experiences
which can happen to a human
being. It makes one feel alive,
open, new. It can reveal some of
the unknown dimensions of one’s
personality and make one’s
consciousness expand.

Portrait of Nithyananda

DO YOU REALLY KNOW

WHAT LOVE IS?

The very openness which is necessary to experience love, can also make one feel extremely vulnerable. This gives rise to the fear of being exploited or cheated by the other person. This wrong conditioning about love becomes a big obstacle to experiencing love. If someone strongly believes that his or her love will end in pain, they will see that it will end in pain. They will be waiting for it to end in pain.

Nithyananda small portrait

Their own cognition of people and
their own selves will cause them to
attract situations which will go on
strengthening their wrong beliefs about
love.

This is because it is human nature to
want to make one's beliefs become a
reality, otherwise one would not feel
comfortable. That is the reason why
conditionings about love, about life,
need to be removed before one can
experience pure love directly.

Young Paramashiva / Nithyananda illustration
Portrait of young Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

THE RIGHT
UNDERSTANDING
ABOUT LOVE WILL HELP
TO GO WITH THE
FLOW OF LOVE AND
EXPERIENCE REAL LOVE.

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam thumbnail

THE WAY TO LOOK AT

LOVE IS,

When love happens, one should simply be in love without worrying about where it will lead, or whether one will be exploited or betrayed by the other person. Only then will one be able to experience love as the transcendental and transformational experience it really is.

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam depiction
Portrait of young sadhu in prayer

LOVE iS THE BEST STRATEGY FOR LiFE

Take the responsibility for love. That is where a relationship starts. Do not say 'I love you' to anybody unless you are ready to take the responsibility to fulfil their expectations about you, without bothering whether they are ready to fulfil your expectations or not.

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

Even if others' expectations from you is limiting you or them, you need to expand, stretch yourself to fulfil them first. Then make them understand that they need to expand; not before that. Only then they will understand their inauthenticity. Others are ready to listen about their inauthenticity from you only when you first prove that you are authentic.

The energy which you use to defend yourself from others and the energy that you need to stretch yourself to others' expectations, both are one and the same. You need less energy to stretch yourself to fulfil others' expectation than constantly defending yourself from others. Even a glimpse of love makes you expand yourself for more and more love. The best strategy plan for your life is the decision to love and build relationships!

Nithyananda emblem

TYPES OF LOVE

There are two kinds of love:

  • Horizontal Love
  • Vertical Love
Nithyananda Paramashivam
Portrait of young deity / devotee with matted hair and rudraksha beads

Horizontal love is like a horizontal line, flat. It is related to time: it starts and ends. Anything that starts must end. If it takes more time to end, don't think it is permanent. Anything that starts must end. It may take a few years or a few months, but it ends. It is impermanent and time bound. This is horizontal love.

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Vertical love is related to
consciousness. Vertical love
neither starts nor ends. It does not
discriminate. It is our very quality.
It flows.

Figure
Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam deity

WHAT IS TRUE LOVE?

In real life, we always look to express our love towards others in some tangible way. Only if love is demonstrated in tangible form, it is considered to be love nowadays.

True love is like a communion. It is a resonance between two beings. It can be felt without any expression. It doesn't need communication because it is already happening as a communion. If you really love a person, then your very body language will show it.

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It will be too much to express in
words. You will feel that any
words are inadequate and will
only bring down the love that you
feel. But if you are using words,
then somewhere the love has not
really happened. When you have
to speak to express love, then
somewhere there is a lie in it! You
are using the words just to
decorate the lie.

Illustration
Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam seated in meditation under a banyan tree

Real love liberates because it doesn't compel you to express it all the time. It just is. Real love also gives you the freedom to freely express what you want to express. You can easily express anything like disapproval or anger and it will not be mistaken for reduced love. Not only that, with real love, there will be no domination or power play in relationships. Each person will be like a beautiful flower that has blossomed to radiate its unique fragrance, that's all. With real love, there will be no fear or insecurity either.

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In normal love, physical distance
between two people causes a lot of
insecurity and a lack of trust. Real
love doesn't look for utility. It
operates on sheer trust and is also
beyond space and time. These days
people are gifting each other with so
many things to show their love.
Gifting has become an expression of
love. If the gifting happens as
causeless overflowing, it is okay. We
are totally relaxed anywhere in the
world.

Paramashiva representation
A depiction of young Paramashivam

BUT iF iT iS A CONDITiON TO BE
FULFiLLED, iT BECOMES A
PROBLEM! THEN iT BECOMES A
POOR SUBSTiTUTE FOR REAL
LOVE. AS LONG AS REAL LOVE iS
THERE, NO RELATiONSHiP CAN
BECOME BORiNG.

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Causeless overflowing love is always total in its expression. It doesn't carry the usual dilutions of greed or fear. So any person whom you love, you will love totally without any reservations. Irrespective of the way he is, you will love him.

Digitized depiction of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam
Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

When you love this way, even if the person leaves your life, you will not grieve. When a person passes away, you grieve only because you regret not having loved him completely. You can love him completely only when your love itself is complete.

It doesn't have to do anything with the other person. It doesn't matter what kind of person he is. That is the beauty of real love.

IT LOVES FOR THE SAKE OF
LOVE, NOT FOR THE SAKE OF
THE OTHER PERSON.

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

If you are grieving for the loss of a person, be very clear, you are grieving because you missed loving him in totality. If you had loved him in totality, you would say good-bye to him with complete restfulness, not with grief. You grieve only because you missed something somewhere.

Illustration
Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

Even if it is your own father or husband

or wife, it is the same. If you had radiated

your causeless love to them when they

were alive, then when they left there

would not be any regret. But if you had

loved them with rationalizations, then

when they left, the incompleteness of

your love towards them would create a

hangover, and that hangover is what you

feel as grief.

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WHY SHOULD YOU LOVE?

Love the ultimate healing energy. Love is not any way related to two physical structures, it is not even related to your own physical structure, it is not even related to the mental qualities you carry. Love is related to awareness you carry.

the awareness you carry naturally spreads its smell in your mental structure & your body. So the awareness which your physical structure experiences if that feels connected to the awareness of some physical structure is called infatuation.

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam
Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

Love is a mystical power, it's a mystical capability.

If you are able to show love a little bit once in a while it is a social emotion but ever loving, radiating love, is mystical power. Ability to love will happen in you only when you are able to be in the space of Completion.

Ability to be in the space of Completion
only if you can complete, and establish
yourself in the space of Completion, the
ability to love becomes reality in you.

Nithyananda emblem

WHY DO YOU FIND iT HARD TO LOVE?

Most of the time you think the external world is responsible for your incompletion.

Understand, the External world, fully or partly, or even a little bit is not responsible for your incompletions. Incompletion by its very nature starts sprouting, growing, establishing itself only in your inner space its roots never come to the external world.

Illustration of Paramashiva/Nithyananda seated in meditation
Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

This means, many times others forgive you and forget you, because you are not that big a guy, but you cannot forgive you, because for you, you are a big guy. Many times they just forget the incompletions related to you. Many times they don't care but you don't forgive you, you don't forgive you because you are too big for you. Many times they just forget the incompletions related to you. Many times they don't care but you don't forgive you, you don't forgive you because you are too big for you.

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HOW CAN YOU EXPRESS

LOVE?

The ability, ability to forgive yourself is the first quality to start loving. Only if you can forgive yourself, if you can complete with yourself, love starts. Only then love starts expressing itself, love starts happening in you. Love can happen only when you are in the space of completion. The ability to forgive yourself, ability to love yourself, ability to live with yourself, ability to be with yourself, it's actually a power.

Nithyananda animated illustration
A depiction of a deity / Nithyananda

ONCE IN A WHILE SHOWING
LOVE OR HAVING LOVE IS A
QUALITY BUT BEING IN LOVE
FOREVER IS A POWER.
UNDERSTAND, ONLY WHEN YOU
ARE ESTABLISHED IN THE SPACE
OF COMPLETION YOU WILL
UNDERSTAND THIS STATEMENT –
“LOVE IS A POWER”

Portrait of Paramashiva

DO YOU KNOW THE POWER OF LOVE?

Love is the greatest protection you
can have in your life because even
lion will lose its vengeance in front of
you; snake will lose its venom in
front of you; any enemy will lose his
enmity which is a weapon with which
he is trying to attack you, he will lose
it.

A deity dressed in red with rudraksha beads and crescent moon

WHEN YOU ARE
ESTABLISHED IN THE
POWER OF LOVE, EVEN
ENEMY THINKS HE IS
ATTACKING YOU, BUT HE
GOES ON PRAISING YOU
AND GOES BACK. HE JUST
SINGS YOUR GLORY AND
GOES BACK, BECAUSE
EVEN IN HIS INNER SPACE
YOUR GLORY IS
OCCUPYING MORE SPACE
THAN HIS ENMITY.

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DEEPER iNSiGHTS ON LOVE

You always show the soft things as
the symbol of Love, because you
know only pseudo love. Understand,
we always show only the bird feeding
the baby bird as the symbol of Love,
action of Love. A rose flower we
show as a symbol of Love but never a
lion with a lion cub as a symbol of
Love, because we know only
superficial, pseudo love.

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam
Portrait of young monk/yogi

We always see only the superficial love, superficial love of rose and the bird feeding the baby bird. bird feeding the baby bird can be like showing the love once in a while. But a lion training the cub to hunt, lion making the cub to realize its potential, its possibility, that is the real love, making every individual realize. Showing love to your weaker side is what society, made you understand as Love.

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

When you are sick, somebody coming
and giving you food, you call that as
Love, because you know only that as
Love. When you are sick, staring at you
and saying, 'Get up! Throw this
sickness out of your body! Walk out of
this disease!' that is Love, real Love!

But you neither co-operate nor enjoy that kind of love, because you were never given the idea, impression, that is Love.

Portrait of young deity / Paramashivam

Love should be given to strengthen your completion side. Love should be given to strengthen your right side. Love should be given to strengthen your right space. But, unfortunately, you always enjoy, entertain, expect, attract, reciprocate, only to the love given to your wrong side.

The understanding about love, the
experience of love continues to impact
the way you behave, the way you think
forever.

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

ONCE YOU START ENJOYING
THE LOVE GIVEN TO YOUR
WRONG SIDE, YOU ARE READY
TO BE EXPLOITED. SHOW LOVE
TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF HUMAN-
BEINGS.

Nithyananda animated illustration
Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam seated on a throne

WHAT IS LOVE ?

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam