Guest guest Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Dear Manoshi: You have written well. All: I want to add some more to what Manoshi has written and focus on the words "Attachment", "Detachment", "True Love". he real question is : How do I love another person without forming an attachment to him? I have tried to answer this through my experiences. Hope it makes some sense. If you give up attachment, you will not have to make an effort to love, because very naturally you will experience the love that always exists within you. It is attachment which obscures that real love. As soon as you give up attachment, pure love will reveal itself to you. One should become detached from others and attach to your own SELF. Then the independent love of the SELF will reveal itself to you. More... Someone tries to love some one else... This is what seperates that someone from someone else..If a person wants to love someone but thinks that person is seperate from him, he cannot love that person. When the love of the SELF arises through SELF and meditation, there is a realization that the same love is in everything and everyone. Whoever truly loves others loves them with the awareness that they are his own SELF. Even if he loves another person, he loves that person for his own sake because it is he who feels that love. Truly speaking, he loves his OWN SELF. So to love someone love your own SELF. That is the only way that persons love will REACH YOU. Mark it!!!! That is the only WAY. This is true love. If a person is filled with love, then he can see his beloved anywhere. Majnu had become so engrossed in love that he no longer needed an external Laila. Everything had become Laila for him, When he was eating food was Laila, drinking --> water was Laila. The power of real love is very great. Because Majnu was in such a state of love, Laila began to feel that love too. MOral: If we want to find GOD, love him madly; if you want to experience the SELF, love it madly. Lose yourself in LOVE. Do not hold yourself back. Remember SELF is GOD. So if someone wants to love somone else, they should love themeselves. That is the only way their love will reach them. That is the only way!! OR is it not? VEDANTA says that you should continuously focus the love within YOU on your own inner SELF and find your happiness, your JOY, right within your own heart, not in someone else. Otherwise you project the love within YOU onto another individual and think that your own happiness and joy are coming from that individual. Experience the love within your heart!!! Lose yourself in LOVE. Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti. --Sanjay Aggarwal , Manoshi Chatterjee <khallopapa> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I haven't attained any divinity but I have faith in God and I believe in certain principles and try to follow them. I believe in the fact that what has to happen will happen and i have to accept what life offers me. I dont know when I write this how much sense do I make but I cannot resist sharing these thoughts of mine with you all , though I dont think I am writing anything new or may be I am not even capable of writing on this topic... > > An ageold question : why do we suffer? what's the root cause? > > All great people have said that attachment is the main cause of suffering.I keep thinking about this. > As human beings is it posiible for us not to get attached to someone or something, staying in this world? Difficult..eh? This means that we are bound to suffer.So, there can be just two ways-- either do not get attached to anything OR accept the pain. > I have seen that more do we get attached, we start expecting more which later leads to pain. > From my own experiences I can say that sometimes we dont want to fall in to any kind of attchment ..somewhere inside we know that this attachment is going to give us pain..but then we r humanbeings afterall. > Not everyone can be Gautam Buddha...so what do we do...try to keep a control over our minds..not to get attached deeply with anyone or anything so that when we lose it or are hurt we dont feel the pain...? Is it possible? > > Manoshi > > > > > > Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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