A Nice Article on Love
by Swami Vivekananda
I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand with some water and held it before me, and said this:"You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love."
This was how I saw it: As long as you keep your hand caringly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers round it and try to posses it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds.
This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love...they try to posses it, they demand, they expect... and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you .
For love is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings. Give and don't expect.Advise, but don't order.Ask, but never demand.
It might sound simple, but it is a lesson that may take a lifetime to truly practice. It is the secret to true love. To truly practice it, you must sincerely feel no expectations from those who you love, and yet an unconditional caring."
Passing thought... Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away.....
Life is beautiful!!! Live it !!!
3 comments:
It's amazingly true and inspiring. Let me practise this as I tend to be very possessive.
Hi Alok
Its really a great thought but very hard to understand because nature of human being being more expected thats why they are not satisfide with what ever they are getting.
Puspendra Singh
I think there are two sides of every person...Want me to describe through example....Lets check it...
first side (masti fultoosh)
Ishq ka fasana hai....(Aarj hai)
Kisi ko to sunana Hai.
but you know that is momentarily and I can not sy this as love..it is passing time enjoying that moment, but what about the whole life...
Second side tells/teaches you to "Be Good And Do Good" without keeping any emotional expectations: that is true love, very much unconditional.
Mother does not change herself and continues to love her childeren and it increases by the passage of time(seriously), it is unconditional and never expects her childern to return .......
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