The question of “What is love?” has been asked through ages immemorial. I have a simple answer for it. Love is just ‘the absence of hate’. As a matter of fact, the whole universe is built on the element of love, and the presence of hate would lead to its ultimate downfall!
The Chinese philosophy states that ‘the soul’ is made up of the five basic elements: the prolific earth, the lambent breeze, the passionate flames, the roaring seas and the eternal sky. When all these elements are bound by the essence of love a ‘soul’ is created. Perhaps this is the reason when two people come together for a life time bound by the sacred ceremony of love; they are called ‘soul mates’!
Simply put, the absence of hate paves way for love. The soul manifests it as different emotions; friendship, kindness, forgiveness, humility, sacrifice, passion, joy…
Romance being the most prominent of them, is always mistaken as the ‘universal love’ where the fact is it’s a minuscule fragment of the universal element.
Many of you may argue what I would call the neutral feeling that lies between love and hate. Neutrality is for those who cannot take a stance in life, for them who cannot decide which road to take; it’s a sign of vulnerability, a state of profound confusion!
Every one of us sways on an emotional pendulum that stops at different times in different situations. A thief would rob a bank for the love of money; a cop would nab the thief for the love of position or for the love of his duty! It all depends whether you see things from a thief’s eyes or a cop’s! If the thief would have never ‘loved’ money,he wouldn’t have robbed a bank and the same with the cop too! Love has the power to make you do things, things that may seem ‘right or ‘wrong’ to the world!
For young minds today, loaded with the crap from movies and books, love has just ended at ‘romance’. Flowers, gifts, poems, have emblazoned this sacred emotion. In the name of this romance, the true essence of love from the family, from our well- wishers have taken a back seat. Today love starts with the fair skin, progresses with a kind smile and ends with tender lips! What the world needs today is a bit of realization and of course loads of LOVE!!
The Chinese philosophy states that ‘the soul’ is made up of the five basic elements: the prolific earth, the lambent breeze, the passionate flames, the roaring seas and the eternal sky. When all these elements are bound by the essence of love a ‘soul’ is created. Perhaps this is the reason when two people come together for a life time bound by the sacred ceremony of love; they are called ‘soul mates’!
Simply put, the absence of hate paves way for love. The soul manifests it as different emotions; friendship, kindness, forgiveness, humility, sacrifice, passion, joy…
Romance being the most prominent of them, is always mistaken as the ‘universal love’ where the fact is it’s a minuscule fragment of the universal element.
Many of you may argue what I would call the neutral feeling that lies between love and hate. Neutrality is for those who cannot take a stance in life, for them who cannot decide which road to take; it’s a sign of vulnerability, a state of profound confusion!
Every one of us sways on an emotional pendulum that stops at different times in different situations. A thief would rob a bank for the love of money; a cop would nab the thief for the love of position or for the love of his duty! It all depends whether you see things from a thief’s eyes or a cop’s! If the thief would have never ‘loved’ money,he wouldn’t have robbed a bank and the same with the cop too! Love has the power to make you do things, things that may seem ‘right or ‘wrong’ to the world!
For young minds today, loaded with the crap from movies and books, love has just ended at ‘romance’. Flowers, gifts, poems, have emblazoned this sacred emotion. In the name of this romance, the true essence of love from the family, from our well- wishers have taken a back seat. Today love starts with the fair skin, progresses with a kind smile and ends with tender lips! What the world needs today is a bit of realization and of course loads of LOVE!!
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