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Only questioning can purify the mind… questioning which is not a product of our thought process…

Nearly all the religions are based on books some one and some several…but none of them allows you to question or doubt… if you question the entire religious world in the west, east and all places crumbles down in one day… ( I will write more on this later) but questioning, doubting something purifies our mind and can only give us the most clear and bright picture of everything.

Some theories suggest a relation between mind, body and breadth and other day someone mentioned that if you control any of the two you the third will complement the others

First let us keep one thing very clear… the body has nothing to do with mind… maybe a healthy diet and good way of living with high moral values will give you a mind which is quite… but it is the other way always … meaning the mind always influences the body and its habit and all… and also breath is just one one of the many bodily functions…

From the very beginning of time when man first got the gift(?) of mind - the power of thinking - the process of thought have created a sense of separation - a sense of division…

Right from the day we invented fire… and came across the barbecued meat… when we invented crops.. planting seeds, keeping cattle…. it has driven us towards insecurity… we wanted security.. we wanted the security from hunger, security from the other tribe, security from the animals, security from the storms, security from the fellow people. We formed clans, groups, marked our cattle, territories… and stayed in groups with a belief that this will give us security…

Knowledge which builds the mind is acquired over Time - an important factor which builds the image of self. Please see previous post.

Our whole life is based on action which is driven by our thoughts which again is based on knowledge. Knowledge acquired either by study, research, through experience, exchange, interaction, doing something or out of action (meaning you do something without thinking and then learn out of it) and all of which are accumulated over time.

We lead our daily life out of this actions, learn and again modify our act from that knowledge. But the accepted fact is - knowledge is never complete in any spheres - be it science, arts, relation, music, poetry, literature, farmer, or with anyone. A part of the knowledge is always filled with ignorance…. and action out of such knowledge can never be complete… Please do post your views if you think differently or you want to discuss this point.

The human mind on one hand is extremely complex and on the other very simple. Its one of the rare creation or object or phenomenon in Nature. Rather, we ourselves make it complex due to the many psychological compulsions we have or acquire or build during our existence in this material world which causes the conflict and the pain by way of resistance to certain things and the acceptance and acquisition of some. Its difficult for us to observe or watch something without involving our mind. Our mind interferes with the process of our thought for each of our acts.

Lets take an example - lets keep a glass of beer in the middle of a table and ask four guys to look at it and tell us what they think - chances are you will come with four different opinions!

Life was always like a vast sea beach and we strolling across looking and collecting sea-shells… we hold on to some while some we throw away thus creating - happiness and unhappiness.

Throughout our life we acquire knowledge on many aspects - from books, from teachers, from relatives, from circumstances, from experiences, from events, interactions, exchanges. And all this acquired knowledge is used to build only our own self - our own beliefs, our illusions in making us believe that we are all different individuals - making everyone of us a self centered entity - what i mean is all our actions and thoughts act with ‘us’ in the center of it.

Whatever we observe is guided by our desires, our motive our memory our thought. Instead of a beer even if we see a blooming rose - one will think to take a photo, another to draw it, someone to pluck it for his/her friend, someone to simple keep it, someone will ignore it, some will stay away as they may not like the smell !

I want this , i don’t want this, i am correct, i want to be a director, i want to an actor, i don’t want a aeroplane, i don’t want to read this shit, i know better, i want sex, i want solitude, i hate liquor, i like guys, i like to show off, i like piercing, i love youtube to blah blah… knowledge makes us create an image of our own self and others around us in our mind from which our actions take shape… And actions which takes shape from the self-centered knowledge and our selfishness, ego, vanity, greed and aggression is always damaging and will give rise to conflicts - conflicts between man and woman, conflict between societies, nations, institutions, religious groups and all people.

Observing things or becoming aware of something without our knowledge interfering the observation is difficult - i am not saying unattainable.

The other factor which is important and requires consideration in this context is time. As knowledge is acquired over time - we acquire knowledge over time. But that we will discuss in the next post

There are many different kinds of Love.. love for Jesus or God or a Deity or a Religious Guru, Love for Country, Love for a Team, and more… here we will discuss only Love in the context of our daily life….

But to understand Love or what it means let’s first see the context in which we live right now and how we exist… it will be easier to understand if you have read my previous articles.

And the path which brought us here and locked in this cage is the path of wisdom, knowledge, and experience gained over a million years, maybe more…

We need to understand a few things to understand duality or conflict before we go in the actual question.

We speak of Non-Violence, Happiness etc…But how do we define the idea of Non-Violence, Happiness, Non-jealousy, Non-aggressiveness, Non-greediness, Pleasure, etc. ???

The thought of Non-Violence comes only from the thought of violence and similarly for others. Similarly the thought of Happiness and Pleasure comes from the thought of Sorrow, Pain, Loss and Greed. In more simple words..imagine if we had two or more suns ..then the thought of night or stars would have never surfaced… not impossible… so if there was never any violence..then the thought of non-violence would not have come…

If we can confront hate, anger, pain, aggression, violence directly to its very root cause then we might achieve something but if try to move from one state to the other say from pain to pleasure then we cannot achieve anything and we will continue to live in duality and conflict and the struggle with that…

Similarly if we approach the Question: What Love is - we need to approach it with a free mind - free from prejudice, romanticism, free of motive, free of sentiments, the million definition in books and elsewhere, and free of all our personal emotional equations with the word…

What is Love ?
The most common answer we receive…
Yes, I think I know what is Love ( with a smile)

And this is where we put a stop to ask ourselves what really love is…If we really want to know what is love we should ask it without prejudicing our mind with personal experiences, emotions and opinions as otherwise we will close the door of perception of knowing the real meaning

Though everyone has a different opinion we can do some generalization of majority opinion that Love is a feeling which provides pleasure to our senses ( at an adolescent level we can attach words like sharing, caring, and other feelings etc. again which results in pleasure)

To elaborate : Love is a combination of the thought of desire, the memory of some experiences which gave us pleasure and chasing that image of pleasure in our mind or trying to achieve that state.

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If we do not equate Love with pleasure then we can get rid of Fear, Anxiety and all the other things with it. If we can get out of the conflict of ?I am Loved? and ?I am not Loved? and chasing the memories and those images of pleasure and desire. As they will only result in conflict, sorrow, fear and frustration. Love is something beyond passion, desire and pleasure as love cannot survive in conflict.

Finally…. Love is Compassion in all sense….and in all its manifestation… without prejudice or judgment. We will not be able to appreciate the beauty of this word without freeing ourselves from attachment