Force Of Love Is The Force Of Total Revolution

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La fuerza del amor es la fuerza de la revolución total
por Vimala Thakar


Una preocupación tierna y amorosa por todos los seres vivos tendrá que surgir y reinar en nuestros corazones si es que queremos sobrevivir. Y nuestras vidas serán bendecidas verdaderamente sólo cuando la miseria de un@ sea sentida genuinamente como la miseria de tod@s. La fuerza del amor es la fuerza de la revolución total. Es la fuerza inédita, desconocida e inexplorada que se manifiesta como una dinámica para el cambio.

Nos hemos alejado mucho del amor en nuestras vidas colectivas, peligrosamente cerca de la destrucción, cerca de la inanición. Tal vez ahora tenemos la sabiduría, la conciencia de que el amor es tan esencial para los seres humanos como el aire que respiramos, el agua que bebemos y la comida que comemos. Amor es la belleza, el misterio delicado, el alma de la vida, la radiante pureza intacta que trae alegría espontánea, canciones de éxtasis, poemas, pinturas, danzas, dramas para celebrar su gozo de ser que es indescriptible y que nunca puede ser plenamente capturado. ¿Podemos traer amor a los mercados, a los hogares, a las escuelas, a los negocios y transformarlos completamente? Puedes decir que es un desafío utópico, pero es el único que será una diferencia significativa o que es plenamente digno del potencial de seres humanos completos.

La compasión es un movimiento espontáneo de la totalidad. No es una decisión estudiada para ayudar a los materialmente pobres o para ser amable con los desafortunados. La compasión tiene un ímpetu tremendo que naturalmente nos mueve hacia una acción digna. Tiene la fuerza de la inteligencia, la creatividad y la fuerza del amor.[...]

La vasta inteligencia que ordena el Cosmos está disponible para tod@s. La belleza de la vida, la maravilla de vivir, es que compartimos creatividad, inteligencia y un potencial ilimitado con el resto del Cosmos. Si el universo es vasto y misterioso, nosotr@s somos vast@s y misterios@s. Si contiene un sinnúmero de energías creativas, nosotr@s tenemos un sinnúmero de energías creativas. Si tiene energías sanadoras, también nosotr@s tenemos energías sanadoras. Darse cuenta de que no somos simplemente seres físicos en un Planeta material, sino que somos seres completos, cada un@ somos un cosmos en miniatura, cada un@ relacionad@ con toda la vida de formas íntimas y profundas, esto debe transformar radicalmente cómo nos percibimos a nosotr@s mism@s, a nuestros ambientes, a nuestros problemas sociales. Nada se puede aislar de la totalidad.

Hay mucho potencial inexplorado en cada ser humano. No sólo somos carne y hueso, ni una amalgama de condicionamientos. Si esto fuera así, nuestro futuro en este planeta no sería muy brillante. Pero hay infinitamente más cosas en la vida y cada ser apasionado que se atreva a explorar más allá de lo fragmentado y lo superficial, que se adentre en el misterio de la totalidad, ayuda a toda la humanidad a percibir lo que es ser plenamente humano. La revolución, la revolución total, implica experimentar con lo imposible. Y cuando un individuo da un paso en la dirección de lo nuevo, de lo imposible, toda la raza humana viaja a través de ese individuo.

Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Cómo te relacionas con la noción del autor de que la fuerza del amor es la fuerza de la revolución total? ¿Puedes compartir una experiencia personal donde alguna vez te diste cuenta de que eras un ser completo, relacionado con toda la vida de una manera íntima y profunda? ¿Qué te ayuda a experimentar con lo imposible?
Seed Questions for Reflection

How do you relate to the author's notion of the force of love being the force of total revolution? Can you share a personal experience of a time you realized that you were a whole being, related to all of life in intimate, profound ways? What helps you experiment with the impossible?

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Suresh
May 11, 2024
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B. Vero
Aug 15, 2017

 I definitely have been working on this meditation of seeing myself stretch and connect to the core of the earth and connect in a grounding way, I was encouraged to stay in my body and this really resonated with my desires - to grow and develop in new ways, as I am already open and willing to access my ability to be conscious and this ties in to the most recent awakin on week 8/8 and 8/15 of the small and the unknown to be a whole. Thank you!

AM
Jul 6, 2017

 I definitely am feeling the misery of ONE at this very moment!  Please pray with me for this ONE!  Ily

DD
Jul 4, 2017

The love that is the force of total revolution is the awareness and realization that we are one -- one with one another and with all that is -- and that what we do to any being, living and not living, and to this planet that we are part of we do to ourselves.  With such love we live in I-Thou rather than us-and-them, we live in compassion rather than indifference or worse, we live in cooperation rather than competition, we live in peace rather than war.  My realization that I am intimately and profoundly related to all that is began long ago and deepened as I discovered wisdom of the Far East and particularly wisdom of the Vedanta tradition.  I don't know what is impossible.  I know that what is possible is much greater than what we think is possible.  Our capacity is much greater than our thinking.

KA
Jul 4, 2017

 I've been wanting to write something pertaining to the state of the political environment and how destructive it is, but the bottom line sums it up in this article-love needs to arise. We see ourselves and everything else from a position of separation, a dualistic thinking. If only we saw the divinity in each other starting with ourselves. Thank you Vimala for this beautiful piece!

KP
Jun 30, 2017

 The force of love = the force of total revolution because it opens our eyes to our interconnectedness and how truly, as humans and beings, we are all one. I have felt this in waves and in glimmers many times, a feeling of complete compassion, love, joy all wrapped together envelope me and I feel light and nearly to bursting. Recently I felt this at a Compassionate Listening training, the 14 of us had shared many vulnerable stories of experienced conflict, hearts and minds were open and I felt this sense of being utterly connected to each person in the room. I have felt this with animals too. I am not sure what helps experiment with the impossible, other than having so many experiences over my nearly 50 years on the planet, that anything is possible. <3 

KG
Kiconco Grace Barbara Jul 4, 2017

 Love brings total happiness and joy , without it things move negatively .
Recently i was having councilling with  a couple and a man was accusing a wife of not telling him the truth , in due process ,i asked him whether he loves his wife' he replied no at all then i again asked him, that how do you  exepect the wife you don,t love to tell you the truth ? He answered me that she is a woman and am a man' enventually  i was forced to tell them that they both need love , becouse without it families brake.
The following day ,the man came to my home and promissed me that he is gonna love his wife so that she may always tell him the truth;.
LOVE IS EVERYTHING"

JP
Jun 30, 2017
 Vimalatai's  writing deeply resonates in my heart. Love gives birth to life, nourishes life and connects us with life in all forms. Such love is expressed in compassion for others, in kind and generous acts, wiping the tears of others, feeding the hungry and providing shelter. Sadly, the world created by the Divine hands has been converted into fighting zones, us against you, exploitation and destruction. We have been polluting air, water, food and sky-the sources of life- for our self-serving, profit making ends.These are signs and symptoms of the misuse of intelligence , energy and knowledge. Total love is needed to bring total revolution. We need to awaken ourselves and others as a humanity from this misery creating slumber. We need to have a balance between being and doing. If our doing is without the being consciousness -compassion, consideration and concerns for the life of others, our actions are going to be destructive, hurting us and others. Tooth for tooth, eye fo... View full comment
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Mathew Jul 3, 2017

 Friends
The subject is very relative and enforced.
The LOVE which is real one will make changes min the Life of people..LOVE can make wonders and without LOVE we cannot develop Life in Fruitful way.
I have too many experiences in my Life where and How the real LOVE works.
I have a friend and and he has undergone an operation .The bleeding of wound is not reducing. Doctors given all medicines.The situation is going to verse .The patient is not confident he is worrying and thinking he will die .The Doctors asked the bye sitters that he has any clause friends that some body can change his thinkings.They asked the patient first he said NO but after some time he told I have friend but he is 2000 Km, away can I speak with Him. They have tried and they got me.. He started speaking continued and it took about four Hours.Doctors encouraged and the patients mind changed and the Bleeding stopped.For 15 days it was continued.The patient became confident and now after 22 years he is keeping fine.The Love is a magnetic Lantern which can change every thing at any time.
We have a center to rehabilitate unwanted and needy people.2003 to 2005 it was functioning at NOCER GRAM near Mathil,Kannur Dt. of Kerala.It has 10 acres of Land and 27 buildings as a Training center. Here we have 30 People staying with us those who have nobody to Look after.The center fourced to close due to Labour Problems and financial Crisis.There are about 45 Employees working for the Training programmes.The closure of the center all people had gone but one person he is about 50 did not go from my side.I have no food or any money to .This person was every time with me.All told him to go and find some places.He said NO.I asked him requested him I have no money or FOOD he did not go from my side.After 8 Months I have to go from the place only this person moved to some places. I dont know where he had gone .I asked several times that why you are not going from my side ,he said you gave me protection for the Two years at that time he cant walk or do any thing with out others Help.Now you are in very bad situation all are Left But I cant leave you since you had treated me given food and shelter and now I am healthy I cant betray you.I think this is LOVE.
LOVE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEMS in the world. We can LOVE EACH OTHER with out expecting any thing.
M.V.Mathew(Ashoka Fellow)
President and CEO NOCER-INDIA (www.snehasandram.weebly.com)