Unconditional Love Really Exists

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बिना शर्त प्यार वास्तव में होता है
-- राम दास द्वारा


बिना शर्त प्यार वास्तव में हम में से प्रत्येक में मौजूद है। यह हमारे गहरे आंतरिक अस्तित्व का हिस्सा है। यह इतनी सक्रिय भावना नहीं है जितनी कि होने की स्थिति। यह इस या उस कारण से "मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूँ" नहीं है, न कि "मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूँ अगर तुम मुझसे प्यार करते हो।" यह अकारण प्रेम है, बिना वस्तु का प्रेम। यह सिर्फ प्यार है, एक ऐसा प्यार जिसमें कुर्सी और कमरा शामिल है और हर चीज में व्याप्त है। प्यार में सोचने वाला दिमाग ख़त्म हो जाता है।

अगर मैं अपने आप में उस स्थान पर जाता हूं जो प्रेम है और आप अपने आप में उस स्थान पर जाते हैं जो प्रेम है, तो हम प्रेम में एक साथ हैं। तब आप और मैं वास्तव में प्रेम में हैं, प्रेम होने की अवस्था। वह एकत्व का प्रवेश द्वार है। यही वह स्थान है जिसमें मैंने प्रवेश किया था जब मैं अपने गुरु से मिला था।

बरसों पहले भारत में मैं हिमालय की तलहटी में छोटे से मंदिर के प्रांगण में बैठा था। हम तीस या चालीस मेरे गुरु महाराज जी के आसपास थे। कंबल में लिपटे मेरे वृद्ध गुरु एक लकड़ी के तख़्त पर बैठे थे, और कुछ देर के लिए असामान्य अंतराल के लिए सभी चुप हो गए थे। यह एक ध्यानपूर्ण शांत था, जैसे हवा रहित दिन में एक खुला मैदान या एक लहर के बिना एक गहरी स्पष्ट झील। मैंने महसूस किया कि प्यार की लहरें मेरी ओर फैल रही हैं, मुझे उष्णकटिबंधीय तट पर एक कोमल लहर की तरह धो रही है, मुझे डुबो रही है, मुझे हिला रही है, मेरी आत्मा को सहला रही है, असीम रूप से स्वीकार कर रही है और खुली हुई है।

मैं आँसुओं के कगार पर लगभग आ गया था, इतना आभारी और इतना आनंद से भरा हुआ था कि यह विश्वास करना कठिन था कि यह हो रहा था। मैंने अपनी आँखें खोली और चारों ओर देखा, और मैं महसूस कर सकता था कि मेरे आस-पास के सभी लोग भी ऐसा ही अनुभव कर रहे हैं। मैंने अपने गुरु की ओर देखा। वह वहीं बैठे थे, इधर-उधर देख रहे थे, कुछ नहीं कर रहे थे। यह बस उनका होना ही था, जो सूरज की तरह सभी पर समान रूप से चमक रहा था। यह विशेष रूप से किसी पर निर्देशित नहीं था। उनके लिए यह कुछ खास नहीं था, बस उनका अपना स्वभाव था।

यह प्रेम धूप की तरह है, एक प्राकृतिक शक्ति है, जो है उसकी पूर्णता, एक आनंद जो अस्तित्व के हर कण में व्याप्त है। संस्कृत में इसे सत-चित्त-आनंद, "सत्य-चेतना-आनंद," या अस्तित्व की चेतना का आनंद कहा जाता है। आनंद प्रेम का वह स्पंदनात्मक क्षेत्र हर चीज में व्याप्त है; उस कंपन में सब कुछ प्रेम में है। यह मन से परे होने की एक अलग अवस्था है।

मनन के लिए मूल प्रश्न: बिना शर्त प्यार आपके लिए क्या मायने रखता है? क्या आप कोई व्यक्तिगत कहानी साझा कर सकते हैं जब आपने अपने अस्तित्व की चेतना से उत्पन्न होने वाले आनंद का अनुभव किया हो? "प्यार होने" की स्थिति में प्रवेश करने में आपकी क्या मदद करता है?
Seed Questions for Reflection

What does unconditional love mean to you? Can you share a personal story of a time you experienced bliss arising from your consciousness of existence? What helps you enter the state of "being love"?

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Matangi
Nov 30, 2021
In conditional love to me is purity of your heart . It’s an energy that is your true nature . When u demand you create distance . Nature loves us unconditionally. It’s not an emotion for that matter every emotion is distortion of love only . Compassion is flow, anger is blow, jealousy is fermentation when it’s all about me is hate expressed in distorted way .when you have self love it flows in every direction . Self inquiry and spiritual sadhana are tools to make us aware of patterns and replace it with love .
PA
Nov 30, 2021
“Some believe in a God of wrath and become wrathful with others as a result—They conceive of God as the manipulator of the universe, rather than its blessing-Maker. . . .” ~Sister Joan~

From a daily meditation of Friar Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation.
PA
Nov 30, 2021
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. ~Gautama Buddha~

Such a life emanates from Divine LOVE Themselves. Many Christians will recognize these words as “Christ speech”.

Today’s “Awakin Weekly” references an experience of Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) when he and others were immersed in Divine LOVE. Such LOVE supersedes anything of man or his religions.

Hoofnote: To be a mystic monk is to be lost to the institutional church and man-made religion. }:- a.m. (anonemoose monk)
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julie considine
Nov 30, 2021
Unconditional love means walking the journey of radical forgiveness for oneself. It means loving oneself for all the all the decisions we have made even though some of them have been painful and have presented us with difficult lessons. It means taking responsibility for our part in all these decisions and learning how to forgive ourselves and all the people in our lives that have hurt or wounded us. It means setting healthy boundaries with our brothers and sisters and detaching with love from those who continue to cross these sacred boundaries. It means loving all those parts of our bodies that are so difficult to find peace with and beginning an inner peace with who we truly are at our core. If we can love and forgive our own inner selves we can then accept others for their limitations and send compassion to this world that is struggling to find intimacy and connection. What this world needs is unconditional love and that starts with loving ourselves unconditionally...
DD
Nov 27, 2021
Love means abiding in togetherness,oneness, unity. Unconditional means no condition, no ulterior motive, no agenda, no goal. Unconditional love means oneness without condition or motive. Ram Dasssaysloveis "like sunshine, a natural force, a completion of what is, a bliss." I have felt such bliss in feeling togetherness, oneness, unity in relating to some people and in relation to some natural events. In love or oneness a feeling of bliss or awe comes over me like a wave that seems to touch and move me throughout my body and soul, filling me fully. I have felt some amount of that many times, the intensity of it related to the extent of togetherness or oneness I felt. What helps me enter the state of "being love" is awareness that all creation is one, that I am part of all creation, and that I am one with the person or object in my presence.
RA
Nov 27, 2021
The paradox is that we're all seeking unconditional love through conditional experiences. The real question is 'what does it take to get beyond conditions?' We've got so many practices, but they're all just pointers, not the destination. What needs to break down so that love can break through? May we all have just enough cracks and just enough support for breakthroughs instead of breakdowns.
JP
Nov 26, 2021
There are many faces of love. The most common is conditional love. It has "if" and "then". What Ram Dass is talking about is unconditional love. To put it in Ram Dass's words," It's a part of our inner being. It's love for no reason, love without an object...This is an entrance to Oneness." This is an accurate description of unconditional love. Do I love me unconditionally? Do I love the other unconditionally? When and how? My answer is Yes . All the time? Most of the time. It is a state of being, not having and doing. In Such a state I feel Oneness within me and beyond me. Walls of outward differences melt away and I breathe the pure air of love filling my heart with unbound joy and fulfillment. My first experience of such unconditional love was with my mother whose face was shining with unconditional love. As I grew up I often experiencedsuch love when I used to chant with my father. And the same kind of love I experienced with my beloved be... View full comment
NK
Nov 26, 2021
Lovely passage. There has been a revelation in me that only when we transcent inquiry will we enter the realms of feeling and experience. Unconditional love is akin to space. We unfortunatley have been drawn to object that have filled the space and the space never gets discussed. Thus making it conditional. Unfortunate or outcome of such an approach of ignroing space or unconditional love is that we start accepting the object that filled the space OR conditions that helped us identify or experience love as the very definition of love. I loved the object, the company, the dress, the car, the house etc., becomes a norm. Quite like the MOMENT Ram Dass had, where, in complete stillness but in THE PRESENCE of his Guru or the very epitome of Unconditional love he felt that UNCONDITIONAL LOVE all of us have the opportunity to feel the same, every moment. All we need to do is expand our awareness, move from thinking to feeling and let our consciousness expand. Just one moment is enough and tha... View full comment