I am extremely sorry if this post dragged on but this has been a project that has been continuously revived and buried for the last 2-3 weeks and I am extremely ecstatic that I could finally find the words to partially support with my feelings. I encourage you all to argue, complete my post along with me, you may comment on the post as you like; no restriction on language or length

How many times have we heard someone or the other speaking of how Love is no longer what it used to be? How Love is corrupt & evil now. Most of you must already be wondering why I am writing love as “Love”, Out of respect I choose to write it as “Love”. To me, Love has been underestimated, misinterpreted and disrespected the most since our creation. Love is assumed to be something between family, friends, God and lovers. But it is neither religion nor duty that it needs to be categorized or have restrictions. It my friends is the essence of life!!

So What Exactly Is Love?

So what according to me is Love? Love is the energy that keeps you alive, the energy that makes you start things in life, the energy that makes you maintain things in life, the energy that helps you complete things in life, the energy that shows you how to be truthful, loyal and good, the very same energy that prevents you from harming others and spreading ignorance and it is the only thing that keeps us sane when we are tied to our duties and life.To me, the energy that charges you, begins things in your life, maintains them and ends them, the energy that is pure guiding us to be truthful, loyal and righteous, the same energy that stops you from harming others & spreading ignorance. Which keeps us sane, when high or low with duty or life… Love!!

Love being pagan and complicated, our forefathers decided on a safer name for better control, our father figure whom we call God. Makes sense? Of course it does! Put on thy monkeythinking cap and don thy pearly white coats. Assume that we are nothing but energy inside a container that keeps generating, transferring, absorbing and losing energy, containers change but the energy process continues. Can we call this energy our soul? Can we call it Atman? and if we accept that that energy is Atman then I am sure we accept that Atman collected is ParamAtman (Supreme Being/Soul). I hope you have understood what Love is based on what God is. True Love is not what we feel for our peers, idols and possessions. It is nothing but blind love. E.g: A parent who chooses to decide a child’s life based according to their life, assuming that they know better, feel that materialistic value is higher than spiritual is being blind. I understand that the parent out of love plans but the life in the end belongs to the child alone & must be lived according to his capacity.

So When Do We Fall In Love?

Being made up of Love there is never a need for us to “fall in Love” but because we are humans bound by the chains of our own consciousness we live in eternal ignorance of the truth. Only when you realize that another creature/object rocks to your rhythm of life do you understand that there is Love between the two of you. When we accept and realize that Love is present in all, shared by all and felt by all will we be able to truly feel Love. Till then we get mere appetizers which we assume to be “True Love” but how can Love be true when you feel it only for one and not for all. Believe that you are eternally in Love, Loved & Loving and you shall truly see the world in a new light.

So Where Do We Go Wrong?

When we let our forms take control thus allowing the roots of ignorance sap out our energy did we end up creating those inner voids. Think about it carefully, which tragedy, miracle, birth, death, success and failure is not connected to Love? When a man sexually abuses a girl we immediately assume that either the man was bad or the girl was inappropriate in some way. But do we ever empathize at the fact that maybe just MAYBE the abuser had a horrid childhood or if the girl was wrong, maybe she had a childhood that distorted her sense of living. My example is extreme I know but please bear with me for I know what I am speaking about. Wars are products of pain, greed and ego; all love for something or the other… You might argue, how can Love be negative??

There is no such negativity for what is good to you might be bad to me and vice versa instead there is simply a Permutations and Combinations theory functional that produces various emotions. Your mind was designed to show you the options in life; it is your Soul/Energy’s decision to choose the Righteous/Truthful Path. When we make a mistake of letting the mind, senses and body to rule over our forms thus due to the imbalance we unknowingly give birth to ego, greed and lust. When a combination of 2 or more qualities is mixed we get more complex beings like vanity, selfishness, anger, jealousy and so on. Pain is not an emotion but merely an indicator to indicate the presence of a void/wound. When pain is counseled by Love we get strength and courage but when it is counseled by the mind we get self- pity, insecurity which in return causes the human to feel that his void can be filled with pity or constant assurance but in reality he simply needs to ask himself what he truly needs.

So How Do We Correct This?

Love can never be bought or sold, we learn this the hard way when we grovel for our parents’ acceptance however horrid the parents might be. That to me is the biggest and greatest description of a void. We can be the greatest of people in the world adored and worshiped by many but it eats into our very being when our parents scoff at our achievement even if it is out of envy. Thus to cure us all of voids One must live to Love. How….? Whenever you get a thought of jealousy, hate, anger, sorrow or narcissism, you should neither make the mistake of submitting yourself to it nor snub it out and try to ignore the situation Instead ask yourself immediately why you got that thought and if you are mad at a person try to understand why the person did what they did, ask them why they did it calmly and find a solution to the entire thing instead of just that one problem.. An example would be your pet pooping inside the house; instead of beating/yelling at the pup hoping that he learns from the beating, grumbling at the task ask yourself why he did it in the first place.. And how you can tackle it without making it a “chore”.

The more important way of correcting ourselves is by understanding, accepting and thus realizing that we are all indeed the same. What you feel is felt by others, simply in a different way but none the less they still feel it. So before you vent out your day’s frustration understand that your partner too has gone through the same so instead of venting find a way to cheer up for when positivity is emitted will positivity be absorbed. Before you gossip about another try to understand that you are doing nothing but widening the void as gossip is insecurity’s baby. Understand that your only savior in life is “Truth” and that truth is spoken by the pure energy that flows everywhere.

So Why Is It “Love” And Not God?

After reading the above all of you must already be assuming that I am simply rehashing what others have said about God. But I do not believe in God for he is nothing but a guide to help people, originally created for people to follow the path of truth and fill the inner void. Now the poor sap has been turned into a Godfather to whom we promise riches for some favor in return. Yet we never ask Love for help, kind of sad because in the end all we need is love. When we say God, we say Him or Her… But when we say Love, we say Us or We. We unknowingly remove the third party who was never needed and focus on the thing that truly needed our attention, the voids within us and others.

When in Love we can do anything for our partner, now instead of doing it for just one we need to learn to do it for every one that comes in our path. God’s void was filled eons ago so he would be happier if we paid attention to our fellow brothers and sisters. I now begin to hear arguments about practicality and logic. I do not expect anyone to donate their house or stop worshiping their God, I only hope that you see what I see and start seeing your God/ Loved one in every being you meet. Help them, if not physically then spiritually.

Remember, to be with God you need to be God. But to be with Love, you need to be Love. Because to change the world you need to be the change.

So From Whom Do I Learn How To Love?

I personally use everything in my life but my pets play the biggest role for nothing can symbolize love better than an animal. It has no boundaries, no expectations, no “define” duties yet it’s loyalty towards Love is limitless. When you read a book, try to imagine the author’s situation when he is describing a scene be it one of immense sorrow, happiness or lust. Try to understand why he wrote the scene in that way and how would you like to have written that scene. When you ask yourself questions make sure to throw your mind out the window for it is nothing but an attention seeker. Those who have cherished their inner voice will have no difficulty in listening to their inner voice but to those who cannot hear their voice, rest assured one day it will make itself heard but it can do so only when you take an active part in trying to find it through Love.