Looking For Love?

What is life without love? Google “love” and you’ll get over a billion hits. Countless books, movies, and songs about love have been written and performed. The internet abounds with dating, matchmaking and social networking sites. It’s safe to say that we are all looking for love. How is it that the human spirit can survive incredible physical and mental hardships while sustained by love- yet we quickly wither and die of a broken heart? Why are we looking for love? It is because of the nature of spiritual energy. Yoga teaches that we are not our physical bodies or mind, that each of us is spirit in essence. The living being is a spark of the Supreme Spirit, and as such, a spark of love. The essence of spirit is love. A living being is not just “life” but a spark of pure love. Just as the very essence and nature of water is wetness, the very essence and nature of the living entity is to love and be loved in return. Being sparks of love, the living being wants and needs love. In fact, the living being craves and survives on love. The trouble for the soul begins when we look for love in all the wrong places. We are all looking for that perfect person to love, to take protection from and to cure us of our inner loneliness. We may go from one person to the next looking for that perfect person, but they always fall short and we end up disappointed time after time, experiencing “something is missing." Why is that?

We are a spark of the Supreme Ocean of Love and long for a degree of love that can only be found in the Supreme perfect person, no other individual can satisfy our complete need to love and be loved. We should not expect that anyone else can truly and fully satisfy us. The Supreme Person is the perfection of love. The Supreme Spirit is the Supreme Love, Beloved and Lover Whose very essence is Love. The very sound of His Names are the sound manifestation of Love. The Supreme Person is the reservoir of love and therefore the reservoir of pleasure for the living being. Our natural condition is to again experience the perfection of love by being united in a harmonious relationship with that supreme perfect loving and lovable friend. When we speak about the relationship between the soul and the Supreme Soul, we are speaking of love with all the characteristics that come with love; it is a love full of action and reciprocation. It is the world of Spiritual Love. If you would like to inquire further regarding the spiritual teaching of yoga and how you can personally develop such spiritual love in your own life we warmly invite you to attend our Sunday Spiritual Gathering. In future issues we continue this theme of looking for love and explore how we can spiritualize our relationships with others.

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Pure love for God ॐ is eternally established in the hearts of the living entities. It is not something to be gained from another source. When the heart is purified by hearing & chanting, this love naturally awakens. ~ Lord Chaitanya to Sanatana Gosvami