It always has to be a mother, father, brother, sister, cousin, friend, sister-like, brother-like, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, daughter, son??? Does it really matter, when all there exists is Love. Do we really need to make our bonds with people an 'exclusive' one by giving it a name. Yes, it is true that with a few people we connect at a deeper level and with a few others we connect with at a different level... it is different with different people... but the under-lying current that drives us all is Love... irrespective of whether we are close to someone or not so close to some-one, it is an expression of Love - how interrupted or un-interrupted it is by the effect of the mind and how much we act up on our thoughts.
Why do we have to give it a label? Why can't we simply be? Why do we attach so many strings in order for us to share Love? Is it really necessary? Aren't we supposed to be the same with every one, irrespective of the name that we use to define our connection with an individual? The moment we give the relationship a name, does it not add an iota of bias? Why would we differentiate one Soul from the other? Why would one Soul be different from the Other? Does Mother Nature differentiate between the Plant Kingdom vs. the Animals or the Human Kind? All the One and part of this Cosmos, then where does the difference come into the picture? Why do we Love a few more than we love a few others? Can Love be really be partial? Isn't it Complete by itself and isn't Love ever-expanding, all-accepting and unconditional? Can we really Love someone more and love some one else lesser? Then does that truly become Love? Why can't we just be like a bird or the Wind or the Sun... for we are indeed all part of the same family?
The names that we give for our relationships with people may be different, but the underlying current is Love. Then is the name really that important? Irrespective of the name that we call it, when we care - we care and there is nothing more to it. We cannot change the way of our Being... our natural state of Being to be able to share and care. When it happens naturally, what name we call it, is insignificant... Why can't we simply be?
Why can't we simply embrace one and all who cross our paths in this journey in search of the Truth, just as they are? Why do we have to define everything with our minds? Why can't we let the heart be? Why do we have to always look at it with our mundane vision - the mind's eye? When the same Divine is inherent in everyone, then how would our relationship with the same Divine be different? Can we ever restrict Love with the petty interpretations of the Mind? .. Can it transform into something with a name - defined by age, gender or race? Does it really matter? Why do we bind ourselves when all there is only this one big space... in which all of us are indeed a family? Where are lines and boundaries for Love?
I remember my master saying this to me, when I asked him "Why? Why? Why this why that?". He said, "Why don't you see, 'what is' as opposed to asking why?"
Now I see, it does not matter why we give names and labels, it is enough as long as we know that we are all "Love". We are made of "Love".
A Rose by any other name still smells sweet - Shakespeare
... pondering over the thought before I set this body and the mind into silence... Peace and Much Love...
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