What is Emotion?
• Emotion is a ‘motion’ – that which moves in your heart – an experience of the heart, the brain cannot recognize!• Head thinks, Heart feels• Conviction is from the head, Faith is in the heart• Logic is from the head, Love is in the heart• Association is from the head, Attachment is in the
heart• Acceptance is from the head, Surrender is in the
heart• Determination is from the head, Devotion is in the
heart• Respect is from the head, Reverence is in the heart
• Religion preaches faith, to feel the presence of God• Like mother’s feeling for the child
• Heart is the abode of God • Hrsthale manah svasthata kriya bhakti yoga
bodhaascha nischitam.• Ishvarah sarva-bhootaanam hrid-deshe tishtati• Not the physical heart; but the spiritual
heart is the abode• Emotion is an experience from the heart
Empowering• When you feel for a cause, you work, sacrifice and
dedicate yourself for it• Empowered by emotion of love Mother Teresa spent
her life to serve the sick and poor• Empowered by the emotion of Universal Brotherhood
Swami Vivekananda founded Vedanta Society in America
• Empowered by the emotion of Faith in Freedom, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi renounced lawyer profession and died for freedom
• Empowered by the emotion of Devotion, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa spent his entire life at the altar of Kali
• Empowered by the Love for Hindu culture and Tradition Swami Chinmayananda spent 42 years of his life to spread the knowledge of scriptures
Empowering is a power• Empowering is an emotion expressing as a
sincere, selfless action• In spiritual parlance, this emotion is toward
experiencing God• Emotion of the mind is the link between God
and Man• Compassion opens the heart – Lord Buddha• Naasti buddhirayuktasya na caayuktasya bhaavanaa
na caabhaavayatah shaantih ashaantasya kutah sukham – Bhagavad-Gita
Advice of BuddhaQ: How do you say you are enlightened? A: A young prince, a small snake, a spark of fire and a
young monk should not be looked down!Q: Many masters advised me to avoid love since it
creates pain and dejection.A: Without Love there is no Enlightenment.
Enlightenment is possible only by opening of heart through love. Love is not lust or attachment or discrimination or prejudice. Two aspects of love : Maitri , KarunaHigher form of Love is Devotion: Krishna declares who is his devotee in Bhagavad-Gita Chapter 12.
Adveshta sarva bhootaanam maitra karuna eva cha
• Opposite of love is not hatred, hatred is distorted form of love
• Opposite of Love is fear, fear is about losing what you love
• Maitra is to add happiness to another with your love
• Karuna is alleviating unhappiness of another through your love
Q: I love my country, family and people. Is it not sufficient for enlightenment?
A: When you restrict your love you are not enlightened. ‘I’ and ‘Mine’ are causes for this limitation. For a saint there none is a stranger.When you are stranger to yourself you estrange all othersWith love you cannot bargain, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror – it reflects only your essence if you have the courage to look into its face – RumiWhen one is in love he looks at the world from his eyes and also from his beloved’s eyes – Swami ChinmayanandaLove expands your vision; it finally envelops the entire universe as one – Vasudaa eva kutumbakamLord looks at his creation with Love. An enlightened seer has the same vision. In Devotion there is no Division.
Q: How to love everyone without attachment and possessiveness?
A: Love without expectation. Do not imprison others in your love. Give freedom to the one whom you
love.Love in spite of and not because of.Living together is not love.Respect the person you love.
Q: Limited love brings pain. Compassion also brings pain?
A: Yes, compassion brings pain. It is different from the pain of limited love.Compassion empowers you to serve.A person empowered by love for what he does is self-motivated.Love obstructed is AngerLove deprived is JealousLove distracted is HatredLove self-centered is GreedLove only at physical level is Lust
Share & Care
• Empower your family with your compassion
• Empower your friends with your care and concern
• Empower strangers with your friendliness
• Empower yourself with devotion to God
Love
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
LoveTo love truly is to add to your
life. You expand to function from two points – from yourself and from your beloved. To love the whole universe is to experience the All.
Love
The eternal, unbroken, natural state of abiding in the Self in Jnana. To abide in the Self you must love the Self.
Since God is in fact the Self, love of the Self is love of God, and that is bhakti. Jnana and bhakti are thus one and the same.
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