What is Love

Q:what is love?

A:Love is not an action. it is our very nature.However it is love that brings all the problems in the world!
Greed , anger and jeolousy are all distortions of love. When love comes with knowledge, there are no distortions.

Q:What is the difference between unconditional and conditional love?

A:Conditional love is like business!
"If you do things the way i like them, then i will love you!"- this is conditional love. However your likes and dislikes change.
Unconditional love is accepting that "everything is changing".Inspite of these changes, unconditional love remains intact.

Q:Doesn't love and the expectation which comes with it cause stress?

A:There can be many causes of stress , but self knowledge and meditation can eliminate them.

Q:Why is it that people we love the most hurt us the most?

A:Hurt is a part of love. when u accept this, love takes on a new dimension,and you go beyond hurt ,pain and other negative emotions.

Q:How do you deal with the situation where you love someone and you are not loved back?

A:Its a challenge!
Your love is not dependent on their love.Love is not a business!Ilove you because i have no choice but to love!Love is not an action. it is a state!Either you
express love in its natural form, or its opposites(like jeolusy, greed and hatred)get formed.

Q:What are the signs of love?

A:When you love someone, you dont see anything wrong in him or her.
even if you see fault in them, you justify the fault and say," Well everyone does it!its normal." You think you have not done enough for them.The more you do the more you want to do for them. They are always in your mind.
Ordinary things become extraordinary!(for eg, a baby winking at its grand mother)
You want them to be yours exclusively, When you love someone , you want to see them happy,and you want them to have the best.

Five Types of Dreams

There are five types of dreams.

1. One is that which comes up in the form of cravings or your unfulfilled desires. They appear in dreams as fulfillment. Have you experienced this? Your latent desires always show up in your dreams.

2. The second type of dream is stress release from the past. All you have experienced in life comes up as dreams.

3. The third type of dream is an intuitive dream — where you think of what might happen in the future.

4. The fourth type of dream has nothing to do with any of these. It is to do with the place where you are sleeping. For instance, if you are sleeping in a hotel in Italy, in your dream, you may experience Italian sounds and feelings.

5. The fifth type of dream is a mixture of the four. You never know one from the other. So you cannot really distinguish a dream and say, "this is my intuitive dream". It could be, it need not be. A wise person would simply brush them aside.

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Q. Should we follow the advice we get in dreams?

Sri Sri: There are five sources for dreams:

1. Your dreams may come from your desires

2. Your dreams may come from your fears

3. Your dreams may be delusions

4. Your dreams may be premonitions of future events

5. Your dreams may be a result of the place you are sleeping in

We experience different things in our dreams. Usually, our dreams are a mixture of the above. Our dreams are of things from the past, future, and of various types.

Don't analyze your dreams too much. If a dream comes, let it come, and just go ahead with your life.

Three Point formula - Observe, Filter, Surrender (OFS) and CIC

Knowledge by Rishiji ..

This whole consciousness is made up of 5 elements ( earth, water, fire, air and ether) and it has 3 Gunas ( satva, rajas and tamas) and 3 Doshas ( vata, pitta and kafa). In this universal consciousness we are all small jeevas which has taken this present form after having a continuous journey from thousands of years. This life consists of all events and these events have two parts, one is the outer world which includes people, situation and objects and second is the inner world which consists of mind, intellect, memory and ego. What we perceive in the outer world is the reflection of the inner world into the outer world. The quality of our life completely depends upon the state of the inner world.

The inner world has two types of tendencies, clishta ( which pulls oneself down) and aclishta( which uplifts one self). To maintain the blissful inner world its necessary to get rid of the clishta tendencies (Rishiji had asked us to make list of our own clishta and aclishta tendencies). There is a three point formula to do this. Observe, Filter and Surrender(OFS). Observe the inner world, with the help of intelligence filter the clista and aclishta tendencies, and finally take a deep breath in, remember Guruji and with an outgoing breath surrender the clishta tendencies. This requires a practice. ( Rishiji advised to practice it regularly, may be at the start we may take help of alarms to remember ourself to do so!)

There are 6 enemies which distorts the love within the inner world, they are Kama, Krodha, Moha( attachment to the people), Lobha( attachment to the objects), Mada( feeling of me, mine),Matsar( jealousy or feeling good if someone is suffering). These are all the negative or clishta tendencies of the inner world. If you are Prem may ( nature of the inner world) then these enemies are not there and if you want to get rid of these enemies you need to be Prem may! Use OFS to maintain or to return to your Prem may state of the inner world! To use OFS you need to have CIC!! You need to have a Commitment to be Prem may, sharp Intelligence to filter the tendencies and Connection with Guruji! ( Connection becomes more strong with Shraddha and Shraddha can be increased only by praying to have it more!!)

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