Love - Nithyananda Life Solutions: One-Stop for Enlightened Living

Love operates on trust

2010-06-07T06:13:00.000-07:00

A young soldier went to his senior officer and said, ‘Sir, my friend is not yet back from the battlefield. I request permission to go out and get him.’The officer said, ‘Permission refused. Your friend is most probably dead. I don’t want you to risk your life going there.’The young soldier went all the same and came back mortally wounded and carrying the corpse of his friend.The officer was

Love and Sacrifice

2010-05-01T11:50:00.000-07:00

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone except her boyfriend. The girl told her boyfriend that if she could only see the world, she would marry him.A few days later, her doctor told her that someone donated a pair of eyes to her. She underwent the surgery and she opened her eyes to see everything, including her boyfriend.Her boyfriend asked her, ‘Now

Love gives tremendous courage and energy

2010-04-30T12:06:00.000-07:00

When his teacher initiated Ramanuja, he gave him a special chant. The teacher told him not to pass on the chant to anybody and that if he did so, he would go to hell. Ramanuja asked him what would happen to the others with whom he might share it. The teacher said that they would be led to salvation. What would we have done? Naturally we would have kept quiet, thinking, ‘Why unnecessarily go to

Power of Thought and Prayer

2010-04-25T03:28:00.000-07:00

Another real incident from history: When India was under British rule, the British soldiers found that when they carried water from England to India in their ships, the water got spoiled even while on the ship. But when they carried water back from India to England, the water not only stayed fresh through the voyage, but also remained fresh until they consumed all of it back in England! When

The perfect wedding gift

2010-04-24T21:40:00.000-07:00

Adapted From "Guaranteed Solutions" on Love A husband and wife were celebrating their fifty years of marriage. The wife presented the husband with two shirts. He was very touched and declared that they would go out for dinner instead of cooking at home. It was a very tender moment for them. He freshened up and to make his wife happy, wore one of the gift shirts and appeared from his room

Feeling like your world is collapsing?

2010-04-24T21:22:00.000-07:00

Adapted from "Guaranteed Solutions" on LoveIf you have seen children play, you might have seen them building castles with cards. They will place the cards at a certain angle to each other and build several layers of such patterns in a pyramid shape. It will be beautiful to look at. But if you remove even one card from the castle, from anywhere, the whole castle will collapse! The higher the

Drop 80% of your problems!

2010-04-24T21:17:00.000-07:00

Adapted from "Guaranteed Solutions" on Love 80% of our problems is due to this asking for attention or approval. If you just sit and write down, in a day how many things you do to get a good name, to maintain your reputation in family and society, you will see. You will find that all the 24 hours, all your lifetime, you are involved in getting approval from others. All your life, you are

A small story: Love Wealth and Success

2010-04-22T14:55:00.000-07:00

Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and SuccessOnce an old woman saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in front of her house. She did not know them. She went upto them and said ‘I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.’‘Is the man of the house home?’, they asked.‘No’, she replied. ‘He's out.’‘Then we cannot come in’, they

Are you psychologically handicapped?

2010-04-16T08:14:00.001-07:00

Now, what happens when we don’t get the attention from the other? How do you feel? Just imagine waking up one morning, and your spouse totally ignores you. Or if you said I love you to a dear one, and you get no answer back… We feel down, depressed, low on energy.But if we do get the attention, some nice words, ‘I love you!’ Then we feel good, we feel high and energetic.What happens when we

True meaning of love

2010-04-16T08:12:00.001-07:00

A Devotee's perspectiveRight from childhood, we are programmed to believe that certain morality helps create a good life. Even the new age self-help promotes the idea that whatever we give to the universe comes back to us. We are taught being loving as in being kind to others and helping others is a way to live a good life. However, to be honest, how often does helping others doesn’t leave us

People’s attention is our energy booster!

2010-04-16T08:10:00.001-07:00

Whatever we do, whatever we think, we are seeking concurrence and approval from the people around us in some subtle way. We are very keen that we should earn a good name from everyone. We may not do this in a very obvious fashion, but if you analyse deeply, you will not be at ease without the appreciation and endorsement of the people around you. This endorsement, this approval, is what we call ‘

Using Love as a Gateway to Higher Consciousness

2010-04-16T08:04:00.000-07:00

A Devotee's ExperienceDuring our NSP in Chennai, it was as if we could see Swami in each one of us. The energy in the space was so high that there seemed to be no boundaries. We all used to meet even before the program, but it was strange to experience such profound connection with the devotees, each radiating energy. As we start getting in touch with the peace and clarity inside us, we start

What is love?

2010-04-16T07:50:00.000-07:00

All the energies which move the cosmos, the very force, very life, very energy, which is cosmos, can be called as love.I will talk about different dimensions of love – how love has become this matter and how the love resides as energy inside this matter and how love activates as energy the matter and how love makes matter to move.I can say, the beginning and continuous flow and end, everything

Radiating Love

2010-04-15T04:59:00.000-07:00

What we normally understand and express in our life as love is just a pseudo frame that we have constructed around a few emotions which we have wrongly named as 'love.' Actually, true love can only be effortlessly expressed by us even without our knowledge about it. People around us will automatically experience it. Pure love manifests as clarity and overflowing energy from us. Just like how a

Love is consciousness

2010-04-15T04:54:00.002-07:00

Love is consciousness and consciousness is Love. Basically, when we work on increasing our awareness, we expand. When we operate from our head with awareness, we express intelligence. When we operate from our heart with the same awareness, we express loving energy. And when we operate from our very being with this awareness, we express blissful energy. Thus, love, intelligence and bliss are all

Love can make matter move

2010-04-15T04:54:00.001-07:00

Why is our love only in parts? Why are we not able to fall in love with the Whole?If it is to a particular person or particular object, it is not devotion. Devotion will be for the whole, why we are not able to feel? Because of the emotional suffering, emotional connection to only few forms. You have enough energy to love everything in this moment but that energy is used with all the memories,

The truth behind Love Stories

2010-04-15T04:51:00.000-07:00

When we talk about love, we immediately associate it with romance, feelings, passion, intimacy. Eternal lovers! Isn’t it?Romeo and Juliet! Cleopatra and Mark Antony! Napeleon and Josephine! Orpheus and Eurydice!In a story about eternal lovers, written by Rabindranath Tagore, the hero and heroine decide to live as eternal lovers on the two sides of the Ganges River. Once a week, they come by boat,

What do we look for in relationships?

2010-04-15T03:59:00.001-07:00

We all go through several stages of relationships in our lifetime. If you observe very closely, whichever stage we are in, when we ask for love we are actually asking only for the other person’s attention. That is not love When we say a person doesn’t love us, we actually mean that the other person doesn’t give us enough attention. The basic need for any human being is attention from others. The

Love-hate relationships

2010-04-15T03:53:00.000-07:00

Hatred and love are opposite sides of the same coin as long as love is conditional. Love can flip into hatred the moment we feel that our expectations are threatened. In love of this type, it remains love only as long as the conditions remain as expected. The moment the conditions change, the love also changes.Often what we believe as love is actually related to time and space. So long as the

Love is a transaction

2010-04-15T03:51:00.001-07:00

Whenever we look at something, the first thing we do is to calculate what we can get from it. It can be a person or an object, that doesn’t matter. Our thoughts start functioning either through fear or through greed to calculate what there is in the situation for us. Our attention is centered on that object or person.Right now, most of our doing has some degree of

Love brings great courage

2010-04-15T03:49:00.000-07:00

In all great love stories, be it Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, you’ll notice the lovers always show great courage in defying rules of their families or society to be together, to share their love, even for one night!When you are deeply in love, you feel as if your whole being is open and you are ready to go to any extreme for the sake of anybody. You are ready to go to any boundary, as

Love is a basic necessity of life!

2010-04-15T03:48:00.001-07:00

Love is an intense experience in one’s inner space. Many of us think love is a choice. We think experience and expression of love is a choice. We think that if we want to, we can handle love; otherwise we can let it go. No! It is not a choice as we think. It is a basic necessity of life. When I say life, I don’t mean just breathing and staying alive. I mean being alive at the innermost being

Love Makes Life Auspicious!

2010-04-15T03:44:00.000-07:00

If you fall in love with something, suddenly you will see anything connected to that object or person is auspicious. If you fall in love with something in your life, you will realize anything connected to that person or that object will be auspicious.Let me tell you a small incident, I have seen in my life. I have a small car to travel in India. My disciples tell me – 'anywhere we see that car,

Love

2010-04-14T08:43:00.001-07:00

What is love? How can I experience true love? Is there more to love than sex? How do I have better relationships?Whether you are a teenager or a happily married adult, whether you are from the modern West or the traditional East, these questions have been timeless. They reflect the deep recesses of the human mind on one level. On another level, they are the signboards of a deep spiritual

Daily Awareness Practice - Be Intense

2010-04-13T03:45:00.000-07:00

You might have experienced, when you do anything intensely, you will forget yourself. You might have experienced this many times in your lives. It can be anything that you do. It can be as simple as coloring or painting or reading. When you go deep into it, you forget yourself.When you have an intense headache, just try doing something interesting very deeply; your headache will go away. It is

Technique: Find whether you live with the senses or the mind?

2010-04-13T03:38:00.000-07:00

This is a beautiful technique Swamiji gave during the Shiva Sutras discourse, ‘From Logic to Love’:“This is a technique for those people who are living intensely with the senses. I want all of you to understand we do not normally live with senses. We live with the mind. Let me tell you how to find out whether we are living with senses or the mind. For example, let us say you

Love to the Master: A devotees experience

2010-04-12T12:00:00.000-07:00

Love to the Master is indeed love towards the divine because master is the divine in a human form - A Devotees experience!This reminds me of one incident that stands evidence to this great truth. It was the evening of October 17, 2009. The night was unusually bright because every home was brightly lit with diyas and colourful lamps...It was the evening of Diwali - the festival of lights! There

Exercise: Practice Selfless Love

2010-04-12T03:47:00.000-07:00

Try this small exercise: choose a partner from amongst your acquaintances or work-related colleagues, of the same gender. Look after that partner completely without letting them know you are doing this as an exercise.Your first concern should always be for the other person's comfort. You should always look to see if he or she is happy and comfortable. Find out if the person needs anything. If you

How do I purify my senses?

2010-04-12T03:43:00.000-07:00

Somebody asked Swamiji, ‘So how can I heal myself and how can I come down to the senses?’ Shankara gives a beautiful technique to bring us down to the senses. He says aahara shuddhi, cleansing of the diet. It means, censor whatever you are adding into your system! When I say aahara, I do not mean just food that you eat, no! Even television is aahara, whatever you are feeding in through the eyes.

The Power of Words, Thoughts and Emotions

2010-04-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

There is an interesting research by Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto who has studied the effects of thoughts and words on water. The results show clearly that even water responds clearly to our words, thoughts and feelings. Over 70%of our body is made up of water and 70% of planet Earth is covered with water. So you can imagine the power of words!Japanese scientist , Dr. Masaru Emoto

Daily Awareness Practice: A technique

2010-04-11T03:46:00.000-07:00

Stop asking and start giving! We need to radiate energy instead of asking for energy. But we don't even know how to shift the focus from us to the other. We are so used to seeing ourselves as the center of attention. We need to start seeing the world outside as the center of attention.Be the Center of Your World See yourself as in the center of a small circle. Imagine all the people in your world

Power of Opinon

2010-04-10T10:27:00.000-07:00

A young, healthy and intelligent man wakes up and gets ready to go to work. His wife looks at him and tells him, ‘You are looking tired; are you alright?’He feels irritated by her comment and tells her to stop imagining things and leaves. As he takes his car out of the garage, his neighbor is watching him and shouts out, ‘Are you feeling well? You look out of sorts!’ The man is surprised this