A Beautiful Life centered around Love

We often use the word "need" quite loosely. Of course, we need food, shelter, and clothes to remain alive. Nobody would raise any question on that. But do we really need Pizza, burgers, and exotic food to live? Do we need a flat in a prime locality to stay alive? Do we need the branded clothes of the most expensive brands to live? Probably most of us would admit that we need not have all these things to stay alive.

If we examine our lives, we will soon notice that we spend so much of our lives earning money that is not much of use. Our needs are actually satisfied with a minimal amount of money. I fully agree that if we do not have even that much money, life becomes quite a big challenge. However, most of us, who are reading this post, have already crossed that barrier, or that has never been a matter of concern to us. Yet most of us stay concerned about money most of our lives and spend a significant part of our lives earning that extra money that we never need. Similarly, we spend quite a lot of time earning power and position. Other than flaunting before others, such power and positions have very little use. In fact, if somebody does not wish to misuse the positions, most of them come with a lot of responsibilities. 

On the other hand, the best of the things in this world come for free. If any of us close our eyes and try to remember the best of the moments of our lives, I am almost 100% sure that such moments would have nothing to do with money power, or position. The best moments would always be the ones in which we lived with the best of friends, parents, and family. The reason is very simple. Such moments are full of unadulterated love free of any expectation. We just enjoy the company of loved ones without being judged. We do not need to pretend in such relations. We are our true selves in these moments. The mind has no business to do in such moments. The hearts are at work and the true self gets an opportunity to express itself in these moments. That makes these moments so powerful, fulfilling, and priceless that even all the money, power, and positions put together can not weigh anywhere near these moments.

It appears to me that security and fun are both overpriced concepts. The ones who remain obsessed with security and fun never allow them an opportunity to taste true love because true love needs to be reciprocated. It can not be one-sided. Howsoever a person loves unless the other person reciprocates, its manifestation will always be quite limited. So long as a person remains obsessed with fun and insecurity, he can not appreciate and enjoy the love extended by the other person. It is like two opposite waves canceling each other. However, when two waves of equal wavelength match each other in the same direction, an interference takes place and the amplitude of the resultant wave is far greater than the sum total of both the waves. That is the beauty of love. It amplifies the potential of both human beings.

That is what happened with Krishna and Radha, Arjuna and Krishna, Rama and Hanuman, Bharata and Rama, and Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. Love made the lives of all these people so fulfilling and created so many possibilities that they could never have explored individually. True devotion is priceless. Somebody who has ever tasted a drop of love finds little joy in the pursuit of materialistic ways of seeking fun. There no longer remains a need for security over and above what is functionally required. 

Sometimes I feel sad that most of us are running blindly after money, power, and position. The more we spend time in such pursuit, the more lifeless our lives become. We fake our smiles and become full of pretensions. We connect to each other at such a shallow level that talking to each other becomes quite burdensome. I wish we were able to observe what a bad way of wasting life it is and gather the courage to say "No" to this widespread madness and this society becomes a beautiful place to live.