Part 2 ----------------> True-Love-is-Bliss-Not-Just-a-Kiss

 

Why do we fall in Love?: If one analyzes the emotion of Love, it seems to be one of the basic human instincts that we are born with. Just like somebody would choose pleasure and not pain, happiness and not unhappiness, a normal human being is born to love and not to hate.

As a body-mind-Soul complex, we are blessed with sense organs that develop Love naturally when we come in contact through sight or touch. Sure, somebody may fall in Love listening to a voice, but we must understand why we fall in Love. Over time, we human beings believe that we have a heart that loves. Therefore, the symbol of the heart is a global phenomenon. But neither does the real heart look like the heart symbol used in expressing Love nor is the function of our heart organ to love. Then why do we feel that Love comes from the heart? Because the blood gushes to the heart when we feel the strong emotion of Love, we tend to believe that the heart is the organ of Love.

Love has more to do with the brain and the mind, for it is produced by a thought that causes the brain to release hormones that accelerate the heartbeat, whether inspired by our senses or not. Although the heart seems to have nothing to do with Love, we feel and we seem convinced that we love from the heart.

Together our body and our mind fall in Love. The motivation of Love may be different in different cases. Men are supposed to be driven by physical factors, just as women are inspired by

emotions. Thus, came about the phrase, “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” This is absolutely true because men and women seem to have a very different design and they react differently when it comes to Love. If you love a woman emotionally, there are good chances that she will become physical, just as if you love a man physically, emotions of Love will follow.

But why do we love? Man has been created by the Creator as a social animal. Generally, human beings don’t like to live alone. We are born in a family and we experience Love in our natural surroundings. Then we grow up, and we love our best friend or our dog. As the body and mind mature, we fall in Love with our beloved. This is a natural phenomenon. Just like we eat, drink and sleep, it is very natural to love.

Those who go into the depth to understand True Love realize the Divine Truth. The life inside each one of us is yearning to unite with the universal Divine Energy that is no different from the life in others. The Universal Law of Love is such that Love energy naturally ows out of an individual to love another. Therefore, it is absolutely natural for Love to ow from one person to another, whether it manifests as kindness, compassion, romance or sex. It is this deep natural yearning from the Soul within that seems to be the essential and natural cause of Love. Maybe, Love is inspired by the instinctive desire of man to be happy as it is the source and fountain of joy. Some people believe that we are created with a sense of incompleteness. This creates the desire to love.

What are the Manifestations of Love?: Love manifests in many ways. While we feel our heart beating faster, we also experience that enhanced energy, that euphoria when Love strikes the brain. Can’t we make out from a person’s behavior whether they are in Love or they are full of hatred? While it is easy to differentiate between Love and hate as they are two opposite emotions, Love manifests in its own unique ways. Somebody’s excitement may be expressed by singing a song, while somebody’s happiness born out of Love will show on their personality, in their behaviour. Giving a rose to somebody is not the only manifestation of Love. Being caring, being kind, sharing, sacricing, and going out of the way to do something for someone you love are simple manifestations of the Love emotion.

Men and women are known to give up their life for the sake of someone they love! Therefore, Love can be considered to be amongst the most passionate of human emotions. This source of happiness creates a smile and brings a twinkle in our eyes. Love is magical! It manifests in ways that are beyond human description.

Love creates Relationships: As we grow up, don’t many of us build a strong friendship and love our best friend? This innocent childlike Love has nothing to do with the Love understood by the world. One may have intense Love for their parents or their siblings. These relationships can last for life. But Love known to the world is more intense and passionate when it is between a man and a woman. This relationship leads

to the contract of marriage which is now considered sacred by most religions. Creation has led humanity to continue relationships throughout life by creating well-knit families who bond together as a loving unit of human existence. Have you ever stopped to ponder what is the foundation of a family? It is Love born out of the body, mind, heart, and Soul that causes the creation of a family and thereafter, fosters the growth of it. Without Love, there would be no relationships.

What is the connection between Love and Romance?: Is romantic Love the same Love that we feel for our parents, brothers, sisters, friends or even our pets? Of course not! Romantic Love is very different. Romance is another manifestation of Love, born out of Love. Where there is no Love, there is no real romance. Love is the cause, romance is the effect. Remove Love, and romance will disappear. When romance is just teasing or playing, there is no emotion of Love involved. It is just a tool for pleasure and happiness.

True Love makes one go out of the way to please the beloved. We do anything and everything possible to express our Love. One can see lovers willing to sacrice anything to please the one they love.

Love without romance is so boring and spice-less. Love blooms with the fragrance of romance and is built on it. While we all experience Love and romance, what makes Love True? Why do romantic relationships break?

Marriage… is it Love?: We all know that marriage is not Love.

It is a contract between two people to live together and build a family. Marriages sometimes, take place due to Love and sometimes they are arranged, but for sure, we expect Love to be existent in a marriage, which often, is not the case. Therefore, some people nd it ridiculous to marry without Love, but there are many cultures who refuse to accept Love marriages. Regardless of whether a marriage is born out of Love or not, can a marriage survive without Love? Can two people live with each other for life physically, intellectually, and emotionally without the presence of Love?

Why do some marriages celebrate silver jubilee and golden jubilee while others break apart? Love is the cause! Where there is Love, True Love, a marriage will never break. In fact, the word ‘marriage’ itself means two people becoming one. How is this possible without Love?

Is Love Sex?: The most common misunderstanding about Love is that it is sex. Some people think that Love is all about a physical crush and then, romance, and sex. There seems to be no doubt that sexuality is a natural manifestation of Love. Human bodies have been created in a way that copulation is natural, whether it is born out of the emotion of Love or not. Sex as a human instinct can exist without the emotion of Love. Thus, they say that prostitution is one of the oldest human professions. But we have cases where we nd people fall in Love with a prostitute! Why? Because the physical act of sexual intercourse releases the hormone oxytocin, that creates an attachment, an intense passion between two people. While this

may happen, in most cases, sex can exist without Love.

Can Love exist without sex?: While there may be cases of Platonic Love, sex seems to be a natural manifestation of Love. When two people truly love each other, their Love becomes evident through body-mind-heart and Soul. Humanity, by and large, is confused about the relationship between Love and sex because we have not understood the meaning of True Love.

The magic called Love: Love is magic and for those who don’t experience this Divine emotion, their life is tragic. However, the world has experienced both, the comedy of True Love and the tragedy of broken hearts. Love has inspired people to the peak, just as it has broken people and made them weak. Some people have let Love create their success, just as some people have let Love be the cause of their failure.

What is Love? What is the true meaning of Love? How can one use this Divine emotion “Love” to live a life of joy, peace, and bliss?