True-Love-is-Bliss-Not-Just-a-Kiss. Story

 

WHAT IS LOVE?

WHAT IS LOVE?

 Denition of Love: Isn’t it great to feel Love, to fall in Love and to ll your heart with Love? Would you rather choose to live with hate? No human being would prefer hate to Love, just as it is instinctive for a human being to wish for happiness, seeking pleasure and not pain.

 Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. While it is used to express great interest or pleasure in something, be it football or chocolate, normally, Love instantly refers to a magical feeling a person has for another person. There are different types of Love, but the emotion of Love is distinctly connected to happiness, fulllment, and positivity. It is said that the word “Love” originated from Luf which means ‘dear’. Love vibrates the feelings of dearness, adorability, and affection. When there is Love, we cherish and look forward to what we love. While we don’t really need to dene Love because we all know what it means and how we feel when we love, not many of us know what True Love is.

Why do we say, “I love you?”: When we want to express our Love, we normally use these words, though Love can also be expressed with a gentle touch or with a loving glance. Acts of Love also express our fondness or Love for somebody. But then, we also say – “I love football” or “I love chocolates.” How is it different from “I love you”? Is Love just a feeling of liking somebody or something, or is it something deeper, far more passionate? We may like somebody but it does not mean that we love them.

When our liking becomes intense, it may mature into Love. However, this does not mean that all liking becomes Love. While liking may not be Love, is it possible to love somebody but not like them?

 

There is a big difference between liking and loving. While ‘Love’ is used to express our preference - what we ‘like’ the most - this liking is not really Love. The real emotion of Love is a deep longing and desire for somebody alive who can reciprocate our Love.

 

In fact, when we love, specic hormones are released in the brain. These Love hormones, like oxytocin or serotonin, create a euphoria of pleasure releasing other associated hormones like dopamine. Together these hormones create feelings of contentment and calmness as they make us feel secure and happy.

 

So, what exactly is Love? Love may be used in different contexts, but when we talk of True Love, we are talking of a relationship between two people. We are not referring to our passion for a hobby or favourite food. Sure, we may love burgers and pizzas, but that is not the True Love we are trying to discover. We are more interested in understanding what makes our heart dance when we love somebody. What causes this ecstasy when we so passionately seek to be with the one we love? Yes, it may be friends and family too. Love is also not restricted to a person or beloved. In fact, we can sometimes love a pet more intensely and dearly than a person.

 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.