Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Let nature be your valentine. This is the message for Valentine‘s Day. I have said before that let Divine be your Valentine but today I am saying let nature be your valentine. So let‘s preserve nature, water, earth, seeds, plants, air, and energy. This is our responsibility. It‘s so difficult to express one's feelings. It is in fact inexpressible. At the same time you can‘t hide them at all. On one level it never hides, feelings get expressed. On the same note I would say that you totally cannot express your feelings. Mankind has been making all sorts of efforts from time and memory making the heart shape, getting rose flowers to express the feelings.
All our gesture actions are only to express our feelings yet it remains unexpressed and that’s the beauty of it. That’s how love continues. Love becomes eternal. If you have totally expressed it then it‘s finished, nothing remains. But it doesn't happen like that. You express but still something remains unexpressed. You still feel it‘s not enough. You know, only when you breakup you say enough is enough. When the pond of love dries down then you say enough is enough! No more! But in love you don‘t feel enough. There is no completion. You cannot completely express your feelings.
One who is in love would say this; I could not express my feelings. If there is an effort to express oneself that continues and on Valentine‘s Day is one such occasion when people try to express their love and you don’t need to ask people if you would be my valentine. You should take it for granted that they are your valentines and they love you. Never we should doubt the love of someone for us. We should always take it for granted that everyone loves us. That‘s it! Sometimes they may not be expressible. Some people have a reserve to express in the next lifetime! Some are expressing themselves now. Some might express it after 10 or 20 years. Some who are rude and rough will behave not so nice with us and do have love for us, but they have only reserved it for us in the future lifetimes. Then you see in life, that from your side you will feel secure, complete, accepted and you feel the oneness, oneness with this whole Universe. So this Valentine‘s Day you can change your valentine. This Valentine's Day you can say, Nature is my Valentine.
You become a flower to yourself. You don‘t have to buy a rose. You imagine yourself as a rose. You yourself are the king or queen of flowers. You have the beauty and fragrance. See, there are many flowers which have fantastic fragrance but it‘s not so beautiful to look at or it doesn't have the texture or the beauty and there are some flowers which are beautiful to look at but there is no fragrance. Rose has both and that is why it is called the king or queen of flowers because it has fragrance and beauty. This is what is expected of any Valentine, any beloved. If they just appear beautiful, not enough! They should exuberant the fragrance. Some may have fragrance but they are not expressing it in their life. If their mind or actions are not what you perceived as an expression of true love then they miss to communicate that. So communication is a very important aspect and Valentine Day is also a day to communicate that to your loved person.
You can see 2 things in the whole world. In India people do not express their love especially in the rural areas, they have not loved but it is all hidden underneath and it gets expressed in action though but they don‘t verbalize at all. You might agree with me, most of your parents would have never told each other, ‘I Love You’. Even the parents would have never said to their children, ‘Oh I love you my dear’. They have never said it in their whole life but not that they don‘t have love. They have a lot of love but they don‘t express or verbalize it.
The other thing is they say ‘I love you‘ so many times! Even though there are no feelings they say, ‘My darling, I love you’, every day. In the face there is tension but the words don‘t. So you verbalize quite a lot in the west and here you don‘t express it at all. I would say that you stay somewhere in between, neither too much expression nor no expression. Somewhere in the middle we must be. The best of all East and the best of West. Sharpness of mind and the softness of the heart. You need both. We need a civilized behavior and informal atmosphere. These two things, if you are too informal then you push and pull and go over the others. It may appear very rude to someone. In Asia this is a problem. People feel so much at home that they don‘t even worry about who is sitting and go all the way above them. It appears very rude to other cultures. If you come from another culture, it will appear very rude and uncivilized. But here it is a sense of belonging-ness. At the same time in some cultures we are so strict and so disciplined and we want everything to be perfect. It can't tolerate even small things going wrong here and there. We have to get out of that mindset as well. We have to feel at home. We have to be in the moment. Something has happened in the morning, no need to carry it in our mind. The incident, the event has happened, it is finished!
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