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அன்பேசிவமாய் அமர்ந்திருந்தாரே - திருமந்திரம்
Only the ignorant will think that love and Sivan are two different things; only few really understand that Sivan is nothing but love; once everyone understands that Sivan is nothing but love, everyone will become saintly
அன்பே சிவமும்; அன்பே சக்தியும்; அன்பே ஹரியும்; அன்பே பிரம்மனும்;
அன்பே தேவரும்; அன்பே மனிதரும்; அன்பே நீயும்; அன்பே நானும்;
அன்பே சத்தியம்; அன்பே நித்தியம்; அன்பே சாந்தம்; அன்பே ஆனந்தம்;
அன்பே மௌனம்; அன்பே மோக்ஷம்; அன்பே பிரம்மமும்;
அன்பே அனைத்துமென்றாய்; அன்பிலாத இடம் அங்குமிங்கு மில்லையென்றாய்;
எங்கும் நிறைந்த அன்பே என் குருநாதனப்பா;
எல்லாம் சிவமயம்.
Love or compassion is everything and everything is Siva.
Love to all beings, the One Divine.
This manifest world is all a perfect Divine dream
We do not learn to love in this sense. We came as Love.
Relationships and connectivity are more important than any thing in life.
Bhakti or the love of God
Bhakti or the love of God, need not be focused on God alone.
Atma-Prema can be translated as “self-love.” This is not the self as we usually think of it, but the essential self, the self that exists at the center of all of us. In practice is that we see ourselves in others and see others in ourselves. “The river that flows in you, also flows in me.” [ Kabir]
Compassion
Compassion is “matru-prema,” motherly love, which is said to be love’s most giving and least selfish form. Maitri is like a mother’s tender love but expressed toward all living beings not just for one’s own biological child.
Compassion for strangers, may not always come naturally. There are loving-kindness meditations in which practitioners develop the ability to wish others well.
we are all expressions of the one life, represented as Purusha.
I, you, he, she, we in the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions. [Rumi]
When we love ourselves and others in this way, our love loses its boundaries and becomes unconditional.
