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MIND MANAGEMENT observe, everyone is stuck somewhere irrespective of the marital status. So the real question comes why?? Even after having everything a person is not happy. We read all spiritual books, we attend workshops, we listen to religious discourse to attain peace or to feel being loved. Most of the time I observe people use spirituality as an escape and they stay in a ball of positivity, which is very dangerous. It is better to live life fully and to explore until one reaches a point where he/she starts realizing that depending on external life is suffering and freedom from but LACK is the reason, and it is everywhere. Unfulfilled childhood, individual journey (despite of having everything), unfulfilled adult journey. Ultimately everything comes to a point where everyone is yearning for real love. Why all of us are in search of real love? Do we understand the real meaning of love? Dating sites are emerging like mushrooms, where anyone can witness the dissatisfaction, depression, people are living in a virtual world, the situation is very alarming. Everyone is dissatisfied with life and in search of happiness and love. I don’t want to give any preaching on real love, superficial love or the difference between attachment or love. Love is love when a person gives or receives. What happens when we don’t feel the love in the same relationship? Why do we always try to fix the quantity and duration of love? Let's understand what happens in a relationship of love. Initially, we are attracted to a person at a physical layer. Once the physical euphoria is gone, all our emotions get surfaced and we start exploiting the relationship for our own emotional need and we call it so-called unconditional love. Only our awareness and acceptance of the situation and to the person can bring a lot of difference in a relationship. It is applicable to each one of us in order to live a fulfilled and contented life. I have witnessed unmarried people who are in search of companionship or a loving partner, getting frustrated and perceiving the world around them full of Happily married people. At the same time married people perceive unmarried people to be very fortunate and untrapped but if we closely 22 www.yogicherald.com Oct./Nov. 2019 Listen to your heart, not to the conditioning of society. Society is not going to give you the happiness.