Art of Living - Heart of Loving

ART OF LIVING - HEART OF LOVING.

In the word living, the letter ?'I' (while writing) is a semi circle and it becomes full if it is written as ?'O'. Then the word living becomes loving. Add the word ?'HE' in the beginning of Art, then the word becomes Heart. He means God. Veda says ?'Purushohavai' i.e., God is only the male. So He means only God. Thus when you add God, the semi circle life becomes full and fruitful. The word living indicates life, which is the consciousness without world. It is only static energy. The word ?'loving' indicates the thought, which is the consciousness with the world. Without thought, life is only like a stone. Plant is a living being but what is the use of its life without any thought? Life (living) is useful when it is a blissful thought of love.

The water wave is like a man with thoughts. By UN-cycling the thought (negative cycles), you are dissolving thoughts. Then simple life energy results which is like an inert electrical energy. This is the state of a stone and scriptures say that sinners are born as stones.

So, invite thoughts of bliss into your mind and shut down your mind when violent bad thoughts enter which disturb your peace. Peace is the absence of both bliss and worry. The dissolution of bad thoughts brings the peace but not the bliss. Peace is better than worry and so this dissolution process can be recommended when the bad thoughts have already entered the mind. But if you can shut down your mind to the very entry of bad thoughts, this dissolution process is unnecessary. Peace should not be the ultimate goal of life. Bliss is the ultimate aim of life. Veda says that ?'God is Bliss' and ?'God is Love' ("Anando Brahma, Raso vy sah). Therefore Love is Bliss. This means that God is the ultimate of these human lives. The living should not be an art. The living should be heartfelt. Even stealing is an art and is mentioned in the sixty-four arts. Art is acting and heart represents the sincere truth. Both bliss and love mean also life energy because inert things cannot have bliss and love.

Therefore open your mind only to love i.e., God Who is bliss. The happy moments of this world are also temporary and they give you lot of worry after sometime. Suppose you love your son. That love stays in your heart. Later on when your son insults you, you feel very much worried and the cause of your worry is only your love to your son. Therefore all the matters concerned to this world will either worry you in the beginning or at the end. So scholars close their mind to all the matters of the world and open their mind to all the matters of God. This is the real and permanent art of living. In a temporary art of living, the mind is closed to worldly matters, which are worrying in the beginning itself, and the mind is opened to the worldly matters, which give happiness in the beginning. In such a temporary art of living since all the worldly matters end with grief; the life ends with grief only.

Bliss is plus. Worry is minus. Peace is zero. The matters of God are permanently plus. The joyful matters of the world are temporary plus. For a person in this world the life consists of alternatively arranged plus and minus points. Let all the minus points be converted into zero points. The un-cycling process may dissolve the minus points, which have already entered the mind. Closing the mind may stop the minus points, which are trying to enter the minds. Now the human life consists of plus and zero points alternatively arranged. That means the person lives with bliss and peace alternatively. Peace is a good interval between two blissful moments for a man. Now take the case of Lord Narayana who is in the upper world. For Him every moment is blissful and so He is with infinite bliss. He gets bored and wants a negative point as an interval. The zero point cannot be an effective interval after a long chain of plus points. Therefore Lord Narayana came down as Rama and wept for Sita in the forest. He came down purposefully in the search of the minus point, which alone can be a good break in His case. Lakshmana advised Rama not to weep and further says, "weeping (minus point) will not bring Sita. Further it weakens you and He will not have sufficient energy to search Sita". This is the best advice for any man to stop the minus point entering the brain. But for Lord Narayana who came down in search of the minus point as the interval, this cannot be the advice. Rama appeared as a man to eyes of Lakshmana due to His ?'Maya' and so Lakshmana gave this advice to Rama thinking that Rama is a man and became ignorant. Lord Rama just nodded His head and smiled to the advice of Lakshmana!