The word LOVE has different connotations differentdefinitions are given for the word!! The parents love their children. The husband loves the wife. Brothers & sisters love one another. Many other things are loved by many people!!Any intense liking for an object without which he cannot manage is called Love!! But all this affection is concentrated on material & worldly objects that are ephemeral!! The person dies & the object also, leaving no trace So this tantamounts to temporary pleasure!What is this BLISS? IT is indescribable -a superior kind of everlasting joy that transforms the individual & makes him transcend all silly material pleasures!! This can be called Beatitude!! How can this state of supreme Bliss be achieved?? What are the tools to achieve this? What are are the means to achieve this end!! LOVE is said to be the wonderful tool to obtain this object!! LOVE not in the ordinary sense but on a totally different plane! Love, here, has to be pure & unalloyed,selfless & totally for the sake of Love without any desire for gain or reward!! This extreme Love is also called Bhakthi!! The Bhakta forgets everything, including his existence in the contemplation of his God & that state of complete oblivion, of self, induces the BLISS which he desires!!In the lives of Ramadoss & Gorakubhar we see their Blissful state, not conscious of the death of their own children while serving God!!The Bhakta in his delirium of extreme ecstasy, almost becomes one with God & forgets his material existence! That is the power of the tool of LOVE over the devotee!!The love of Meera for Krishna,of sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa for his goddess kali,of the child Prahlada for Sri Hari are the excellent & vibrant tools for the BLISS they enjoyed! The lives of the great Bhaktas in the North like Namdev, Thukaram,Tulsidas & theAzwars & Nayanmars in the south are classical examples of LOVE as a TOOL for attaining Real BLISS!!"
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