HOW
ROMANTIC LOVE WORKS
Romantic love is a
profound thing, the deepest, the fullest one can feel.
It is an electric
thing – passionate, trembling, infinite.
What is that
infinitude? Why is that infinitude?
Life is a process of
acquiring fundamental values of character to enable us fully and joyously to
act out our plan of life.
Life is purposive.
Purpose is central to a man’s or a woman’s character. Purpose is that choice,
fundamental choice that rules a man, drives a man, fulfills a man essentially
psychologically but also physically (in that he earns his living by that)
A central purpose
gives meaning to man’s life, integrates his life, is synonymous with life.
A purposeless life is
not life and is as close to death as a man can come.
What is involved in a
life of purpose? Purpose is a passion that is a profound grounding, an exultant
security, for a man. It defines him, so to speak, and provides a wholeness and
long range activity to him.
In that sense, it is
purpose that makes him take birth as man. Once a purpose is deeply felt, and
committed to, man is free!
There is no other
thought then, no drifting, no running, no pursuit of blind, mindless values….
It is purpose that
makes a man rise above the conventional
world- the world that runs amok, sightless creatures following rules set by
others , with no real passion, a robotism that is swallowing the world, no
individuality, hence no character, no ground within the being…
With a purpose, man
is free, detached from the conventional world. Yet it is he who creates,
preserves, gives meaning to the world.
Purpose is hence
naturally, obviously joyous because a man with a purpose has roots, deep roots
to live on earth.
It is purpose that
gives courage, energy, enthusiasm…
A man of purpose, a
man who has essentially defined his identity, given complete meaning to life in
thought and action is a passionate man.
He has a tremendous
feeling for life. When such a man meets another with the same kind of deep
grounding in a great purpose, the result is electric, passionate, trembling,
filled with an infinite, deep ecstasy.
Why is it so?
It is a confirmation
not in his mind but in front of him, objectified.
It is as if by some
miracle, he can touch his purpose, touch his life, feel life by touch, sight,
by his senses. It is as if a being comes and says- I am you, see me, hold me to
feel yourself. You are hidden but I have brought the hidden in you out as I
embody you.
You see, we live in
our minds but reality is not in the mind but out there. A purpose satisfies one
but we also need to, if such a miracle could be wrought, SEE the meaning of our
purpose. Another human being has got the power to give us that on various
levels.
Just to see the same
purpose in another brings out the deepest confirmation without thought, filling
us with a single, overwhelming feeling- ROMANTIC LOVE.
It is an intimacy,
the “I” that we are finding a way by which it can see feel, touch, not another
physical body but a concrete form and vision of his deepest grounding and
foundation.
It is really a simple
feeling- deep, infinite, serene and yet violent, tense, trembling. It is a
union of thought and sense.
Sex hence is the most
intense feeling one can feel. You can while making love, actually find the
greatest blessing, because your purpose, your foundation and grounding has
acquired more than a sensory value, it has become linked with pleasure.
It is a gift, a natural
capacity, inborn, ingrained. To touch, feel and find a pleasure in such a way
that one’s values are being confirmed. The feeling is – Yes! Yes! Yes!
It is a trembling
‘yes’ to life, to existence, to the inherent benevolence of being. It is a
glorious thing and it is hence, the greatest sin to deny its meaning, its
fulfilling potential, its grace, its ecstasy.
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