A Greater Love

Living the life of someone who has decided to be celibate and trying to fully focus all of one's energies on the Divine, in theory sounds easy like life would always be a bunch of roses full of fragrance. However each day we are confronted with the reality of spirituality, spirituality that has so many ways and descriptions that at time it can seem very confusing. The world has defined the way a spiritual person should be, however when you are living it the reality can seem the very different and even opposite to these notions that we have been told are the way within oneself and outside of you. 

The question though is what is a spiritual person and does one truly have to be 'renounced' as they love to say in order to truly spiritual. Firstly we should look at the word renounced, what does it mean, what does it stand for and where does it lead. It the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says one should renounce the fruits of their action, not to be attached to anything. In the Bible Jesus says to His disciples, if you are not prepared to give up your father, mother, brother, children, wealth etc then you are not ready to follow Him. 

In essence it means to not be attached to anything, how can that be how can we love what we do, love what we have and our family but not be attached to them or all that is around. Is it possible? The answer is yes and when one finds within them a love that is not attached then one begins to realise the greatness of this love, for the love you will find will not be reliant on anything external but will flow through to everything internal and external without the possibility of being interrupted.

That is the true nature of being renounced and one does not have to walk the path I am currently on, one can as others before have done find this greater love in everyday life, so we should not look at the term as being 'renounced' but rather let us say being a greater love that is ever flowing to all the world. Then we move into the more beautiful and greater field of being a spiritual person and what that means, as I said earlier the world has so many definitions of what a spiritual person is or as a should be like. Each and every day we are bombarded with all these notions and ways that 'society' says we should be. That in itself is funny as most spiritual people would consider themselves to be 'outside' of society yet they still find themselves inside society and trying to live to the standards that society has set for spiritual people. We spend so much time trying be as we are 'meant' to be as society is saying we should be that we can forget the essence of way we chose to be here, why we chose to go inwards more than we go outwards. This also falls into the being the greater love renouncing what others perceptions are of how we as 'spiritual' people should be and just being this greater love. 

This greater love is the essence of who we are, why we our souls are in this body and why we have decided to be this greater love. This greater love does not require you to be wondering around India, living in a monastery or even living with some else. All it requires is that no matter where you are and what you are doing you live within your heart. Deep within your heart deep within your soul, for that is where you will find all that you are looking for, all that is human, all that is Divine and all that is the essence of everything. 

May we all find this greater love and live it day by day