Hari Krishna

Namaste, Any noble sentiment like the search for wisdom or love or compassion, any of the higher values which can become our motivating force, immediately become affected by both knowledge and nescience. Why do we love another person? What is the meaning of love? When love becomes very real to us, what we experience is the forgetting of the otherness of a person and also forgetting our own limitations. In the intensity of love, we forget ourself as well as the other. There is no longer a lover and the beloved as separate entities.

The most natural, most honest feeling that can come to a person is being drawn, not just to one person, but to all. Opposed to this we have images built up from inside of what we want to love and what is hateful. It is here the dichotomy comes, created by name and form. When our heart goes out to just one person in love, even that is fine because we are extending our self-identity beyond the limits of our body. This allows us to cross the frontiers of physical limitation to which we have become riveted. This part is knowledge. It is not nescience that makes us love, it is wisdom that leads us to it.

When love pinches us, becomes filled with anguish and sorrow, it is because we have images of it. These images belong to nescience. The pursuit of love is engendered by knowledge, but it often ends up in nescience. We smile and we expect a smile back; we text and we expect a text back immediately. We give and we want something to be given back to us. In this way we make it transactional. It becomes a contract, and if the contract is not carried out exactly as we want it to be we become very dissatisfied. Only when love is self-contained and has no hankering behind it does it belong to wisdom.

I love to help people heal themselves using knowledge as a therapeutic tool. I have been practicing advaita vedanta for last 10 years. I believe every soul must find their final fulfillment through the process of philosophic analysis and contemplation. I will help you guide yourself through this path with what I have learned and experienced throughout these years. Feel free to contact me.