Everyone is being loved always. How is that possible? --Swami Vivekananda

What is love? Does it exist?

Everyone or creature on this earth experience love always unknowingly. How? Everyone knows about his/her mistakes, drawbacks, sins, unkindness etc but yet never stop thinking that he/she is great and continue live life by not thinking about mistakes of his/her own. He will never think of what mistakes or sins he performed because he loves him more and more. So he always seeks happiness as he loves him always. He never wants to be sad or punished for his earlier mistakes. He covers them up saying that circumstances pushed him to do so. He never think of sin he performed yet think about others' sins or mistakes. He will realize slowly that he needs to take dharma as highest compared to pleasures. So the definition of love is nothing but striving for making the loved person to be happy always irrespective of flaws, mistakes, sins. Swami Vivekananda says if you can love others in the same way you love yourself then you experience the beauty of love with every creature in the world. A person's goal should be to start loving his parents, family, society, country, and entire universe. Such is the person is truly spiritual.



If a person does not love himself, he commits suicide as he cannot tolerate sins of him anymore. So love yourself fully, expand the same love to family, expand it further to love colony, village, district, country and finally universe. Such is the destination of scriptures (Hindu Scriptures)

                                                    ---An Excerpt from complete works of Swami Vivekananda

Lesson from Ramayana --SundaraKanda-- Part 2

In this post, we will discuss how Hanuman lived a life that is inspiration to everyone.

Sundarakanda started with searching for Goddess Seeta. Lord Hanuman prepared himself by standing on a big hill. He uttered that he was going to fetch for Seeta as an arrow of Rama. With this one statement, we can see the humbleness of Hanuman. He had shown following qualities with this one statement alone.

Confidence: Arrow of Rama never come back until it hits the target. So Hanuman said positively that he would go to Lanka to fetch Goddess Seeta not just by force but with confidence that he would come back with the location of seethamma.

Humbleness: Hanuman is the strongest person in the whole universe. He is the most intellect person. Yet he said that he was going like arrow of Rama. We usually admire the person who shoot the arrow than the arrow. Similarly here Hanuman was saying he would go to lanka and get the details of the location as an instrument used by the Lord Rama. Indirectly he was saying all credit should go to Rama for his work. This shows how humble he was. If we incorporate this quality in our lives, we will always stay humble and stick to the ground irrespective of position, power.

Detachment: Arrow of Rama is detached from all enjoyments. Arrow does not deviate from target irrespective of circumstances. Similarly Hanuman was saying he would not get attached to anything like arrow of Rama and would come back once the target goal was hit (reached).

Self Control: Arrow of Rama killed the daemons even when they hide or changed rupa (appearance). It always hit the target irrespective of weather, how strong the opponent is, how far it can be, how tough it can be. Similarly Lord Hanuman was saying he would control his self by focusing on one target (search of seethamma) irrespective of situations, how hard it is.

Powerful: Arrow of Rama is so powerful as Lord Rama has immense power and given to the arrow to fight against odds, kill the daemons. Similarly Lord Hanuman has tremendous power to control or fight against anyone.

Dharmic: Arrow of Lord Rama never harms any one who is dharmic or perform good deeds (physically, mentally). Lord Hanuman is also showcasing that he would not harm dharmic person (he tricked a devatha (angel) by using his intelligence rather than killing her, yet fulfilled her wish by entering into her mouth, came back from her ears.

This is just a glimpse of one statement from sundarakanda. There are many more slokas and can be interpreted in so many ways. We will continue discuss about the qualities possessed by Lord Hanuman in upcoming parts.

--An excerpt from the great pravachana by Sri Samavedam Shanmukha Sharma gaaru.