Baba Muktananda: lOve tHe cHild witHin uS ~ Q) Many people come to psychotherapy who felt profoundly unloved as little children. How can they overcome these early feelings? Baba: From now on, they should start loving themselves. There is no point in their trying to remember that they were unloved as children. When I was studying Vedanta, I had a friend who later became a Swami. Whenever we talked about our parents, I would speak of mine with great pride. I would tell him how well they had taken care of me, and what great presents they had given me, and how beautifully they had fed me. When I talked like that, my friend would get angry and complain that his parents had done nothing for him, that they had given him nothing. One day I asked him, How much land did you have? How large was your family? He replied, We had no land. My father was dead, and my mother earned a few pennies doing menial work. She had a hard time making enough money to feed me, and I had to be taken care of by another family. You fool! I said. Youve been blaming your parents for not giving you what they didnt have. My family was very wealthy, and they could give me everything because they had everything. But when your parents had nothing, how could they give you anything? ~ Just as my friends parents had no money, many parents have no Love. Parents can take very good care of their children, and they should. They can feed them, teach them, send them to school, discipline them, and try to give them everything, including Love. But if they do not have any love in their hearts, how can they give love to their children? Similarly, if a child himself does not have love inside, if he cannot imbibe love, how can he derive any love from his parents? Today it is the custom for people to keep saying I love you. But can a person really obtain any love from hearing those words? Only when a person turns within and becomes immersed in his own inner Self can he truly experience love. Therefore, people should look for love within themselves. No one can obtain happiness from others. ~ Source: ‘Where are you Going’ by Swami #Muktananda ~ Photo by Suvarna Family ~
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:53:11 +0000
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