Kindness Stems from Unconditional Love

 

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Kindness Stems from Unconditional Love

I was having a discussion with a friend who mentioned that if people can’t get into a meditative state, then what is the other way to progress. He said that Swamiji told him that the alternative is unconditional, selfless love. This morning during meditation I was ruminating on kindness and I got the sense that the source of kindness towards one and all originates from the feeling of unconditional and selfless love which is created from within. Again, the question is how does one develop this sense of unconditional and selfless love!

For the last several years I have been praying to my soul to develop unconditional love within myself and that the same should flow continuously from within me. The reaction of people who have come in touch with me during this lockdown phase have expressed that they feel very nice and good while talking or discussing things with me. I personally feel that this has happened because of the prayer which I offer every day during meditation. This prayer has also brought about a feeling of well-being and goodness within me. The feeling of selfless love is a condition of the soul which gets developed over a period of time – some of us will probably be blessed with this sense right from birth – but this will happen with those rare few who have embarked and traveled a great distance on their spiritual quest in the previous birth!

There is one problem with being kind and that is of being consciously aware that there are people out there who will try to take advantage of the goodness of your heart! This is a kind of protection that one has to develop by oneself by taking one’s soul into confidence and submitting to the soul for guidance. Your inner voice will always provide guidance, you just have to be alert to receive it and abide by its guidance. With complete awareness you can take care of such people by politely bypassing their efforts without hurting them. Each situation being different – you will always get guidance to suit the occasion!

Kindness manifests in different forms and when it manifests selflessly it is a booster for one’s spiritual progress. Kindness manifests as empathy, thoughtfulness, acceptance, an act of kindness without any words, expression of unconditional love, being graceful and nice in tight situations. There are infinite ways in which one could be nice. And to do that we need to develop the sense of unconditional and selfless love within us. When this happens everything else falls into place – you yourself get this feeling of blissful well-being and contentment which arises from deep within yourself.