Each person is your beloved, not just your friend: The whole world
Yesterday was Friendship day. What better way to celebrate it than by looking into how we could broaden the definition of friendship to mean a beloved!
I attended yet another Workshop at BasicIndia yesterday. To put in words what I carried away from the workshop, to express it, I take liberty with a famous Hindi song by the singer Shan to reframe a couple of stanzas:
“Har taraf mera ho Pyaar
Bin garaz mera ho Pyar”
“My love in all directions
Selfless love in all directions”
If the above can become a motive for all individuals on Earth, or even a few, it would be the greatest revolution Humanity would have ever seen on the face of this Earth.
It would change all things, transform the way we think, transform the way we live, transform every work we take up. For everything that we do then, would not be out of greed, or selfishness, but out of a sense of love.
Is such a world possible?
Attending a BasicIndia workshop yesterday, it felt it could be.
Ayse said, “We trivialize our love, make our relationship with the world very narrow, by isolating ourselves from the rest of humanity by saying – These are my friends, this is my family.” Thus we embrace a few, and categorize the rest of humanity as Strangers.
Is it possible to see each individual not just as a friend, but rather a beloved?
To take this lofty ideal into practical everyday life, as in implementing it, would mean that we step out of our own “limitations”.
Understanding this lofty ideal of the unity of us as Individuals, wherein each is connected to everyone else, as close as his/her own beloved would mean stepping out of the limited conditioning of our own minds.
Thus defining our individual common goal- of Universal love, we need to set out on a long journey of exploration to come out of our own limitations, within and outside, in order to transcend these.
It is not just words, but putting the words into action, that will help the humanity reach that goal of Universal love, a world without borders. By borders I don’t even mean national and international borders but transcending the borders beyond our immediate home, family and friends to include every being as friends first. Then transcending the
Definition of friendship to include
Do we have to renounce the world to reach there? : No! One needs to be amidst humanity! Not run away into jungles, or mountains etc!
