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Love: Sweetness of Emotion


"What you are referring as love is a certain sweetness of emotion. The question in not about who triggered it for you. It is that, because of somebody or something, you started experiencing a certain sweetness of emotion, which became so valuable at that time, you promised a kidney. At that moment, the sweetness meant so much.

So, essentially, it's sweetness of emotion. What sweetness means is:

  • If the body becomes sweet, we call this health. You feel healthy because there is a certain sweetness in the body, pleasantness. Sweetness is pleasantness.
  • You say, "Oh, she is so sweet" because she is pleasant for you.
  • If the body becomes very pleasant, we call it pleasure.
  • If your mind becomes pleasant, we call this peace. You are feeling pleasant so you say, "I am peaceful".
  • It became very pleasant, we call this joy.
  • Your emotions become pleasant, you call this love.
  • If it is somewhat pleasant for one person, we call this passion.
  • It becomes very pleasant, now you call it compassion.
  • If your very life energies become pleasant, we call this bliss.
  • If it becomes very pleasant, we call this ecstasy.
  • If your surroundings become pleasant, we call this success.
Sweetness of emotions (love) vs the sweetness of surroundings (money).

To create sweetness of the surroundings we need the cooperation of many forces. Situations have to cooperate, people have to cooperate, many things have to fall into place, otherwise success doesn't happen. But, the sweetness of the body, the sweetness of the mind, the sweetness of the emotion and the sweetness of your energy must be one hundred percent your making.

Money is a means to facilitate external situations. Love is a means to create internal pleasantness.
Love is what happens within you, this is the sweetness of your heart.
Relationship is hard work. That is external success. You have to built it, you have to manage it, there are many aspects to it.  

Excerpt from Love or Money, Which is More Important? / Sadhguru/ Vijay Deverakonda

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