Weekend Meditation: Bahkti
Love for Love’s sake.
The thought makes me sigh deeply and shiver all over. In a good way. In the best way really.
- Giving because you have it in you to give.
- Caring because you can.
- Tending to the sick, the disadvantaged, your loved ones.
- Serving not from obligation but from joy and love.
- Doing everything you do with love.
If you care cooking dinner, imbue it with love.
If you are playing with your child, concentrate on your love for them in that moment. (Especially when its hard to find.)
If you are cleaning the kitchen, loose the begrudging thoughts and choose to serve those in your family happily.
Ensure your work is a devotion of some kind, to others, to your grand vision.
Whatever you do, do it with love. Not for reward, not for glory, just for love’s sake.
NB: Bhakti Yoga is a complex. And I do not mean any disservice in simplifying it and applying it to the life of a householder, but these days few of us are monks. I certainly am not. As spiritual as I consider myself, I still operate within the normal bounds of society. Though, sometimes escaping to an ashram for days of meditation, yoga and labour sounds like pure bliss. And we need not be monks to dedicate ourselves to love for love’s sake.
