How can we love oneself and practice an ideal life?
Q : Hi, my name is Nitin Sharma, I am 25 year old I would like to know that everyone talks about knowing one self, loving oneself first, then we can love others. What does it mean? How can I practice ideal life? What are the traits, qualities, characteristics of the same?
Nitin Sharma
Answer Loving oneself is not possible until you know who you are. For now you say, that you are born and brought up in Delhi. That means Nitin, you are not talking about yourself, you are talking about your body. This frame which got constituted in Delhi, got delivered in Delhi, went to school in Delhi, went to college in Delhi and is living in Delhi but, what about the real you? From where did you come? What is your real self? Are you aware of your real self?
Nitin Sharma is a name given to you by the society but what is your real name? Who are your parents? Where have you come from? Where would you go when this body dies? That's for sure this body is not you. But who are you without the body, minus the body?
This is something which needs to explored and for that you have to come to me. Be in Shivir, be part of some camp and learn the art of meditation. The more you will be into it, the deeper you will go and more easy it would become to understand the intricacies of life.
You have also asked about the ideal way of living, so the answer is conscious living, and living with awareness. You have to still learn about it. You asked what is the ideal way of worshiping God. Well to worship God, first you have to know what God is and where God is.
If someone gives you my picture, that picture is not real me and if you think picture is real me then you are heavily mistaken. The statues, which we see in the temples, and the pictures of God, which we have in our homes , is not the real God. So to worship God you have to explore and learn who God is. This exploration takes a long time and it needs a good association with some enlightened one who can help you out with love.
Gurumaa
