Ancient Love

You have gone through every experience and still, you have come out the same, shining, innocent, pure and untainted. That is why you are the ancient love and being in the spiritual path means uncovering that ancient love.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Ancient love is the love beyond relationships. Often our love is in terms of some relationship: father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife and friend. A master and disciple is also a relationship. But ancient love transcends and is inclusive of all relationships. It is not against any relationship, but transcends and includes it all. Any relationship brings limitation. Ancient love is unlimited it is beyond limitations.

Often, one experiences love at first sight and as time passes it decreases, decays, becomes hatred and disappears. But ancient love never decays. It keeps growing for ages.

In our lives love has a great mortality rate and it dies very young. It is only for few days, weeks, months, years and it dies. In society, love is never a tree, it’s just a seasonal crop. All the letters and exchange of gifts happens over a short period and then finishes. When the same love becomes a tree with the manure of knowledge it becomes ancient love that grows from lifetime to lifetime. It keeps growing bigger, wider and stronger.