I Love you- Do I?

The three most commonly used words, maybe in close competition with I Hate you, one generally follows the other, so we can't be very sure.

but heck, to begin with how many of us understand what Love is?

As a famous Calvin comic strip goes, is it just evolution kicking in to make sure that our species continue? 

Or is it something, which is above the relationship of give and take? What is it?

Well, as usual too many questions and just one person to turn too. Asking the Guru himself.

In the words of Yogi Ashwini ji - "In a human being, the anahad chakra, located at the center of the chest cavity, governs the need for love. There are very few, who with yogic practices like Sanatan Kriya or with karmas of previous lives are able to form connections at the level of anahad. The closest example of a connection made at this level would be the unconditional love of a mother towards her baby. Most adult relationships are limited to connections of the lower chakras – mooladhar for material comforts, swadishthan for sexual pleasures and manipoorak for the need for power and status, depending upon the state of evolution of a being."

So love is a connection we form with the other person! And yes to answer my question, there does exist selfless love! 

But why such gross misuse today, and all this misleading..

Yogi ji - "Love is considered a magical word. Volumes have been written on the subject of love all across the world. A famous saying goes, ‘If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If it does not, it never was.’ This definition of love is universal over all religions, nationalities, communities and the world. The problem begins when we confuse love with lust or a physical desire. On doing this, the pure emotion turns into possession and fear, fear of losing what you want to possess. So on the entry of this emotion, the four-letter word loses its magic and the divinity associated with it.

Look around yourself… look at the people who claim to love someone else, or if you do not want to go far, just look at yourself… the object of love in your story would never be a free thought. It would always be that you want the person for yourself, for your pleasure without bothering to find out what is the pleasure of the other person. That is love for you, your own terms and conditions and what you think is right. Even if the other person disagrees, it is not important for you, because ‘you know you are right."

Hmm, so it is our selfishness, which has blinded us. And is the reason for all that is around us. 

But then when I say, " I love you", do I really?