Love power

The heart beat of that engine enticed me during my childhood. What ever the hurry, I stood still to be able to ‘feel’ the entire depth of the unique rhythmic sound of a “bullet” motorbike slowing past by me! Yes, strangely enough most ‘bullet’ riders never ‘ speed’ past. They cruise at a medium pace of just 20 miles per hour (all those odometers or speedometer, whatever the name, then it was Mph, not Kmph), and I used to ‘wish’ that perhaps one day, I would manage to just ‘test-ride’ at least one of those powerful machines. That was how I had a demonstrable feel of ‘love power’ for the first time. Otherwise, there was either love or just power.

Love is seen usually as some ‘weakness’. We give in, succumb, yield, to someone or something we love very much. It is quite natural therefore to ask, if there is a power at all, that comes as a ‘freebie’ along with love!

There is a strong argument that our weakness when exploited by someone else is the other’s power. Yes, logically quite correct. But what we are trying to find out is that whether in its very ‘form’ is there a power which does not depend upon that ‘other’ person’s ‘desire’ to exploit our ‘weakness’ and yet has its own power, manifest or subtle, which can be reckoned as unique power. Now, if that power creates a desire in one person to exploit a weakness in the other, we too, should reasonably refrain from misnaming it! It is almost like ‘additional’ use, abuse, overuse or misuse of money power. When we have money in a bank account, the bearer cheque we issue to others would ‘travel’ through various hands, till the validity period, doing everything that hard cash would have done, though that original ‘money’ is lying locked up in that bank’s vault! (A typical example would be, Dr. Manmohan Singh used to sign currency notes as a Governor of RBI, and now if we happen to hold a bearer cheque of his personal account of a Bank, the signature on that cheque would ‘feel’ as ‘powerful’ as those currency notes of earlier decades! We would not be in a great hurry to present the cheque to the drawee Bank for encashing it.).

The asker happened to find my answer acceptable. And I stretched this stupid preamble just to allow a simmer of that ‘love power’ in you to become impatient to know my reply.

Psn(5th August, 2010)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100727121155AAhePM6
What is the power of Love?

My answer:
Creation.

By whatever name we call it, it is ultimately a form of love. We call it chemical affinity, that bonds two molecules, or atoms etc. We call it gravity, when planets are held in place by a star. The galaxy, the milky way, etc. (Even that 'quantum entanglement is a form of love-entanglement, though looks like a 'choiceless-love'!) The black hole draws everything towards it.

And now, couples chat online to find out if they can be loving spouses to each other, and declare that their 'chemistry' matches, or does not match.
Even when we are on hunger strike(unto death), our skin cells stand up to say 'we love to live' and fight back an insect bite with a swelling, heat, etc.Even that greedy person's 'love' for money does not persist if that currency is 'demonetised'.

It is love(in one form or other, whether we call it science or miracles), that holds this 'creation' itself.

(That is why, the popular way of saying it 'God is love' etc. When we expand our own 'awareness' of love, experientially, it is the only and ultimate freedom!)