#1536 - Why We Fall in Love
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Is love a personal choice or a cosmic force?
Welcome to the Sadguru Podcast of Mystics and Mistakes.
Do you think that love is a choice that we make or do you think there's something more cosmic involved in it? Like whoa when people choose to love one another.
Your neighborhood girl sent by cosmos cosmic
agents. Yeah, that'd be nice, huh? You could just wish on a star for a date. But yeah, do you think that there's something 'cause love feels different whenever you're in love with someone, right?
So when you say whenever, that means it's not happening all the time. It happens once in a week. Right. It's a leap year. So right now However How much radical view are you ready for?
I'll take it all, I think.
Really?
I mean, it depends on how weird we're trying to get, but yeah, I mean, I'm into some stuff. Yeah, I'll listen at least. I'll start there.
So one way to look at it is uh The emotion of love. Initially it got the way people know it, it's just generally love means romantic love, all right? That is initiated by a rush of hormone in your system. Okay? Essentially I would say your intelligence got hijacked by your hormones. That's fair. So till yesterday that scorny little girl who in the neighborhood, suddenly she got a few bumps on her body. Yeah. Suddenly it became a whole cosmos. Yeah.
How do hormones influence the way we experience love?
You can't take your eyes off her. Oh yeah. Hey, don't think of all that now. I'm just Okay, yeah, yeah. I keep my hands like this. So I'm saying just the hormonal rush in you suddenly makes you see everything completely differently. Mm-hmm. A little while later, if you look back, it may look stupid. All right? Mm-hmm. But at that moment. Anyway, we're talking about love, not about hormones or sexuality. But that instigate, that fires it. If you look at it by nature, what is nature's intent? Why is it getting you so excited about the neighborhood girl? Because it wants you to reproduce. If it doesn't fire something like this, there'll be no next generation of people. Ah. So nature needs it. Yes, it's the instinct of the species that it wants to survive.
Okay. We may play all kinds of games with it, but essentially it wants you to reproduce. Leave that aside. We've kept that as a choice now. Okay. We want to reproduce or not is a choice. Okay. But nature is pushing you in that direction. Leaving that aside.
What does nature’s instinct to reproduce tell us about love?
Now love means you long for somebody. What is the longing? You want to become one. Mm-hmm. Say right now you you breathing? Mm-hmm. I'm checking on you. You're breathing? Yep. Yes. Don't just say to me, are you really breathing? You notice it? Mm-hmm. Yes. Now this is a small plant, but let's say that's a little bigger tr thing. What? The tree is exhaling. You're inhaling. What you exhale, the tree is inhaling. Am I correct? Is it a fact or fiction? It's shotgun on each other, yeah, it's good. It is fact or fiction? Correct. Fact. Fact. So you and the tree, for example, It's like one half of your lungs is hanging out there. You're not really separate. But can I tell you a story in between, story inside a story?
How are humans interconnected with trees and the environment?
Please.
So this happened about twelve, fourteen years ago. The place I where I was born and where I most of the time m most of the years I grew up there in schools and stuff Call my surface. You heard of the time? Mysore. Mysore. You heard of that? Bangalore? Bangalore have heard of? Very close to Bangalore. It's a cultural city this one is. Okay. It used to be the old capital when the kings were there. Oh yeah. It's a beautiful town. So I grew up there. And uh after uh you know, like after I started teaching, I go there only to meet my family, otherwise I just kept myself away. I never did any of my programs or events in that town because I wanted to keep the town as is, my friends and whatever stuff. Yeah, keep it separate.
Yes. But anyway, you know, it became known to everybody and they all demand that you must do something. So I went there to do one event, one two day event. Then I suddenly find from my kindergarten school Friends, teachers, high school, college, wherever, university, everybody, all these people, teachers, students, everybody's there. When I look at them I can recognize they've all many years have passed.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Is love a personal choice or a cosmic force?
0:01–1:49
2
How do hormones influence the way we experience love?
1:49–3:03
3
What does nature’s instinct to reproduce tell us about love?
3:03–3:57
4
How are humans interconnected with trees and the environment?
3:57–5:26
5
Why does Sadhguru share a personal story about Mysore and his upbringing?
5:26–6:54
6
In what way does love act as a force that unites separate beings?
6:54–8:10
7
What is the significance of “tears of ecstasy” in daily practice?
8:10–9:31
8
How can listeners apply Sadhguru’s teachings to experience deeper love?
9:31–11:21