Have you ever been in love?
Who among us hasn’t.
Falling in love can be one of the most beautiful experiences – a moment when the heart opens and the world seems brighter, as if everything was created for the purpose of finding someone with whom to share your innermost being. It is a wonderful feeling.
As children we hear stories of how falling in love grows into love and they “lived happily ever after…”. That fairytale love is what many seek – with longing. But the journey that seems simple and clear often turns out to be full of confusion, disappointments, and wrong choices. Love becomes a game where expectations, hopes, and demands take control.
Have you ever wondered why it is so?
In the yogic view, love is not about possession, but about being. It is not a feeling that comes and goes. It is the union of consciousness and energy – a state of completeness in which a person experiences love toward all living things. Such love is unconditional: it doesn’t ask or demand, doesn’t give or take away. It simply is.
There is no control or fear of loss in it – only a quiet and natural presence from which caring, gratitude, tolerance, and beauty arise.
We will end this year’s “Path of Wisdom” series with an age-old theme and explore, through earthly and spiritual lenses: what is love?
Why is falling in love not a conscious decision but an automatic reaction?
How does our subconscious determine our choices in relationships?
Why do we sometimes search for “the right one” for so long?
Why do the illusions of love shatter and what can we learn from them?
How do attachment, possessiveness, loss, and fear arise?
Why is it said that “love suppresses the ego”?
How can we find love that doesn’t fade away?
Ingvar Villido has walked the path of Siddha Yoga for over 30 years. In the “Path of Wisdom” series, he shares deep and practical wisdom that brings spiritual clarity into everyday life.
Lecture is in Estonian, with translations into English and Finnish.