A person who loves him self or herself only can Love another person.
A realized master would only say "Love yourself" first before loving others. If you do not love your self how can you love others?.
Many others would say the opposite.
Loving your own self is the beginning of self realization. Nothing else.
If someone loves himself or herself he or she would start loving, looking after their own selves, care for their own self, respect their own self. That is where the starting point is. If you love and care for your own self,then only you start loving and caring for others.
The society and many people say this in the opposite way. They say love others, love nature, love education etc etc. And also they say respect others, respect every living things, respect elders etc etc.
Do you ever hear someone say "Love yourself" or " Respect yourself"
How can you love some one else if you do not love yourself? ask this question from you. If you are a person who does not care for your self can you care for others. Just ask these things from your inside.
This is where people are getting lost. Without being happy they are trying to give happiness to others . Without loving themselves they start trying to share love.
That is how everywhere people are being taught. Just imagine can you give something to someone which you don't have? You cannot.
This is very much impossible.
Only if you are full of love, you can share love. Only if you are joyful you can share joy.
The truth is if somebody is deeply interested in his or her happiness, he or she is interested in others happiness too.
Love is the most sacred experience a human can experience in one's lifetime... which allows you to reach God.
Actually rarely people would touch the real love. People go on touching Love from the surface. Many people believe a fantasy as love. Many people are very far from real love.
What every one is searching mostly is also "Love"
Love means your innermost being is completely in love. That is the real and purest love that exists. Love is meditative. Real love is a meditation. A realized person would know this.
If you ever wish love and happiness for others. First have these within you. Then only you can give it to others.
If you love your self and kind to yourself then you will take care of your self in all the ways, You will feel precious, will never do anything that makes you unhappy or feel down. So with this practice you care for the other people same way.
Watch carefully... there are many things in the society that prevents you from realizing truth. That is why things are being put in to you in the opposite way.
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