Maharaji asked Guruji how to invoke love? How can you experience love?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: When you are tired and so exhausted if someone talks about love you say forget about it and let me sleep. You know sleep is very important but when you are well rested only then a thought of love can be of any significance. So, when you are well rested, body is rested and you are not restless then love dawns in you.
And then company; you look at young children, small kids that can kindle the love inside you. In one in whom the energy is high and the love is already kindled, that also is contagious, it catches on to everybody else. In that way also it dawns, so there are many ways.
Also when you do pranayam; there are 1,72,000 nadis in the body, in the system and when some of them are blocked then you don’t experience love. When they open up then you experience that, ‘oh wow’, something happens. Suddenly people start talking, ‘oh we are friends from many life times. Oh I know you from forever before and we are made for each other.’ All those talks start when the nadis in the system open up. It’s interesting and so with pranayama also you can get those nadis to open inside you and with meditation.
With the company of those in whom the nadis are open, company of saints and prophets and sadhaks, then also something triggers and you feel, ‘oh wow!’ feeling arises.
And when we try and catch hold of it, then it just slips away. So just let it be. That’s a good mantra; just let it be, let it be! Very nice.