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Articles: Philosophy | 'prEma' meeda vyaasam
- Miss ANJALI
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Your love is directed only to the real substratum or Self. You happen to love the qualities in one, simply because they belong to the substratum you love. You love, because love is the real nature of the real Self and you cannot help loving even for a moment.
How to love?
Love is the feeling or sense of oneness with another.
If you correctly understand yourself to be beyond body, senses and mind, your love for another will also be for that self in him. Because there are no two selves, and love is its nature.
If your understanding is incorrect, you love the incorrect self in him; and as a result of that incorrectness, you hate others.
Genuine love absorbs everything into you, and then duality dies. But in conditioned love, or gratitude, duality persists in giving and taking. Even this gratitude, if directed to the Guru, goes deep into you, takes you beyond duality and is transformed into objectless love.
What differentiates love from knowledge?
Knowing with your whole being is Love itself. In thought (which is knowing with the mind alone) you do not lose yourself. But in love you lose yourself. So love entails the sacrifice of the ego.
What are the activities of love and knowledge?
Love creates an object for its enjoyment. Immediately, knowledge destroys that object, leaving love objectless. Being objectless, it is one with love Absolute. Love is enriched not by taking but by giving.
Where is subject-object relationship in love?
When you say you love yourself, you yourself and love stand as one. So also when you love another, you become one with the other. The subject-object relationship vanishes, and the experience is one of identity. In order to 'love thy neighbour as thyself' you have to stand as Atma itself.
The disappearance of subject-object relationship is a natural corollary of the experience of love. So also of the experience of knowledge. This actually happens in all experiences in the plane of the relative.
Instead of taking note of the sublime Truth, after the event the ego tries to limit, misrepresent and possess it. Whenever any doubt arises, refer to the deep sleep experience. There is no subject-object relationship there.
In the experience of Happiness the mind dies. There is neither enjoyer nor enjoyed in it. There is only Happiness. It is an egoless state; but this is usurped subsequently by the ego. You are not getting Happiness by loving all, but loving all is itself Happiness. The humanitarian worker emphasizes the 'all' and misses Happiness; the vedantin emphasizes Happiness, his own nature, and misses or loses the 'all'.
Love plays such an important part in the process of our functioning as human beings, and it is most unfortunate that love in its higher forms does not play a greater role in all of our lives. Perhaps our schools, which teach so much about wars and killing in our history texts, might also consider teaching about the different forms of love, and how these manifestations affect other human beings. We must try to remember always that life without love is not worth living.
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