June 2015
Do not confuse desire and attachment with Love, desire is selective, Love is not. Natural, universal love is unconditional, it contains the passion for sharing. It washes away the idea of duality, you and the external world out of your mind. Only the pure radiance of love remains, beyond giving and receiving.
In love there are no strangers. When the duality of me and mine, of independent self-interest is no longer, all desires for personal pleasure and fear of pain cease. One is no longer concerned with independent happiness, for there is none. Beyond singular happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy from the ecstasy of being at one with, and giving from the perennial source.
Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with yourself you cannot love them. There is no duality in love – the lover and the beloved – there is not one even, how can there be two? Love is the refusal to separate, to make distinctions. Before you can think of unity you must first create duality. When you truly love, you do not say: ‘I love you’. Where there is mentation, there is duality.
Don’t pretend to be what you are not; don’t refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realisation, no virtue is genuine.
When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of your-self, you know that every living being and the entire universe is included in your affection; but when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid. Self-interest with conditions arise with the inevitable fear of loss. Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation; a vicious circle. Only true knowledge, at one with the true heart, can break it.
When you know beyond doubt that the same life flows through, and is, all that is and you are that life, love and service flows naturally and spontaneously.
NaturesDestiny 