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Pure Love
Pure Love
all the effect of merit and demerit karma but we blame others for it. It is like blaming the postman for bringing us bad news.
So it is not real love when your merit karma is unfolding. You will find love only in a Gnani Purush; otherwise, there is no such thing as love in this world.
Preserve Your Inner Wealth People sever their friendships over external problems. When the friendship begins, they display love externally and also feel the same love internally. But when problems arise, their conflicts too will be external and internal. There should be no conflict internally. Although the other person will not be aware of it, one should still have love for him internally. As long as there is internal harmony, one's humanity will not be lost. One loses humanity when one loses internal harmony.
Love Has No Limitations
love is intact. Where there is real love, there is no limitation, or separation. It is boundless.
Love Versus Attachment Of Illusion
Questioner : So please explain the words love and attachment.
Dadashri : Attachment is relative and changing and love is real and unchanging. Love does not increase or decrease. If it increases or decreases, it is attachment. When relative love becomes excessive, it is called attachment, and one becomes trapped in it. When attachment decreases it turns into abhorrence. That which is attraction and repulsion is not love. What people call love, the Lord calls attraction.
The Illusion Of Attachment And Attraction
Questioner : Why do people have infatuation and attraction for the world?
Dadashri : The whole world is trapped in infatuation and attraction. Until one realizes the Self, one is engulfed in infatuation and attraction. All these ascetics, monks and religious teachers, are all trapped in infatuation and attraction. When their infatuation and attraction towards their wives and children leaves, it is replaced by infatuation and attraction for scriptures, or the infatuation and attraction of 'I am, I am' takes over. There is infatuation and attraction wherever you look.
Infatuation And Attraction Is Not Real Love
My love does not increase or decrease. Your love increases and decreases and that is why it is called infatuation and attraction. Whenever your love fluctuates for those near and dear to you, 'You' (the Self) should just be the Knower of it. From now on your love should not increase or decrease. If
Do I not have love within me? Are you the only one who has love? Your love is confined to your wife and your children, whereas my love is limitless.
Questioner : Can love be so limited that it becomes exclusive towards only one individual?
Dadashri : Love has no limitations. If it has limits and is confined, then it is called infatuation and attraction. How can it be limited? If four brothers live under one roof along with their wives and children, as long as they all live together, they will say, 'this is our home'. But when they each move away and make their own homes, they will begin to say, 'this is our home and that is yours'. This is how limitation arises. So the love that had developed and encompassed the entire household has narrowed down upon their separation. As a whole group, their
