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Pure Love
Pure Love
Dadashri : Yes, but that is all I did; I awakened you. But when you say, "Dada has given me everything', all I have really done is given you what was already yours.
Questioner : You gave us what was ours, but did we even know that it was ours?
Dadashri : You did not know that but you did find out eventually! The glory of this knowing is something else! How glorious this is! This grandeur would not go away even if someone were to insult you. If on the other hand, this knowledge were not there, a person would feel insulted if someone did not acknowledge him in a public reception. Now look at the difference between the two!
Questioner : Wherever we were once attracted, will that all become detached?
Dadashri : Yes, that is the way! These are all the steps. Eventually one has to come to the state of the unattached, the Self.
Intellect Ends Where Love Is What is God like? He is unattached. He is never attached. Questioner : Even the Gnani is unattached?
Dadashri : Yes. That is why our love is constant and the same everywhere. It is equal for everyone. My love is the same for those who insult me and for those who shower me with flowers. There is no discrimination in my love and where the love is not discriminating, the intellect disappears. Love destroys intellect or else the intellect will end love. Where there is intellect, there is no love and where there is love, there is no intellect. When intellect disappears, the ego disappears. It is when nothing remains and all attachment is gone, that one becomes the
embodiment of love, love incarnate. I have eternal love. I do not have any attachment for this body. I have no attachment for this speech. I have no attachment to this mind.
Love Arises From Absolute Detachment
Real love arises only when the ego and attachment are gone. Real love is something that is born out of absolute nonattachment (vitragata). First, one has to become free from all dualities, only then one becomes a vitrag. Both duality (dvaita) and non-duality (advaita) are in itself a duality. Those who follow non-duality will have issues about duality. In rejecting duality, they become absorbed by duality. Nevertheless non-duality is of some benefit. It is when one goes way beyond non-duality that one will arrive at the stage of the vitrag. the absolutely enlightened One. The distance between non-duality, advaita and the vitrag is a hundred thousand miles of spiritual travel. And it is here that real love arises. And this love is the Supreme love. Such a love will not decrease, even if someone was to slap him, and if it does decrease, then it was not real love.
It is okay if someone hurts us, but we have to be careful that we do not hurt anyone. Only then can love flow and be experienced by others. Gradually one has to become the embodiment of pure love for everyone.
Questioner : What does it mean to become the embodiment of pure love?
Dadashri : If a person leaves after insulting you, and returns a few minutes later, if your love for him does not diminish, that is pure love (shuddha prem). One needs to learn to have this kind of love, nothing else. You should have the kind of love that I show you. Will you be able to manage this before this life comes to an end? So now learn to have such a love.
