Pure Love

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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Pure Love
Pure Love Love Does Not See Faults Dadashri : Do you have love within you? Do you have love for your children?
Questioner : Yes, I do. Dadashri : So do you ever hit them or scold them? Questioner : Surely sometimes we have to scold them.
Dadashri : Love does not see faults. If you see faults in your children, then it is not love. Do you not think so? I have love towards everyone. So far I have not seen a single fault in anyone. So now tell me who do you have love for? You tell me that you have a lot of love within you, so where is this love?
Real Love Has No Motives Questioner: So only the love for God can be called love?
where there are no feelings of yours-mine'. Wherever there is a feeling of yours-mine, there is definitely selfishness as well as ignorance of the Self. It is because of this ignorance that people have feelings of this is mine and this is yours'. When one acquires Gnan (knowledge of the Self), one ceases to have feelings of 'mine and yours'. However, this is difficult for one to understand.
What people call love in this world, is the language of illusion and deception. The warmth of real love is very different. Love is something very divine.
Prem = A Word Of Two-And-Half Syllable
Saint Kabir had said: * The world has died studying scriptures, not a single learned person has arisen:
The One who understands the two and a half syllable word
Of prem-love, has learnt something indeed.'
Dadashri : No. What you have for God is not love. Love is a different thing. There should be no motive behind love. If you have love for God, then why do you not have love for others? You have love for others because you have a need for them. You have love for your mother, because you need her. Love should be without any motive. I have love towards you as well as all these people, but I do not have any motives behind it.
Love Is Not Selfish The world is very selfish. As long as there is the ego of 'I am', there is selfishness and wherever there is selfishness, there can never be love and wherever there is love, selfishness cannot exist there.
Saint Kabir has said that it is enough for one to just understand the word love; one is considered a learned man if he understands this word. People have died studying volumes and volumes of books in an attempt to understand this word and as yet no one has understood it. It is madness to look for its meaning in books.
People would never separate from one another if they had real love. The love they have is selfish, with expectations and motive. How can one call it love?
Pure love, real love exists where there is no selfishness;
Questioner : Is it infatuation?