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love will flow constantly without changes. It does not increase
nor does it decrease. It is the nature of aasakti to increase and
then decrease.
People even insist on sleeping where they sleep. They
become attached to what they sleep on. Some insist on sleeping
on a sleeping mat while others insist on sleeping on a mattress.
Those who sleep on a mattress cannot sleep on a mat and those
who sleep on a mat cannot fall asleep on a mattress. Any form
of insistence is poison and non-insistence is nectar. Unless one
becomes free from all insistence, one cannot get the love of the
world. Pure love manifests through non-insistence and pure love
itself is God.
Without having understood true love, all other love is
temporary. Today whatever knowledge there is of love, is all
related to the prakruti (the relative self). Of what use is love that
arises because of such qualities?
All doors can be opened with pure love. What can you
not attain through the love for the Guru?
The most attractive people will appear ugly because of
their ego. People become beautiful when they exude the ego-
less love of the pure Self within (i.e. when they become
prematma); then even an ugly person will appear beautiful. It is
only when pure love manifests that people begin to look
appealing. What do the people of this world seek? Liberated
love, wherein there is no element of selfishness or expectations.
In the worldly life, conflict is the cause of attraction
(aasakti); conflict is the vitamin that nurtures attraction. In the
absence of conflicts, one can become vitarag.
The Lord says that all internal suffering stemming from
abhorrence is helpful. Internal feelings stemming from attachment,
attraction, and worldly love will never let one be free. The