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world is caught up in the web of worldly love, so keep a safe
distance and deal with everyone from a distance. Do not
encourage worldly relative love or be trapped by anyone’s
worldly love. But neither can you achieve liberation by scorning
the worldly love. So beware! If you aspire liberation, you should
be grateful to those who oppose you. Those who love you are
actually creating bondage for you, whereas those who oppose
you are beneficial to you. You should gently free yourself from
those who shower you worldly love without slighting them
because that kind of love perpetuates the worldly life.
Attraction is one of the properties of the body. It is a
property of the atoms. It is like the attraction between a magnet
and a needle. The body attracts atoms that are compatible to
it. That is attraction.
Attraction can be above or below normal. True love is
within normality; it is perpetually constant and steady. It does
not undergo any kind of changes. Attraction is an attribute of
the inanimate, the non-Self, there is absolutely no Chetan (pure
consciousness, the animate) in it.
There is a reason behind the seeming one-ness and
harmony that is seen in this world. That is an attribute of atoms
and attraction, but there is no telling what may happen at any
time in the future. As long as the atoms are compatible, there
will be attraction and hence a feeling of harmony and one-ness.
Incompatibility between atoms will lead to repulsion and cause
animosity. Therefore wherever there is attraction, there is
repulsion. In attraction one does not have the awareness of
what is spiritually beneficial and what is not. In pure love there
is complete awareness of that.
This is a science of atoms (parmanus). The Self has nothing
to do with it, but in the attraction between atoms, people are
under the illusion that it is happening to them. The Self can