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Pure Love
Dadashri: It does not increase or decrease. It remains
the same, whenever you look at it. Elsewhere in the world as
long as you do favors for people, their love will stay with you
and it will fall apart when you stop. How can you call that love?
So what is the definition of real love? Real love is that
which remains the same whether one receives flowers or thorns
of insults. This is the definition of real love. Everything else is
false attachment and attraction. Real love is the love of the
Lord. When that kind of love arises, there is no need for anything
else. Only this love is a love that is of any value.
Love Of Illusion Is Useless
Questioner: Can a man live without love?
Dadashri: A man continues to live when the one whom
he has loved divorces him, does he not?
Questioner: One can live if it is real love. If it is false
love, love of infatuation and attraction, then he will not be able
to live with it.
Dadashri: You said it right. Forget about the kind of
love, which leads to divorces. How can you call it love? Our
love should be such that it never goes away, no matter what
happens. One can live with such real love.
Questioner: If it is love of infatuation and attraction, then
one cannot live.
Dadashri: The false love of attachment and attraction
due to illusion is useless. Do not become trapped by it. Love
has to be right and real. It is true that man cannot live without
love, but that love has to be real.
So do you understand the definition of love? Look for
that kind of love. Do not look for love that ends in a divorce
in the future. Where is the stability in such a love?