Pure Love 47
absolutely enlightened One. The distance between non-duality, advaita and the vitarag 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.
The Way To Become The Embodiment Of Love
If one understands the world exactly as it is, and then experiences it from that perspective, then he will become the embodiment of love. What does‘ as it is’ mean? It means that all living beings are innocent. They are flawless. It is because of illusion that one sees faults in others.
It is an illusion if people appear good and it is also an illusion if they appear to have faults. The former is because of attachment and the latter because of detachment. In reality everyone is faultless. When you see faults in them, you cannot love them. So when you see the world as faultless, that is when pure love will arise. As long as we look upon others as