Look at the photo above, what is the first thing you feel, the very first thing…..this is love. Everything else is of emotional nature. Yes people, real love is not an emotion. Think of it rationally, if it is then there will be 7+ billion subjective degrees of love in the world – based on each individual’s subjective understanding and expectation of the word love.
Love is peace. tranquility, something flowing to-and-fro without beginning nor end.
Unfortunately nowadays love has many degrees of expressions:
– Love my pet
– Love my children
– Love my car
– Love my partner
– Love my job
– Love this love that
The word is used interchangeably with like, I like / I love, as if love is liking at a higher degree.
Some say unconditional love…..just take a walk outside your place for about an hour and see if you spot a case of unconditional love. Do this over a year, make a mental note to notice the manifestation of unconditional love around you. If love can be unconditional, then it can come with conditions too….logical.
I can continue like this and write a book (or may be an encyclopedia) about the different degrees of expression of the word love around the world.
Now i think i made my point. Let us now concentrate on how we felt when we saw the picture above. Most likely what was felt would have been something outside the five senses, it is as if something just engulfed you, something subtle, pleasing, but not related to the five senses. The picture has nothing which will stimulates the five senses, and yet it is mesmerising, peaceful.
This is how the Divine, the Angels, and so many other Higher Beings like the Buddhas, Ascended Masters and so many others, sees us and everything else that is manifest on Gaia. They will see the worst dictator the same way you see the child in the picture above. Now don’t tell me you can do this, if you can good, but i will be frank, i do not believe you, or it is very hard for me to conceive it. The reality is that everyone has a breaking point, we will tolerate things to a certain subjective degree, after that we explode.
This is where the misconception about forgiveness arise. If I forgive you, it is not for the reason that I know unconditional love (which does not exist), it is because i do not want your negativity to affect my spiritual progression – that is the only reason – and the sensible one. If your actions goes beyond my tolerance limit, you will suffer the consequences, and as a spiritual seeker, I know how to purge myself of the negativity of my reactions. It is as simple as that. God made us men and women, not lambs to the slaughter.
The way we approach the spiritual path is important, our basic understandings of norms must be put in the proper context, else we we be building a sand castle.
Having clarified my position vis a vis the word love, i will now turn my attention to the relationship between intimate partners. The trend in most part of the world today is that we wish to fall in love with the ideal partner and live happily ever after, or at least manage to maintain a happy life. You see, it is not love you feel for a potential partner, because what you feel is driven by your senses and your hormones, it more a strong like. At the time of this happening, both you and the other person have a subjective benchmark for strong like, when these benchmarks coincide there is a spark between the individuals.
We will stop here for today and I leave you to digest the above. We will continue the topic on intimate relationships between individuals in our next article and an introduction to soul mate, twin flames and the likes.
On this, i will take your leave.
Bye for now
Lots of love
Peace to all of you.
