Video Information: Shabdyog session, 22.10.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
~ What is love?
~ What is the real meaning of love?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ What is love?
~ What is the real meaning of love?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 Dear Master, Jk asks, "Has love an object or is love divine or profane?
00:08 You follow, serve and you love.
00:12 You are neither giving nor receiving."
00:14 Acharya ji, could you explain how can we love in daily life without giving or receiving?
00:29 What is love if it has no object?
00:33 All objects are small, Shireen.
00:37 The object of love is so gigantic that you cannot call it an object.
00:43 Further, all objects leave ample space for you to remain.
00:48 All objects leave space for the dualistic subject to remain and prosper.
01:02 The object of love is so big, so total, so filling, so occupying, so unrelenting, so
01:24 very compelling that it leaves no space for the subject to hide and survive.
01:35 Obviously, if the subject is gone, who can call the object an object?
01:44 So the object of love is a non-object.
01:54 Those who have come before us have called that object as truth.
02:01 God, beloved, Amma, Baba, father, Ma.
02:23 Next you are asking how can one be in love without giving or receiving?
02:30 Giving and receiving both imply your presence and your activity.
02:39 You have to be there to give, you have to be there to receive and in both, your presence,
02:46 your being gets stamped, certified, further ascertained.
02:59 In giving, you remain as the giver.
03:05 In receiving, you strike roots as the receiver.
03:17 So in love, there is neither giving nor receiving.
03:21 Simply put, no doing of the doer.
03:28 No doing of the doer is also the highest doing of the literary doer.
03:38 The highest of the literary doer.
03:42 I will give an example to you.
03:51 I have heard of this little soldier, he was actually a civilian in one of the wars in
04:01 the last century.
04:06 He is so small, he is not even trained as a soldier.
04:18 His village has been invaded.
04:24 The villagers have been captured, taken away for forced labor.
04:34 They were being used to construct a bridge.
04:39 That's what the invading army was using the locals for.
04:42 Take them away and use their labor to build a bridge.
04:53 Now that the enemy has taken them away, they are with the enemy.
04:57 And this little one could see a big ammunition depot.
05:16 You are already guessing it, right?
05:21 There was not much he could have done all by himself.
05:28 The enemy numbered in hundreds.
05:31 Hundreds of well-built, grown-up, trained soldiers with firearms.
05:37 What could the boy have done?
05:41 But there is one thing that the boy could do.
05:52 With a little bit of ingenuous engineering, he rammed himself into the depot and blew
06:06 the entire depot off.
06:12 Obviously nothing of him remained.
06:25 But he took down the entire nonsense with him.
06:37 So Shirin, that's love.
06:39 Attempting the impossible.
06:40 The task is so damn big that it can't be done if you protect yourself.
06:51 If you protect yourself, it won't happen.
06:54 That's love.
06:59 Excuse me for giving a violent analogy.
07:02 But yes, a lot of bloodshed is indeed involved in love.
07:10 Love does involve a lot of demolition.
07:13 And there are fireworks.
07:16 And things come down.
07:20 Great structures collapse.
07:23 Formidable enemies have to be defeated.
07:27 All that is love.
07:35 You want something beyond your size.
07:37 You want something beyond your measure.
07:44 And it will require all of you to get that.
07:48 If you care for your safety, if you care for your survival, it just can't happen.
07:57 That's love.
07:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]