Video Information: Shabdyog session, 22.10.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
~ What is love?
~ What is the real meaning of love?
~To whom should one give love?
~What is true Love?
~What is truth?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant
Context:
~ What is love?
~ What is the real meaning of love?
~To whom should one give love?
~What is true Love?
~What is truth?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
#acharyaprashant
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00:00Dear master, Jk asks, has love an object or is love divine or profane?
00:08You follow? So when you love, you are neither giving nor receiving.
00:18Acharya ji, could you explain how can we love in daily life without giving or receiving?
00:26What is love if it has no object? All objects are small, Shireen.
00:36The object of love is so gigantic that you cannot call it an object.
00:43Further, all objects leave ample space for you to remain.
00:48All objects leave space for the dualistic subject to remain and prosper.
00:56The object of love is so big, so total, so filling, so occupying, so unrelenting,
01:16so compelling that it leaves no space for the subject to hide and survive.
01:37Obviously, if the subject is gone, who can call the object an object?
01:42So, the object of love is a non-object.
01:54Those who have come before us have called that object as truth.
01:59Next, you are asking, how can one be in love without giving or receiving?
02:30Giving and receiving both imply your presence and your activity.
02:39You have to be there to give, you have to be there to receive.
02:43And in both, your presence, your being gets stamped, certified.
02:51Further ascertained, in giving, you remain as the giver.
03:05In receiving, you strike roots as the receiver.
03:16So in love, there is neither giving nor receiving.
03:21Simply put, no doing of the doer.
03:28No doing of the doer is also the highest doing of the little doer.
03:38The highest of the little.
03:42I will give an example to you.
03:44I have heard of this little soldier, he was actually a civilian
03:58in one of the wars in the last century.
04:06He is so small, he is not even trained as a soldier.
04:15His village has been invaded.
04:21The villagers have been captured, taken away for forced labor.
04:31They were being used to construct a bridge.
04:36That's what the invading army was using the locals for.
04:38Take them away and use their labor to build a bridge.
04:48Now that the enemy has taken them away, they are with the enemy.
04:53And this little one could see a big ammunition depot.
05:00Big ammunition depot.
05:02You are already guessing it, right?
05:09There was not much he could have done all by himself.
05:15The enemy numbered in hundreds, hundreds of people.
05:21There was not much he could have done all by himself.
05:28The enemy numbered in hundreds, hundreds of well-built grown-up trained soldiers with
05:35firearms. What could the boy have done?
05:40But there is one thing that the boy could do.
05:42With a little bit of ingenuous engineering,
06:02he rammed himself into the depot and blew the entire depot off.
06:08Obviously, nothing of him remained.
06:25But he took down the entire nonsense with him.
06:32So, Shirin, that's love. Attempting the impossible.
06:44The task is so damn big that it can't be done if you protect yourself.
06:51If you protect yourself, it won't happen. That's love.
06:54Excuse me for giving a violent analogy, but yes, a lot of bloodshed is indeed involved in love.
07:06Love does involve a lot of demolition and there are fireworks and things come down.
07:15Great structures collapse. Formidable enemies have to be defeated. All that is love.
07:31You want something beyond your size. You want something beyond your measure.
07:37And it will require all of you to get that.
07:42If you care for your safety, if you care for your survival, it just can't happen. That's love.