| When that existence becomes relative, we see it as | | | | manner that there is no reaction of pain or jealousy, no |
| the world; that knowledge becomes in its turn modified | | | | selfish feeling, then you are in a fit state to be |
| into the knowledge of the things of the world; and that | | | | unattached. |
| bliss forms the foundation of all true love known to the | | | | Krishna says, "Look at Me, Arjuna! If I stop from work |
| heart of man. Therefore true love can never react so | | | | for one moment,the whole universe will die. I have |
| as to cause pain either to the lover or to the beloved. | | | | nothing to gain from work; I am the one Lord, but why |
| Suppose a man loves a woman; he wishes to have | | | | do I work? Because I love the world." God is |
| her all to himself and feels extremely jealous about her | | | | unattached because He loves; that real love makes us |
| every movement; he wants her to sit near him,to stand | | | | unattached. Wherever there is attachment, the clinging |
| near him,and to eat and move at his bidding. He is a | | | | to the things of the world, you must know that it is all |
| slave to her and wishes to have her as his slave. That | | | | physical attraction between sets of particles of matter |
| is not love; it is a kind of morbid affection of the slave, | | | | -- something that attracts two bodies nearer and |
| insinuating itself as love. It cannot be love,because it is | | | | nearer all the time and, if they cannot get near enough, |
| painful;if she does not do what he wants, it brings him | | | | produces pain; but where there is real love, it does not |
| pain. With love there is no painful reaction; love only | | | | rest on physical attachment at all. Such lovers may be |
| brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is | | | | a thousand miles away from one another, but their |
| mistaking something else for love. When you have | | | | love will be all the same; it does not die, and will never |
| succeeded in loving your husband, your wife, your | | | | produce any painful reaction. |
| children, the whole world, the universe, in such a | | | | |