NO, THAT’S NOT LOVE
I have always wondered why I have had such an uneasy feeling in regards to love as I see it displayed around me, and especially as portrayed on the movie screen. All my life I have apparently been sensing something I could not define much less understand until now. Lately I have been getting revelations (intuitions) that love as it is practiced today is just plain wrong. If my Intuition is not deceiving me, I would say that it is love as it is currently understood which is the problem. But more specifically, I would aver that selfish love is the cause of all human misery.
Simply defined, selfish love is the attraction of anything to oneself that one does not deserve.
Stated another way, selfish love is the incorrect action undertaken by the unenlightened ignorant soul which uses its inherent divine creative ability to attract to itself what it does not karmically deserve or what is not destined for that soul to have or use, which inevitably leads to that soul generating karma against itself in the form of greedy attachments to the things it has selfishly attracted to itself.
According to the ancient teachings, the proper mode of behavior for the soul is to do the will of God. When this is done, the soul is operating within the bounds of selfless love or unselfish love. When this is done, the actions undertaken by the soul become correct actions which will not generate any selfishly-related karma unto the soul, resulting in the soul becoming a pure channel for the will of God to pass thru. When this is done, all things that are attracted to the soul as a result of selflessly-generated actions can be said to be truthfully the things that soul needs and karmically deserves in order to do the will of God. This is the way of the soul’s Liberation.
So much for the way it should be, but how does this apply to the state of human relationships? In a word, we are “screwed”. We are hopelessly screwed because the majority of our actions regarding love are just plain selfish or stated another way—wrong. Simply stated, we are going about it all in the wrong direction.
In a ‘normal’ relationship, a man is attracted to a women’s outer beauty and wants to possess the woman. He courts her, woos her, and generally tries like mad to win her affection. If he is ‘lucky’ it works and she devotes herself to him. One thing leads to another and the relationship usually ends up in marriage, children, sometimes divorce, sometimes bitterness and boredom with each other, then old age leaving both parties disappointed and deeply unhappy, all the while wondering why they could not find the joy that “love and marriage” is supposed to bring.
Sound harsh? Inaccurate? If you really think that I am exaggerating here, take a good look at married couples around you. Take a look at your own relationships. Take a really honest look at ‘normal’ love all around you…and then ask whether or not what I just wrote is untrue.
If you have any true vision whatsoever, you know what the answer is.
