Unconditional Love | Blog 4 Reference

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When you have the notion that you love everything, this overcomes your
limitations. You realize that the notion of love does not mean trying to
possess the thing you are wanting to hold onto but in letting go of the
very thing. Love is not imposing your will on others. It is trying to find
out what others want and trying to give it to them to the best of your
ability.

Love takes different forms according to the object of your love. It is not the
same mode in every case. You love fire by not touching it. Embracing a
friend is an expression of love. Both are expressions of love. Because I love
my child I don’t want to give it too many chocolates because I know it is bad
for the stomach. Chocolates taste nice, but too much is bad. I know this but
the child does not know. So the parent’s expression of love to the child
includes denying sometimes what the child wants, knowing that it is not
good for the child. Similarly Gods love includes denying what the devotee
asks for unless it Is good for devotee.

Love is usually confused with sensuality or sex. But it really means all types
of interactions where you are trying to give your best to others, where
giving is giving what the partner needs, not what you want to; where letting
go is letting go of the fruits of your action. Sometimes, your giving may
yield your expected result, sometimes no. Love means detachment to the
expectation and result both, not detachment to action.

Let me tell you a story. Supposing there is a man-eating tiger roaming

around in a village. There is a woman who hears the roar of the tiger and
she is trying to protect herself by running into all the closed doors and
somehow finds a little door where she can enter to hide. The next day she is
carrying her child and the same tiger comes along. All the doors are closed.
There is no way she can escape. What does she do? She keeps the child
somewhere else and goes and offers herself as prey to the tiger. This is an
expression of her love towards her child. Love overcomes the fear of death.
So she goes and offers herself and makes the supreme sacrifice to protect
her child. Love has the power overcome fear. Let me give you another
example.

Recently I saw a video of a young woman in the midst of 7 wild cheetahs.

Any one was enough to rip her apart. She loved and understood wild
animals. She knew that cheetahs were just cats, they were just big. She
walks into them bare handed, playfully teases them, playfully alternately
attacking and withdrawing. After a while, she just squats down. One
cheetah approaches her cautiously, and starts playing with her, purring
peacefully like a cat. How understanding, love and play overcomes fear!

Fear is the worst possible enemy that you have got. Your worst enemies
are all inside of you, not outside. The enemies of any country are not the
other countries, but the fears that the governments have about them. If
people could only understand that our enemies are all inside ourselves, we
would not need all these weapons, guns, shootings. The words we speak to
each other are worse than guns!