Love

By: Tathagata Roy

What is love? Some say it is attraction; some others say it is fantasy; still, some others say it is a strong sense of responsibility toward someone for his/her complete well-being. Also, some say it is a sacrifice of the highest order! Some say it is an inspiration; some say it is the driving force behind all great achievements!

If I am not wrong, most people feel love on the physical level only; some people feel it on the sensual level; still, fewer and finer people feel it at the intellectual level. Going finer, it is purely mental; deeper still, it is emotional (Heartational) (Neologism) (Heart-to-heart deep feeling, relation, and connection); and finally, the culmination is absolutely spiritual, where there is not even an iota of difference left between the lover, the beloved, and love itself, i.e., the lover, the beloved, and the act of loving are unified into one entity, and absolute inseparability is attained, which is an everlasting ocean of bliss, peace, prosperity, and absolute freedom!

I personally feel that real love, to some degree, begins at the emotional (Heartational) level, which is a stepping stone to reach the ultimate spiritual level! If you can’t feel, then you are no better than a stone! Without love, the creation of God couldn’t have come into existence, and as per certain scriptures, it is said that God was one unified entity, and it became divided into two just in order to love. But what materialized proved to be ironic, as since then, what has happened is self-evident—the world, marred by wars and battles, was contrary to what was desired and intended by God!

And our job is to just reverse this process and experience love at its ultimate and timeless level and make others feel the same! It all starts with a feeling, but you have to take that feeling to its pinnacle for the absolute good of one and all!

It is the love between Radha and Krishna, which is an epitome of love, that is absolutely transcendental in nature and is an absolute culmination of eternity, is timeless, and hence, absolutely undefined! The institution of marriage was constituted in order to idolize this love between Radha and Krishna, but what transpired in reality is needless to opine!

Furthermore, I strongly feel that that is not love, which seeks reciprocation; it is simply gross commerce! Love on any level, save spiritual love, is ephemeral and is a cause of reactions and constant sorrows! Nobility never reacts; it is always pure!

But to understand this, you have to go through the severest of unsavory experiences, which are absolutely indispensable for realizing this absolute truth! Not before that, never before that! Take that for granted! And after you have realized this truth, I personally feel that you should broadcast it to the masses for their absolute emancipation!

If you can’t love, you can’t live and make others live as well. But you have to understand and realize it at the ultimate level so that the entire multiverse is absolutely blissified (Neologism) (Becomes absolutely blissful) unto eternity and beyond eternity… ad infinitum…!