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How Should Love Be?
Our love must be like the lamp - the light of the lamp - it
doesn't judge that upon which it falls. It illuminates everything in
its presence, a lump of cow dung or a saint. It has no distinction.
Like the sun, it shines on all. It doesn't say, "Oh, here is a
saint let me shine fully on him." The saint will run away, you
see, because he can't bear its heat. "And here is a sinner, I won't
shine on him at all." Has the sun this choice? Then how can we
have the choice?
When we go around saying, "Oh I love you, I love human beings.
I love you because you are the creation of God," it is most suspect.
Because love is something which is so sacred, you see, that we cannot
possibly afford to speak about it. It becomes profane the moment it
is expressed. There is a truth enshrined in the Indian Upanishad which
says that love must be like a seed; if you cut open the seed to see
what is inside, you destroy the life that is within it.
Similarly, if you try to exercise your abilities to probe into love,
you will destroy love. This is why they say love is enshrined. In a
shrine, you have an object which is kept away from the profane gaze,
from the profane touch. Nobody can approach it. From a distance you
can worship it. Love is to be worshipped, not to be enjoyed. This is
something that Western culture needs to know very badly. Love is not
for enjoyment. Love is an ennobling force, an elevating force, an
evolutionary force. And when you use it in a depraved, profane way,
it ceases to be love and it turns into its complementary four-letter
word 'lust'. Please remember that love must be there, must shine from
you, but not be spoken about. That is why God is silent - perhaps one
of the reasons.
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