What is love? || Acharya Prashant, on Jiddu Krishnamurti (2018)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information:  Shabdyog session, 22.10.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India   Context:  ~ What is love? ~ What is the real meaning of love?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 Dear Master, Jk asks, "Has love an object or is love divine or profane?

00:08 You follow, serve and you love.

00:12 You are neither giving nor receiving."

00:14 Acharya ji, could you explain how can we love in daily life without giving or receiving?

00:29 What is love if it has no object?

00:33 All objects are small, Shireen.

00:37 The object of love is so gigantic that you cannot call it an object.

00:43 Further, all objects leave ample space for you to remain.

00:48 All objects leave space for the dualistic subject to remain and prosper.

01:02 The object of love is so big, so total, so filling, so occupying, so unrelenting, so

01:24 very compelling that it leaves no space for the subject to hide and survive.

01:35 Obviously, if the subject is gone, who can call the object an object?

01:44 So the object of love is a non-object.

01:54 Those who have come before us have called that object as truth.

02:01 God, beloved, Amma, Baba, father, Ma.

02:23 Next you are asking how can one be in love without giving or receiving?

02:30 Giving and receiving both imply your presence and your activity.

02:39 You have to be there to give, you have to be there to receive and in both, your presence,

02:46 your being gets stamped, certified, further ascertained.

02:59 In giving, you remain as the giver.

03:05 In receiving, you strike roots as the receiver.

03:17 So in love, there is neither giving nor receiving.

03:21 Simply put, no doing of the doer.

03:28 No doing of the doer is also the highest doing of the literary doer.

03:38 The highest of the literary doer.

03:42 I will give an example to you.

03:51 I have heard of this little soldier, he was actually a civilian in one of the wars in

04:01 the last century.

04:06 He is so small, he is not even trained as a soldier.

04:18 His village has been invaded.

04:24 The villagers have been captured, taken away for forced labor.

04:34 They were being used to construct a bridge.

04:39 That's what the invading army was using the locals for.

04:42 Take them away and use their labor to build a bridge.

04:53 Now that the enemy has taken them away, they are with the enemy.

04:57 And this little one could see a big ammunition depot.

05:16 You are already guessing it, right?

05:21 There was not much he could have done all by himself.

05:28 The enemy numbered in hundreds.

05:31 Hundreds of well-built, grown-up, trained soldiers with firearms.

05:37 What could the boy have done?

05:41 But there is one thing that the boy could do.

05:52 With a little bit of ingenuous engineering, he rammed himself into the depot and blew

06:06 the entire depot off.

06:12 Obviously nothing of him remained.

06:25 But he took down the entire nonsense with him.

06:37 So Shirin, that's love.

06:39 Attempting the impossible.

06:40 The task is so damn big that it can't be done if you protect yourself.

06:51 If you protect yourself, it won't happen.

06:54 That's love.

06:59 Excuse me for giving a violent analogy.

07:02 But yes, a lot of bloodshed is indeed involved in love.

07:10 Love does involve a lot of demolition.

07:13 And there are fireworks.

07:16 And things come down.

07:20 Great structures collapse.

07:23 Formidable enemies have to be defeated.

07:27 All that is love.

07:35 You want something beyond your size.

07:37 You want something beyond your measure.

07:44 And it will require all of you to get that.

07:48 If you care for your safety, if you care for your survival, it just can't happen.

07:57 That's love.

07:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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