Sri Saradamma
If you love one person more than another this is not true love; it is an attachment created by desire. To love all things equally, seeing the Self in all of them, is true love. When the Self is realized, and sometimes even before, one can feel this love animating and flowing through the body in the same way that blood flows through the veins and arteries.
It is love which binds the universe together and sustains it. Without love it would be nothing more than a collection of inert matter. It is the same with the human body; without love, or the Self, the body would just be an inert lump.
All love is the same love, but love other than the love of God is a waste. When two people love each other and get married, what are they loving? They are loving each other's minds and bodies. If a man loved the Self in his wife he would not grieve when her body dies because he would know that nothing has really happened to the Self. When two people marry and give all their love to each other they are building a wall around themselves. They have no love left for God or the Self, and because of this they can never see and love the Self, which is immanent in all things. Couples who only love each other can never realize the Self because they are preoccupied with their minds and bodies and have no love left for God. From a spiritual point of view the ideal man-woman relationship is one in which the couple live as brother and sister, and instead of wasting their love on each other, they give it all to God.
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