Lectures on Unselfish Love
Goswami Kriyananda often taught about unselfish love. Unselfish love is part of a sane lifestyle.
“One of the emotions that most people consider positive is love,” he writes in the Advanced Guide to Meditation. “Yet look at all the destruction and pain that has been caused by this so-called positive emotion.”
When two people fall in love, at first everything appears to be wonderful. But possessive feelings often arise, and if one of them falls in love with someone else, possessiveness can prompt vicious actions.
“If a person wants to possess something or something, it is not truly love; it is an emotion that people call love,” Goswami Kriyananda said. “We need to clearly differentiate unselfish love, which is a feeling state, from selfish love, which is an emotion. Clearly, the type of love that most people experience is selfish love. This possessive type of emotion brings a great deal of anguish and pain – not only into the person’s life, but also to all other people in that person’s life.”
One of the goals of the spiritual seeker is to obtain liberation from the enemy within themselves. Love and serve the beloved. Fulfill all responsibilities with love. But also nourish yourself, and remember that your beloved is on their own spiritual path. Keep your mind free from emotionality. Free others so you can also be freed.
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Love Solves All Problems
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The ritual for solving all problems is this: “I am third, the beloved is second, God is first. Life is first. Truth is first.”
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