Questioner: Acharya Ji, I just heard you talk about ‘love’.
I have withdrawn dependence from others, have set them free, but I have no sameness of feeling of love towards everyone. Am I loving, or partial, or selfish?
Acharya Prashant: (Addressing the questioner) ‘Love’ is not about loving everybody samely or equally. You are a person, you are a body. You are a woman who was typing this question a while ago with her fingers, right? Do you know that you will be able to love everybody? How can you love everybody? It will be very difficult.
Eight hundred crores of just human beings are there, and then you can add the fish and the birds, and the insects, and the other planets and galaxies. It is a little too big a number to love everybody, isn’t it? To love everybody?
But that’s the kind of image that has been promoted, circulated that – ‘The one who loves, loves everybody equally’. No, that’s not true. When I talked of Love, I said, “Ram prem pradhanu (the Love towards Ram, towards God is the First priority)”. And spiritually, truly that is the only Love you can have.
The mind has to have a deep Love, a constant attraction towards Peace, towards Realization, towards Rest and Understanding. That’s what Love is. The love that you commonly talk of as something between two people, or four people, or two hundred people is just a pale shadow of the Real thing.
