The object of love is so big, so total, so filling, so occupying that it leaves no space for the subject to hide and survive. The task is so damn big that it can’t be done if you protect yourself. If you protect yourself, it won’t happen. Love involves a lot of bloodshed and demolition. And there are fireworks. Great structures collapse. Formidable enemies have to be defeated. All that is love.
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Questioner: Dear master, Jiddu Krishnamurti asks, “Has love an object? Or is love divine or profane? You follow? Sir, when you love, you are neither giving nor receiving.”
Acharya Ji, could you explain how can we love in daily life, without giving or receiving? What is love, if it has no object?
Acharya Prashant: All objects are small, Shirin.
The object of love is so gigantic, that you cannot call it an ‘object’. Further, all objects leave ample space for you to remain. All objects leave space for the dualistic subject to remain, and prosper.
The object of love is so big, so total, so filling, so occupying, so unrelenting, so very compelling, that it leaves no space for the subject to hide and survive.
