There are four categories of love that I had defined as follows….
1) Spiritual Love – Highest form – can not be expressed – to be felt only.
2)Mental or Psychological love – Second highest needed to express the highest.
3)Physical love – needed to maintain physical body.
4)Conditioned love (KARMA)- accumulation of the past deeds.
As i have experienced (not learned from some sacred book or religion). that spiritual love, of course without that “I” – (it is not possible any other way),it travels through all above four categories,the first three are necessary for day to day normal life,while the fourth one is not needed to progress as spiritual being(love).
To understand it more by an example we can imagine that there exists an inexhaustible universal energy which manifests itself through all living beings including animals and trees too, lets call it as a pure steam(spiritual love),which becomes hot water when expressed through mind, which could generate wonders in the universe in any field and we all have seen and experienced it again and again but we should not forget that this still hot water and not that pure steam, that’s why no matter however big invention or social reformation thought, it ultimately dies.
Now that same hot water(mind) is needed to express any and everything in the outer world and that forms an individuality , so the individual world of each being, now this hot water travels further down to fulfill daily needs of the body and doing so it becomes cold water which is also necessary for body to survive, and the same cold water travels further it becomes ice which is the further category of the love mentioned before as a conditioned love which is completely unnecessary and worth getting rid of in it’s entirety.
Then and only then we can have a constant flow of that pure steam from that inexhaustible source,as we all know that if there is no exit there can not be an entry, so the most important task is to get rid of that conditioning of mind and all the religions of the world are showing the different ways and means to do that and as I mentioned earlier that with the passage of time all old paths becomes useless like cold water freezes and becomes stone like-lifeless .
So the new path I have found is of love(steam), which if practiced in every moment of life just by remembering as many times as we can in the beginning until it becomes very integral part of our life and the only part of our life ultimately like KRISHNA – JESUS – BUDDHA – MAHAVIRA etc…
Thanks
Harshad Shah
