What is Love..?

What is love with most of us? When we say we love somebody, what do we mean? We mean we possess that person. From that possession arises jealousy, because if I lose him or her what happens? I feel empty, lost; therefore I legalize possession; I hold him or her. From holding, possessing that person, there is jealousy, there is fear and all the innumerable conflicts that arise from possession. Surely such possession is not love, is it? 

 

Being emotional and sentimental to some thing is that called as Love..? No..because sentimentality and emotion are mere sensations. The person who is sentimental, who is emotional, cannot possibly know what is love because he has his feelings/Emotions for some thing when that is lost he looses his love..That means his love is object centric.

So how can there be love? You can know love only when all these things have stopped, come to an end, only when you don't possess, when you are not merely emotional with devotion to an object. Such devotion is a supplication, seeking something in a different form. A man who prays does not know love. Since you are possessive, since you seek an end, a result, through devotion, through prayer, which make you sentimental, emotional, naturally there is no love; 

Love cannot be thought about, love cannot be cultivated, love cannot be practiced. The practice of love is still within the field of the mind, therefore it is not love. When all this has stopped, then love comes into being, then you will know what it is to love. Then love is not quantitative but qualitative.