Love can and should be expressed in both emotions and actions.
We talked about the emotional love already and will continue to talk about it below. Here we will just reiterate, making a special emphasis, that developing love in oneself is a major method of spiritual self-perfection. This is the method by which we transform ourselves (as consciousness) into Godlike Love first and then into Divine Love, which uniting and merging with God.
This love should not be confused with lust — selfish sexual passion. It is not the same as sugariness — a travesty of love, something, which takes place when one is attempting to demonstrate love when one’s spiritual heart is void of this emotion. Another sign of true love is a lack of elements of violence and compulsion in it. Otherwise it is not love anymore, but constraint, a rape. Love is subtle, tender and free from egotism and egocentrism. It rests on caring about the other, not oneself. Maturing of love should be based on the true knowledge of God and of the meaning of human life.
As this love accumulates knowledge and experience, it becomes wise.
As it develops in helping others, including fighting for their good, and also by means of practicing special meditative techniques — this love becomes strong.
Love, Wisdom and Power — these are three qualities of God. Those who have mastered them up to the Divine level infuse easily into the Consciousness of God-the-Father, thus completing their evolution in the human form. After that they continue to exist in the capacity of an active Part of God-the-Father.
But one cannot walk this Path to Divinity till the end just by thinking about It. This is a long and difficult work on transforming oneself. This work can be compared to the work of an athlete who spends many years in persistent and exhausting trainings in order to bring his body to perfection. But work with consciousness is much more difficult. And in this work, just like in sports, a person, as a rule, cannot achieve great results without help of an instructor. On the Spiritual Path this can be either an embodied Guru — a person who has already walked the entire Path (or the most part of It) and knows personally the Goal of the Path. Or God Himself may become one’s Guru, like it was the case in my life [9].
Karma-yoga is a universal method of self-development on the Path to Perfection, which God constantly suggests to us. This is a way of perfecting oneself trough service to God, which is carried out by helping people in their evolution. This can be the sharing spiritual knowledge with them or teaching them reading and writing, working in scientific, pedagogic, or medicine field, practicing art or buildings homes, manufacturing clothing or producing food, trading or protecting people from various criminal scum — the dregs of the Evolution. What is important about this is that every kind of activity should be performed not for the doer’s personal gain, not selfishly, but for the sake of helping people advance in the direction of Perfection, including supporting their existence on Earth, in this School of God.
This principle of karma-yoga does not necessarily imply that work should be unpaid — this would be absurd. But those who received help as a gift must think about giving something back. People who do not respond to gifts with gifts are considered thieves [10].
It should be noted here that activities that cause harm to people are not karma-yoga and cannot be considered righteous. These are, for example, — production and distribution of alcoholic drinks, tobacco products and other psychedelics substances (which are not quite adequately called “drugs”), taking part in aggressive wars, preaching any type of hate and aggressiveness, promoting fear, killing animals for using their bodies for food or for utilizing the skin torn of their bodies, unnecessary destruction of plants etc. In other words, karma-yoga implies helping people only in something good.
