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What is Love

Love has multiple aspects. It manifests Itself as care, tenderness, devotion, self-sacrifice, active service to God, which is realized through service to other people called karma-yoga (work not for reward but for the sake of God), and in many other ways.

But the “foundation” of love is constant staying with one’s consciousness in anahata, transforming oneself as consciousness — through this — into constant emotion of love that is being radiated on all people, all living beings. One of the principal manifestations of love is tenderness, including the sexual aspect of it. It should be noted here, that the ethically correct sexual life directly contributes to developing the ability to love.

God is Love. If we want to Merge with Him, we have to transform ourselves into Love as well — into consciousness, constantly being in the state of Godlike Love. This is when we become those disciples of God whom He grants all other aspects of wisdom and then accepts in Himself. This is the principal condition of one’s being able to walk the Straight Path to Him.

But those, who oppose love — oppose God.

Upon developing his spiritual heart, an adept of the Straight Path learns how to expand it beyond his body limits — first for several meters, then to fill the whole Earth with it and then — even wider. This is the optimal way of breaking identification with the body and also the correct way of growing individual consciousness and of gaining experience of being and acting without the body while it is still alive.

The person that has developed himself to such a level, sheds all attachment to his body and does not fear the death of it anymore: since he finds out that now it does not matter for him whether he has the body or not. He is sure that the death of the body will spare him the unnecessary earthly trouble. For such a hero the moment approaches, when the Creator will reveal Himself to him and let him in His Abode.

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