Love, sentiment and emotion.

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Namaste,

IMHO.

Love is the ground or the 'Self'. Emotion, sentiment and other

movements of energy do not constitute Love, except in a pollyanna kind

of way.

There is no soul calling us, there is only our karma, and prana. Why

would a soul call an illusion and reinforce it? There is only one soul

in the universe.

The ground or Self is itself ultimately also an illusion, for on

realisation it was all found not to have ever happened.

So 'Love' itself is also an illusion ultimately.

In the meantime there seems to be a way of using various aspects of

love/self/saguna brahman, to achieve the understanding that some

behaviour is conducive to the individual realising it is the

universal.This seems to be achieved by diverting the attention from

oneself and one's own ego to the broader good, and not doing anything

that would upset a balance an incur more karmic response.

There is no god on earth come to help you get realised only by

removing the personal egotistc impediments can this be realised. This

can be aided by true day or compassion and specifically ahimsa or non

violence.

Ahimsa really means resistance to violence for in some cases an

apparently violent response is req'd to preserve it.

In the end result one has to find out who one is...Who am I? and

realise that. Religion, gurus, superstition, are useful at an early

stage but ultimately it is a lonely job, initially until realisation

occurs simultaneously with saguna and nir guna.

In the meantime the only thing necessary as an adjunct to the path is

Daya and Ahimsa, and that doesn't necessarily mean being 'nice'...Tony.