Jennifer: Pure Love

[Guest guest]

Namaste Jennifer, this is a great question. I will forward to Swami.

His response should be very interesting.

 

Jai Maa Jai Swami

 

vishweshwar

 

 

, " jrholm1007 " <jrholm1007 wrote:

>

> Hello Friends, peace to you all, I have a few questions about the

> discussion on love and fear that we had a few days back. I'm

> referring to the post, 'without fear, love cannot manifest' and the

> learnings which followed from there.

>

> Swami expanded our understanding by sharing that in pure absorption,

> we experience love purely (with no fear) and then once we are out of

> that state and back in duality, it's love/fear again. He also

> illuminated for us that it is possible to just LOVE with no object.

>

> But it isn't an either/or, is it?

>

> My question is, is it possible for US to just LOVE with no object in

> duality? As I go deeper into the love of Divine Mother...spend more

> time with Her, contemplate her teachings, surrender to Her abundant

> love, do I change that ratio? So that, before Her effects in my

> life, it's 50% love, 50% fear, but as I seek relationship with Her,

> it becomes more like 60% pure love, 40% fear, and keeps moving in

> that direction?

>

> Perhaps more accurately: is it possible to become saturated in LOVE

> with no object while still living in duality? The image for me is

> like a bird's nest (the 'I') placed in an ocean of perfectly still

> water (Divine Mother's Love). The weave of the nest relaxes,

> softens, expands outward and downward, is permeated by the water.

> The design of the nest stays the same, but opens into the water, so

> that what is known is more water than nest. No fear of losing

> anything, because it is all felt to be held in Her deep still waters.

>

> With gratitude, Jennifer

>