Love and Hate

Love is unintended and unconditional. Hate is the other side of attachment.

Sun gives out rays of warmth target-less as it burns away. It has no recipient to satisfy or offer favors to. The recipients of the warmth however either rejoice or curse the Sun based on the warmth they experience based on their location and orientation. One who gets more than needed, like in Africa, feels Sun “hates” him; one who receives insufficiently, feels Sun doesn’t care. But Sun has no intentions. It has no attachments or judgments to make. It just gives out its warmth regardless of who receives it.

In fact, the Sun never sets out to give any warmth to anyone. It just burns. Warmth is an unintended result.

Love – Spiritual Love – is like Sun’s warmth. Unintended and Regardless.

When a soul burns in its own fire of self-realization, it seems to shower a compassion to the onlookers. Some call it “Love”, some call it “Grace”. But it is neither. The burning soul was never burning to warm a passer-by, but to realize what is the Truth anyways.

Love that is given and directed is the other side of “Hate”. Its direction makes it limited in expanse and intention makes it selfish. Anything given whether as a gift or exchange is for a consideration. Conditionality is at its core. It thus looks for returns.

Specificity of Love in terms of intended recipients also denies someone of it on the other side of the spectrum. Love directed is also Love Denied.

Hatred is no different from directed and specific love. The intention on how to affect the recipient differs, conditions and attachment remains intact. One is motivated not by giving but by changing.

Love for Result is not love for the recipient; and Hatred for recipient is no different from Hatred of the result.

Unintentional and unconditional love can also not be defined. It is not a “feel-good” transaction. The nature of such love is merely how the recipient experiences it based on his/her prejudices, orientations and location. Intention of the “Loving” is absent and does not have any regard to its effects.

Such love can burn and soothe. Such love can uplift and suppress. It can lead to joy or despair.

How you receive such love decides what it will lead to. Not its giving. The question, therefore, is not “If you can love”… but can you burn?