What is love? || Acharya Prashant, on Jiddu Krishnamurti (2018)
Questioner (Q): Dear master, Jiddu Krishnamurti asks, “Has love an object? Or is love divine or profane? You follow? Sir, when you love, you are neither giving nor receiving.”
Acharya Ji, could you explain how can we love in daily life, without giving or receiving? What is love, if it has no object?
Acharya Prashant (AP): All objects are small, Shirin.
The object of love is so gigantic, that you cannot call it an ‘object’. Further, all objects leave ample space for you to remain. All objects leave space for the dualistic subject to remain, and prosper.
The object of love is so big, so total, so filling, so occupying, so unrelenting, so very compelling, that it leaves no space for the subject to hide and survive.
Obviously, if the subject is gone, who can call the object, an object? So, the object of love is a non-object. Those who have come before us, have called that object as – Truth, God, Beloved, Amma-Baba, Father, Maa.
Next, you are asking, “How can one be in love without giving or receiving?” Giving and receiving, both imply your presence and your activity. You have to be there to give, you have to be there to receive. And in both, your presence, your being, gets stamped, certified, further ascertained. In giving, you remain as the giver. In receiving, you strike roots as the receiver.
