Supreme Love: The goal of our existence
Our life is actually a school in which we learn to perfect love. We start by loving our mother, father, siblings, life partner, and children, and continue by trying to love people who are farther away from our circle of relatives, such as close friends, neighbors, co-workers, and other strangers. After that comes the hardest stage, which many people categorically reject and which extremely few people can achieve. The hardest stage in the perfection of love is the love of the enemy. The love of the enemy is difficult for many people to understand and is often even rejected. Therefore, clarification is needed here.
Everything that the divinity has created is one hundred percent divine, and therefore it is good to be loved. Only when we love all of Divinity's creation can we complete our love, which makes us become love ourselves. Becoming love is the goal of our life. In order not to be mere robots, we were created in such a way that we have the freedom to choose. The choices are ours. Some people, out of ignorance or cunning, make decisions that come from their ego and lead to evil in the world. Loving the enemy does not mean supporting his thoughts, words and deeds, but perceiving him as a divine creature that can be loved. After this stage comes the final and most beautiful lesson, through which we perfect ourselves as human and spiritual beings. In this last lesson, we identify ourselves with love and with the divinity. This love can be called divine love, love of the divinity, or Supreme Love.
Life as a lesson of love
In a materialistic society, such as the one we live in, love is perceived as an abstract subject. It is, out of ignorance and unnatural embarrassment, a taboo subject. Love is considered a good subject for poets and writers because it is beautiful, but it would be abstract and without practical content to exploit. Love is often confused with erotic love. The truth is that love is not an abstract concept, but more than that. It is the divine energy that leads us to the unfolding of our personality. Love is the highest goal of our existence as spiritual beings. It is not only sensual love, but it is more than that, for it includes the latter. Our existence is, in fact, a lesson of love. This lesson is a continuous process that, at least for theoretical understanding, can be divided into several phases. Love begins at the moment when the human being is in the state of the egg cell, also called the zygote. This cell develops in the womb.
This cell, this future embryo and fetus, receives the necessary protection from the mother to develop and be born. The zygote spends about ten months in the womb. Here, a relationship between the mother and the future newborn will be formed. This relationship is an initial love between the mother and the future newborn. The initial love usually develops in the subconscious and unconscious mind. Love always begins and expresses itself through unconditional giving. The cell is the gift that the woman in question receives from the divinity as a result of the loving relationship between the future mother and father. The mother, in turn, gives the cell the protection, nourishment and warmth it needs to develop and become a fetus. The mother gives because she loves, and the future newborn loves because it receives an unconditional gift.
Nourishment can be in the form of providing the fetus with the essential vitamins, minerals and proteins, in the form of breast milk, in the form of spiritual nourishment and in the form of divine energy. The divine energy is nourishment in its most subtle form. The next lesson of love is the one we receive after we are born, which is the loving relationship between mother and child. This relationship is emotional and social in nature. It is also called maternal love. Maternal love is an unconditional love and therefore gives a sense of security and protection. This feeling is necessary for a sensitive being like that of a newborn.
It gives the little one confidence. The infant receives nourishment, trust, protection and maternal warmth. These unconditional gifts cause him to love his mother. As we can see, motherly love is the simplest lesson of love. It is easy to love someone who gives so much. But the lesson of love does not stop here. When the infant grows older, that is, when he becomes a child, he also begins to love his father. Paternal love comes more through reason, because the father is the one who teaches his child how to deal with the problems he will face later in society. The love between child and father is a conditional love, because normally the father loves his child only when the child obeys his authority. This lesson of love is a little more difficult, and here the nourishment is more rational in nature.
Later comes the love for the partner. Here, love is often perceived as sexual love, triggered by visual, olfactory and tactile factors. During sexual intercourse, the human body produces neurotransmitters. Dopamine and endorphins are released in the brain and noradrenaline is produced in the adrenal glands. All these neurotransmitters, as well as brain and other glandular hormones, make us feel happy, at least temporarily. Often sexual love turns into dislike of the partner, violence and even hatred. Many people do not understand why this happens. Sexual love and hatred are actually the same energy in its various forms. The attraction is the same in both cases. Yes! Hate is also an attractive energy! It actually has a much greater attraction than love of an erotic nature. Often couples stay together even when quarrels and even violence prevail. Hatred attracts the armies of nations so much that they meet on the battlefield to destroy each other. These aspects lead us to conclude that love of an erotic nature is not perfected, but is only a lesson of life. This stage is only a rung on the ladder we climb to Divinity. However, we must go further to internalize the other lessons as well.
The love of the enemy: The hardest lesson of love
Next comes loving our children, relatives, friends and acquaintances. But it is more difficult to love strangers, which is also called charity. As we can see, the lessons of love we receive from life are increasingly difficult and have to do with increasingly subtle energies. But there is an even harder lesson than charity. This lesson is about loving the enemy. It is the penultimate step on the way to attaining Supreme Love. The moment a person loves his enemy, love has ceased to be dual, that is, it has ceased to be part of the hate-love energy. Love is now pure because it no longer contains its negative aspect. It no longer contains hatred and can no longer turn into hatred.
Supreme love
At the stage mentioned above, that is, the stage where man begins to love all people, even his enemies, love becomes pure because, as I said above, it frees itself from its negative side, which manifests itself in the form of aversion, hatred and violence. However, love remains a personal love because it still involves those around the lover. Therefore, it is not yet complete. Love, at this level of consciousness, needs a subject or object of love. Man does not yet love everything, but only people or possibly other beings, that is, only the forms of this world. Therefore, this form of love is also only a lesson that is not yet the final stage in the spiritual process that we all go through, some more, some less consciously. The final lesson of life is when love becomes impersonal. In this stage of impersonal love, human beings love everything. He loves people, animals, plants, etc., absolutely everything. Above all, he loves the infinite.
In this way, his love itself becomes infinite. This love is no longer bound to the forms of the universe and is therefore impersonal. This form of love is the Supreme Love. Some people are afraid of this step because they believe that with its completion, man loses his personality and becomes impersonal himself. This conclusion, which implies that if love becomes impersonal, then the person in question would lose his personality and become impersonal himself, is wrong. The personality of the person in question remains intact. The person in question loses neither his character, nor his personality, nor the memory of his experiences. Self-consciousness, which was previously identified with the personal ego, is now identified with the soul, and thus with the true identity within us. This process is accompanied by a change in identification, not a loss of personality. The attainment of supreme love is indeed the goal of our existence, for whoever has attained this level of love has implicitly attained divine consciousness. To attain the highest love means to become love itself.
Author: Mihail Ispan