Love is the characteristic of consciousness

Love is the characteristic of consciousness- Anant Sri

Love is characteristic of consciousness; it is the quality of our being. You cannot create love. You cannot make love. Making love is a term that is commonly used for entering into the activity of sex. Sex is not love; it is an experience of upsurge of energy, you release the excess energy, and you come back to normalcy. Any effort to derive pleasure from the other is exploitation, it could be mutual, but it is exploitation and also comes under violence. It is not an experience of your being.

However, in rare cases it can lead to the experience of love when two people have deep relationship and when they come close; they may experience being thrown into their being, the oneness where the other is not there, where there is no doing, the eternal, the immeasurable, and the perfect and there they may experience the bliss of their nature. But this usually does not happen.

Whether in a relationship or otherwise if you observe carefully, you will observe that everything is changing and underlying that as its substratum is the unchangeable. You must see both. In order to know one, you need to know the other. One is seen against the backdrop of the other. So, you need to see both to get the entire picture.

When you can be a witness to the change and at the same time, you see the unchangeable, then you get established in your being and then even a glance at someone can take one into the experience of orgasm. You have to know that the most intense experiences of love are the experiences of consciousness where there is nothing like other and therefore no possibility of exploitation and deriving pleasure from the other.

You can be together to share your being as one, but the requirement of the other is not there as a need to achieve something. The other is not the other anymore but an expansion of the self.